TA Inskeep (they/them)
@tainskeep.bsky.social
Queer, non-binary trans writer, reader, Hoosier, breaded pork tenderloin aficionado. #MWE for Feb, other #MusicChallenge stuff cuz it's fun.
“I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman
http://ohmanchester.substack.com
“I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman
http://ohmanchester.substack.com
If you'd like to see something that will -- or should -- bring you happy tears today, watch this. I don't care about the Emmys, but I definitely care about Jeff Hiller and SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, which will eventually be considered a classic.
Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series: 77th Emmy Awards
YouTube video by Television Academy
www.youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you'd like to see something that will -- or should -- bring you happy tears today, watch this. I don't care about the Emmys, but I definitely care about Jeff Hiller and SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, which will eventually be considered a classic.
Oh, my god. THIS is the kind of queer art we need now. My kingdom to see this performed.
FIGARO/FAGGOTS - Baryshnikov Arts
Based on the Novel Faggots and Other Literary Works by Larry Kramer. Inspired by the Opera Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte
baryshnikovarts.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Oh, my god. THIS is the kind of queer art we need now. My kingdom to see this performed.
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I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
Cool tip: it actually takes MORE effort to deliberately misgender someone AND it marks you as a total asshole! Pretty cool!
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
#CDFriday thanks to Wall of Sound in Seattle. $1! This was the first place I — and I suspect many Americans — first heard “Unfinished Sympathy.”
September 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#CDFriday thanks to Wall of Sound in Seattle. $1! This was the first place I — and I suspect many Americans — first heard “Unfinished Sympathy.”
Oh no, let's go: the charts of the summer of '84 were a *time*.
Pop Top 40: Hot 100, week ending 9/1/84
The good stuff is great, but the bad stuff...
ohmanchester.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oh no, let's go: the charts of the summer of '84 were a *time*.
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We don't need to be rallying behind Dems because they'll "protect" our democracy, we need to be pressuring Dems to RESTORE our democracy.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
August 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We don't need to be rallying behind Dems because they'll "protect" our democracy, we need to be pressuring Dems to RESTORE our democracy.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
They're not going to do it if we don't push them, and if you want my help in pushing them, then you better believe I'm also going to push them on trans issues.
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They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
August 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Joy and pain, as Frankie Beverly and Maze sang, are like sunshine and rain. And the R&B top 10 albums this week back in 1980 were mostly on the bright side. (Also: the *other* #1 albums of the week.)
Pop Top 40: Top Soul LPs+, week ending 8/30/80
Let’s do something different.
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Joy and pain, as Frankie Beverly and Maze sang, are like sunshine and rain. And the R&B top 10 albums this week back in 1980 were mostly on the bright side. (Also: the *other* #1 albums of the week.)
I'd MUCH rather see Pedro Pascal starring in a gay romance from Todd Haynes than Joaquin Phoenix, so this is thrilling news.
Todd Haynes’ Previously Shuttered Gay Romance ‘De Noche’ Being Revived With Pedro Pascal Circling – The Dish
Todd Haynes' gay romance De Noche, which shut down about a year ago, is being revived, with Pedro Pascal circling.
deadline.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I'd MUCH rather see Pedro Pascal starring in a gay romance from Todd Haynes than Joaquin Phoenix, so this is thrilling news.
How fucking good does this look, wow.
1985: The Miracle Year
Hüsker Dü. Live. 1985. Need we say more? Witness the transcendent Minneapolis punk trio tearing into the most incendiary year of its existence, captured live on stage at First Avenue in perhaps the hi...
numerogroup.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How fucking good does this look, wow.
I voted for Newsom for Mayor when I lived in SF. I voted for him for Lt Gov, twice. I voted for him for Gov of California. But I WILL NOT and CANNOT vote for him again, as he's completely gone off the anti-trans deep end. And cis/het folks, you shouldn't either, if you call yourselves allies.
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I voted for Newsom for Mayor when I lived in SF. I voted for him for Lt Gov, twice. I voted for him for Gov of California. But I WILL NOT and CANNOT vote for him again, as he's completely gone off the anti-trans deep end. And cis/het folks, you shouldn't either, if you call yourselves allies.
WGCI, August 1986: hotter than ever. Airchecks and a playlist included in my latest "Radio Romance" column.
Radio Romance: WGCI, Power 107.5 Chicago, late August 1986
Are we jammin' the box or what?
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
WGCI, August 1986: hotter than ever. Airchecks and a playlist included in my latest "Radio Romance" column.
Summer '83 on the charts was absolutely golden, and this proves it.
Pop Top 40: Hot 100, week ending 8/27/83
Peak "greatest year in pop" ever
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Summer '83 on the charts was absolutely golden, and this proves it.
