Justin Etheridge

Let’s generate some revenue, gentlefolk!

Context for this is I was talking to a femme queer friend about how men treat her, and she said they’re always so kind, attentive, interested — “whatever, whatever” — so she’s able to have lots of sex if she wants. It reminded me of Elaine yada-yada’ing sex on Seinfeld.

There are a lot of queer people on the planet, and there are more every day, which is something people need to start realizing and understanding.

My closet really reminds me of ex-boyfriends.

Did you just “whatever, whatever” being hot?

A round wooden table with an open laptop and three books—Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (two volumes) and Looking for a Few Good Moms by Donna Dees-Thomases. A Progress Pride flag stands in an open bottle of Saratoga water next to an unopened bottle of Empress Indigo Gin, a salt canister, a pepper shaker, and assorted domestic objects. A cluttered workspace is visible in the background.

My table earlier tonight. Headed to bed now, but I love nights when the good things in life have me feeling inspired.

Reading Allen Ginsberg in a park two blocks from the White House this morning. They can never kill our revolution.

Connecticut needs more progressive revenue streams to fund our social service infrastructure — which includes, among other things, paying social service workers more so that they can afford housing, healthcare, higher education, and childcare in their communities.

Loving queer people changes the people who love them.

Idk why this is speaking to me so much right now, but it is.

Ironic being a criminal justice system researcher and an abolitionist.

“Babe” is my favorite word.

I don’t want that twink’s problems.

Getting excited about a new video game with a cute boy? Dreams do come true, just not always in the way you’d expect.

Raising consciousness, raising voices in New Haven, CT @ Spruce Coffee. ☕️ 🌲

Josh Elliott is doing the damn thing here in Connecticut. Might have to get behind him & send in a donation to help him qualify for the Citizens' Election Program. A candidate fighting for progressive taxation and public investment earning public funding to run—that’s the spirit of democratic access

My third or fourth failed attempt at a relationship collapsed this weekend, and the photo memories on my phone are still of my ex-boyfriend. Yay for me. We keep going.

I always think about Heidi Heitkamp and Mark Pryor voting no and Joe Manchin and John Tester voting yes on the 2013 Background check bill. Being "moderate" didn't help Pryor and Heitkamp, they immediately got smoked, while Tester and Manchin stayed in office another decade.

Let your hole heal, babe.

Thank you for bringing music into my life again.

People will really have opinions on professional athletes’ compensation and not care that the healthcare workers’ unions caring for the sick, elderly, and disabled in their communities are fighting for pennies.

When will we admit to ourselves: this will keep happening until the guns are gone.

I guess I like boys who fall in love easy. That’s why they’re all taken—by the men they fell for when they were 18.

Someone should make an art piece with dead spotted lantern flies.

Good to be me.

The best thing that ever happened to me is someone I never talk to.

Violent love, feel my embrace

Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?

If only we could solve collective action problems like that when they involve preventing killings as opposed to encouraging them!

Most of the spotted lanternflies I see in New Haven are already dead—collective action works!