#forgotten history

[eyesaremosaics]

Stage actress Maude Adams, the LGBTQ icon who (allegedly) was the inspiration for Peter Pan. Though she was never publicly “out”, she never married, and had many close female friendships throughout her life. Including Ethel Barrymore (Yes from the illustrious Barrymore family—the most recent being Drew).

Maude was very popular with female audiences, and due to her disinterest in men, her chastity helped her to maintain a pristine reputation throughout her life. She was often rumored to be engaged to men as an effective “smokescreen” to shield her from rumors of lesbianism. None of these relationships were anything more than just that—rumors.

After playing Peter Pan on stage, Maude reached monumental levels of stardom for the time, which made having a private life very challenging. She lived with her “secretary” until she died, and both were buried on the same plot.

Maude was a serious actress, who claimed she would never marry due to her dedication to her craft. This was a common excuse for closeted gays in the Victorian era. Her fearlessness, and paradoxically childlike innocence are inspiring to me. She lived a colorful life, and is definitely worth looking into.

[dougielombax]

Also leaving this here since today is the Remembrance Day for victims of the Anfal genocide.

Where Saddam Hussein (with the help of the MEK) and his cronies slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Assyrians (and other minorities) in Iraq near the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

I posted about it earlier this year not too long ago.

Feel free to reblog.

[whereserpentswalk]

There's a harpy out there, perched on a rooftop in a city somewhere. Her face and her chest are like that of a beautiful woman, yet her feet and claws are talons, and her teeth fangs, and her back sprouting bat like wings. She's known many roads, many cities, many empires. Once she was a warroir of Athena, yet now her temples are in ruins, and now the songs of the gods are so rarely sung.

She has seen empires fall like ash in the winds. Heard great epics sung that no record of now exist. She knows who the greatest poet of all time was, and knows why nobody will ever know her name. She knows of a man who thought of the theory of natural selection during the sixteenth century, and who died peasant nonetheless. She has known of people who saw her and thought she was an angel, and times they saw her and thought she was a devil, and she's known reasons to tell them she was both.

And if you find her at your doorstep, or standing on your terrace or fire escape, you may choose to let in. And she can sit by your bed, and ever so gently run her claw against your hair, and tell you things nobody else has known. Of cities that are only footnotes in your history books. Of how beautiful the summer sun looked over Carthage before it burnt. She'll tell you folktales the world never wrote down, and the things written in the lost books between the iliad and odyssey. And of words of wisdom, from philosophers who never got a chance to tell their thoughts to the world.

And in the morning she'll be gone, like a brief memory, of a long dead world.

[mise-n-abyme]

"Through the initial workings of the mind, we have the ability to conceive of a reality which beholds the essence of an ancient spirit; expressing dutiful reckonings of Being through moments which reign endless teachings." ~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Birth of Athena', Atalanta Fugiens —Michael Maier (17h century)

[swforester]

Snow Cemetery. This church was built in 1827. The obelisk in front is a memorial to the 57 men lost at sea in Truro during the "October Gale of 1841" that took place on the 4th. It was said that hundreds of fishermen were pulled out of the sea throughout Cape Cod. From Chatham to the tip of the Cape, at least 50 wrecked ships were found scattered along the coast. So many sailors were lost in Cape Cod during that storm of the century that it became customary when women were deciding whether or not to court a young man to ask one question: are you a sailor? If yes- then the date was off.

Truro Cape Cod 11/11/23

[uselessbard1031]

THEODORA OF BYZANTINE RANT:

OKAY! So I've been completely obsessed with this woman since I was in middle school, alright? I legit want 'purple is the noblest shroud' tattooed on my body forever at some point because what a fucking power quote. I submitted a google doodle in high school about her, alright? I'm a fan.

That being said, I am also recently obsessed with SIX: The Musical. For those of you unaware, it's a musical that tells the story of Henry the VIII's six wives. You know, like 'The Tudors?' Like 'That Boleyn Girl'? Like a gazillion other stories? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Six and it's portrayal of the wives as something separate from Henry.

