Welcome to the Carabiner Archive
for your viewing pleasure, Kate Bornstein calling Leslie Feinberg "Daddy". full interview here
This is a tiny, unofficial, definitely improper (We will see how unethical I find it later on, as always I give myself permission to change, grow, and extend kindness to my past selves) archive of... Lesbian, Queer, and Trans artifacts and documents that I love, I guess. It has been a slow, unorganized process, I am still finding my moral compass, and revising/ making amends to my past collecting efforts. I started officially curating in early fall 2023, however I had been working in this way (stashing away digital artifacts for... something) since my teen years. Most of my artifacts From ages 14-17 were destroyed. This included physical artifacts that were redacted, shredded, burnt, and more often than not, all three. Digital artifacts that were deleted, then deleted from ''Recently deleted''. I vow to add and revise citations as I find them, this ''archive'' is an eternal work in progress.
NO COPS, NO PRISONS, BUT PLS RESPECT THESE RULES... OK? (Bold = most Important shit, but i'd be just tickled if you read all of it)
- Download if you must, but please credit the original artists, writers, ect. Even if you share only with friends
- Never sell these artifacts, maybe don't even share them, I don't even know why i'm telling you about my collection in the first place (are we fucking? I regularly lend books and shit to my potential lovers, If you're [REDACTED] please give me back my blue block printing ink... also I miss you and the feeling of your arms around me)
- No need to credit me on shit i didn't actually create, I stole all these artifacts except a few (Dykes can do a little intellectual property crime as a treat)
- NEVER post sexually explicit images found in this "archive" anywhere else, I have limited it a lot (my personal archive I don't show people has more tits/cunts/dicks) but there are still a few. It is a firm boundary in my "archive" that the more risque photographs (Especially ones created before the internet became so big, accessible, fast, and wild) stay inside their containment field. IDC if you think that's censorship, it is a (Bare-fucking-minimum) effort to respect the consent of the subjects, artists and contributers. Just pls respect my boundries, ok?
- A note on potentially triggering content!!!! Just as a general guideline that you can, in fact, disregard if you really really want to. Maybe don't engage with media you haven't already reviewed in this collection if you aren't in a okish/ stable emotional state. I am hoping to make a content/trigger warning guide so you can browse anytime without worry, but i've got a lot going on and I might not follow up on all these commitments im making at 2am.
- There is a collaborative document named ''Dear Carabiner Archivist'' that you can find here , if you feel so inclined you can leave notes, suggestions for things I should add, confessions that you think I'm hot and would make a great girl-husband, Etc. Don't delete/alter other people's entries, and PLEASE be fucking kind (this just means no evil shit, def please tell me if something is incorrectly credited, Transmysoginistic, Racist, antisemetic, etc. so I can proceed with that knowledge, it is acually an act of kindness to help me improve & I promise I wont get mad if you tell me I included or perpetuated something hatefull). If you want to leave your name feel free, but I will also welcome anonymous messages Just be warned that any TERFy/transmed/generally shitty comments will be deleted (I promise to work to make this "space" somewhat accommodating to all dykes/queers/transsexuals but it's also something I created for me.