#c. stanley snyder

[chericos]

the night air was cold—biting, seeping through the layers of your clothing. if not for the fire burning steadily before you, crackling and spitting embers into the dark, you were sure you’d have long perished to the frigid temperatures. of course, you were just being dramatic, but who could blame you? the chill was relentless, clinging to your skin, creeping its way into your bones despite the flickering warmth just a few feet away. what you would give to be peacefully resting in your bed back at the base. (you’d give anything).

yet, nothing ever seemed to go your way. not when xeno had casually informed you of your impromptu trip to collect data on the group—boat? colony? whatever they were—that had decided to take refuge on your lands.

with a quiet sigh, you tore your gaze away from the dancing flames, their golden glow casting fleeting shadows across the ground, and instead, let your eyes settle on something—or rather, someone—far more captivating.

stanley.

the glow of the fire painted him in hues of amber and burnt orange, accentuating the sharp cut of his jaw, emphasizing the intensity of his amber eyes, the way they seemed to gaze into your very soul. you peer down to his lips, the faintest smirk seemed to permanently linger at their edge. a cigarette burned between his fingers, the glowing ember pulsing each time he took a slow, measured drag. the smoke curled around him like a specter, twisting into the cold air before vanishing into the dark.

there was something almost hypnotic about the way he moved—deliberate, calculated, never a motion wasted. even in something as simple as smoking, there was precision, an ease that came with routine. his golden eyes, always sharp, flicked toward you, catching you in the act of watching him.

the smirk on his face deepened. “see something you like?” he drawled, voice low, almost seductive.

you groan, rolling your eyes, feigning disinterest. you tear your gaze away to look at the vast forest where you both have set up camp, trying to distract yourself. his amusement was palpable, something knowing glinting in his gaze as he took another slow inhale of his cigarette, the ember burning hot against the dark.

with a lazy exhale, he let the smoke slip past his lips in a slow, curling stream. you caught it out of the corner of your eye, doing your best not to make it obvious that you were staring again.

“wanna try something?” he murmured, his voice low and teasing.

you quirked a brow. “depends.”

“breathe in,” he murmured, his voice barely above a whisper.

you hesitated for a second, your eyes locking with his. you wanted to say something, to dignify his question with a response, but your brain was so scattered, your thoughts clouded by the warmth of his touch, that you couldn’t seem to think straight. so with no other choice, you nod wordlessly.

then, without warning, he exhaled—warm, slow, the smoke slipping past his lips and into yours, invading your lungs with the intoxicating mix of nicotine and something unmistakably him. your heart stuttered, the heat of his breath chasing away the biting cold you were feeling just minutes prior as you inhaled, letting the sensation settle deep before slowly releasing it into the space between you.

stanley leaned back just slightly, his amber eyes studying you through half-lidded lashes, smirking. “not bad,” he muttered, bringing the cigarette back to his mouth. the ember flared again as he took another drag, watching you over the rim of his fingers. “think you can handle another?”

you swallowed, trying to steady your racing heartbeat. it was a challenge. a tease.

and damn it, you were tempted to say yes.

but before you could respond, stanley moved in again, his hand still beneath your chin, pulling you closer, just enough that your lips brushed against his—soft and fleeting. the taste of smoke clung to him, the heat of his kiss stealing the air from your lungs. the world around you seemed to vanish for a moment, and you knew that you were completely, irrevocably consumed by him. when he finally pulled back, there was no teasing glint in his eyes—only an intense, searching look.

he didn’t say anything. and neither did you.

the night stretched on in a haze, the fire still flickering, the smoke drifting lazily into the air, and you both left in that unspoken tension, uncertain where the evening would go, but knowing that whatever happened next... neither of you were in a hurry to leave.

fuck my stupid baka life (reference for bae[ @lo1itado11 ], aka the one who got me to write this)

cooked this up QUICK, on nothing but a random "hey, i've never seen a stanley shotgunning fic" and a dream.

is this my formal introduction to the dr stone fandom? i like it here!

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[candytrashpanda]

Stanley Snyder SFW Alphabet

Fandom: Dr Stone

Character(s): Stanley Snyder

Warnings: None

Notes: This one was requested by C_L_E_O on ao3! Next up is gonna be Xeno, just some form of Xeno lol. Enjoy!

ao3 | Ko-Fi

A: Affection (How affectionate are they with a s/o?)

More than you might think. He doesn't get super sappy about it, and isn't too into PDA, but he can be pretty affectionate in private, and even in public it's not strange for him to put an arm around you or give you a quick hug sometimes.

B: Breath (What can their s/o do to take their breath away)

You could dress up real nice and take his breath away with how gorgeous you are, that's the easy route. If you want to really impress him, show off some skills he's invested in. He'll try to appreciate any hobbies you might have, but cares the most about strength and combat related skills. If you have any interest or prowess in those, you'll be able to really grab his attention.

C: Cuddle (Do they cuddle? If they do, how and when do they cuddle?)

When he really loves someone, he can be pretty casual with touch, so you'll be cuddling with him, probably more than you expected. It's not exactly planned, he doesn't make a big deal of it, he just pulls you closer when you sit next to him and wraps his arms around you pretty much whenever you're close by.

D: Dream (What do they dream of doing with their s/o?)

He wants to eventually settle down. Not retire, not completely, not yet, but when things have calmed down a little, he'd love to live a bit more quiet a life with you; a nice house, maybe a couple kids, a dog. That kind of thing.

E: Effort (How much effort do they put into a relationship?)

He does things pretty effortlessly, honestly. He has a decent amount of experience with relationships, and more or less knows what goes into making one work, especially once he's gotten to know you and what you want specifically.

F: Fear (What do they do if their s/o is scared? How do they handle it?)

Stan is a protector, and his first priority is always going to be keeping you safe. He has more experience with fighting physical threats than dealing with anxiety or irrational fears, but no matter what's scaring you, he'll do his best to neutralize the threat.

G: Gifts (What type of gifts do they give their s/o? Do they want a gift in return?)

I don't think he really knows how to give a good gift, he's not particularly interested in gifts as a display of affection. He'll get you something on your birthday and Christmas, but he'll likely need to be advised on what to get and doesn't really expect anything in return.

H: Hugs (Do they hug their s/o? How often?)

Yes, pretty often. Only when you're in private, though, he's not one for PDA.

I: Intimacy (How romantic are they? Do they have problems with intimacy?)