YET YOU KNOW WHO HAS YET TO HAVE A MUSICAL, TV SHOW, OR EVEN JUST PUBLIC RECOGNITION????

I mean this woman was born to a bear keeper at a circus. became a child prostitute out of desperation, and ended up being empress of the fucking Byzantine Empire. Justinian didn't pass a single law after she died because she was the one really pulling the strings. This god damned power couple (and their genius general Belisarius -- who, side note, literally did the whole retire and return for one final battle thing) almost reunited Rome! THE FUCKING ROMAN EMPIRE!!! And if Theodora hadn't died, they might have!

Give this woman, who passed laws against sex trafficking, a movie I stg. I will write the damned thing! Give this woman, who got Justinian to change the law to marry her, a musical. I do not write songs. I do write stories and scripts. Get me a musically inclined partner and I'll have at it!

Why are we not talking about Theodora? Why are we not talking about her and Justinian's attempts to reunite Rome? Why are we not talking about her being a feminist and one of the first outspoken miaphysitists (early Christians) to rule? Her bad-fucking-ass speech to her husband and his court of advisors, who all wanted to flee, that ended with 'purple is the noblest shroud' and a conviction to stay and face a riot that they untimely succeeded in stomping out UNDER HER ORDERS??? The woman who Justinian saw as his intellectual equal despite her background and gender.

Where is her story? Where is her movie? Her TV show? Her musical?

You know what? Fuck it, this is a call to action. You write music? Shoot me a message, leave a comment. Let's write this thing. I'll produce it myself.

If you actually read this far, namaste, and thank you.

[brandyschillace]

We’ve known about climate change for over 100 years.

Surprise, fossil fuel companies suppressed and attempted to counter the science. They still do. More below:

From an 1912 article’s SCIENCE NEWS AND NOTES:

“furnaces of the world are burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year [adding] 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.” This tends to […] raise [earth’s] temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.”...

An article (link below) further provides the authentication of the headline:

“the newspaper article can be found in the digital archives of the National Library of New Zealand. Furthermore, as Snopes points out, an identical story appeared in the 17 July 1912, issue of The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal, as found in the digital archives of the National Library of Australia. Another remarkably similar aticle came up in the March 1912 report in the magazine Popular Mechanics titled “Remarkable Weather of 1911: The Effect of the Combustion of Coal on the Climate – What Scientists Predict for the Future.” No doubt, climate change was a known topic in the early 1910s.”

But a most important passage:

“Climate change was gradually given more attention, but a turning point happened in the 1970s, when big oil companies figured out that they were causing climate change and decided to hide this and sow disinformation about the population.”

Read more here:

And here:

[krooclyn]

Ain’t Misbehavin’

The Forgotten Women of Bauhaus

Some of these wonderful artists include :

Gunta Stölzl

Anni Albers

Marianne Brandt

Otti Berger

Benita Koch-Otte

Gertrud Arndt

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher

Margarete Heymann

Read more about them here!

[autumn2may]

3 years after the Titanic, another ship, the SS Eastland, sank killing even more people, most were young women and children. Where did it sink? The Chicago river. While still tied to the dock. Why have you never heard of this? That's a good question.

The video above was made by Caitlin Doughty and her team on the Ask a Mortician YouTube channel along with bunches of experts, historians, etc., and shows both how and why the ship sank, who the victims were, and why both they and the entire incident has been almost completely forgotten by history.

Spoiler Alert: It's because the victims were poor, working class families. As apposed to the rich and famous victims of the smaller tragedy of the Titanic.

And I do mean families. It was a company outing. Entire families died while sitting feet away from dry land.

