asphericalcritic

let the crows into your heart

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lyra; poet, critic, letterpress enthusiast

lover of crows, myth, metamorphosis, crows, tea, birds, nature, shadows, crows, crows
(i frequently share nsfw posts, fyi!)


samanthaistyping
@samanthaistyping

thanks to archivists at the GLBT Historical Archives in California, we now have open access to the first four years of TGForum.com, as compiled on an official CD-ROM back in 1999. it is an absolutely bonkers treasure trove of early-internet trans culture and politics, warts and all, and I wrote about it for Them!

this was a really fun piece to research but took a LONG time, so I hope you enjoy reading it! I have a few stories that I had to cut for room (I already doubled my planned word count as it is) so I will thread them here soon. If you find something cool in this archive I didn't mention, let me know in the comments!!

EDIT: I totally forgot that the archivist is on cohost! Give @caraesten some appreciation (and thanks @atomicthumbs for the reminder)


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in reply to @samanthaistyping's post:

this reminded me of one of the tidbits that didn't fit in the piece: in the pictorial section you'll find several founders of what is only referred to as "ETVC." A little digging and I found out it was a community group in California. The acronym stood for "Educational TV Channel."

(they lost the pun in '98 and became just TransGender San Francisco)