It depends a little on your definition of "romantic". If you want physical intimacy, no problem! He can be very physical with someone he loves. But if you're more into spoken affirmations or candlelit dinners, you might be out of luck.

J: Jealous (Do they get jealous? How do they act when jealous?)

Surprisingly, given his protective attitude, not really. He might feel jealous on occasion, that's only natural, but he doesn't really... Do anything about it? He'll step in if someone is making you uncomfortable with their flirting, but generally, he trusts you to make good decisions. He's not up for a completely open relationship, but he might even be okay with introducing a third to your relationship of it was someone you both knew, liked, and trusted (like, say, Xeno-)

K: Kiss (Are they a good kisser? Do they like to kiss? How often do they try to kiss you?)

He's a great kisser with plenty of experience, and you'll get to experience that a lot.

L: Love (When do they say they love you? How often do they say it? Do they prefer to say it or show it?)

He doesn't outright say it very much, he prefers to show it through his actions. He does say it sometimes, though, when the time is right. He says it once in a while when you're making love, he'll say it when he proposes, and he'll say it at your wedding, don't expect to hear those words much otherwise. You'll feel them through his actions and devotion instead.

M: Marriage (Do they want to get married? If so, what kind of ceremony?)

Stan always pictured himself getting married back home in a small ceremony with just family and close friends in his mom's backyard. He's probably going to wait until that becomes possible again to propose- if that can happen in a reasonable amount of time, anyways, if a few years pass and it's not looking like "home" will be rebuilt any time soon he'll bite the bullet and pop the question anyways.

N: Night out (What type of dates do they like to go on? How often do they like to go on them?)

He doesn't like to go out much, per se, he's more into home dates and such. You can definitely convince him to go out every once in a while, but don't expect a lot of PDA or anything, it's likely just going to be the two of you doing a normal fun activity together.

O: Out of the Ordinary (What’s something they don’t normally do for/with their s/o?)

He's not one for PDA, and traditional "romantic dates" in public places aren't his style either. He prefers to keep things mostly private and low-key.

P: Playful (Are they playful in a relationship? If so, how do they play around/mess with their s/o?)

He doesn't joke or play around much, but he can be a bit teasing, sometimes. He mostly jokes by poking fun, and sometimes a darker sense of humor slips through. He... Usually avoids taking it too far, though.

Q: Questions (Do they ask their s/o their opinion on things? Do they share theirs?)

He's used to being in command at this point, but he tries. He doesn't want to just unilaterally make decisions when it comes to his personal relationships. You might sometimes need to remind him you also need to weigh in on the matter at hand, though, because he may not always remember to ask.

R: Random (How spontaneous is their relationship? Do they do things on the spot or plan ahead?)

It's a pretty solid mix of spontaneity and plans with him- he doesn't really have a strong preference for one or the other, he appreciates both ways of doing things.

S: Sleep (How do they sleep with their s/o?)

He sleeps on his back and likes to hold you on top of him so you're laying on his chest, like a pillow. He makes a pretty good pillow.

T: Trust (How much do they trust their s/o?)

If he didn't trust you, he wouldn't go out with you, especially not with the world as it is, so by necessity the answer is "a lot".

U: Unique (What makes them unique as a s/o?)

To put it bluntly, strength, skill, and renown. He can fly a plane, he can shoot a gun, he can lead an army. He was one of the astronauts that went to the moon. Now, how often are you going to need or see those combat skills, especially post-canon? Hopefully not much, and he's not exactly going to be going around with his medal bragging about his achievements, but it's all still felt and seen.

V: Vulnerable (How long until they can be vulnerable around their s/o? What are they like in this state?)

Yeah, he's not exactly the "vulnerable" type. Don't get me wrong, he has a soft side, especially for his romantic partners, but you're not going to see a lot of weakness from him unless things are fucking dire.

W: Wild Card (Random domestic headcanon)

He's a terrible cook. Look, the guy's never had to worry about his own meals in his life, he went straight from his parents to the military and he definitely wasn't doing the cooking post-petrification. Put him in a kitchen and he'll have no clue what he's doing.

X: X-Ray (What would they do if their s/o got injured?)

Hopefully the injury was an accident because if someone else hurt you he's going scorched earth on their ass. Besides that, though, he'd take you to the nearest medic and do what he can to help until you're healthy. He might be able to do some basic first aid himself, but he's not the most experienced in medical things.

Y: Yuck (Do they have any pet peeves about their s/o? Are there any habits that might bother their s/o?)

He smokes. He can try making accommodations, he'll avoid smoking indoors or around you, but you're not going to get him to quit.

Z: Zeal (Are they passionate as a s/o? Do they want or like passion?)

Oh, is he ever. In his own way. He can come across as a cold, distant person, but his devotion to someone he truly cares for is unmatched. He'd do just about anything for you. And he might not like PDA, but when you're in private and he's comfortable showing affection, he'll be all over you.

[stanleymyhusband]

Stanley Snyder NSFW Alphabet

A = Aftercare

Not overly affectionate but makes sure his partner is comfortable.

Offers water, a cigarette, or just quiet time together.

Runs his hands over their body, admiring them in a possessive yet soft way.

���You good?” whispered in a husky tone.

B = Body Part (His & Theirs)

Proud of his strong, well-built body—especially his arms and hands.

Loves running his hands over their body, memorizing every inch.

Has a thing for thighs and hips, gripping them tightly during the act.

C = Cum

Very possessive about where he finishes—prefers inside but also enjoys marking skin.

Growls in satisfaction when he sees them covered in it.

D = Dirty Talk

Expert at low, gravelly whispers that send shivers down their spine.

Not vulgar but seductive—“You’re mine,” “You take me so well,” “Look at you.”

Loves teasing them about how good they feel, how much they want him.

Can switch between slow, deep talking and rough, commanding orders.

E = Experience

Had multiple one-night stands but never a real relationship before.

Knows exactly what to do and how to read his partner’s body.

Every touch is intentional—he enjoys learning what makes them tick.

F = Favorite Position

Missionary when he wants to be intimate, watching every reaction.

From behind when he’s feeling rough—gripping their hips tightly.

Lap sitting if he wants them close, feeling every movement against him.

Against the wall for quick, heated moments when patience is gone.

G = Goofy (Serious vs. Playful)

Not goofy, but has a teasing side when in the right mood.

Smirks when they get flustered, enjoys their reactions.

“What, can’t handle me?” with a low chuckle.

Usually focused and intense, but knows how to make them comfortable.