In 2005, Madonna released her last best album, which I reviewed for STYLUS, doing the same for its corresponding live album in '07. Because it's her birthday tomorrow, here are both reviews, newly republished.
Madonna: Confessions on a Dance Floor / The Confessions Tour, 2005 / 2007
Her last truly great album and its ensuing tour document, also great
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In 2005, Madonna released her last best album, which I reviewed for STYLUS, doing the same for its corresponding live album in '07. Because it's her birthday tomorrow, here are both reviews, newly republished.
Cardi B's new Jay-Z-interpolating single is killing me today. So so good. So ready for her new album next month, FINALLY.
Cardi B - Imaginary Playerz [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Cardi B
www.youtube.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cardi B's new Jay-Z-interpolating single is killing me today. So so good. So ready for her new album next month, FINALLY.
Tomorrow's the birthday of pop's queen of the past 45 years, Madonna -- and even more than pop, she's been the real queen of the dancefloor. An appreciation, with some caveats.
Remixing it up SPECIAL: Madonna: Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, 2022
Celebrating a record-setting tenure on the dance charts
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Tomorrow's the birthday of pop's queen of the past 45 years, Madonna -- and even more than pop, she's been the real queen of the dancefloor. An appreciation, with some caveats.
This is a very important piece worth your time, which clearly enumerates some of my own thoughts this week.
But also, c'mon, how could it NOT make me think of this? (@sotoalfred.bsky.social I'm looking directly at you.)
But also, c'mon, how could it NOT make me think of this? (@sotoalfred.bsky.social I'm looking directly at you.)
August 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is a very important piece worth your time, which clearly enumerates some of my own thoughts this week.
But also, c'mon, how could it NOT make me think of this? (@sotoalfred.bsky.social I'm looking directly at you.)
But also, c'mon, how could it NOT make me think of this? (@sotoalfred.bsky.social I'm looking directly at you.)
Rod's greatest single, full stop.
August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Rod's greatest single, full stop.
Well, I sure am glad I didn’t renew this year. No Richard Lawson or David Canfield? WTF.
Area Critic (Me) Needs New Job.
Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!
Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!
Vanity Fair Will Refocus on Hollywood and Cut Back Some Coverage Areas, Says New Editorial Director
Vanity Fair will scale back certain areas of coverage, including shutting down The Hive, to focus on entertainment and culture, editorial director Mark Guiducci said.
variety.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Well, I sure am glad I didn’t renew this year. No Richard Lawson or David Canfield? WTF.
Here comes the brand new flava in ya ear, in the form of the epic remix of a classic '90s hip-hop jam.
Craig Mack ft. Busta Rhymes, L.L. Cool J, Notorious B.I.G. and Rampage, "Flava in Ya Ear (Remix)," 1994
The whole being greater than the sum of its parts
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Here comes the brand new flava in ya ear, in the form of the epic remix of a classic '90s hip-hop jam.
Read this and believe it. The Republican party is genuinely attempting to legislate trans people out of existence.
I'm not mentally ill today - I have no MH diagnoses, take no medication other than testosterone, am not in therapy, do not experience daily distress.
But the 1st half of my life was marred by mental health struggles, including several inpatient stays. The first of those was involuntary.
But the 1st half of my life was marred by mental health struggles, including several inpatient stays. The first of those was involuntary.
A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans.
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
August 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Read this and believe it. The Republican party is genuinely attempting to legislate trans people out of existence.
I ride HARD for the S.O.S. Band, and especially for the brilliant collaborative work they did with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. So does @thetwelveinch.bsky.social, and I heartily recommend their latest column on "Just the Way You Like," the legacy of S.O.S., and '80s synth funk.
🎹 Groove and Innovation: How "Just Be Good To Me" and the S.O.S. Band Helped Shape Synth-Funk
The Twelve Inch 177 : Just Be Good To Me (S.O.S. Band)
thetwelveinch.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I ride HARD for the S.O.S. Band, and especially for the brilliant collaborative work they did with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. So does @thetwelveinch.bsky.social, and I heartily recommend their latest column on "Just the Way You Like," the legacy of S.O.S., and '80s synth funk.
What's better than love? Luther Vandross and Gregory Hines had some thoughts, on the first single from Hines's sole album.
Luther Vandross with Gregory Hines: "There's Nothing Better Than Love," 1987
Light as a feather
ohmanchester.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
What's better than love? Luther Vandross and Gregory Hines had some thoughts, on the first single from Hines's sole album.
There can only be one.
August 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
There can only be one.
Happy birthday to one of THE definitive divas. A true singer’s singer.
Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoo-be-doop: the best of Whitney Houston
One of the greatest singers of our time
open.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Happy birthday to one of THE definitive divas. A true singer’s singer.