#elsagidlow — Public Fediverse posts

I was looking up some history about Alan Watts, who was famous for interpreting and popularizing Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience. In researching him I learned about Druid Heights, a bohemian artist community of sorts north of San Francisco, and that's how I found the video below.
#AlanWatts #GarySnyder #ElsaGidlow #poetry #art #Buddhism #AllanGinsberg #SanFranciscoRenaissance #BeatGeneration

https://youtu.be/7Egj_9pAMqs

Elsa Gidlow was one of the most prominent lesbian poets of the 20th century - and she was quite literally Lovecraft's counterpart in amateur journalism, heading up a rival faction of the same organization.

https://deepcuts.blog/2022/05/11/deeper-cut-elsa-gidlow-les-mouches-fantastiques/

#lovecraft #hplovecraft #elsagidlow #poet #poetry #amateurjournalism #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia