From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

Recently, I was pepper sprayed at a protest defending university students’ right to express their disgust and anger at their university’s investment in Israel’s war machine. What I suffered is nothing compared to the violence that other pro-Palestine activists and Palestinians have endured. However, it is telling that people who support Palestine are met with violence from the police, and white supremacists get away scott-free.

Our US tax dollars are directly going to Israel’s military, and we should all be disgusted and horrified at the genocide that is being funded with our money.

Donate to Palestinian families who are trying to escape their country being bombed by Israel and consider going to a pro-Palestine protest near you! Harass your local state rep/congress person over the phone or mail. Please do not give up hope, I believe through our collective power and action, we can win.

If you want to learn more about the history of Israeli aggression towards Palestine and contextualize October 7th, I recommend these following articles

Al Jazeera’s article on The History of Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine is a great primer

Palestine speaks for everyone puts October 7th in a historical context of Palestinian resistance against apartheid state of Israel

The Intercept’s article on the NYT’s censorship of journalists covering Israel’s war on Palestine… is deeply fucked and very troubling

I am delightfully selective, and I have no interest in getting to know one another if we cannot agree on the fundamental issue of Palestinian human rights. This is not O’Hare, so no need to announce your departure darling!

Summer Date Guide ☀️

After an amazing and tiring 5 months of traveling all over Chicago, this exclusive package of hot titties, juicy wit and weary bones is so ready to be back in Chicago!

I’m quite adept at solo celebrations with some culinary magic in my kitchen (I treated myself to a decadent walnut-herb dip, a smashed Chinese cucumber salad, and rotisserie chicken swimming in a rich chili oil peanut sauce), but why not share the joy?

I have made a Chicago summer date guide because Chicago summers are to be savored like the perfect farmer’s market strawberry. Fleeting and oh so sweet.

Duos with Emile James 📚

A baddie, a bestie, and a beauty. She’s the diamond of every season and being with us is like hanging out with your favorite giggly and nerdy podcast hosts who have effervescent wit AND amazing tits.

Hence I’m so sad that I still haven’t had a duo date with her ever. What a realization to have ESPECIALLY during pride season (yes, we bisexuals are claiming summer)!

Recommended dates with us: Cocktail making 101 and 201, figure drawing, dinner at Ciccio Mio, and hand holding in second hand bookstores.

Emile + me + you = nerd bliss

Skinny dipping in Lake Michigan 🌊

I love the frigid embrace of Lake Michigan after an achingly hot summer day. Let’s skinny dip after a long night of salsa dancing at Pier 31 and make out under the moonlight.

Movies at the Music Box Theater 🍿

Heed the words of this wise woman as this is cinema’s ars poetica.

[Music]

[Verse 1: Nicole Kidman]
We come to this place… for magic.
We come to Music Box Theater AMC theaters to laugh, to cry, to care.

Because we need that, all of us,
that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim.
And we go somewhere we've never been before;
not just entertained, but somehow reborn.
Together.

Dazzling images, on a huge silver screen.
Sound that I can feel.
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place likе this.
Our heroes feel like thе best part of us, and stories feel perfect and powerful.
Because here, they are.

[Timpani Roll]

[Outro]
Music Box Theater AMC theaters,
We make movies better.

And if you’re wondering, my favorite movies at the Music Box currently: Goodfellas and Mantrap ;)

Eating every ripe mango within my line of sight ✨

A wise man once said that mango juice is best savored when you voraciously lick it off a hot girl’s fingers. You know what to do!

If you desireth to match my freak politely in public, be a good boy and make reservations at Proxi. You can have the last spoonful of my mango laasi kulfi as a treat.

Kissing the nape of your neck 💋

Wow a very versatile date activity! There’s something very erotic about a brief kiss on the neck and the thrilling taste of salt. I recommend pairing this type of kiss with summer dance lesson in the parks.

Long walks with my dog 🐶

If you’re a good boy, you’ll meet my very good girl, my newly adopted dog! She’s a pit mix with so much love to give! She excels in sleeping, politely asking for pets, and scheming for more chicken.

Biking or Boating or BBQing along the lakeshore 🚴‍♀️

Better Business Bureau, you gotta move over, there’s a new girl in town this summer, and her name is Biking, Boating, and BBQing.

She’s popular, and she’s here to stay. Let’s take sailing lessons at Burnham Harbor/charter a boat, grill to our hearts delight, or be hypnotized by the hem of my skirt as we bike along Lake shore Drive

H.A.G.S 😎

XOXO 💖

Josie Qu

Miscellaneous ✍🏼

• Thank you to all the wonderful lovers who’ve welcomed me back to Chicago with delicious conversation about the state of the arts in the US, artful cocktail recipe books, and a decadent lunch!!!! You know who you are <3

• DC Best Bites: Some of the best pickles and kisses with a vivacious date at Tail Up Goat, love at first bite with kitfo, an Ethiopian decadent raw beef scented with black cardamom infused butter, at the restaurant, Family , wine with Rene Rose, and a rye financier at Seylou!!

• Philly Best Bites: A delicious museum and dinner date with Maxienne Robey and a very generous gentleman, lunch with Alexa Eason, and delicious Xi’an noodles

• I love Trylon Theaters in Minneapolis, please fly me out for an intimate movie date!

• Dancing around naked to Patrick Hernandez’s “Born to be Alive” is the perfect way to start the morning. I’m so glad (and you’ll be so glad) that Hacks is on HBO and has been renewed for season 4.

• Please get in touch with me if you’re a fellow marbling nerd!!! I’ve been getting into marbling since fall 2023 and it’s brought me so much joy. Marble and kiss, tonite my king??? 🎨🎨🎨👀👀👀