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Arrestation de Louise Michel (the Arrest of Louise Michel), Jules Girardet.

Meet the real-life Enjolras : Louise Michel. Most people know about the role she played, as a libertarian socialist (later converted to anarchism), during the Commune of Paris, in 1871, during which she opened a school and advocated for the education of the poorest children of Paris, fed starving Parisians, but also fought with her comrades in arms at the Hotel de Ville.

The popularity of the “black flag” among anarchists can be attributed to her using it first, to dissociate herself from the “authoritarian, parliamentary socialists” : “ Plus de drapeau rouge mouillé du sang de nos soldats. J’arborerai le drapeau noir, portant le deuil de nos morts et de nos illusions” (”No more red flag wet with our soldiers’ blood. I will carry the black flag, to mourn the death of our men and our illusions”)

Described as a “terrible woman” by her detractors, for her fierce political activism and her radical feminism, she gained the respect and friendship of (mainly left-wing) personalities and politicians such as : Georges Clemenceau (future president of the council, and who intervened various times to bail her out), Paul Lafargue (son-in-law of Karl Marx, and an essayist himself), Marie and Théophile Ferré (brother and sister, fellow Communards), Jules Vallès (writer and journalist), and…Victor Hugo.

Concerning her friendship with good old Victor, it started when she moved to Paris in 1850 : Louise, an admirer of his work, wrote poems that she sent to Victor under the pen name of Enjolras. Victor, on the other side, chose her as a subject of a few poems he wrote on the theme “women of tragic or exceptional destiny” (Viro Major). Their correspondence lasted until 1879. The alias Enjolras stayed with her, and was used by her comrades during la Commune.

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“This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.”

Or, alternatively, both R and I would die for Enjolras.

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Paul Antoine de La Boulaye — Salomé. detail. 1909

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That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

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'run a botanical garden? why darling, i would love to'

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Rosa banksiae in chinese garden by 不会取昵称的刹那    

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fuck literary gatekeeping, read whatever you want.

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You've heard of Plato, you know Aristotle, now get ready for..... Women philosophers of ancient greece!

A

Abrotelia

Aedesia

Aesara

Arete of Cyrene

Arignote

Asclepigenia

Aspasia

Axiothea of Phlius

B

Batis of Lampsacus

C

Cleopatra the Alchemist

D

Damo (philosopher)

Diotima of Mantinea

H

Hipparchia of Maroneia

Hypatia

L

Lastheneia of Mantinea

Leontion

M

Melissa (philosopher)

Myia

N

Nicarete of Megara

P

Perictione

Phintys

Ptolemais of Cyrene

S

Sosipatra

T

Theano (philosopher)

Themista of Lampsacus

Themistoclea

Theodora of Emesa

Timycha

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me in 2020: fantine deserves better

hugo: THAT'S WHAT I SAID

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i’ve just been thinking about how english and americans online expect everyone to know their literature and poetry, their ~classics~ when literally every other country in the world also has an incredible and interesting literary history that is probably more relevant to it’s own citizens, like i’m not saying you shouldn’t branch out to intl lit because i think everyone should but that includes english first language speakers who have never picked up a translated book in their lives

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Do not ignore what is going on in the Philippines.

An human rights worker named Reina Mae Nasino was jailed and wrongfully accused for owning firearms. She was pregnant by the time she was jailed and gave birth in prison.

At this point, Reina Mae Nasino wasn’t given proper care in prison and was only given one medical visit. Reina gave birth to a girl named River but the lack of prenatal care caused the child to have a low weight and skin discoloration. Nasino also had difficulty breastfeeding her and wasn’t getting any assistance for her child. The counsels asked for the baby to be transferred to a hospital for her care but it was denied by the court.

On October 9, River died due to acute respiratory distress syndrome. She was only 3 months old.

Reina Mae Nasino was supposed to have 3 days to say goodbye but the Court Judge revised it and made it 6 hours, 3 hours for the wake and 3 hours for the funeral. She wasn’t allowed a peaceful grieving as dozens of police and jail guards swarmed the area. On October 14, Reina Mae attended River’s wake in full PPE and handcuffs, surrounded by guards because she was labelled a high profile criminal. The guards tried to cut her time with her child short as they tried to drag her away 2 hours before the visiting time was up. She was also not allowed to take off her handcuffs.

October 16, the day River was to be buried. The funeral wasn’t peaceful or respectful as the police swarmed and guarded the area. The car carrying River sped to the cemetery, not giving time for her family and supporters to catch up. The relatives begged on their knees for the guards to remove Reina’s handcuffs so she can hold her child one last time but they refused.

She wasn’t allowed a peaceful goodbye to her child.

She never even heard her child laugh once.

Reina Mae Nasino is not a criminal. She is a political prisoner and an activist who was treated terribly by the police and the justice system.

They killed her child.

There are over 600+ political prisoners like her in the Philippines that are subject to inhumane treatment due to the Duterte Administration and its disregard for the poor and disenfranchised. Baby River is not the only child who died due to the lack of care by the government.

Activists in the Philippines are getting killed, red tagged and treated as terrorists.

Do not ignore this. We need to be heard.

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Conrad Kiesel - After the ball

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*deceased in this precise moment*

(I'm fully convinced they're serenading France)

enjolras, combeferre, & courfeyrac

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“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”

(spontaneous archive moodboard for @jawnkeets)

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I know it’s trendy right now to say that adopting more of an eco-friendly lifestyle is pointless because the only way to save humanity is to destroy capitalism, but we should remember that many of those lifestyle changes help us build skills and social networks that would be important in a post-capitalism future. 

For example, if we’re going to end reliance on factory farming, it would really help for more people to learn to garden and grow food. Same for other hands-on skills like cooking, crafts, home repair, tech repair, etc. Even small things like using re-usable water bottles and bags or thrifting/swapping items to cut down on waste would be regular features of a post-capitalist society, so making them more widely practiced now is a great thing. 

Systemic changes are necessary for sure, but they *will* involve lifestyle changes too, and it’s important to do your part to create that from the ground up. We don’t get to a better system by destroying the old one, but by building up the new one. 🌱

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I still cannot believe almost nobody knows the novel "Ninety-three" by Victor Hugo. Like... HOW?

It's the most beautifully written novel ever, it's pretty much as good as Les Mis, it has the same amount of pathos, it's WAY shorter than the Brick (so you can bring it with you more easily – this is a really good point)... And still barely anybody has read it?

My heart breaks every time I think about the fact that this awesome novel, which touches so many modern topics like freedom, equality and education (and so much more), is ignored by so many...

+ the characters. my gosh. Gauvain, Cimourdain, Radoub, Michelle Fléchard with her precious kids... Each character is SO well developed that I could talk about them (except Lantenac because I hate him with all my heart) for an entire week or more

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you wear an ancestor’s face. you look like a woman you’ll never meet. in that mirror, there’s thousands of you. and in the bath, when you look down, she looks back, shaking and deforming in the ripples as she lies beneath the surface.