Joan Ilacqua (she/hers) 🌈

Photo of Mike Pence, a white republican, with information about the 2025 Profile in Courage ceremony on Sunday May 4th at the JFK Library/on livestream

It is incredibly weird fucking times that Mike Pence is getting this year's Profile in Courage Award. I get it, and agree that he fits the criteria for the Award, but it's still a mindfuck.

If you’re in the Boston area, you can find the tour here: www.historyproject.org/their-dreams...

So proud of @queerhistoryboston.bsky.social for making sure that this administration can’t erase our queer history.

Queer history is American history, and American history belongs to all of us.

Read today’s Globe article at:
archive.ph/vU9S5

personally i would have remained in the group chat for several years before popping in with “more like GAY D Vance” right before they ordered a nuclear strike

The Clinton Email Scandal Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 09/14/2023 · Bonus · Subscribers Only · 1h 23m

Today would be a good day to go back and listen to this excellent If Books Could Kill episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is our city. We’re going to continue following & enforcing the laws to keep all Bostonians safe. And it goes without saying that our police commissioner has my complete confidence & support.

There is no honor among thieves. She fucked around, enraged fellow archivists and historians with her MAGA bootlicking, and she found out.

This is what you get for complying with fascists trying to sterilize our history ✌️

Hey queer history folks, go follow @kimmtopping.bsky.social! ✨

TV on the Radio You never moved to Brooklyn. For a time, you lived in a city that felt close enough to Brooklyn for you, but it wasn't Brooklyn. You will rave about sonic textures and, in the future, will explain your hearing loss as from "concerts in your 20s by bands you probably haven't heard of," but the real reason is you play podcasts loud enough to drown out the washing machine. This is the year you're finally going to get serious about quarterly taxes and start saving for retirement, you can feel it.

TV on the Radio

Explosions in the Sky

Lo-fi beats to study to. Lo-fi beats for researching the decline and fall of musicians in the streaming era. Lo-fi beats in which to get your tween a stereo system. Lo-fi beats in which to wrap a jewel-case CD. A deep, comforting wall of sound, passed down.

You don’t have to be sorry :) I wasn’t super clear

I was thinking squarespace or something along those lines - where I could have one platform for stuff instead of like, patreon, and eventbrite, and an email list etc. I don't know if there's any option other than squarespace

Hey folks, any suggestions for a plug-and-play website with a membership option? I was exploring Patreon, but I don't know that I want to sign up for another platform.

It’s tradition! You throw open the door/window to let out the old year and bring in the new, and then you toss bread and outside for prosperity in the new year ✨

We’re super late to the game, it’s an amazing podcast. The American Revolution season is the perfect primer for the upcoming 250th

Listening to @mikeduncan.bsky.social’s Revolutions podcast with @sarahdactyl.bsky.social. We’re on the French Revolution and she keeps yelling “WHY DO WE LIVE IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION!”

Executive Director of Boston’s Queer Community Archives here, always happy to help with a Boston queer history emergency! 🚨

Cross stitch pattern "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians!" with pink floral border.

Also if you're combatting the existential dread and disappointment with crafts, I've got free cross-stitch patterns on my website! www.ilacquajoan.com/cross-stitch...

Ok, I did the thing and downloaded my Twitter archive and then tried to move followers over here... Given the state of everything, @sarahdactyl.bsky.social suggests that I start the bad holiday movie skeets early. We'll see how they feel once the skeeting begins ☠️

welcome to election night buckaroos. please enjoy new tingler SPEVE KORNACKI POUNDED ENTHUSIASTICALLY BY HIS HANDSOME ELECTION MAP out now for free. instead of paying please consider donating that cost to 'transgender law center' www.patreon.com/posts/speve-...

I think - although I’m not 100% sure - MCC met/meets at Old West Church on Cambridge Street. Glad Day’s last location was on Boylston, but I’ve heard more about groups meeting at the Bromfield and Winter St locations in the 1980s. Our Stonewall map might be helpful: historyproject.org/stonewall50

To be honest, digitization is not my area of expertise but we’ve been held back from mass digitizing because of the metadata collection and clean up we’d need to do. We’d also need to create a digital records management infrastructure of some kind… we’ve volunteer-driven so we do what we can :)

We’re on the cusp of hiring an archivist so hopefully we’ll have more DC rep! Right now I think some of our materials that are up on the DTA were ingested by DC (www.digitalcommonwealth.org/institutions...), otherwise our digitized materials are on Omeka (historyproject.omeka.net)

My org (The History Project - Boston’s queer community archives) rents space there. It’s a relatively small but excited congregation. Dean would probably be psyched to show you some of the Sacco & Vanzetti materials they have - there are historic Italian anarchist papers in their archives!

oh my god there are like seven QVC romance movies

The Recipe Files (QVC)
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4/5 Stars. Suprisingly fun, although I wouldn't have called it a romance. The mystery was light even though it was about a mom who was murdered by her [spoiler]. The chocolatier son had big bi energy & should've ended up with his best friend/rival.

IS HANDSOME CHOCOLATIER SON GOING TO GET WITH THE BAKER OR MURDER HER IN RETALIATION?

GIRL WHAT. SHE SOLVED THE MURDER AND EVERYONE HATES HER. Wow. Is this supposed to be a happy ending?