A glimpse of Philippine History in Negros Museum, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Spanish and American Colonial Period.
(Note: Negros is what the Spaniards called the people living in one of the more than 7000 islands of the Philippines because of their dark skin tone during the 333 years of Spanish colonialism. Now the island is divided into two provinces, Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental.)
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It’s feels so insignificant to have this struggle but I’m getting my period soon and there’s no place to buy cotton/pads or the specific painkillers I get and it’s so so cold my pre cramps are already killing me. It makes me feel so helpless. [@/ Dicktator117 on X. 12/28/23.]
“Periods Don't Stop for Conflict” I remember this headline addressing women's health in Ukraine. Not a peep out of those same agencies about Sudanese & Palestinian women struggling in war/conflict zones.
#KeepEyesOnSudan [@/ RightUpMyAlley on X.]
I created a link for a gofundme happening right now to ensure Period Care reaches folks who need it in Sudan, and I will re-post this here for folks who can share and/or support:
This link here will lead you to this post of where you can support/send funds so that period care reaches those who need it in [Palestine] and other areas as well.
One Million Sustainable Pads Campaign [Sudan]
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An Introduction to Highland Swordsmanship
During the 18th Century, the Highland Scot came into vogue in Great Britain. After years of repression and persecution of the Scottish Gael, it was ironically the Highland Regiments of the British Army that preserved many of the proud Gaelic martial...
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I’ve been teaching at the high school level online since 2015 (you know, before COVID made it vogue to do so). But I’d had a taste of it as a student since 2010 with the Cateran Society, where I began learning Highland Broadsword. It involved reading primary and secondary sources on Highland Broadsword fencing, videoing myself and fencing partners performing these, sending them to…
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This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).
Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”
This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.
edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.
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カメラで見た台湾 The Lure of Taiwan
Vol. 1 (1935)
Published by Taiwan Branch Office, Japan Tourist Bureau.
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YES LANDBACK. YES, ALL OF IT. YES, INCLUDING YOUR PRECIOUS NATIONAL PARKS. NO MORE WHITE STEWARDSHIP OF NATIVE LANDS.
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Socmed discussions about Saltburn, to me —
1) reveal that people are even more squeamish about explicit gay sexuality than they think they are
(And if this is what passes for shocking erotic excess, then we, in the anglosphere, are in a more — not making a comment about individuals here — restrained moment with mainstream American/British adult cinema than we were with mainstream adult heterosexual cinema in the 90s, eg the erotic thriller)
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2) suggest people are increasingly making art that is in conversation with, if not explicitly nostalgic for, the 2010-16 Tumblr-era.
(I really truly suspect Saltburn is, in part, an adaptation of the tropes and aesthetics that were in certain “The Social Network” fan spaces.)
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The Battle Underground
@ttpdpoetryweek : timeless x the great war
Our cheeks were crimson under the clouds
Warmth in our hearts the sun could replicate
But the cold of the world seeped in through
Cracks in your façade and my beaten fate
I would give up my given name to serve you
Be your Betty till the world would stand still
Pale faces stuck out of place looking for us
We would run until their guns find us and kill
The world was red, blue and a blur of violence
Your hands were ever so cold to the touch
My matted hair like the clouds the day we met
We would be called an example by your church
I wish we were born in a day brighter than that
You could walk my garden unbidden, unhidden
I would make petunias bloom out of your chest
For all that we love we would never be forbidden
Even in a different life you would've been mine
We didn't survive the war, didn't survive the hate
Our love would've persisted, it would've lived on
Find me later dearest, seal our lips, seal our fate
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