Gülkan Noîr
@noirthequeeng.bsky.social
Noir the Queeng
form anarchy, sing poetry, hâl queer,
reclaiming the Beauty Back; Lovery 💛
Poet, Author, Translator, Editor, Artist, İstanbuline 🏳️⚧️🌹 🖤🏳️🌈
form anarchy, sing poetry, hâl queer,
reclaiming the Beauty Back; Lovery 💛
Poet, Author, Translator, Editor, Artist, İstanbuline 🏳️⚧️🌹 🖤🏳️🌈
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Gülkan Noîr
@noirthequeeng.bsky.social
· Nov 23
"To be beautiful is to be a seashell, so open that all the oceans and the fluids of the earth, of the body, are heard through you. Openness so open that it turns itself inside out and makes a snail-shaped labyrinth that leads to the future.”
🖤 Kathy Acker 🐚
🖤 Kathy Acker 🐚
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"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
January 19, 2026 at 12:34 AM
"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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“We must be bilingual even in a single language, we must have a minor language inside our own language, we must create a minor use of our own language… Proust says: ‘Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language…’ That is the definition of style.”
— Deleuze, Dialogues
— Deleuze, Dialogues
January 17, 2026 at 7:56 PM
“We must be bilingual even in a single language, we must have a minor language inside our own language, we must create a minor use of our own language… Proust says: ‘Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language…’ That is the definition of style.”
— Deleuze, Dialogues
— Deleuze, Dialogues
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Denmark lost Iceland in 1940 when Britain seized it, then transferred it to US control in 1941.
Icelanders hate Danes; Greenlanders likely do too.
What's striking is liberal shock—their worldview of law and order collapses, as if law and order actually existed before Trump came to office.
Icelanders hate Danes; Greenlanders likely do too.
What's striking is liberal shock—their worldview of law and order collapses, as if law and order actually existed before Trump came to office.
January 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Denmark lost Iceland in 1940 when Britain seized it, then transferred it to US control in 1941.
Icelanders hate Danes; Greenlanders likely do too.
What's striking is liberal shock—their worldview of law and order collapses, as if law and order actually existed before Trump came to office.
Icelanders hate Danes; Greenlanders likely do too.
What's striking is liberal shock—their worldview of law and order collapses, as if law and order actually existed before Trump came to office.
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If we’ve learned one thing about America, it’s that there is no deep state. Only the shallow state.
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
If we’ve learned one thing about America, it’s that there is no deep state. Only the shallow state.
Dün, arkadaşım Özlem Güçlü ile birlikte @mckenziewark.bsky.social'ın Kathy Acker'dan ilhamla yazdığı Örümcekler İçin Felsefe [Philosophy For Spiders] üzerine sohbet ettik. Benlik yapımı, cis nazarı, yazmak, disfori/efori, akış halinde deneylerle, müzakerelerle örülen bir punk felsefesi...
İstanbul
İstanbul
January 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Dün, arkadaşım Özlem Güçlü ile birlikte @mckenziewark.bsky.social'ın Kathy Acker'dan ilhamla yazdığı Örümcekler İçin Felsefe [Philosophy For Spiders] üzerine sohbet ettik. Benlik yapımı, cis nazarı, yazmak, disfori/efori, akış halinde deneylerle, müzakerelerle örülen bir punk felsefesi...
İstanbul
İstanbul
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
February 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
"People think that they sell oil, but in fact they are becoming oil.
—Victor Pelevin"
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
—Victor Pelevin"
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
January 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
"People think that they sell oil, but in fact they are becoming oil.
—Victor Pelevin"
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
—Victor Pelevin"
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
“Oil is the life-blood throbbing through the arteries of war,” says a fictional Hitler in Julian Semyonov’s famous novel Seventeen Moments of Spring. No one can seriously dispute this today.
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil - Journal #84
…
www.e-flux.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:20 AM
“Oil is the life-blood throbbing through the arteries of war,” says a fictional Hitler in Julian Semyonov’s famous novel Seventeen Moments of Spring. No one can seriously dispute this today.
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Oxana Timofeeva
www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
Law's empire has been empire's law.
#Venezuela
#Venezuela
The "incompetence" of international law in the face of imperial aggression is part and parcel of that law. Law's empire has been empire's law. #Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Law's empire has been empire's law.
#Venezuela
#Venezuela
decolonial urge to say:
fuck you
fuck you
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
decolonial urge to say:
fuck you
fuck you
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It's a new year. Love weirder, Fuck adventurously, Beautify something, feather your nest, cook for someone, give and take comfort, surprise yourself, surprise us, let go of that thing you were never going to do anyway, bring it all forward. I know you can.
January 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
It's a new year. Love weirder, Fuck adventurously, Beautify something, feather your nest, cook for someone, give and take comfort, surprise yourself, surprise us, let go of that thing you were never going to do anyway, bring it all forward. I know you can.
"it's something to do" 🖤✨
i’ve been watching old lou reed interviews and i’m obsessed with this 50 year old interview and his response to being asked if he identifies as a transvestite or homosexual
December 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"it's something to do" 🖤✨
Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (feat. Perfume Genius)
[Bonny Billy Prince Cover]
youtube.com/watch?v=57z_...
günaydın 🖤✨
[Bonny Billy Prince Cover]
youtube.com/watch?v=57z_...
günaydın 🖤✨
Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (feat. Perfume Genius) (Official Video)
YouTube video by Anna Calvi
youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (feat. Perfume Genius)
[Bonny Billy Prince Cover]
youtube.com/watch?v=57z_...
günaydın 🖤✨
[Bonny Billy Prince Cover]
youtube.com/watch?v=57z_...
günaydın 🖤✨
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For years, people have asked me if I have plans to collect some of my best essays - together with several new ones - in an essay collection. So here you go! Femmephilia's cover design is by Vivian Rowe. haymarketbooks.org/books/2758-femmephilia. It'll be published by @haymarketbooks.org in June 2026
Femmephilia
haymarketbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For years, people have asked me if I have plans to collect some of my best essays - together with several new ones - in an essay collection. So here you go! Femmephilia's cover design is by Vivian Rowe. haymarketbooks.org/books/2758-femmephilia. It'll be published by @haymarketbooks.org in June 2026
"On our feast day, even the Romans threw roses at our feet, because every t-girl deserves her roses while she lives."
[Phrygia - Anatolia]
a cut as roses 🌹🖤🌹🌀
from "Love and Money, Sex and Death"
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
- working on translation for Turkish Edition.
[Phrygia - Anatolia]
a cut as roses 🌹🖤🌹🌀
from "Love and Money, Sex and Death"
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
- working on translation for Turkish Edition.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"On our feast day, even the Romans threw roses at our feet, because every t-girl deserves her roses while she lives."
[Phrygia - Anatolia]
a cut as roses 🌹🖤🌹🌀
from "Love and Money, Sex and Death"
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
- working on translation for Turkish Edition.
[Phrygia - Anatolia]
a cut as roses 🌹🖤🌹🌀
from "Love and Money, Sex and Death"
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
- working on translation for Turkish Edition.
This morning I thought deep about this sentence.
No matter the context, go choose any.
No matter the context, go choose any.
Our obsession with trying to divine the real inner private motivation behind each action, separate from the external act in the world, is a sign of how deeply Protestant our culture remains.
December 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This morning I thought deep about this sentence.
No matter the context, go choose any.
No matter the context, go choose any.
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Our obsession with trying to divine the real inner private motivation behind each action, separate from the external act in the world, is a sign of how deeply Protestant our culture remains.
December 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Our obsession with trying to divine the real inner private motivation behind each action, separate from the external act in the world, is a sign of how deeply Protestant our culture remains.
By Fumi Yanagimoto
December 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
By Fumi Yanagimoto
the death of affect
- this
and if you're not dead this is unbearable
- this
and if you're not dead this is unbearable
JG Ballard kinda called it already, in 1973. This is the first *paragraph* of the introduction to CRASH.
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
the death of affect
- this
and if you're not dead this is unbearable
- this
and if you're not dead this is unbearable
Underwater - Elizabeth Fraser
[From the Album Sun's Signature]
youtube.com/watch?v=e0f-...
Our coloured falls come in a thousand shades
Bluebirds take all of the consciousnesses
bu sabah da gün böyle doğdu,
[From the Album Sun's Signature]
youtube.com/watch?v=e0f-...
Our coloured falls come in a thousand shades
Bluebirds take all of the consciousnesses
bu sabah da gün böyle doğdu,
Sun's Signature - Underwater (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Elizabeth Fraser
youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Underwater - Elizabeth Fraser
[From the Album Sun's Signature]
youtube.com/watch?v=e0f-...
Our coloured falls come in a thousand shades
Bluebirds take all of the consciousnesses
bu sabah da gün böyle doğdu,
[From the Album Sun's Signature]
youtube.com/watch?v=e0f-...
Our coloured falls come in a thousand shades
Bluebirds take all of the consciousnesses
bu sabah da gün böyle doğdu,
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You must protest
It is your diamond duty
Ah but in such an ugly time
The true protest is beauty.
— Phil Ochs
It is your diamond duty
Ah but in such an ugly time
The true protest is beauty.
— Phil Ochs
December 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You must protest
It is your diamond duty
Ah but in such an ugly time
The true protest is beauty.
— Phil Ochs
It is your diamond duty
Ah but in such an ugly time
The true protest is beauty.
— Phil Ochs
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So grateful to translators—both for bringing my writing into their languages and bringing writing from other languages into mine.
December 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
So grateful to translators—both for bringing my writing into their languages and bringing writing from other languages into mine.
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stole that for her 🌹
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
stole that for her 🌹
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.