A. Tony Jerome

Black autistic nonbinary writer, editor, and theatre student. (they/them)

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8 Poets With New Queer Books To Check Out This Month

I need you to know that whenever I share a post about poetry, at least two hours of tears have gone into it because! There’s so much great poetry! My life has been irrevocably changed for the better and the important and the necessary by just one glance a poet has made at me five years ago! I am absolutely feral over poetry, and it overwhelms me so much that I often leave it, just so I can have some semblance of control over myself and the way this special interest beats in me like my heart’s bi
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I’ll Watch Anything Where Survivors Get Revenge, Make Their Own Justice

I’ll Watch Anything is an Autostraddle TV Team series in which we tell you what type of movies and TV shows we’ll watch, no matter what. This week, A.Tony’s here to tell you why they will watch anything where someone (who by A.Tony’s standards) deserves to get revenge and makes sure they get it.

When I was some younger than middle school age, I was sitting in my grandma’s office in a big red plush recliner watching TV.
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Scream VI Review: Why Do Y'all Keep Picking Up The Phone?!

“How did you stop being scared?”

[…] “I didn’t want to be afraid of the monsters anymore. I wanted them to be scared of me.”

Scream VI is the next installation in Wes Cravens’, arguably, most popular franchise, Scream. Picking up where we left off in Scream V, we follow Sam and Tara Carpenter, as well as Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin as they go to New York City for Tara, Mindy, and Chad to get an education — and for Sam to heal. Theoretically.
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A Convo on the Queer & Trans Takeover of Skateboarding

A few months ago, we asked some of the Autostraddle crew if any of them had a connection to skateboarding. A few said they tried it when they were younger, others said they never really got into it at all, and some said not only were they into it but they were in the middle of picking it back up—or looking for a sign to start to.

So we asked a.Tony, Niko, and Abeni if they would be down to not only chat about their history with skateboarding and the queer future of it all, but if they would be
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Black Girls Are Always at the Center of Horror

Black girls have been at the center of horror for decades — maybe you just haven’t been watching.

We can define horror as: terrible things, usually out of one’s control, happening to someone who is isolated (usually due to such events) and invalidated about those terrible things. It wasn’t until falling down a rabbit hole after watching the first Scream that I realized this genre gave me language for what my life, for what so many black girls’ lives are.

Two of the forces that are constant in
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Can You Survive This Horror Movie?

Hello, I watched all the Halloween movies (except Rob Zombie’s Halloween II) for the first time this year. I’ve been on a horror movie kick lately, and what I’ve been noticing is, yes black people would not put up with a lot of foolishness, but there’s something to be said for autistics too. This is our genre, y’all! Neurotypical norms are ignored if you want to live! Small talk will not save you! You’ve got to think of off the wall (compared to neurotypicals) shit to survive! This is where we s
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Finally, Horror Is For Black Queer Girls in Aisha Dee's "Sissy"

Where was her family? was the first question one of my friends asked after we finished watching SISSY (2022), a horror (comedy) movie starring Aisha Dee now out on Shudder.

A social influencer (“mental health advocate,” if you will), Cecilia “Sissy” No Last Name — putting her up there with the greats such as Beyoncé and Rihanna — runs into her old best friend at a pharmacy and is later invited to her engagement party and hens’ weekend. (That’s a bachelorette party for all the people like me who
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Ariana Brown | Black Sapphic Series | Full Conversation

Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from San Antonio, TX, currently based in Houston. She is the author of We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020). Ariana’s work investigates queer Black personhood in Mexican American spaces, Black relationality and girlhood, loneliness, and care.

Black Sapphic Series was created to celebrate and honor black sapphic joy and visibility. Inspired by the representation found in recent media, the series is based on one central question, "What Queer Black Love mean to you", answered by Black Sapphics. We hope this series will remind Black sapphics that how they love is good and necessary and that they aren't alone.

*A note: Though the series focuses on Black Sapphics, we hope to expand this work to queer and trans nonblack people of color in the near future.
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Ariana Brown Socials
Website: www.arianabrown.com
Books: www.arianabrown.com/merch.html
Social Media: @ArianaThePoet
Venmo/CashApp: ArianaThePoet

Goat Films & Ent. Socials
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I Met My Online Friends for the 1st Time and Remained in My Head

Hello! I did the thing where after months of talking in group chats galore, I met my online friends for the first time in the same physical space! I hate calling it “real life” because what I have with them, and all my online friends, between our fingertips and technology screens is real. Like, if I talk on the phone with someone I care about but haven’t seen in years, that’s still real life. But I digress. Prior to this, I met two of my friends when I moderated the Night in Gotham panel at QFX
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"End of the Road" Review: At the End of the Road, We're Still Here

The following review contains mild spoilers for Netflix’s End of the Road.

End of the Road is a 2022 thriller that premiered last weekend on Netflix. It stars Queen Latifah as Brenda, Ludacris (Chris Bridges) as Uncle Reggie, Mychala Lee as Kelly, and Shaun Dixon as Cam. The story follows the four of them as they drive from Los Angeles, California to Brenda and Reggie’s mother’s house in Houston, Texas. When my mom had us sit down to watch it from the beginning —she’d seen all but the last twen
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Mychelle Williams | Black Sapphic Series | Full Conversation

Mychelle Williams is a queer therapist collaborating with others in the journey toward radical self exploration & somatic healing for Neurodiverse, gender expansive, LGBTQ+ ppl. They founded Therapy To A Tea, a trauma-informed, person-centered, decolonized, and holistic individual and couple therapy practice that centers queer BIPOC clients.

Black Sapphic Series was created to celebrate and honor black sapphic joy and visibility. Inspired by the representation found in recent media, the series is based on one central question, "What Queer Black Love mean to you", answered by Black Sapphics. We hope this series will remind Black sapphics that how they love is good and necessary and that they aren't alone.

*A note: Though the series focuses on Black Sapphics, we hope to expand this work to queer and trans nonblack people of color in the near future.
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Mychelle William's Socials
http://twitter.com/ABlackHealer
http://instagram.com/queerblacktherapist
https://www.tiktok.com/@queerblacktherapist
Website: https://www.therapytoatea.com

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http://instagram.com/goatvibesent

#mychellewilliams #blacksapphicseries #author
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