Amanda W. Timpson

@atimpson.bsky.social

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Writer. Public Historian. Sass factory. Creator of Yesterqueers 🏳️‍🌈. Find me everywhere here: https://bio.site/yesterqueers Rep’d by Iris Blasi at Arc Literary.

A gray cat sits in front of a computer monitor, head cocked all the way to the side as he looks at the timeline of a video being edited.

A quote from Josephine Baker that reads “My face and rump were famous? I could honestly say that I’d been blessed with an ‘intelligent’ derrière. Most people were only good to sit on! Yes, I was giving my Al on stage, but was I paying my dues in the real world, an obligation we must all assume someday? What about my debt as a human being? I would be forced to face up to these questions sooner than I thought.”

A picture of Amanda’s left hand holding a book titled “The State of Fire: Why California Burns” by Obi Kaufmann

Three women in LAFD uniforms stand in front of a red background.

Screenshot of a Slate article titled “AOC Should Have Won This Fight” with a picture of AOC and of Pelosi.

A yellowed page with the following highlighted: “oh it’s nothing but a sort of ardent friendship - an affectionate intimacy… nothing very serious… we know all about that sort of thing. No! We don’t know anything about it! We can’t know anything about it! It’s mysterious - terrible”

Movie poster for “Pan’s Labyrinth” showing a young girl walking towards a spooky forest / maze entrance.

Quote from Jeremy W Peters that reads “To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism”

A close-up picture of a gray tabby cat resting his head on my left forearm.

Black and white poster for Netflix’s “The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself”

Photo of Orsi Italiani marching in a parade with text that says “the slogan of Orsi Italiani, the largest bear org in Italy, is ‘happy to be fat, glad to be hairy, proud to be gay.’”