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    priscellie:

    postmodernmulticoloredcloak:

    yiffmaster:

    this is my fav bc an actual major cause for the fall of rome was the resistance of the wealthy to paying taxes which led to a crumbling of infrastructure but who cares about thaaaaat

    “Feminism killed Rome” is my new favorite sentence of all time.

    Also ballooning military spending, a widening gap between rich and poor, religious intolerance following the Emperor’s embrace of Christianity, and lead poisoning of the water supply.

    *looks at camera*

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    azzandra:

    bidyke:

    alex-fulcrum:

    shadowfire125:

    i’m having an existential crisis

    I am so sorry, but this is actually probably true. Plants co evolved to reward us for cultivating and propagating them. It’s called exorphin theory, and plants are pretty much just using us as their means of reproduction. That’s why humans show nearly every sign of species domestication. Have a good night, friend.

    Trees are superior and I completely accept this.

    I, for one, welcome our arboreal overlords.

  • stars-died-for-you-dean:

    theinturnetexplorer:

    Love knows no console.

    this is the best

  • tinierpurplefishes:

    hsavinien:

    ahiddenkitty:

    intosnarkness:

    songofsunset:

    saoili:

    janeymac-ie:

    cleefa:

    janeymac-ie:

    praytothegay:

    the most unrealistic thing about tv shows is how literally out of all the characters on the show no two characters have the same name??? like take any group of 20 white people i guarentee you like five of them are john

    One of my friend groups has numbered Daves, not to mention Dan and T’other Dan, commonly known just as T’other.

    Aoifes, Aoifes everywhere :)

    I worked in a small team of three people, the other two of whom were named Caroline. A fourth member was added to the team shortly before I left for another job. Her name was also Caroline.

    I think everyone was slightly relieved I was only there for a short time because they didn’t have to stop calling the team “the Carolines.” As in “I’m not sure, maybe the Carolines will know which driver has the north Rocommon route on recycling week.” 

    This is why I translated my name when I started college. Apparently something about 1980 – 1982 or so made people call baby girls Sarah.

    My friends during middle school included a Jessi, a Hannah, another Hannah, an Emily, and an Olive.

    My friends from high school included a second Jessi, a third Hannah, another Emily, and an Olivia. Also like 2 Nicks and a David.

    Storytelling was always an adventure.

    My current cohort at work includes; Lauren, Laura, Lorrie, Lisa, Lindy, and Lynn.

    I used to live in a small village where yes, 50% of all the women born between 78-82 were called Sarah.  SO MANY SARAHS.

    I attended the University of St. Catherine, a Catholic women’s college.  Easily a third of the student body was named some version of Mary (Maria, etc.) or Catherine (Kathleen, Kate, Cat, Katie, Katelyn, etc.).

    One summer I worked with a Jesse (final ‘e’ silent), a Jessie, and a Jessica. I was the only one who could keep their names sorted out. I think we had 7 Matts in my year in High School, too. Most of them got referred to by their last name, as I recall.

    In one ER I worked in we had sufficient Kates to staff the entire department with us. On one occasion it happened (not, so far as I know, intentionally). The whole day was cheerfully filled with “Oh, no, not me-Kate, you want that-Kate”.

    It drove everyone else nuts.

  • And now for the fightback…

    anarchacannibalism:

    evolvingmatter:

    In the wake of the arrest and detention of Sienna Fox, the state of Western Australia is now seeing some of the most intense scrutiny on its treatment of transgender prisoners ever. This is a major news story in basically every mainstream news outlet active on this coast.

    Today, I will be writing an open letter to the Minister for Corrective Services of Western Australia, in the name of our sex worker advocacy group, calling on him to immediately cease the practice of detaining trans women in male prisons.

    We need every ally we can get on this – and I mean everyone. If you represent a trans organisation, in Australia or internationally, we would love your signature on this. If you represent a queer organisation, we would love your signature on this. If you represent a sex worker organisation, if you represent if you represent an organisation dealing with any kind of marginalised people (and so, transgender people dealing with the criminal justice system), we would love your signature on this. If you are an individual activist of any prominence on any of these things, we would love your signature on this. If any of this describes any of your friends, we would love their signature too.

