eli nova rose
@unambivalence.bsky.social
feminist utopian. doing software. writing about life. wistful about reflexivity. ex-academic. she/her/dr 🏳️⚧️
I think it's the dropdown menu next to "edit profile" on your profile page?
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think it's the dropdown menu next to "edit profile" on your profile page?
my neighbors put this in their front lawn
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
my neighbors put this in their front lawn
I’m reading this stretch of bookshelf as meaning that The 7 Principles of Making Marriage Work are Cruel Optimism, Black Trans Feminism, Transgender Marxism, Females, Desire/Love, the Female Complaint and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
October 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I’m reading this stretch of bookshelf as meaning that The 7 Principles of Making Marriage Work are Cruel Optimism, Black Trans Feminism, Transgender Marxism, Females, Desire/Love, the Female Complaint and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
San Francisco Gay Freedom Day, 1975
September 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
San Francisco Gay Freedom Day, 1975
am seriously considering making a tshirt 😂
August 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
am seriously considering making a tshirt 😂
have any of you ever read this book, Cherríe Moraga's Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood? because i love this book so much (am halfway through reading it) and yet no sooner do i start reading than i discover a long controversy around Moraga's later views about trans folks…
August 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
have any of you ever read this book, Cherríe Moraga's Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood? because i love this book so much (am halfway through reading it) and yet no sooner do i start reading than i discover a long controversy around Moraga's later views about trans folks…
some July books (i wanted to read more Baldwin since the intensity of Giovanni’s Room, and stupidly missed out on most of Ferrante’s books while our kids were teeny, and Suri’s book is beloved by the local feminist bookstore staff, and Thom’s book comes via @mousyaesthete.bsky.social)
June 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
some July books (i wanted to read more Baldwin since the intensity of Giovanni’s Room, and stupidly missed out on most of Ferrante’s books while our kids were teeny, and Suri’s book is beloved by the local feminist bookstore staff, and Thom’s book comes via @mousyaesthete.bsky.social)
“Radical softness as a boundless form of resistance,” a protest sign I saw yesterday.
June 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Radical softness as a boundless form of resistance,” a protest sign I saw yesterday.
was considering bringing this to No Kings
June 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
was considering bringing this to No Kings
you might be a queer family in the Atlanta area if you got this postcard
May 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
you might be a queer family in the Atlanta area if you got this postcard
this local art studio was hilariously described by an itinerant painter as “a place where a lot of women come in the evenings to get away from their husbands”
May 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
this local art studio was hilariously described by an itinerant painter as “a place where a lot of women come in the evenings to get away from their husbands”
the first fruits of the little vegetable garden that the kids planted with me
May 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
the first fruits of the little vegetable garden that the kids planted with me
rediscovered this magnificent zine i got awhile ago in chicago, Dewayne Slightweight’s The Kinship Structure of Ferns, which seems to depict a whole lifecourse (love, death, sex, tears, confusion, so many feelings)
May 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
rediscovered this magnificent zine i got awhile ago in chicago, Dewayne Slightweight’s The Kinship Structure of Ferns, which seems to depict a whole lifecourse (love, death, sex, tears, confusion, so many feelings)
i am in awe of the Paul Reuben drag look from 1971
(stills plucked from the new documentary about him)
(stills plucked from the new documentary about him)
May 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
i am in awe of the Paul Reuben drag look from 1971
(stills plucked from the new documentary about him)
(stills plucked from the new documentary about him)
i was feeling all these churning feelings and then i got here and felt peaceful; the plants all look so happy.
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
i was feeling all these churning feelings and then i got here and felt peaceful; the plants all look so happy.
the reality of the current fascism has long since outpaced anything that satire could have envisioned. “please stop calling us the gestapo, says secret police whose behavior is indistinguishable from the gestapo”
May 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
the reality of the current fascism has long since outpaced anything that satire could have envisioned. “please stop calling us the gestapo, says secret police whose behavior is indistinguishable from the gestapo”
In Riga where I’ve come for work, they put us up across the street from this heroic Soviet-era workers uprising art, commemorating a tsarist police massacre of protesters in 1905.
May 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
In Riga where I’ve come for work, they put us up across the street from this heroic Soviet-era workers uprising art, commemorating a tsarist police massacre of protesters in 1905.
the blueberry was staring right back at me, it felt like
May 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
the blueberry was staring right back at me, it felt like
these have been flowering for so many months, maybe all winter long, i can’t quite remember.
May 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
these have been flowering for so many months, maybe all winter long, i can’t quite remember.
was feeling very overwhelmed by life, and then i found this dorky poster i made for myself a few years ago when i was also feeling stuck
April 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
was feeling very overwhelmed by life, and then i found this dorky poster i made for myself a few years ago when i was also feeling stuck
i started thinking i'm not quite sure what to write about here anymore — everyday life feels mostly indescribable, the awful political situation makes me ineloquent, and i'm unsure where to put myself in a world of so many discourses. it's not that i won't write anything; i'm just not sure what.
April 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
i started thinking i'm not quite sure what to write about here anymore — everyday life feels mostly indescribable, the awful political situation makes me ineloquent, and i'm unsure where to put myself in a world of so many discourses. it's not that i won't write anything; i'm just not sure what.
so i was looking for a romcom movie preview and instead i found this list of autocomplete options about, um, different ways that someone might want to be?
how does one become ninja?
how does one become a baddie?
how does one become… nonchalant??
how does one become ninja?
how does one become a baddie?
how does one become… nonchalant??
![how to be [autocomplete suggestions]
how to be a baddie
how to be pretty
how to be confident
how to be preppy
how to be a heartbreaker
how to be popular at school
how to be happy
how to be flexible
how to be ninja
how to be more attractive
how to be funny
how to be nonchalant
how to be that girl](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5htposnbunavhikjcxbtgqzk/bafkreigpavxo2oa2zmxqlnylidrzbuoqgyqus2kqmjoxc544rkmo7bguai@jpeg)
April 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
so i was looking for a romcom movie preview and instead i found this list of autocomplete options about, um, different ways that someone might want to be?
how does one become ninja?
how does one become a baddie?
how does one become… nonchalant??
how does one become ninja?
how does one become a baddie?
how does one become… nonchalant??
earrings have such odd silhouettes
March 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
earrings have such odd silhouettes
not feeling optimistic about a lot lately, but i do love my current set of books (the Earthsea one is what i’m reading to my kid)
February 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
not feeling optimistic about a lot lately, but i do love my current set of books (the Earthsea one is what i’m reading to my kid)
i have this new reading corner where the sun shines in on winter days and it’s hard not to feel some kind of joy about it
February 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
i have this new reading corner where the sun shines in on winter days and it’s hard not to feel some kind of joy about it