Scribbles and Bits

EDIT: ALL BOOKS CLAIMED. THE PORNSHOP IS CLOSED.

Okay, so. We are going through the last of our dead friend's library--and I am extremely motivated to clear them ASAP because I can't reach my AC until I reclaim the floor space. Please help me do so!

Most of the books, I am fine at dumping at Goodwill, but there are a few (mostly sex books) that I feel would definitely be of interest to SOMEONE. Please, please claim them! Be greedy! Help me get to my AC, I beg you! FREE ME!

If you want to see the full list, that's here. (And make sure you tell me what you claimed, or what name you put into the spreadsheet if you stake a claim there!) Otherwise, here's the short list.

Non-Sexy Art Books:

• Glory:Magical Visions of Black Beauty, by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt (photobook)
• Soul of Light: Works of Illumination, by Joma Sipe

Sexy Books:

• The Ethical Slut, by Easton & Liszt
• Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings (prose anthology)
• Incest (diaries of Anais Nin)
• The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex
• Thamara & Juda, by Riverstone and Pierre (French Biblical comic)
• a couple issues of Filament magazine (feminist sex-positive UK mag from the 2000s, pretty men)
• She-Male Trouble 2 (comic, anthology)
• Harem Nights, by Lacombe & Paouette (comic)
• Full Voice Issue #1: the body & self esteem (ostensibly a plus-sized minimag, but it comes from the Body Shop, so...)

We just received a collection of truly cursed audio cassette tapes from the Memory Wars—conference panels, it looks like. We plan to digitize them all and upload them to archive.org after checking to insure the audio is still understandable after 35 years, but being hard of hearing, have very little use for the tapes themselves. If you want one of these horrible cursed objects, please let us know!

The tapes’ labels identify them as:
• 3-D “Ritual Abuse: Evaluation & Treatment Strategies for Children and Adolescents,” by Kimball Ladien, M.D., at the Believe the Children First Annual Conference
• IVe-383-87 Conversation Hour - Child Abuse and Dissociation (“Summit” added in handwriting; maybe from 1987?)
• C153-20 Treatment of Adult Ritual Abuse Survivors
• 15-234-85 Child Abuse and Dissociation (maybe from 1985?)
• 05-834-93 Psychobiology of Trauma: Current Advances in Research... (by) Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. (maybe from 1993?)
• Id-383-87 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociation (maybe from 1987?)
• (handwritten label) Cory Don Hammond - Dr. Green 4th 1992 Conference (side A) C. Hammond on Dr. Greenbaum (side B)
• (handwritten label) C153-21 The Use of Play Therapy with Child & Adult Survivors of Ritual Abuse: V. Graham-Costain Orange CA 1990
• (handwritten label) Seventh Child Abuse Symposium ‘Cults’- Ritualistic Child Abuse 1986 San Jose CA Meeting Lt. Brad Darling, Kern, Co, Co. (two tapes, labeled in such a way that possibly there’s a missing third)

All things in parentheses are my notes. I have no other info about these tapes at this time, and likely won’t til after con this weekend.

Mori: Last night, for Biff's birthday (it was not, he hates TV, he hates sci-fi, he's very "we got weirdshit at home,") we watched the mysterious DVD of unknown provenance from the sci-fi library that nobody knew what to do with.

( A fanmade Matrix/Star Trek/Firefly crossover thingy that never got completed and disappeared into the Internet ether? )

...does anyone want this? It is wasted on us.

Ho ho ho and a messy queermas to all y’all! In honor of upcoming Fuck It’s Dark day, we are liberating some queer books! Claim ‘em and they’re yours, just pay for shipping and we’re square.

Up for grabs:

Two Spirits Dancing: A Spiritual Journeybook for Gay Men, by Andrew Ramer. Mythologizing, poetry, and sketches. It’s good, just not what we’re into right now. (Might post one of the poems though, some of ‘em are bangers.)

Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, July 2023. there’s one 30 page article called “Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages, 500-1300” by Charmaille, about 800 years of scholarly arguments about Tiresias and the gender flux of the seasons. I feel like only .01% of the population would care about this and one of them probably reads my blog.

In The Warm Room, by C.R. A trans first-time porno floppy comic between a trans man named Wallace and his loving partner, Jenny. Very sweet and romantic and far as I know, completely unobtainable online. (I know the creator. This is how I get a lot of my porno. Perk of the profession.)

We have some books to give away! Same rules as last time; first come first served, you pay shipping. Domestic preferred, if only because shipping overseas is horrendous.

Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Little known outside his native Portugal, Pessoa "the multiplex early twentieth-century European poet" and his heteronyms made quite a lot of poetry, most of which was only discovered after Pessoa's death in the 1920s. This book contains poetry from Pessoa himself, along with his heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernando Soares, who were only the tip of the heteronymic iceberg. For the sake of multi history, I tried to read it, but apparently my inability to enjoy most poetry holds true even for this guy.

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff. What it says on the tin. I want to read this eventually, so this might be more of an "I give it to you with the promise that I'm allowed to borrow it and read it sometime in the future," but I already lived through the trans/trans-/trans* wars and am in no hurry to reread them.

This one is a paper book we are NOT giving away, but Dr. Paris Williams's Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding And Treatment of Psychosis is a very good book with a truly abominable cover and a free PDF version. Reading it gave me a lot of insight into my own mental workings, and when I'm not a phlegm monster of plague, I hope to post more about it. For now, I link and rec it to y'all!

I have a couple multi books for giveaway, of polar opposite tone and content. Pay shipping and the book is yours. Comments are screened. I have...

• (george), by E. L. Konigsburg. Kids prose. A precocious young boy's headmate notices something amiss with his friend at school, and tries to get to the bottom of it. (more info here)
• Sacrifice, by Andrew Vachss. Burke, a merc/PI living on the seamiest side of New York City, gets involved in a case involving an abused nine-year-old multiple who has murdered two of his baby foster brothers. Burke has to negotiate a truce between the cops and child welfare groups coming to blows over him... and also get revenge for the multiple's sake. (more info here)