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whimsifae · 6 months

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#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark acadamia quotes #dark romanticism #romantic academia #light academia #the secret history #academia aesthetic #academia #classic academia #dead poets society #fall aesthetic #chaotic academia #movie quotes

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lgbtq-history-museum-cfl-intern · 7 months

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Wow! What a crazy week!

This post is a little delayed because I just needed to process everything, plus I was just generally not feeling well yesterday.

I wish I had the space to do an audio recording but this week the house is full, but I’m just bursting at the seams with excitement.

I’ve never had the chance to attend an event by the History Department on campus and I’ve missed out on so many cool talks and opportunities to meet professionals in my field (even though I was LITERALLY and advocate for those kinds of things as a PeerKnights Coach!)

So, I’ve been mentioning for a couple of weeks that I’ve been preparing for a panel…

(Note to any students reading this!: If you’re invited to do a panel and you can fit it into your schedule and workload, DO IT! They’re often informal and a great way to open up discussion on topics you may be interested in or that are relevant in your field.)

The board of the LGBTQ History Museum invited me to speak on their panel on the research I’ve been doing for the exhibit. This panel was part of a larger event, The Florida Historical Society’s Annual Meeting and Symposium, which was hosted at UCF.

A little bit about the society, here’s an excerpt from their website’s “About Us” page:

“Established in 1856, the Florida Historical Society is dedicated to preserving Florida's past through the collection and archival maintenance of historical documents and photographs, the publication of scholarly research on Florida history, and educating the public about Florida history through a variety of public history projects and programs…”

(Sounds like everything I’ve described I want to do, lol)

I was admittedly so nervous to present, and I spent like a week and a half perfecting my PowerPoint just to write my script within two days of presenting! So, my only regret is spending most of the time looking down at my script and not connecting with the audience.

But it went great! There was a lot of discussion following the panel presentations on censorship and how it’s affecting librarians' and educators’ ability to do their jobs, and really, what they love.

I also got to learn more about the museum’s history and my fellow student, who is on the museum board, read an insightful breakdown of the museum’s current exhibit on the AIDS crisis.

It was heartwarming to be in that environment and see myself as part of it. Like I’ve mentioned before, since I don’t major in history, I tend to feel like an outsider, but this experience was so affirming!

My mentors congratulated me on my work, and I feel even more excited moving forward to share my ideas for the exhibit as I continue to edit the written work and begin designing the layout.

Later on, they also hosted the Jerrell Shofner Lecture Series, named in honor of the “prolific Florida historian”.

This year’s lecturers happened to be scholars whose work I’ve been reading and using for the undergraduate thesis I was working on, Dr. Simone Delerme and Dr. Patricia Silver.

A few posts ago I also talked about our mentors and those we look up to being just normal people, right?

BUT I FELT LIKE I WAS FRONT ROW AT MY FAVORITE ARTIST’S CONCERT! They are ROCKSTARS to me!

I got to sit down and eat at the reception with them and chat over tiny empanadas!

Then they talked about their research on Puerto Ricans in Central Florida and even though I’ve read much of the material they spoke on, I was completely engaged.

It was so fun to also get to hang out with my mentors in a more informal space and watch them banter with each other as they passed off the microphone to announce the next thing.

Events like these can really humanize professional relationships, which is what I really got out of it.

I wish I had the energy to attend the full event and see more presentations, but I prioritized being there for the museum’s panel and being able to stay for the Shofner Lecture.

I hung around at the end because I was just too excited to go but I got to exchange some amazing words with pioneers in the field of research I’m most deeply interested in: The Puerto Rican Diaspora.

I want to close out with a big THANK YOU to my current faculty mentor and supervisor from the LGBTQ History Museum, Dr. Connie Lester, for this internship position, for your guidance, and for inviting me to the panel; My other supervisor, Dr. Scott French, for staying for the panel and always being so supportive; My previous faculty mentor, Dr. Martínez-Fernández, for cheering me on still and for facilitating so many connections for me; and the Department of History for hosting such an awesome event!

I just don’t know where I’d be without so many sources of support.