H = Hair

Always well-groomed, trimmed but not bare—doesn’t like feeling messy.

I = Intimacy

Surprisingly deep and intense—makes sure they feel every emotion behind his touch.

Shows intimacy more in actions than words—how he holds them, how he lingers after.

Looks them straight in the eyes, wanting to see every reaction.

Even in rough moments, there’s always a sense of connection and possessiveness.

J = Jack Off

Not a frequent habit—he prefers the real thing.

If he does, it’s only when he’s thinking about them.

Has a strong sex drive but holds back when necessary.

If they’re apart for a while, expect a hungry reunion.

K = Kinks

Possession/Marking – Loves leaving bites, scratches, and bruises as proof of their nights together.

Domination – Takes control naturally, enjoys being the one leading.

Praise – Loves hearing how much they need him, how good he makes them feel.

Teasing/Denial – If they’re bratty, he makes them wait, whispering things in their ear.

Control – Dictates the pace, enjoys making them beg for more.

L = Location

Prefers a bed for long nights, but isn’t picky when the mood strikes.

Against the wall, in the shower, or even somewhere risky if they’re alone.

Has a thing for doing it in places where they "shouldn’t"—as long as no one hears.

Morning sex in bed is his personal favorite.

M = Motivation

Stress relief—military life builds up a lot of tension, and this is the best way to let it out.

Their body—if they so much as stretch the wrong way, he’s already thinking about it.

Soft moments—as much as he loves rough nights, something about slow, deep touches gets to him.

N = No

Won’t degrade them—he can be rough, but never disrespectful.

No public places—as much as he likes the risk, he won’t actually do it in front of anyone.

Won’t push past limits—if they say stop, he listens instantly.

O = Oral (Giving & Receiving)

Giving: Absolutely obsessed with it. He takes his time, teasing, licking, sucking, watching every reaction.

Loves holding their hips down if they start squirming too much.

Smirks when they beg him to stop or speed up.

Receiving: Enjoys it, but doesn’t demand it. If they go down on him, he’s watching them the whole time.

P = Pace

Usually rough and deep, wanting to make them feel everything.

But when it’s slow and intimate, every movement feels personal, intentional.

Either way, he lasts long and makes sure they do too.

Q = Quickies

Absolutely down for it if the situation allows.

“We have ten minutes—think you can handle it?”

Usually leaves them breathless, marked, and struggling to recover before he buttons up like nothing happened.

R = Risk

Loves risky situations, but only when they’re actually safe.

Gets a thrill from nearly getting caught, but would never let it happen.

If they’re alone in a place where they shouldn’t be doing this? Perfect.

S = Stamina

Insane stamina—military training means he goes multiple rounds without breaking a sweat.

Doesn’t stop until they’re completely satisfied.

T = Toys

Not interested. He prefers using his own hands, mouth, and body.

Thinks he can do a better job than any toy.

If they ever bring it up, he’ll listen but he prefers skin-to-skin contact.

U = Unfair (How much he teases)

If he wants to punish them? Merciless teasing—slow, drawn-out touches, deep whispers in their ear.

Enjoys watching them get desperate, but won’t push them too far.

“Say please, and I’ll think about it.”

V = Volume

Not loud, but his voice alone is enough to ruin them—deep groans, low grunts, sharp exhales.

Dirty talk in their ear makes up for his quietness.

Occasionally muffled curses when it’s too good.

W = Wild Card (Random Headcanon)

Possessive, but in a deep, protective way.

If they tease him too much in public, they’re getting wrecked later.

Loves biting— their neck, shoulder, or anywhere he can leave a mark.

X = X-Ray (What’s he packing?)

Trimmed, well-groomed, and thick.

Above average in both length and girth.

Knows exactly how to use it—angle, depth, pace.

Veiny and warm, twitches when he’s holding back.

Y = Yearning (How high is his sex drive?)

Very high, but he’s good at controlling it.

If they’ve been apart for a while? It’s over. He won’t let them go all night.

Even on normal days, he can go multiple times if they’re up for it.

Z = ZZZ (How quickly does he sleep after?)

Usually stays awake for a while, watching them, arms wrapped around their waist.

Eventually falls asleep holding them, only fully relaxing once they’re by his side.

Wakes up before them, smirking at the marks he left the night before

[mariacallous]

As the Trump administration escalates its attack on universities, three fascism scholars and vocal Trump critics are leaving Yale University for the University of Toronto. But their given reasons for crossing the border vary.

Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale and author of multiple books—including How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them—said he finally accepted Toronto’s long-standing offer for a position on Friday after seeing Columbia University “completely collapse and give in to an authoritarian regime.”

In a move that has unnerved faculty across the country, Columbia’s administration largely conceded to demands from the Trump administration, which had cut $400 million of the university’s federal grants and contracts for what it said was Columbia’s failure to address campus antisemitism. Among other moves, the Ivy League institution gave campus officers arrest authority and appointed a new senior vice provost to oversee academic programs focused on the Middle East.

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“I was genuinely undecided before that,” Stanley said. Now he’s leaving Yale to be the named chair in American studies at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. According to the university, the intent is for Stanley also to be cross-appointed to the philosophy department. Two popular philosophy blogs previously reported the move.

“What I worry about is that Yale and other Ivy League institutions do not understand what they face,” Stanley said. He loves Yale and expected to spend the rest of his career there, he said; while he still hopes for the opportunity to return some day, he’s nervous Yale “will do what Columbia did.”

Stanley said Toronto’s Munk School “raided Yale” for some of its prominent professors of democracy and authoritarianism to establish a project on defending democracy internationally—an effort that began long before the election.

Also leaving Yale for the Munk School is Timothy Snyder, author of books including The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, and Marci Shore, author of The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution and other works. Snyder and Shore are married.

Stanley said Toronto reached out to him back in April 2023, during the Biden administration, and he restarted conversations after the election. He finally took the job Friday. The university told Inside Higher Ed it had been trying to recruit Snyder and Shore for years, saying, “We’re always looking for the best and brightest.”

Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale, will become the Munk School’s inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies. A spokesperson for Snyder said he made his decision for personal reasons, and he made it before the election.

In an emailed statement Wednesday, Snyder said, “The opportunity came at a time when my spouse and I had to address some difficult family matters.” He said he had “no grievance with Yale, no desire to leave the U.S. I am very happy with the idea of a move personally but, aside from a strong appreciation of what U of T has to offer, the motivations are largely that—personal.”

