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pickling party with my friends

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‘Manuel’ - Rodrigo (Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester)

‘Manuel’ was showed in the 1983 edition of ARCO, Madrid’s contemporary art fair. It was deemed “the first gay sculpture at the fair” and caused some commotion in Spain’s cultural scene. The artist, Rodrigo, made this sculpture based on a man he met and fell in love with at a public pool in 1976.

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Crazy thing about #healing #recovery Small Victories is when you'll have some shit going on that's like, saying this would involve admitting how you used to be doing. You know? Like hey guys good news I'm gonna change my bedsheets this year

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A photoshoot by James Patrick Dawson for XY Magazine, 1997.

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i do not believe in labubus or their cause

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Why "Precolonial" Indigenous North American History Matters: A Mini Syllabus

Okay I had this half-finished lying around so I prettied it up into something vaguely usable and added links wherever possible (most of them being totally legal...)

This is not a full treatment of Indigenous history before European contact. It was originally created to be a 15 week class, so it was not intended to cover everything but to give a taste of various regions and histories. Unfortunately, certain essays I would highly recommend are in the Oxford handbooks I listed at the end, and I have been unable to locate free-to-access versions.

Each section includes a question to consider that is intended to suggest ways that these precolonial histories have reverberations into the present. In a course I'd be able to draw them out more clearly, but keep them in mind as you read, if you like. Finally, please keep in mind that few of these sources will read like a "straightforward history" of "precolonial [xyz region/tribe/nation]." Be open-minded and critical-thinking!

Part 1: Foundations

Questions to consider:

Why didn't we learn this stuff?

Why should we learn this stuff?

Why do so many Indigenous people distrust historians / anthropologists / archaeologists?

Readings:

Michael Witgen (Red Cliff Ojibwe), "American Indians in World History" in The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History

Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), Custer Died For Your Sins, chapter 4: "Anthropologists and Other Friends"

Floyd Westerman (Sisseton Dakota), "Here Come the Anthros" (music video!!)

Juliana Barr, "There's no such thing as prehistory"

Peregrine and Lekson, "The North American Oikumene"

(Parts 2-6 under the cut)

Part 2: Mesoamerica

Question to consider: How could so few Spaniards conquer the vast population of Tenochtitlan and other Aztec cities?

Readings:

Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Popol Vuh (translated by Allen J. Christenson)

Part 3: Aridoamerica/Oasisamerica

Question to consider: How did the Southwest region of the United States become so associated with the touristy image of the "peaceful Pueblo Indian"?

Readings:

Joe Sando (Jemez Pueblo), Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History

Kelley and Francis (Navajo), A Diné History of Navajoland, introduction

Severin Fowles, "The Pueblo Village in an Age of Reformation"

Part 4: The Midcontinent

Question to consider: How did the Five "Civilized" Tribes become so powerful, both historically and today?

Readings:

Alt and Pauketat, "Medieval Life in America's Heartland"

Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation), Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club

Part 5: The Great Lakes

Question to consider: What role did Indigenous peoples play in the French ultimately losing their North American colonies? (Why am I writing this in English and not French?)

Readings:

Georges Sioui (Wendat), Huron-Wendat: Heritage of the Circle (I can't find an online copy but it's extremely worth buying)

Kayanerehkowa: The Great Law of Peace (Kahnawake Mohawk)

Part 6: General Resources

I would also recommend these two handbooks, if you can get a hold of them for a non-outrageous price:

The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (2016)

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology (2011)

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Butch Comix Vol. 1

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Bug of the Day - Cicadapalooza!

So I went to see the Brood XIV cicada emergence on Cape Cod this week...:-D

(Linnaeus' Periodical Cicada - Magicicada septendecim)

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Promenades amusantes à travers la science - Daniel Bellet - 1905 - via Gallica

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hi. fuck ice. here is how you can help families affected by unlawful deportation

edit: and FUCK LAPD. here is how you can help bail out protestors who are in the trenches, facing mass arrests and putting their bodies on the line.

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Been getting really into orange juice lately

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Paper airplane folded and unfolded in two separate directions

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“for the record” by fierce pussy, 2013

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you are a toy pit

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Newlyn, Cornwall. February 2023.