#history student #internship blog #public history intern blog #history intern blog #public history internship #museum internship #student internship #college student #education #shofner lecture #florida history society #history society #conference #university student #student tips

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thedarkacademian · 1 year

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oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and

#i need more time #wish i was immortal #pls why #dark academia #dead poets society #chaotic academia #the secret history #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #classic academia #aesthetic #the dark academian #poetry

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cleopatrachampagne · 2 years

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shocked bystander at sydney, australia’s annual mardis gras pride parade (1994)

#literally my new favorite picture in history #why have we as a society not memed this yet??#i’m losing it at the chaos and her expression i just can’t lmfao #pride #gay #lesbian #lgbtq+#history #photography #90’s nostalgia #australia #black and white photos #90’s aesthetic

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luciferslilith7 · 1 month

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Death whispered,"I'll love you more than life ever can."

Picture Credit ~📍 pinterest

@luciferslilith7

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camillamaecaulay · 1 year

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graves grow no green that you can use.

gwendolyn brooks

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ther0sesared3ad · 2 months

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The urge to learn every language and play every instrument and travel the world and live through every historical time period and be a writer and a poet and an actor and

#i wish i could time travel #dark academia #academia aesthetic #chaotic academia #i love learning #light academia #the secret history #dead poets society #i hate school #fig tree analogy

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noodles-and-tea · 2 months

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Back at it with my enchanted merthur shenanigans

#when Merlin goes to work #(I am undecided on what he does but I think he does have a job (probably a librarian I’d that’s not TOO cliche…))#he sets Arthur up with a bunch of history books and documentaries to try get him up to date (as much as he can)#and in the evenings they watch all Merlin’s favourite tv shows and movies #I can’t pick what kinds of movies Merlin and Arthur like #I get the feeling they both like pride and prejudice but I’m also biased #I think Arthur would like murder mysteries #ALSO If anyone’s got any fics where Merlin introduces Arthur to modern society please please PLEASE GIVE THEM TO ME #my art #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #merthur

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tygerland · 1 year

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Marsha P. Johnson, co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, at a gay rights demonstration in Albany, New York, March 14, 1971. Photo by Diana Davies.

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inkcoveredpoet · 9 months

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This vibe >>

All images are from pinterest

#chaotic academia #dark academia #academia aesthetic #coquette #chaotic academic aesthetic #the secret history #dark acadamia aesthetic #romantic academia #dead poets society #tsh #autumn #winter #rain #snow

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flowersforfrancis · 10 months

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I dread the end of winter.

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whimsifae · 7 months

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the five homoerotic love languages:

- intimate stabbing

- outright obsession

- confused pining

- "no one knows me like you do"

- lifelong promises that always sound suspiciously like wedding vows

#the secret history #henry winter #writing #dead poets society #dark academia #writeblr #obsessive love #dark romanticism #marauders

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nostalgicacademia · 2 months

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Dark Academia + Classic Academia

PD: Hi, I'm doing a survey on Aesthetics for my university research, anyone who knows what aesthetics are can answer and I'd be very happy! Link to the survey

#aesthetic #moodboard #edit #dark academia #light academia #academia #literature #art #chaotic academia #aes #classic academia #romantic academia #donna tartt #the secret history #dead poets society #dorian gray #oxford #cambridge #cozy

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thedarkacademian · 1 year

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brought a poem to the gun fight

#or is it a knife fight #i forget the saying lol #dark academia #dead poets society #the secret history #chaotic academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #classic academia #aesthetic #the dark academian

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marzipanandminutiae · 24 days

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it cracks me up that there was a secret society of American journalists who, from 1965 to 2006, slipped the phrase "it was as if some occult hand..." into articles

this all started when one guy used the phrase in an article and his friends thought it was so hilariously out of place that they all started using it

it drove their editors crazy but they kept doing it

that was like. the whole thing. they called it the Order of the Occult Hand and all it did was put a random metaphor into as many news articles as possible

they picked a new phrase in the early 00s, which has not been revealed yet- to my knowledge

#history #memes #I love this so much #is this where Charming Disaster got the 'society of the mysterious hand' expression

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luciferslilith7 · 3 months

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Hey! (with the intention of taking you on a library date) Picture Credit ~📍pinterest

@luciferslilith7

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