But when asked for her reasoning, Shore told Inside Higher Ed in an email that “the personal and political were, as often is the case, intertwined. We might well have made the move in any case, but we didn’t make our final decision until after the November elections,” she wrote.

Shore, a Yale history professor, will become the Munk School Chair in European Intellectual History, supported by the same endowment as her husband.

“I sensed that this time, this second Trump election, would be still much worse than the first—the checks and balances have been dismantled,” she wrote. “I can feel that the country is going into free fall. I fear there’s going to be a civil war. And I don’t want to bring my kids back into that. I also don’t feel confident that Yale or other American universities will manage to protect either their students or their faculty.”

She also said it didn’t escape her that Yale failed to publicly defend Snyder when Vice President JD Vance criticized him on X in January. After Trump nominated Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, Snyder—who has repeatedly excoriated the Trump administration in the media—posted that “a Christian Reconstructionist war on Americans led from the Department of Defense is likely to break the United States.”

Vance reposted that with the caption “That this person is a professor at Yale is actually an embarrassment.” Elon Musk, X’s owner, responded in agreement.

‘They Need to Band Together’

Leaving for Canada might sound like a futile move, given that Trump has threatened to annex it.

“That’s why I’m definitely not thinking of it as fleeing fascism; I’m thinking of it as defending Canada,” Stanley said. “Freedom of inquiry does not seem to be under threat in Canada,” he said, and moving there will allow him to be engaged in “an international fight against fascism.”

Nonetheless, he said it’s heartbreaking to leave the Yale philosophy department. He would consider returning to Yale “if there’s evidence that universities are standing up more boldly to the threats,” he said. “They need to band together.”

Yale spokesperson Karen Peart told Inside Higher Ed in an email that Yale “continues to be home to world-class faculty members who are dedicated to excellence in scholarship and teaching.” She added, “Yale is proud of its global faculty community which includes faculty who may no longer work at the institution, or whose contributions to academia may continue at a different home institution. Faculty members make decisions about their careers for a variety of reasons and the university respects all such decisions.”

To be sure, the Yale professors are not the first or only U.S. faculty to accept academic appointments outside the country. European universities, at least, have been trying to recruit American researchers. But before Trump’s re-election, there was a dearth of data on the previously rumored academic exodus from red states to blue, supposedly spurred by conservative policy changes.

Isaac Kamola, director of the American Association of University Professors’ Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, said he’s now had conversations with multiple faculty members who are naturalized citizens “and still think that the administration might be coming after them.”

And while star professors at Ivy League institutions are more likely than other faculty to have the opportunity to leave, Yale law professor Keith Whittington, founding chair of the Academic Freedom Alliance, said he thinks such professors are more likely to take those opportunities now.

“I’ve seen efforts by high-quality academic institutions in other countries to start making the pitch to American academics,” Whittington said. He noted that even faculty at prestigious and well-endowed universities have concerns that their institution and higher ed as a whole are “not as stable as one might once have thought.”

He said the Trump administration has targeted specific universities with “quite serious efforts to threaten those institutions with crippling financial consequences if they don’t adopt policies that the administration would prefer that they adopt.” And such a playbook could easily be repeated “at practically any institution in the country,” he said.

[resiliencebeast]

Equity Education and Mutual Justice Resources: The Book List

Anti-Racism and Intersectionality How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care by Victor Ray

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke (Editor) Brené Brown (Editor) Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Mutual Aid, Direct Action, Organizing, and Community Building

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes

Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin

Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid by Andrej Grubačić

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism by Andrew Zitcer

Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies by Andrea Ritchie

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Colonialism Education

The Poverty of Growth by Olivier De Schutter

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell, Karen Chilton, et al.

The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Aaron Vansintjan, Matthias Schmelzer, and Andrea Vetter

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick, et al.

Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism by Elmar Altvater (Author), Eileen C. Crist (Author), Donna J. Haraway (Author), Daniel Hartley (Author), Christian Parenti (Author), Justin McBrien (Author), Jason W. Moore (Editor) (Also available as a PDF online)

Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It by Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder History and Political Science

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad (Editor) and Brian Bean (Editor)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (this technical book also has an organizing guide and study guide)

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Time's Monster: How History Makes History by Priya Satia

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

Indigenous Knowledge

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (there is also a version of Braiding Sweetgrass for young adults)

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by Kat Anderson

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez Disability Education and Rights Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk

Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai

Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Coronavirus Crisis by Marina Sitrin (Editor), Rebecca Solnit (Editor)

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing by Anna Laquawn Hinton

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price (this author also has a guide on the same topic)

Queer Issues

We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation Hardcover by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg

Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America by Martin Duberman

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (graphic novel) Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J Brown

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook by Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham

They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities by Eris Young

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman

This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson (Author) and David Levithan (Contributor)

Nonbinary For Beginners: Everything you’ve been afraid to ask about gender, pronouns, being an ally, and black & white thinking by Ocean Atlas

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson

Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele (Illustrator)

Resources for Kids and Parents

The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families by Rachel E. Simon (Author) and Noah Grigni (Illustrator)

This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids: A Question & Answer Guide to Everyday Life by Dan Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Next-Gen Changemakers by Jamia Wilson and Aurelia Durand (Illustrator)

Unlearning White Supremacy and Colonialist Culture

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo

Black Rage by William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell (Author) and Aurelia Durand (Illustrator)

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma by Alex Iantaffi

The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

Articles and Online Resources (Including Research Articles)

White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun, at dRworks (This is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture that show up in our organizations and workplaces.)

Reflections on Agroecology and Social Justice in Malwa-Nimar by Caroline E. Fazli

Mutual Aid Toolbox by Big Door Brigade Mutual Aid Resources by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief No body is expendable: Medical rationing and disability justice during the COVID-19 pandemic by Andrews, Ayers, Brown, Dunn, & Pilarski (2021)

A Marxist Theory of Extinction by Troy Vettese

Intersectionality Research for Transgender Health Justice: A Theory-Driven Conceptual Framework for Structural Analysis of Transgender Health Inequities by Linda M. Wesp, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Ayana Elliott, and Tonia Poteat Know Your Rights Guide to Surviving COVID-19 Triage Protocols by NoBody is Disposable

Finally Feeling Comfortable: The Necessity of Trans-Affirming, Trauma-Informed Care by Alex Petkanas (on TransLash Media)

'Are you ready to heal?': Nonbinary activist Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs gender by Jo Yurcaba

Gender-affirming Care Saves Lives by Kareen M. Matouk and Melina Wald

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

Note from the curator: Please use your local libraries when possible! Be #ResiliencePunk.

