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fun fact, the talmud cautions men to “keep their wives away from” women who are known to have sex with women, which is amazing because in addition to that just being an incredible line, it implies that a) there are out queer women in the jewish communities in talmudic times!!!! and b) it is natural to assume that a lot of women who are married to men are bi — maybe even natural to assume they all are! also god just what a mood. imagine being gay wandering around 400 CE babylonia seducing all these married women so often that the leading religious authorities have to warn men about you. iconic

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A very important video on the money Glasgow made from the empire and especially Scotland role in the slave trade

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so frustrating to read about the bow contest in the odyssey. like you all do not get it! it's an impossible task!!!! whether or not penelope recognizes odysseus at this point, she knows full well that there's not a chance any of the suitors are going to be able to string the bow! penelope saying she'll marry whoever can shoot through the axes is the same sort of thing as saying she'll marry when she finishes the shroud! except with the bow she can place the blame on them by saying they failed to complete the task required to earn her hand, potentially buying her indefinite time.

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hold this space for my alternative odyssey that includes the beruriah incident

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Recently I went to one of my favorite museums of all times, the Muskegon Art Museum, and discovered this new bronze by UK artist, Beth Carter, Minotaur Reading. When people think of the myth of the Minotaur it’s almost always in context of his violence, his lust, his impossible body. Here all that is swept away with this monstrous form reading a small golden book. This made me crazy happy to see.

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one of the best academic paper titles

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Today, many people in Catalonia and Andorra will be singing caramelles.

The tradition repeats every Easter Saturday in the evening and Easter Sunday in the morning and noon. Groups of people go around the town, house by house, singing songs.

They carry a basket on the top of a wooden stick, so they can raise it to balconies and people can give them something in return. Traditionally, people gave them eggs (for this reason, caramelles are called goig dels ous in Northern Catalonia) and/or money so at the end of th day they could make a communal meal all together. Nowadays, some towns keep the eggs tradition while many others give food, sweets and money. (In my town, the children's groups save the money to go to the amusement park Tibidabo all together).

In some areas, the caramelles singers also dance some local traditional dances between songs.

It's unknown when the tradition started, but written documents from the 16th century already mention it in rural Catalonia.

Photos in this post: from Sant Salvador de Guardiola (by GMV), Sant Cugat del Vallès (by C. Caballé), Súria (by Òscar Bayona), Sant Cebrià de Rosselló (by Le Temps du Costume Roussillonais) and Sitges (by Vinyet Panyella).

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There have undoubtedly been (and continue to be) many historians who have preserved and protected queer history, often at their own detriment. There is room to be grateful for them, as well as critical of the structures that impede and hide their work. Sharing uncritical praise of academia is just as bad as throwing it all under the bus, reality is nuanced and deserves to be represented as such.

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a lot of the early founding of major corporations involved murder as well

really the most successful companies have the most blood on their hands

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y'all ever reach the end of google

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I'm reading a book named "A Guide to The Correction of Young Gentlemen Or, The Successful Administration Of Physical Discipline To Males, By Females" - essentially, a fantasy femdom BDSM book, written in 1924 by Alice Kerr-Sutherland but first published in 1991.

It has some genuinely fascinating stuff to say about gender, and I feel like it's worth looking at/thinking about in the context of Historical Gender Stuff. This 100 year old book has the following to say:

"The truth is that some young gentlemen would rather they had been born young ladies: they cannot admit this openly, because in the male world to confess as much would lead to instant ostracism if not worse; but they cannot conceal it either, and by preferring the company of girls, and soft, feminine clothing, and by flinching during the rough pursuits to which all boys, willing or no, are occasionally heirs, they attract opprobrium."

"Such boys weep too readily for their fellows' tastes - weeping is a great crime among boys unless it is generally admitted that circumstances left little choice - and are hounded for that reason."

"Just as there are girls who had rather been boys - we all know examples of the type - there are boys who, in a kinder world, would have been born into the gender more suited to their dispositions."

"Many young people of this sort are riven with a guilt they do not deserve but have been forced, by the conventions of society, to adopt; they are confused, ashamed and thoroughly unhappy."

"The ideal thing to do would be to treat these cases on their merits, send them to girls' schools, and so on. (The same thing should happen with those girls who would rather be young gentlemen.) Boys of this sort are girls in any case-in all respects save one."

"Most subjects of this sort have a secret name - a girl's name."