I had never heard this story before, and I'm glad I was able to learn about both it, and the efforts people in the Chicago area are taking to get it back into the history books. BUT…

For some reason, this over 40 minute long historical documentary, got a strike from YouTube against its community standards and is no longer being suggested to anyone on the platform. Because it's not educational???

Caitlin Doughty and her team are a fantastic resource for all things related to the death industry (funerals, mortuary, bodies, and the like) and have been in the business of educating people on YT for over 10 years. Now after putting out one of the most complete looks at a tragedy that has been mostly forgotten, in a video that handles the issues with both in-depth research and full respect for the victims and their living descendants, YT has decided it's not up to "their standards". (As you can see from the preview above). :/

Not only is that a slap in the face to this team of people that worked for months to do this forgotten piece of history and it's forgotten victims justice, it also takes away the ability for others to learn about it and help keep the memories of those lost alive.

You can learn more about YT's decision in the video below. And if you've not heard of this disaster before you need to see the video on the Eastland. It's an impressive piece of media, and an incredibly sad story. But one that despite YT's feelings, deserves to be told.

[forgotten-or-unknown-truestories]

[dougielombax]

So.

Today marks 36 years since the beginning of the Anfal Genocide in Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s regime slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandaeans and Shabaks.

Around 100,000 people at the least would be killed.

It would last from February to September of 1988. During the late stages of the Iran-Iraq war.

Largely consisting of mass killings, chemical attacks and forced displacement.

Many in Iraq sadly continue to deny it to this day. Predictably. As do Saddam Hussein’s many idiot apologists on the internet.

I’ll leave some sources from this year and the last few years here for additional information.

Some sources also focus on the Assyrian victims too.

Above: A monument dedicated to the memory of the Assyrian victims of the Anfal genocide in the village of Gonda Kosa.

Just to remind any idiots who think Saddam and his cronies were kind to the Assyrians. They were certainly not!

Feel free to reblog.

Reblog the shit out of this!

[mise-n-abyme]

"To expect nothing is to gain everything."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: 'Tree Of Science' – Ramon Llull, 1295

[wordsthatmattered]

2.4.2023

"...when I stared into the carnival mirror of the philosophers' words, I took them not as a sign of who I was but rather as a warning: because I was a woman, I would always struggle in this field."

"Whether it's expressed in a thought to yourself or in an essay, to think like a woman, to produce and create like a woman, often involves anger. It's a feature of a woman's psyche as she comes into her own in a world that (still) does not want her to."

This book is a wonderful depiction of the biases and hypocrisies of early day philosophers regarding their opinions about both the women in their life and women in general.

Focusing on four, but mentioning many more women involved in philosophy through time, Penaluna writes of her own journey through her philosophical career, and how the women forgotten to time (either purposefully or naturally) had a huge impact on her own story. These women's writings and experiences had Penaluna questioning her own baises and blind spots when it came to philosophy and life as a whole.

As a reader who isn't a philosopher myself, I feel like I, too, am making this rediscovery of female philosophers along with the author.

It's frustrating and comforting to know women have been exasperated for centuries by men thinking they know everything about women. This mentality pops up in the foundations of most topics, especially scholarly ones. Probably every woman in every college major has had that moment of "what the hell did he just say?" It's both disheartening and somehow calming to realize this has been happening for as long as there has been written (or unwritten) history.

The idea of women being seen through history only in how they relate to a man, and usually in how they are found lacking in relation to men, is horrifying and has had a hand in shaping the world we live in today.

In a similar vein, if you read and liked the book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, you'll find similar vibes in this book.

How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna comes out March 2023, I definitely recommend!

[swforester]

Remembrance

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[yandere-wishes]

I'm working on a video useing the Barbie moive to explain the Russo-persian wars.

[gravity-rainbow]

July 28 1952: USAF ordered to "shoot them down" if the UAP's over DC refuse to land. Before this went public, the BSRA (Borderland Sciences) association warned the White House, DoD etc. not to shoot. Dr. Einstein also called DC. All forgotten history.