[randomreadingtimewithtsuki]

What I crave is yandere Stanley Snyder. Please and thank you

Hello my dear!

I have been thinking about this request for a while.

As i am an anime only, i can't quite grasp Stanley personality yet.

I did try to write and think about him, but... It just doesn't goes well. I need more information on him

I am so sorry :c

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'I could feel the reign of terror spiraling' — US historian Marci Shore on leaving Trump's America

Amid the drama and turmoil created by Donald Trump’s second presidency, three Yale University professors last week announced they would be leaving the U.S. for Canada over concerns about the increasingly authoritarian direction their country is heading in.

“I could feel the reign of terror spiraling,” one of them, historian Marci Shore, told the Kyiv Independent on April 3, adding: “My impulse was to take my kids and get out of the situation that seemed very dark and very frightening to me."

Shore — along with her husband Timothy Snyder and colleague Jason Stanley — are leaving their posts at Yale University to teach at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

All three have been vocal pro-Ukraine advocates, particularly throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, visiting the country multiple times between them and educating audiences in the U.S. with what they’ve learned.

The Kyiv Independent spoke to Shore to find out what made them take such a drastic decision, and if she believes she can continue to advocate for Ukraine, in the U.S., from Canada.

Editor’s note: The interview has been edited for language and clarity.

The Kyiv Independent: Can you explain what made you come to this decision?

Marci Shore: It was a complex family decision. I’ve taught at Yale as a professor of history for almost 20 years now.

It’s been an incredible privilege to teach there. I’ve loved teaching there, but there are also a host of reasons why people might not spend their whole career at one institution. I’ve long been drawn to the University of Toronto and… I’m hoping, if anything, that our voices will be stronger there.

But that said, my impulse was to take my kids and get out of the situation that seemed very dark and very frightening to me.

The Kyiv Independent: Was there one event in particular that made you think “Right, this is it, we have to get out of here?”

Marci Shore: There were so many such events — I could feel the reign of terror spiraling.

There was an extraordinary sermon that Bishop Budde gave at the time of (Trump’s) inauguration, asking the president to have mercy on those who are vulnerable. And immediately afterward there were calls to do violence against this woman, including by a Republican member of Congress who said she should be deported. And you could just feel this purging impulse.

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. pic.twitter.com/igyKzC8dRo

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 21, 2025

You could feel that we were about to spiral into a reign of terror. But the Oval Office meeting with Zelensky, for me personally, was one of the things that kind of pushed me over the edge. I've rarely been so viscerally angry looking at a screen.

You had Vance and Trump saying “You have to say thank you, you must say thank you, you haven't acknowledged your gratitude.” For me as a historian of totalitarianism, this is what the Stalinist secret police interrogators were saying to the people they were interrogating.

This is what the victims of the show trials were made to say — to thank their executioners as they were being led to their deaths.

This motif of domestic violence — that you must express your gratitude to the party, for you haven't expressed it — it was just repulsive.

And Trump saying “You’re not holding any cards,” and Zelensky saying “We’re not playing cards” — this was the profound moment that exposed that you're dealing with people for whom there are no first principles, you're just looking into this abyss of moral nihilism. Everything is a transaction, everything is a deal. Confronted with a man who actually feels responsible for the lives of millions of people, the humiliation of (Zelensky) was grotesque.

And Lindsey Graham then got on television immediately afterward and said “Donald Trump just gave us a master class in putting America first.” And I tweeted back at him and I said “Donald Trump just gave us a master class in moral nihilism, and Lindsey Graham just gave us a master class in selling one's soul to the devil.”

Lindsay Graham: “Today, President Trump gave a masterclass on how to stand up for America.” No, today President Trump gave a masterclass on moral nihilism and Lindsay Graham gave a masterclass on selling one’s soul to the devil.

— Marci Shore (@marci_shore) March 1, 2025

The Kyiv Independent: How bad do you think that it could potentially get in the U.S.?

Marci Shore: I think it could get very bad — I feel like the subtitle of the present moment could be “Vindication of the neurotic catastrophist.”

One of the things that has affected me most viscerally because I'm a professor are the guys in masks from (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), from wherever they are, coming and taking away foreign students on the street and throwing them in detention centers with no access to anything.

And as a professor what is very real to me are my students.

You come into the classroom, you're advising students. Your job is to protect those students. And if your priority is not to look out for your students, you have no business being in a classroom.

"I want to think I'd be brave, but I don't know, and that not knowing terrifies me."

I was just recently back at Yale meeting with some of my advisees, undergraduates, and graduate students who I still work with and I will continue to work with for as long as they want to work with me. I've never abandoned any of my students anywhere. A couple of them are from Ukraine.

Yale is a big university. There's a high percentage of foreign students. And I'm an East Europeanist, so I probably have an even higher than average number of foreign students.

And I'm thinking “Okay, I'm sitting in the dining hall with them. I'm walking past the library. We're sitting in the coffee shop. What would I do if guys in balaclavas came and tried to drag somebody away? Would I try to pull them off? Would I be brave?”

I would like to think that I would be, although I'm a middle-aged woman who's not particularly strong, so I probably wouldn't have much of a chance. Would I try at least to pull the mask off? Would I scream?

Would I videotape something? Would I start crying? Would I get scared and run away?

I want to think I'd be brave, but I don't know, and that not knowing terrifies me.

U.S. President Donald Trump looks down from the Presidential Box in the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during a tour and board meeting in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

The Kyiv Independent: Some people have described your announcement as a canary in the coal mine moment. Have you heard other academics or other people expressing the same kind of fears and desires to leave America?

Marci Shore: Yes, definitely. And it works both ways. I in no way feel morally superior to people who have made the courageous decision to stay.

I know a lot of people who would like to leave. I know a lot of people who feel a moral imperative to stay. I know a lot of people who are torn. I feel quite guilty about leaving because I do feel that America is going under.

And because I've been so personally and intimately involved — albeit from a distance and vicariously — with this gruesome war that the Russians are carrying out in Ukraine, I know how the Ukrainians feel about the Russian opposition, and I know how they feel about the people who resisted and lost.

I know how my Russian oppositionist friends felt when confronted with the full-scale invasion three years ago, and saying “Okay we have failed.”

And that failure is somehow unforgivable, and no matter how hard we fought, it wasn't enough. And I understand why Ukrainians are resentful, and I in no way feel morally superior to the Russian oppositionists to have fled.

I don't feel like I'm particularly courageous. I don't feel like I'm willing to go to prison. I don't feel like I would hold up particularly well in prison.

The Kyiv Independent: Are you concerned that by leaving the U.S., Ukraine is losing two voices within the country where they're possibly needed the most right now?

Marci Shore: That has not been my top concern because I don't actually anticipate being less effective from here than I would be there.

The thing that is crushing is feeling like I can no longer have any influence on what is going on in Washington because I'm an enemy of the current regime.

At least with the Democratic administration, I had the feeling that when I went to Washington or when I talked to people there — not that I'm such a terribly important person — but I did potentially have some kind of influence, that there were people in positions there that I could have conversations with who were open to listening to the experiences I had had in Ukraine, and to the experiences my friends and colleagues were having in Ukraine.

I no longer feel that that's true because those people are no longer in power in Washington, and people like myself are enemies of the people in power in Washington.

Putin issued a decree. Now, millions of Ukrainians face an impossible decision

As the U.S. tries to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree that appears to present Ukrainians living in occupied territories with a choice — submit to Russian law by Sept. 10 or face punishment. The decree, published by the Kremlin

The Kyiv IndependentKatie Marie Davies

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September Wrap Up! 📚📖🍁 Full titles under the cut!

My favorite of the month was The Name-Bearer, and I checked off two more countries for my Read the World Challenge with The Immortals and Dreaming of You covering Haiti and Guatemala!

King of the Rising by Kacen Callender- 3.5⭐️

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex ed by Nat Smith and Eric A Stanley- 5⭐️

There is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories by Ruben Reyes Jr- 4⭐️

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti- 5⭐️

The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice- 2.5⭐️

Dawn by Octavia Butler- 5⭐️

Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories ed by Sandra Proudman- 5⭐️

Self Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by AM McLemore- 3.5⭐️

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology ed by Shane Hawk and Theodore C Van Alst Jr- 5⭐️

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue trans by Natasha Wimmer- 4⭐️

The Immortals by Makenzy Orcel trans by Nathan H Dize- 4⭐️

Batman: Gates of Gotham by Scott Snyder et al- 3⭐️

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie- 4⭐️

The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez- 5⭐️

Teen Titans vol 2: Family Lost by Geoff Johns et al- 3.5⭐️

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology ed by Sarah Rafael García, Matthew David Goodwin, and Alex Hernandez- 4.5⭐️

Ghost Squad by Claribel A Ortega- 4⭐️

Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Olivia- 4⭐️

Frizzy by Claribel A Ortega and Rose Bousamra- 5⭐️

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva- 5⭐️

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An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Matt Calder: Robert Mitchum Kay Weston: Marilyn Monroe Harry Weston: Rory Calhoun Mark Calder: Tommy Rettig Dave Colby: Murvyn Vye Sam Benson: Douglas Spencer Minister at Tent City (uncredited): Arthur Shields Young Punk (uncredited): Larry Chance Prospector (uncredited): Chuck Hicks Dance Hall Girl (uncredited): Ann McCrea Bartender (uncredited): Ralph Sanford Prospector (uncredited): Fred Aldrich Surrey Driver (uncredited): Claire Andre Young Punk (uncredited): Hal Baylor Ben (uncredited): Don Beddoe Prospector (uncredited): Phil Bloom Council City Barfly (uncredited): Buck Bucko Prospector (uncredited): Roy Bucko Leering Man (uncredited): John Cliff Barber (uncredited): Edmund Cobb Prospector (uncredited): Cecil Combs Man in Saloon (uncredited): John Doucette Prospector (uncredited): Tex Driscoll Dance Hall Girl (uncredited): Geneva Gray Wagon Driver (uncredited): Al Haskell Gambler (uncredited): Ed Hinton Prospector (uncredited): George Huggins Prospector (uncredited): Michael Jeffers Prospector (uncredited): Dick Johnstone Prospector (uncredited): Mitchell Kowall Prospector (uncredited): Richard LaMarr Young Punk (uncredited): Anthony Lawrence Saloon Dancer (uncredited): Jarma Lewis Prospector (uncredited): Jack Low Council City Townsman (uncredited): Hank Mann Card Table Dealer (uncredited): Jack Mather Young Man (uncredited): Harry Monty Dancer (uncredited): Fay Morley Prospector (uncredited): Charles Morton Prospector (uncredited): Paul Newlan Blonde Dancer (uncredited): Barbara Nichols Prospector (uncredited): Anton Northpole Council City Barfly (uncredited): George Patay Prospector (uncredited): Jack Perrin Prospector (uncredited): Charles Perry Prospector (uncredited): Ford Raymond Prospector (uncredited): John Rice Prospector (uncredited): Robert Robinson Prospector (uncredited): John Roy Prospector (uncredited): Danny Sands Settler (uncredited): Lucile Sewall Pianist (uncredited): Harry Seymour Council City Barfly (uncredited): Cap Somers Council City Barfly (uncredited): George Sowards Prospector (uncredited): Charles Sullivan Prospector (uncredited): Jack Tornek Young Punk (uncredited): John Veitch Prospector (uncredited): Fred Walton Council City Barfly (uncredited): Bob Whitney Prospector (uncredited): Harry Wilson Trader (uncredited): Will Wright …: Joe Phillips Film Crew: Original Music Composer: Cyril J. Mockridge Editor: Louis R. Loeffler Producer: Stanley Rubin Art Direction: Addison Hehr Screenplay: Frank Fenton Director: Otto Preminger Sound: Roger Heman Sr. Sound: Bernard Freericks Assistant Director: Paul Helmick Costume Design: Travilla Director of Photography: Joseph LaShelle Story: Louis Lantz Songs: Lionel Newman Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott Set Decoration: Chester L. Bayhi Special Effects: Ray Kellogg Orchestrator: Edward B. Powell Choreographer: Jack Cole Makeup Artist: Ben Nye Stunts: Bob Herron Stunts: Bob Hoy Stunts: Harry Froboess Stunts: Bob Morgan Stunts: Helen Thurston Stunts: Harry Monty Stunt Coordinator: Fred Zendar Stunts: Tim Wallace Music: Leigh Harline Makeup Artist: Allan Snyder Second Assistant Director: Donald C. Klune Stunts: Dan Heather First Assistant Editor: Orven Schanzer Songs: Ken Darby Movie Reviews: John Chard: What are you chasing Calder? After a stint in jail, Matt Calder is reunited with his son Mark and sets both of them up at a riverside lodge. One day he helps aid a couple who are struggling with their raft down the river. It turns out to be a dubious gambler named Harry Weston and his saloon singer girlfriend, Kay, whom both Matt and Mark have already been acquainted with. Turns out that Harry is in a rush to register his mining claim that he has just won, and sensing his journey will be considerably quicker and safer on horseback, steals, after a fight, Matt’s rifle and horse. Agreeing to let Kay stay behind with the Calder’s, Weston sets off. Once roused and ready to tr...

