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I love this website. It has profiles of over 100 female writers in translation from before 1700, with extracts from their work, relevent secondary sources, and where you can find their works in print or online. 

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just to reiterate: intentionally targeting hospitals is a WAR CRIME and a TERRORIST ACTION

#gaza

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Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway

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So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.

Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.

This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡

#WOW #yarn

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Tried a new bulgogi marinade recipe today and it slapped

#looks so good #food

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“When the world began, it was very small. Songs blew the earth up to its present size. Songs turn frustration into power, anxiety into comfort. Like a blanket, they form a zone of protection around the singer. Sing on the way home alone at night in a fearful place and the song will move out into the space around you. Is this not prayer, sounds that come from our breath, lifting the spirit as they meet the air?”

— Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (via exhaled-spirals)

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“It is a mistake to see men as pitiable victims or vessels to be “saved” through female self-sacrifice. However possessed males may be within the patriarchy, it is their order; it is they who feed on women’s stolen energy. It is a trap to imagine that women should “save” men from the dynamics of demonic possession; and to attempt this is to fall deeper into the pit of patriarchal possession. It is women ourselves who will have to expel the Father from ourselves, becoming our own exorcists.”

— Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, p. 2

#mary daly #men

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@ anon: do i know you?

#txt

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biological differences between men and women are inherently neutral. they do not indicate male superiority over female people. to suggest so is inherently sexist. to complain when female sports cater to female anatomy - such as the smaller balls in the wnba because women tend to have smaller hands - is what sexists do. they want women to be forced to prove ourselves according to standards designed for men because they want to see us fail. it is sexist to argue that women who wish to compete on their own terms are pronouncing themselves as inferior. nobody said that but you. because you’re a sexist that hates women

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i love all the transmasc lesbians and vaguely genderqueer afab4afabs on here i really do.. i wish i could walk among you i wish we could all live in peace

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finally painted one of my favorite things: hill. love a good hill

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T.H. White, in his 1958 retelling of the Arthurian legend in Once and Future King

#life

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so it turns out you can take out unlimited books at once at the local library. unfortunately my muscles don't have unlimited strength yet

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Photos of Nancy Valverde, a Chicana gender nonconforming lesbian who was routinely arrested for violating L.A.’s cross-dressing ban throughout the 50s and has been credited as helping overturn the ban. Valverde died at the age of 92 in March of 2024.

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2 days of more computer than usual making me feel depressed. bye

#highly recommend getting a flip phone and avoiding the internet like a plague #txt

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This delicate tiny carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago.

Thought to be a diver, cormorant, or duck, the figure is from beak to tail 4.7 cm long.

The sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird.