Alana Storm

@alanastorm.bsky.social

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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. https://gliff.org https://linktr.ee/alanaxstorm

Image of a red IBM Selectric Composer typewriter and typesetting machine.
screenshot of the open source digital darkroom software darktable
Image of a blue Subaru with the hood popped.
Screenshot from Sex and Lucia of a woman standing in the foreground the a y2k era computer setup in the background.
Image of a sidewalk on a tree lined street
Scan of a newspaper photograph of a woman in a hippie dress with the caption "This is Margo!"
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."
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.
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.
Image of a tiny bouquet of flowers and mint
Cover of Random Access Memory, a Daft Punk Album
Famous last words of switch from the matrix
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
A photo of a sticker form 2007 that reads -- the Internet is ruining my subculture
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.
Cover of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Stewart. professor tattoo artist and sexual renegade. Justin Spring.
Image of a woman bent over playing guitar with her hair flying out in front of an amp and a side stage sound board
Image of a hospital room that smells like farts. A transgender and transsexual woman can be seen in the mirror.
Image of a paper coffee cup with a plastic lid on a tray
Image of a Polaroid Spectra film cartridge taken out of the camera with the film exposed
Image of a circa 1986 Polaroid spectra camera
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.
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.
Black and white image of a woman in a ghillie suit singing into a microphone.
Image of a laptop playing the grand floral starlight parade live stream
Image of the lady archer class from Final Fantasy Tactics
Screenshot with the text “ calculate means that it’s a spell that can be casted by math”
Screenshot from the video game Final Fantasy tactics explaining how magic is reflected
Image of the Final Fantasy tactics title screen on a laptop computer
image of a Polaroid Spectra camera
Polaroid of a woman standing in the light while signing a clipboard
Image of a crow sitting on a communication or powerline
Magazine with a cut out title that reads “ the bearded lady truckstop café ; an oral history of the San Francisco Dyke scene”
image of the cinema theatre in rochester, ny.
HMS Surprise. 28 guns; 197 Souls; N. coast Brazil
Blurry Polaroid image of a flower in front of a green plant.
Polaroid image of dandelions gone to seed with streaks in the sky.
Polaroid image of light rail tracks in a city, with a slice of blue sky available on the horizon.
Polaroid photo of the original hot cake house neon sign turned off in daylight
Several New York Times employees lined the sidewalk in front of their building to watch. When one was asked what he thought of the demonstration, he replied, "What are they talking about, police brutality? A bunch of sickos! You should get the list from the Times. They got a list in there of all the people (who've) been mugged (on account of the bar). At least 60 people have been mugged walking down this street who work here." He said he thought Blue's should be closed down, an obvious menace to the neighborhood.
Image of the book My Bad by Hugh Ryan.
Image of a woman sitting on her wife's lap shot through the crowd at a backyard concert.
image of a woman in sunglasses and a long coat standing in a crowd.
image of a stuffed animal toy (a possum) hanging from a keyboard setup.
Image of a grabber claw with the mouth open
a high contrast photograph of a figure, female, framed crookedly surrounded by a black void.
Image of a grieving man from the movie, four weddings and a funeral
A photograph of a laptop playing a movie where a woman looks askance as the subtitle reads “are you a lesbian“
A comic panel, where an aged Batman says “I’ve had worse times”
Cover of a book entitled All American Girls, Remsen Wolff. The cover feature is a black-and-white photograph of Kabuki Starshine.
Image of a bald figure with red lips, thin arched eye eyebrows, in a bald head surrounded by a blue feather boa
Image of a women wearing a corset style crop top playing a keyboard, her face obscured by her hair while in the backgroud a second women wearing an N95 plays the drums. They are performing in front of a mural where a figure in a suit strides across a field.
A cover of a 1970 paperback book entitled: Sisterhood is Powerful — an anthology of writing from the women’s liberation movement. Edited by Robin Morgan. Morgan was an early proponent of excluding trans women from women’s liberation movement.
Image of music performer lit in crescent with a strong back spotlight and Christmas lights strung from the ceiling.