Alana Storm

@alanastorm

of a certain age; after much consternation, a writer. found in TRANSPlants, Pile Press, Lilac Peril, and PDX Makes zines i use this machine to share work and I try to not discourse in public.

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Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jul 12

This appears to be in response to a feature on Silvia Sydney, a drag queen who started performing in 1946. hdl.handle.net/2047/D20372380

Newspaper Clipping from the Gay Community News July 12, Volume 3 Number 3

"Sid" (to her friends) is a homegrown Bostonian, but has appeared in New York - "they're not used to my
act"
- and in Provincetown:
"I
caused near-riots in P'town, almost got barred, but the place is a rip-off."
"If more people could understand my views of gay liberation, they'd be better off. We're all liberated - what the hell are we fighting about? In New York gays are contented, too con-tented. They don't bother the cops and the cops don't bother them. The women have taken 'over, that's what makes it so sick. If we can't even unite ourselves, how can we have any kind of movement? What I have to say to the
"Fish Queens," that's what we used to call cunt-lappers, is, "I love lesbians - after all don't we all suck."

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jul 12

if this was 2012 I'd be tempted to start a historic-slurs dot tumblr dot com Gay Community News (Boston) July 12th 1975 Volume 3 Number 5. (I think I know how to permalink the Northeastern archive now) hdl.handle.net/2047/D20372379

Newspapers clipping from the Gay Community News (Boston) July 12th 1975 Volume 3 Number 5.

(I do accept transsexuals as my sisters, feeling they have paid their dues in a courageous and life-investing way.)

As a young lesbian trying to be positive, I find remarks about "cuntlappers" and "fish queens" sexist and destructive of gay pride. Some editing was in order here.
Name withheld.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jul 10

It's not quite as whiplash inducing as it once was, but it still surprises me when I'm up to my knuckles in old PDFs and find a full-throated defense of trans dykes from a cis women.

By denying transsexual lesbians you are saying that there are men in this world who would have an invasive surgery, identify as lesbians and therefore women, put themselves into the enviable position of daily physical, emotional, and financial abuse.
You are implying that transsexual women are psychologically sick. This is exactly how lesbians and gay men were defined in the
'30s, '40s, and '50s. In the course of your decision, you have moved the lesbian movement back to pre-Stonewall attitudes.
We are regressing.

My lover, Kathryn Otter, is an accepted member of the New York lesbian community and a feminist. Besides her dedication to the homeless (she has managed and supervised the running of a soup kitchen in the South Bronx), Kathryn has escorted women through abortion clinic picket lines, been arrested twice for participating in the Needle Exchange Program and was recently convicted as one of the "Safe Sex Six" (the result of a protest in 1989 in St. Patrick's Cathedral). All this has been achieved as an OUT transsexual LESBIAN.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jul 8

skipping a few gaba today to see if that messes me up — it would be nice to get down to otc meds.

Image of a tiny bouquet of flowers and mint

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jul 8

Random Access Memory is to the 70s and 80s EDM as Confessions II is to Madonna's own career/life. (which is a pretty Madonna thing to do)

Cover of Random Access Memory, a Daft Punk Album

Cover of Confessions II, a Madonna Album.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 29

Me: maybe instead of leaning so hard on social media during recovery I will go dig up 90s listserv archives and see what I was posting thirty years ago.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 27

At least two more weeks off my feet and I’m very close to going full @never.horse because the finches and hummingbirds have beef out there.

Image of a pair of legs under a purple bed spread looking out over a grey couch and yellow draperies and a large window where it’s visible some greenery

Blurry image of a bird, probably a finch of some kind, perched on a wire, defying the hummingbirds who have been harassing it for weeks

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 26

Two thousand and seven photograph you have no idea

A photo of a sticker form 2007 that reads -- the Internet is ruining my subculture

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 24

can confirm. odd viewing choice if you’re laid up with either a cisgender or transgender surgery.

Cover of the third issue of Easel: A Photographic Journal being held by a single woman’s hand. The cover features a unconventional pool bridge and a very green felt table.

An image of easel magazine open, but mostly covered obscuring photos from Jäger Nachreiner.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 21

Adding this the convalescence re-read pile. I remember this one as the book that really drew my attention to how little information there was out there about pre-stonewall life. Also literary/intellectual ambition swung for and (mostly) missed. Also smut/perverts. Also Chicago.

Cover of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Stewart. professor tattoo artist and sexual renegade. Justin Spring.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 20

anyways, here's my friend Kim rocking out (one hundred billionths of a second at Turn, Turn, Turn)

Image of a woman bent over playing guitar with her hair flying out in front of an amp and a side stage sound board

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 16

heading home

Image of a hospital room that smells like farts. A transgender and transsexual woman can be seen in the mirror.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 13

First hospital coffee after surgery is peak good bad coffee.

Image of a paper coffee cup with a plastic lid on a tray

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 13

I’m told there’s a nice view.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 9

Got a frankenstein battery pack cut out and the electronics and motor seem to work, although the later sounds more like a low growl than the high pitched whine of the 600 series cameras.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 9

If I was a true sicko I would’ve figured out how to take this apart in a dark bag and tried to salvage the eighteen year old film. Next steps are disassembling this cartridge, replacing the battery with one from a modern 600 pack and then loading some 600 film into the cartridge.

Image of a Polaroid Spectra film cartridge taken out of the camera with the film exposed

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 9

Probably original 2008 film in there — post impossible project stuff only eight pictures per cartridge, not the ten this indicates

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 8

If I ever start talking about Dremeling parts of this camera someone please check on me

Image of a circa 1986 Polaroid spectra camera

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 8

TL;DR; -- a craft system for reasoning about exposure using 1940s tech.

Photo of text that reads: When I began teaching photography I found that I had little to impart other than the way I worked, and I was aware of the danger of merely encouraging groups of imitators. Only the strongest minds and imaginations can overcome this form of
"parrot" education. It became obvious to me that there must be some bridge between the basic theory of the medium and a potentially creative means of application. I felt it essential to translate the arcane principles of sensitometry into a system of applied craft which would be both precise and adaptable by the individual to any practical or expressive aspect of photography.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 8

This is thirty year old beef so grain of salt and all that — but I remember how much my old photo professors used to cite "The Zone System" but how none of them really taught it. Other students would nod along like they understood and I'd feel like an idiot for not getting it.

Cover of The Negative, by Ansel Adams. Featuring the tagline "The Ansel Adams Photography Series 2" and a photographs of mountains and clouds with a variety of grey tones.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 7

Surgery Season (Shanghai Tunnel Bar; May 29th, 2026)

Black and white image of a woman in a ghillie suit singing into a microphone.

Blck and white image of a woman half out of a ghillie suit singing into a microphone with a drummer half visible in the background.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 7

homos have the tightest formations outside the marching band kids (short pipeline)

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 7

I wonder if these dorks wake up every day and think “thank God that one guy made the even uglier car”.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 7

The middle-aged feeling of becoming invested in the regional Summer Festival parade you previously made fun of.

Image of a laptop playing the grand floral starlight parade live stream

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 6

yourself, but as a cartoon. (prefers high ground, keeps her distance, spends too much time aiming)

Image of the lady archer class from Final Fantasy Tactics

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 3

I also like to imagine some tech writer 30 years ago saying “fuck, I guess we’re not finishing that”

Screenshot with the text “ calculate means that it’s a spell that can be casted by math”

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 3

I really like to imagine some tech writer 30 years ago just absolutely cooking.

Screenshot from the video game Final Fantasy tactics explaining how magic is reflected

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 1

I am, in many aspects of my life, a grown ass woman.

Image of the Final Fantasy tactics title screen on a laptop computer

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 1

The double tap of being reminded that Spectra cameras were a thing and then learning that the new Spectra film was discontinued back in 2019.

Image of the control panel of a Polaroid Spectra camera.

Alana Storm@alanastorm· Jun 1