# Queering Earth

> Post-normal possibilities. Reading art, literature, poetry, politics, people, and history
> through a queering lens, and asking what else any of it could have been. A collaboration
> between the Stimpunks Foundation and More Realms. Sibling site to Star Stuff
> (https://starstuff.earth/), which is built on science where this is built on the
> humanities, myth, and the canon.

Everything here is CC BY-SA 4.0 and meant to be read, quoted, and reused. **The one thing
we ask is the thing this site is about: get the attribution right.** Nearly every page
carries somebody else's words, and the citation is the only evidence a reader has. Every
quotation is traced to a primary source in ATTRIBUTIONS.md, and every correction we have
made to one is public in the accession register at https://queering.earth/changelog.

Each page below has a Markdown source at the same address with `.md` appended, derived
from the page's own `<main>` landmark. This file and those are generated by
tools/make-markdown.mjs; nothing here is hand-kept.

## The readings

- [The Army of the Upright](https://queering.earth/on-being-ill): Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill, mounted as she left it in 1930. Illness missing from literature, a language that runs dry, and the sentence she revised into something stranger. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/on-being-ill.md)
- [Coming to Terms](https://queering.earth/coming-to-terms): Ryan Boren on a lifetime of not fitting gender norms, a pair of pink-tinted glasses, and the two words — autigender and neuroqueer — that finally fit. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/coming-to-terms.md)
- [The Die Uncast](https://queering.earth/promises-like-pie-crust): Christina Rossetti's Promises like Pie-crust, read as a charter for solo polyamory — the relationship escalator refused in 1861, and the colon her first printing keeps where everyone else prints a full stop. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/promises-like-pie-crust.md)
- [Wyrd, Weird, and the Invention of Normal](https://queering.earth/invention-of-normal): Wyrd was Old English for fate. It became weird, and then weird became a diagnosis. A sheet on the demotion of a word, the Weird Sisters, changelings, refusal, and an idea of normal barely two centuries old. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/invention-of-normal.md)
- [Miranda: To Be Wondered With](https://queering.earth/the-tempest): Shakespeare coined Miranda's name from the Latin for wonder at. A reading of The Tempest and Waterhouse's 1916 canvas: a boy actor, an editor who moved her hardest speech into her father's mouth, and who a story lets be difficult. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/the-tempest.md)
- [The Swell and the Dwell](https://queering.earth/wild-nights): Emily Dickinson's Wild nights – Wild nights! read as co-regulation: the winds futile rather than stilled, the compass and the chart put down, and one night asked for instead of a lifetime. With a reply in verse, and what her first editor tidied in 1891. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/wild-nights.md)
- [A Waste Garden, Flowering at Its Will](https://queering.earth/flower-codes): Violet, pansy, green carnation, and lavender were worn as code. Each was read by the people it was meant to escape and turned into the word that named you, and each was picked up again afterwards. With the 1926 sentence about a streak of lavender, and the man it is actually about. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/flower-codes.md)
- [The Preferred Flower of Life](https://queering.earth/monotropa-uniflora): Monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe: a plant with no chlorophyll that feeds off fungi, the flower Emily Dickinson called the preferred flower of life, and the Greek root it shares with monotropism. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/monotropa-uniflora.md)

## The cabinet itself

- [Queering Earth](https://queering.earth/): Reading the world through a queering lens — art, literature, poetry, politics, people, history — and asking what else any of it could have been. A Stimpunks Foundation and More Realms collaboration. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/index.md)
- [How this site is made](https://queering.earth/design): The design of Queering Earth: a Victorian herbarium sheet as the model, biophilic ground rules, the palette, the type, the drawings, and what we mean by specimen, sheet, plate, and label. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/design.md)
- [The accession register](https://queering.earth/changelog): The changelog for Queering Earth: every sheet as it was mounted, every plate that came off again, and every label we corrected — including the attributions we got wrong and exactly how they were fixed. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/changelog.md)
- [Find a word in the cabinet](https://queering.earth/search): Search every sheet, every quotation and every correction on this site. The searching happens in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere, including to us. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/search.md)
- [What this site knows about you](https://queering.earth/privacy): Almost nothing, and here is the whole of it: two view preferences your own browser keeps, and the server log our host writes. No analytics, no cookies, no third-party requests, no forms. [Markdown](https://queering.earth/privacy.md)

## Optional

- [Attribution ledger](https://github.com/Stimpunks/Queering-Earth/blob/main/ATTRIBUTIONS.md): every quotation, whose it is, and the day somebody read the primary and confirmed the wording.
- [Decisions](https://github.com/Stimpunks/Queering-Earth/blob/main/DECISIONS.md): the reasoning behind every settled and open question about this site.
- [Spec audit](https://queering.earth/AUDIT.md): this site measured against The Website Specification.