    There will be a change.org petition to give everyone an opportunity to express support individually, as all of Sienna’s respective communities have been absolutely amazing so far, but we have never had an opportunity like this to take on the issue of trans women in the criminal justice system on this coast once and for all with this much media attention on the subject.

    I am going to write up the open letter today, and anyone who signs will have a chance to see it before it goes out. I’m going to hit the phones tomorrow and call basically everyone I can think of, but it would make my life heaps easier if people could get in touch with us first!

    Please, please reblog this far and wide. This is an opportunity to save not only Sienna from a unique kind of hell, but other trans women in detention in this state and those who wind up there in future. We are preparing for one hell of a fight, and we need friends, lots of them – and not just those here but those far beyond Australian shores.

    If you are interesting in signing on, or know people who could, please send me an email at evolvingmatterblog@gmail.com or message me through Tumblr.

    Together, we can do this.

    Please share this. This is something we can all do to help prevent a monumental injustice. 

  • rememberwhenyoutried:

    Long ago I would talk online about my perception of myself, a perception I now recognise as having come from a place of self-hatred fuelled by the transmisogyny inflicted on me and my internalisation of my own inferiority. The posts I made were similar to the posts I see today sometimes from trans women who believe we all have “male socialisation”, and while I am not going to say that those posts and mine had the same motivations I will say that I’m damn glad tumblr wasn’t around back then.

    I can’t imagine how much damage it would have done to me to have hundreds of people sharing my self-hatred and thanking me for telling hard truths.

  • We need a Democratic President to maintain and expand Obama’s executive orders that protect trans people. We need a Democratic President to ensure a liberal SCOTUS majority that will strike down legislative attempts to codify transphobia. WE NEED ABSOLUTELY EVERY POSSIBLE VOTE FOR WHOMEVER THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IS. Don’t fuck around on this one, people.

  • British Academics Angry At New Course

    British Academics Angry At New Course

    medievalpoc:

    So, I’m seeing variations and copies of this article popping up all over the internet, many referring to the course as “disturbing and dangerous”. Even a cursory reading of the supposed criticisms coming from academics who have a problem with the new course shows that it’s rooted in racism:

    “This stands history on its head, projecting back on to the past something that isn’t true. The
    only Africans who came here were a few with the Romans who came and
    then left. I find it disturbing that our children should be taught
    something that is clearly designed to feed into contemporary problems
    rather than tell our island’s story properly.”

    Note the use of the word “properly,” and all that implies. Apparently including information about people who were not white is enough to “stand history on its head”. *eyeroll*

    The entire point of contention here seems to be with some wording from a book that’s going to be used in the course, which is Peter Fryer’s Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain.

    The whole “Africans arrived in Britain before the English” hyperbole just has to do with documentation of Romans of African descent being stationed at Hadrian’s Wall, along with Ivory Bangle Lady and other famous remains of Romans found in Britain. This predates the arrival of Anglo-Saxons by a few centuries, and isn’t a particularly controversial point unless you’re a white supremacist who is unreasonably threatened by historical information being available about anyone who isn’t white.

    One of the historians working on the course said:

    “It is an outstanding example of how a long view of history helps us
    to understand and to find a place for ourselves in contemporary
    society. Our research project shows how, for example, in the late Middle Ages, no one was more than ten miles from an immigrant.”

    The course is entitled “Migration To Britain c. 1,000 to c. 2010?. According to news outlets, the description states:

    “This course will enable students to learn how the
    movement of people – European, African, Asian – to and from these
    islands has shaped the story of this nation for thousands of years.”

    That’s what’s apparently so threatening, so “Dangerous and disturbing”: the radical idea that historically, human beings have moved around. Sadly, the same arguments I’ve been having here for the last three years are the same ones still going on in academic circles now. If anyone knows more about this course and its materials, please feel free to send a submission or add it in the notes.