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Bibliography: books posted on this blog in 2022

Anne APPLEBAUM (2012): Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

Philip BALL (2022): The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

Lundy BANCROFT (2002): Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Moshe BARR (2022): Mindwandering

Ernest BECKER (1962): The Birth and Death of Meaning

Emmanuel CARRÈRE (2020): Yoga

Deepak CHOPRA and Rudolph TANZI (2018): The Healing Self

Elinor CLEGHORN (2021): Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World

Antonio DAMASIO (2021): Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

Frans DE WAAL (2022): Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Thomas S. DUVAL and Paul J. SILVIA (2001): Self-Awareness & Causal Attribution: A Dual Systems Theory

Andrea DWORKIN (1981): Pornography: Men Possessing Women

Elena FERRANTE (2014): Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Neapolitan Novels, Book Three

Marilyn FRYE (1983): Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

Masha GESSEN (2020): Surviving Autocracy

Gerd GIGERENZER (2007): Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

Carol GILLIGAN and Naomi SNIDER (2018): Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

Valerie HARDCASTLE (1999): The Myth of Pain

Walter ISAACSON (2017): Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography

Hans KELSEN (1991): General Theory of Norms

Alan KENDLE (2017): Aphantasia: Experiences, Perceptions, and Insights

Ian KERSHAW (2008): Hitler

Dan KINDLON and Michael THOMPSON (2000): Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Gerhard KREUCH (2019): Self-Feeling: Can Self-Consciousness be Understood as a Feeling?

Todd LEKAN (2022): William James and the Moral Life

Jeremy LENT (2022): The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe

Robert Alan LEVINE (1982): Culture, Behavior, and Personality: An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation

Darcy LOCKMAN (2019): All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

John LUCKOVICH (2021): The Instinctual Drives and The Enneagram

Heidi MAIBAUM (2020): Empathy

Kate MANNE (2017): Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Gabor MATE (2022): The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Richard J. MCNALLY (2012): What Is Mental Illness?

C. Thi NGUYEN (2020): Games: Agency As Art

Paula M NIEDENTHAL, François RIC (2017): Psychology of Emotion

Camilla PANG (2020): Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

L.A. PAUL (2014): Transformative Experience

Lucile QUILLET (2021): Le prix à payer: Ce que le couple hétéro coûte aux femmes

William M. REDDY (2001): The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions

John RUSCIO, Barry BEYERSTEIN, Steven J. LYNN, Scott LILIENFIELD (2009): 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

David SHAPIRO (1981): Autonomy and Rigid Character

David SHAPIRO (1999): Dynamics of character: Self-regulation in psychopathology

David SHAPIRO (2017): A psychodynamic view of action and responsibility

Julia SIMNER (2019): Synaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction

Timothy SNYDER (2018): The Road to Unfreedom

Timothy SNYDER (2015): Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy SNYDER (2010): Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Tim SPECTOR (2012): Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes

Jason STANLEY (2018): How Fascism Works

Seth STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ (2022): Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

Michael TOMASELLO (1999): The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

Michael TOMASELLO (2014): A Natural History of Human Thinking

Bessel VAN DER KOLK (2014): The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

Mathilde VIOT (2022): L’homme politique, moi j’en fais du compost

Haider WARRAICH (2022): The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain

Geoffrey WEST (2017): Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

Drew WESTEN (1985): Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals

See also: bibliography of previous years

[resident-normal-person]

⚠spoilers for Dr. Stone 188⚠

“When the kiddies show up, we’ll make Swiss cheese outta them.” 

~Stanley Snyder, Dr. STONE Chapter 183

[mogai-headcanons]

Senku Ishigami from Dr. Stone is an autistic aroflux gay asexual transmasculine autigender gendervoid vagueboy agender man with a special interest in science who uses xe/xem, he/him, and 🧪/🧪s pronouns, and 🧪 is dating Tsukasa Shishio, an autistic gay nonbinary autigender gendervague person with BPD, psychosis, and C-PTSD who uses they/them, it/its, and 🦁/🦁s pronouns! The two are also dating Ryusui Nanami, a canonically bisexual nonbinary dragongender sungender magiboy who uses any pronouns, but prefers he/him, she/her, and 🐉/🐉s the most, and he’s best friends with Francois, an autistic aromantic canonically nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns!

Tsukasa is also dating Hyoga, an autistic gay agender gendervoid apogender gendersad person who uses it/its pronouns exclusively, and both are dating Mozu, an autistic nan0nonbinary man who uses he/him and they/them pronouns! Hyoga is best friends with Homura Momiji, an autistic nonbinary lesbian who uses they/them and she/her pronouns! Senku is in a queerplatonic relationship with Gen Asagiri, an autistic gay transmasculine nonbinary genderfaun demiboy who uses he/him, it/its, 🃏/🃏s, and ✨/✨s pronouns, and Ukyo Saionji, an autistic aromantic cupioromantic gay trans man who uses he/him and ae/aer pronouns!

Senku considers Kohaku, an autistic nonbinary nan0girl lesbian with ADHD who uses he/him pronouns, and Chrome, an autistic bisexual man with ADHD who uses he/him and they/them pronouns, to be his siblings! Chrome is dating Kohaku’s older sister Ruri, an autistic bisexual demigirl! Senku’s adoptive father Byakuya Ishigami is an autistic bisexual bigender person who uses he/him and they/them pronouns, and he’s dating Dr. Xeno, an autistic gay transfeminine nonbinary genderfluid person who uses he/him, she/her, they/them, it/its, and xe/xem pronouns, Lillian Weinberg, an autistic bisexual woman, and Shamil Volkov, an autistic gay man!

