About Me
A Queer Love Letter from 1952
Honey Love,
My rapture wistfully adores your burning burning. My covetous enchantment woos your fondest fancy. You are my precious infatuation. My fondest adoration anxiously adores your adoration. My love holds dear your passionate hunger.
Yours tenderly,
M.U.C.
This was written by the first computer run text generator that was designed by Christopher Strachey, a gay man, for the Manchester Mark 1 in 1952. It has been reproduced @ gingerbeardman.com
Currently...
Listening to:
- American Idiot Original Broadway Cast Recording by Green Day
Watching:
- ✨[ONSTATHON BREAK] Love is in the air?!✨ by Onsta feat. Karina
Reading:
- Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
Playing:
- Tomodachi Life:Living the Dream by Nintendo
Who am I?
Can I conceal myself for evermore?/Pretend I'm not the man I was before?/And must my name until I die/Be no more than an alibi?-Les Misérables
My name is Thomas Gurinskas, I am a queer, Jewish, trans man in my 30s. Passionate about storytelling, I invest my time in varied pursuits both professional and personal. I am currently a graduate student studying toward a Master's degree in Composition and Rhetoric, specializing in queer history, storytelling as rhetoric, and trans and Jewish rhetorics. Outside of school, I help run several online fandom events, cultivate my own creative writing, paint table-top miniatures, and more.
Affiliations:
The Lord and Lady of the House
Thomews "Armie" Armewtage
The worlds most anxious little man, late of HMS Purrabus
Mina Yennifer "Shpink" Finklestien
She is the smallest cat in the house and the loudest.
New and Upcoming Projects from Friends and Colleagues:
So you've learned a bit about me, now I want to tell you about some cool stuff that other people in my life are working on.:
- Adam J. Rinner's A Trip to the Moon, a queer rock opera based on the George Méliès film got a full concept album release! It's been in development since about 2019, and the album is just a delight.
- Arctonauts - Maintained by polar scholar Ed Wuyts, Arcotonauts is a respository of out of copyright primary sources concerning the history of polar exploration, the aim being to make these sources more broadly accessible to researchers. If you want to help support this project, Ed has a ko-fi that goes to server costs to keep the website up and running.
- Trans Brazil: The Hidden Histories That Transformed a Nation is an upcoming book from scholar and historian José Amador. I highly recommend Amador's work, which focuses on race, gender and public health in Latin America. He's also just a wonderful human being, and I was fortunate enough to have him on my master's committee.