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Illustrations from Walt McDougall’s Good Stories for Children, 1902-05

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my new thinkpiece is called ‘is making jokes on the internet nothing more than a sisyphisean nightmare?’

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Are you a fisherman because I think you’re a reel catch

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y is antiporn stance in feminism less popular these days?

Because we’re realising, as a group, how misogynistic whorephobia is and how incompatible it is with the idea of liberation from oppression. Because sex workers, including porn performers, are speaking for themselves and there’s no good reason to speak over marginalised people fighting for their liberation.

Because people are realising that all forms of media in a patriarchial culture are misogynistic and that trying to eliminate one specific kind of media altogether for that reason is ridiculous. Because we’re realising it makes more sense to support works that are less misogynistic across all forms of media and have cultural conversations about the way we think about sex in a cisheteropatriarchial culture.

Because we’re discovering that sex means different things to different people - and realising that it’s misogynist to claim it’s secret and magical for all women specifically because they’re women. And that treating sex work as somehow morally different to any other service profession is based in misogynist ideas about sexual purity.

Because being antiporn or otherwise advocating against the right of sex workers to do the work that allows them to survive is inherently at odds with the idea of liberation for women. Because more feminists are learning to listen to marginalised people who don’t share their privilege, and because so many sex worker activists have been fighting tooth and nail for their own rights.

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Bandit looking cute on a lazy Sunday

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April 29th 1868: Fort Laramie Treaty signed

On this day in 1868, the Fort Laramie Treaty was signed by the United States government and representatives of the Sioux Nation. The treaty officially recognised the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, and set the land aside for the exclusive use of its indigenous inhabitants. During the nineteenth century, spurred by the overcrowding of Eastern states and by the providential mission of ‘Manifest Destiny’, Americans increasingly sought to expand westward. As settlers encroached on Native American land, violence became an integral part of life on the frontier. A congressional committee report in 1867 encouraged the establishment of an Indian Peace Commission, with the intention of ending the conflict. The U.S. government sought to make treaties with Native Americans which would force them to give up their land and move onto western reservations. One such treaty was made in Fort Laramie, Wyoming, in 1868. However, the U.S. soon sent General George Custer to the Black Hills in 1874 in search of gold mines. Once gold was discovered, prospectors descended on the area, and the army began to confront the Sioux. In 1876, Custer’s army at the Little Bighorn river was annihilated by Sioux and Cheyenne fighters. Despite this devastating loss, the war continued, and in 1877 the United States confiscated the Black Hills. The Sioux people continued to protest the illegal seizure of their ancestral land. They won a significant legal victory in 1980, when the Supreme Court ordered financial compensation for the loss of the land; the Sioux, however, refused payment and continued to demand the return of their land.

“From this day forward all war between the parties to this agreement shall for ever cease. The government of the United States desires peace, and its honor is hereby pledged to keep it.” - Article I of the Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

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Time to watch some wholesome youtube content

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This Guy Is A Modern Plato

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I was downtown tonight and I passed this group of big kinda scary looking guys and all I heard was “are you fucking kidding me? harry potter wouldn’t last 10 minutes in the hunger games.”

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Skip, my 9 year old beagle forever💛

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Let Him Have The Sausages

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While wondering through a kingdom, a knight sees a fort that is not marked on his map. As he approaches it, he sees a peasant sitting outside in the mud, and says, “Lowly peasant, what is the name of yon fort?” The peasant responds, “Good sir knight, yon fort goes by the name of ‘Wenty’.” Puzzled by this strange name, the knight responds “Fort… Wenty?” to which the peasant responds “Blaze it”.

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