Dr. Xeno is dating Stanley Snyder, an autistic gay intersex nonbinary genderfluid person who uses any pronouns with no preference! Senku is best friends with Taiju Oki, an autistic bisexual man with ADHD who uses he/him and they/them pronouns, and Yuzuriha Ogawa, an autistic bisexual woman who uses she/her pronouns, who are dating each other! Senku is also friends with Nikki Hanada, an autistic butch lesbian trans woman who uses she/her and he/him pronouns!

dni transcript here

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More Apocrypha Iirejected Scriptures

(This is the second in a series of posts on texts to be featured in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures edited by Brent Landau and I. The material here is included also on my More Christian Apocrypha page).

The Revelation of the Magi has appeared recently in an English translation: Brent Landau, Revelation of the Magi: The Lost Tale of the Wise Men’s Journey to Bethlehem (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2010), based on his dissertation (to be published in CCSA) “The Sages and the Star-Child: An Introduction to the Revelation of the Magi, An Ancient Christian Apocryphon” (Ph. D. diss.., Harvard Divinity School, 2008 (available HERE)). Brent and I did not feel it was necessary to include another translation of the text in the MNTA volume, but did want to expose a wider audience to the text. So, we decided to include an introduction and a summary. The same strategy was going to be employed for the Armenian Infancy Gospel (recently translated into English by Abraham Terian) and the apocryphal Apocalypses of John, but those contributions have not materialized.

More Apocrypha Iirejected Scriptures Fulfilled

More Apocrypha Iirejected Scriptures King James Version

The text is available in a single Syriac manuscript (Vatican, Biblioteca apostolica, syr. 162) of a larger text known as the Chronicle of Zuqnin. There are a number of apocryphal Jewish and Christian texts that have been preserved in such chronicles and compendia (e.g., Joseph and Aseneth, material in the Book of the Bee and the Cave of Treasures). The story is told from the perspective of the Magi, who are described much differently than in the canonical account of their journey. Here there are twelve Magi (perhaps more), they hail from a mythological eastern land named Shir, and the name “Magi,” it is said, derives etymologically from their practice of praying in silence. They knew to follow the star to Bethlehem because they are descendants of Seth, the third child of Adam and Eve, who passed on to them a prophecy told to him by his father Adam. The star appears to the Magi in the Cave of Treasures on the Mountain of Victories. There it transforms into a small, luminous being (clearly Christ, but his precise identity is never explicitly revealed) and instructs them about its origins and their mission. The Magi follow the star to Bethlehem, where it transforms into the infant Jesus. Upon returning to their land, the Magi instruct their people about the star-child. In an epilogue likely secondary to the text, Judas Thomas arrives in Shir, baptizes the Magi and commissions them to preach throughout the world.

Rev. Magi contains several interesting parallels with other texts from antiquity, indicating that its traditions about the Magi were wide-spread. The “Cave of Treasures” is mentioned also in the Syriac version of the Testament of Adam (a Christian work from the fifth or sixth century) and from there is taken up in the Cave of Treasures (dated to the sixth century) and the Book of the Bee (from the thirteenth century). Several elements of Rev. Magi's story are found also in the Liber de nativitate salvatoris, an expansion of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew with curious features that may have originated in a very early infancy gospel. Some aspects of Rev. Magi were also passed on in summary by the anonymous author of a fifth-century commentary on the Gospel of Matthew known as the Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum. From here some elements found their way into the Golden Legend (ch. 6). The Rev. Magi traditions are surprisingly widespread for a text that, were it not for that one manuscript, would have been lost to history.

Compilation of little-known and never-before-published apocryphal Christian texts in English translation

This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents introductions to and translations of little-known apocryphal texts from a wide variety of genres, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language.

More Buying Choices $102.40 (24 used & new offers) Apocrypha (Large Print): King James Version. 4.7 out of 5 stars 387. The Encyclopedia of Lost and Rejected Scriptures: The Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha. 4.7 out of 5 stars 532. Hardcover $42.49 $ 42. 49 $65.00 $65.00. FREE Shipping by Amazon. Burke & Long, eds., New Testament Apocrypha, first galley proofs February 19, 2016 1:23 PM New Testament Apocrypha More Noncanonical Scriptures Volume one Edited by Tony Burke and Brent Landau William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Grand Rapids, Michigan.

An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the included writings and contextualizes them within the contemporary (quickly evolving) study of the Christian Apocrypha. The body of the book comprises thirty texts that have been carefully introduced, annotated, and translated into readable English by eminent scholars. Ranging from the second century to early in the second millennium, these fascinating texts provide a more complete picture of Christian thought and expression than canonical texts alone can offer.

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PREVIEW (introduction and front matter)

CONTENTS

1. Gospels and Related Traditions of New Testament Figures The Legend of Aphroditianus (Katharina Heyden) The Revelation of the Magi (Brent Landau) The Hospitality of Dysmas (Mark Bilby) The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Syriac) (Tony Burke) On the Priesthood of Jesus (Bill Adler) Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 210 (Brent Landau) Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5072 (Ross P. Ponder) The Dialogue of the Paralytic with Christ (Bradley N. Rice) The Toledot Yeshu (Stanley Jones) The Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon (Alin Suciu) The Discourse of the Savior and the Dance of the Savior (Paul C. Dilley) An Encomium on Mary Magdalene (Christine Luckritz Marquis) An Encomium on John the Baptist (Philip L. Tite) The Life of John the Baptist by Serapion (Slavomír Céplö) Life and Martyrdom of John the Baptist (Andrew Bernhard) The Legend of the Thirty Silver Pieces (Tony Burke and Slavomír Céplö) The Death of Judas according to Papias (Geoffrey S. Smith)

2. Apocryphal Acts and Related Traditions The Acts of Barnabas (Glenn E. Snyder) The Acts of Cornelius the Centurion (Tony Burke and Witold Witakowski) John and the Robber (Rick Brannan) The History of Simon Cephas, the Chief of the Apostles (Stanley Jones) The Acts of Timothy (Cavan Concannon) The Acts of Titus (Richard Pervo) The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena (David Eastman)

3. Epistles The Epistle of Christ from Heaven (Calogero A. Miceli) The Letter of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite to Timothy on the Death of Peter and Paul (David Eastman)

More Apocrypha Iirejected Scriptures John Hagee

4. Apocalypses The (Latin) Revelation of John about Antichrist (Charles Wright) The Apocalypse of the Virgin (Stephen Shoemaker) The Tiburtine Sibyl (Stephen Shoemaker) The Investiture of Abbaton (Alin Suciu and Ibrahim Saweros)

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