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whatarepersonals?
AsbestsaidbyStephenKieloftheBaltimoreSun:
“Personalsseem old-fashioned,discreetintheirthreeorfourlinesofsmal lblacktype. Noitalics.Noglamourshots.Justafewwordsinwhichtosetyourselfapartandtemptyourreaders Acronymsdeveloped-ISO,LTR,N/S,N/D,LD-andbecamepartofthelexicon.
Butwithinthatstrictform aretinyperformances,25-wordhaikusofloveandyearning.
Theyhintatdepthandsubstance,andtheyaspiretosomethinggreat.Theymakeyoulaugh.”
hebestpersonalsaredirectandsurprising.Theycanbelyrical,openingawindowintothesouloftheauthor. T
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Sincetheearly190’swhenfindingqueercommunitywasmuchmoredificultanddangerous,thosewho felttointimidatedtofindloveingaybarscouldsometimespostwithcodedlanguageinnewspaperstofindlovers Eventualy,thistext-basedmeetingformatbecameastapleinthe1980’sand90’saspopularlesbianerotica magazinetitled‘OnOurBacks’endeavoredtocreateatrulyuniquedesignandspacefortheirinclusivepersonals
Recently,aninstagram caledPERSONALS:(@_personals_)hasrevivedtheoldtext-basedyearningstothe tuneof5,0folowersand5,0yearlysubmisions.
Thispersonalszineprojectisagenerativedocumentationofthesyntax,identifiers,verbs,andadjectives usedinthoseposts.
