image of a Black femme smiling. text reads “Queering the Dots Black History Month Recs. check out recommendations from our masterminds”

slide of four book recs, with images of each book cover. text reads: “Books; Blessings the Blood by Walela Nehanda; Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler; All About Love & The Will To Change by bell hooks; Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorador”

slide of four film recs, with images of each film cover. text reads: “Film & TV: Sinners; Tangerine; Moonlight; Pose”

slide of four music recs, with images of each artist. text reads: “Music: noname; Samara Cyn; Ibeyi; Rochelle Jordan”

Happy Black History Month!

Enjoy some favorites and recs from our QtD masterminds.

Queering the Dots stands in solidarity with fights for liberation everywhere.

#BlackHistoryMonth

any suggestable alternatives to zoom? trying to host a virtual film night where i’d be screen sharing to 10-25 people

call for art, writing, poems, and more! theme for this zine is “decolonizing love”. submissions close friday 2/20! (typo on graphic)

We are accepting submissions to our zine thru 2/20, themed “decolonizing love”.

Submissions can be written pieces, photographs, digital art, comics, photos of sculptures, etc. Anything that can be uploaded digitally, however at this time we cannot display audio or video content.

bit.ly/QtDFeb26

QtD's Back On Our Bullshit Variety Show Sign-Up Interested in participating in Queering the Dot's first virtual variety show? Sign up here! Sunday, February 1, 2026 6-8:30 PM EST ZOOM All acts are welcome! Poetry, drag, singing, sound or musical...

Calling all queers of whimsy, art, and talent! QtD is hosting our first *virtual* open mic/variety show! Poets, musicians, drag performers, sound artists, comedians, and more are welcome to sign up for a slot!

The event will be from 6:00-8:30 pm EST on zoom!

bit.ly/QtDOpenMic

our sign up sheet is half full, but we’ve still got plenty of room! share your art with a cool, queer, low-stress audience!

im hosting my first open mic this sunday and there’s still some spots available to sign up!! share some poems or some music or some jokes or anything!!

we still have some spots open for performers!

rsvp for the zoom link to attend here!

i’ll be sharing some poetry and possibly some music/sound with an audience for the first time… come support and share your art too!!

The Muslims - "Fuck These Fuckin Fascists" YouTube video by Epitaph Records

Fuck These Fuckin Facists" by The Muslims from the album 'Fuck These Fuckin Fascists
youtu.be/Q-7-DDgUh_E?...

ngl it feels so weird to continue moving forward with general planned programming rn. working on planning an open mic for my creatives collective and holding an open call to our zine and it feels wrong and weird to just be carrying on as normal rn.

Back On Our Bullshit Variety Show - RSVPify February 1, 2026 @ 6:00 PM -

Interested in attending but not performing? RSVP here!

QtDOpenMic.rsvpify.com

i’m so proud of how far qtd has come. check this article lut!!

Mike Morse builds a creative community with Queering the Dots - Watermark Out News The Good Page features positive LGBTQ+ news in Central Florida and Tampa Bay, uplifting and inspiring stories. In this issue we meet Mike Morse, creator of Queering the Dots.

wanna know more about us? check this article out!

watermarkoutnews.com/2025/12/11/m...

2025 For zinesters, artists, small-press publishers, and writers devoted to independent print. ORL ZINE FEST BLACKBIRD COMICS & COFFEEHOUSE 500 E HORATIO AVE, MAITLAND SATURDAY, DEC 13, 2025 7-9PM

Florida people! Orlando Zine Fest 2025 is coming up Dec. 13th at Blackbird Comics and Coffeehouse! I'm repping @queeringthedots.bsky.social so swing by our table to grab some free stickers and buy a few zines! All proceeds from our zines go to the Blue Trunk Community Network's winter food drive.

please share!! my friends house is overpacked with 3 adults, 4 kids and 5 pets right now because the second rv is uninhabitable until repairs are made

this family has been displaced for over a month from their home due to unsafe conditions. please help them finish meeting their goal so they can move in. it’s getting colder out every day and it would be great to see them housed for the holidays.

currently stalled at 355/1000 #mutualaid

this family has been displaced for over a month from their home due to unsafe conditions. please help them finish meeting their goal so they can move in. it’s getting colder out every day and it would be great to see them housed for the holidays.

currently stalled at 355/1000 #mutualaid

how to balance the desire to run away into the woods and go off grid and the desire to stay with community and build resilience to fight back

it’s scary out here

My relationship with the internet is shifting massively.

Esp in terms of social media and how I use it............

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

for example, there is a spectrum of fair or unfair things that can happen if you (a cis person) commit a crime and are sent to prison

but i will most likely be placed in a men's prison and raped to death no matter the crime/sentence (V coding) with the alternative being solitary confinement forever

is anyone else absolutely terrified right now and getting more scared by the minute

A pennant banner made from book pages that has F U C K T E R F S painted on it in pink and blue paint.

A "Fuck Terfs" banner made from pages of a H*rry P*tter book at tonight's @queeringthedots.bsky.social Rage Against R*wling event.

Orlando and Central Florida! This Tomorrow! Come turn JK R*wling's wizard books into trans/queer affirming art! And any donations you make help our trans comrades! Come make blackout poetry, portraits of Marsha P. Johnson setting HP books on fire, trans flags out of covers! Whatever brings you joy!

please recirculate! a comrade of mine had to leave florida a couple years ago and is looking to come back

NEW LOCATION! We will now be at the Quakers of Orlando!
#Orlando #Event

This feels a lot like Weimar Germany in 1933. The parallels are terrifying