#middlesex

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Harvard has launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment

-- Talia Jane, 24 Apr 2024 1:10 PM EDT

Two days ago, Harvard suspended the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC). Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM) sent and published a letter urging Harvard to lift the suspension:

The ACLU of Massachusetts calls on Harvard to remain true to its own commitment to “affirm, assure, and protect” its students’ rights to associate, protest, and express their political views, and to ensure that students expressing views that may be unpopular or controversial receive the same protections as all other students, and are not disproportionately targeted due to their viewpoints... we urge Harvard to reinstate the PSC and avoid subjecting the PSC or other student groups to actions that chill the exercise of their expression and association rights.

#palestine #usa #massachusetts #new england #middlesex #cambridge #harvard #youth activism

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Jeffrey Eugenides, from Middlesex

#jeffrey eugenides #middlesex #lit #literature #fragments #typo #typography #words #quote #quotes #*

[derangedrhythms]

Ecstasy. From the Greek Ekstasis. Meaning not what you think. Meaning not euphoria or sexual climax or even happiness. Meaning, literally: a state of displacement, of being driven out of one’s senses.

Jeffrey Eugenides, from 'Middlesex'

#jeffrey eugenides #middlesex #prose #u

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Hua Cheng- Heaven Official's Blessing / Tian Guan Ci Fu by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 

Cal Stephanides- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Simon Torquill- October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire

Alex Fierro-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan

#San Lang #Hua Cheng #Heaven Official's Blessing #Tian Guan Ci Fu #tgcf #hob #mxtx #Mo Xiang Tong Xiu #Cal Stephanides #Middlesex #Jeffrey Eugenides #Simon Torquill #October Daye #October Daye Series #Seanan McGuire #Alex Fierro #Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series #mcga #pjo #percy jackson series #riordanverse #Rick Riordan #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

goodreads

Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Mod opinion: I've read this book for a college course on trans stories and I didn't really like it (the other book we read in its entirety for the course was stone butch blues though, so it had tough competition, but I really did not enjoy middlesex because it treats the intersex character horribly). Also note that this book is heavily criticised by intersex activist for its interphobia and fetishization of intersex bodies.

#middlesex #jeffrey eugenides #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #contemporary fiction #intersex #i added this due to it being academically considered a 'trans' book & it being recommended #but it is not a trans story. instead it is a fetishized inter story written by a dyadic author and I should have mentioned that immediately #deepy sorry for that oversight

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#middlesex #jeffrey eugenides #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

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Late '70s, early '80s: Annabella Lwin, Chaka Khan, Madonna, and Kim Wilde.

#annabella lwin #bow wow wow #chaka khan #madonna #kim wilde #70s music #80s music #enhanced #black and white photography #burma #myanmar #nyc #chicago #england #uk #middlesex #pop #disco music #dance #new wave #alternative rock

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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

#Jeffrey Eugenides #Middlesex #quotelr #quotes #literature #lit #brain #life #mind

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Ferdinand Hodler. The Disappointed Souls. 1892 :: (Mikhail Iossel)

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“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

#disappointment #Jeffrey Eugenides #Middlesex #Ferdinand Hodler #The Disappointed Souls #quotes

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Middlesex, Vermont, USA.

#Middlesex #Vermont #USA #North America #Fall #Autumn

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Cambridge, MA showed up for Palestine yesterday! 🇵🇸 Thousands rallied at Cambridge City Hall and them marched down Mass Ave.

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Despite the rain, the energy was high.

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From the river 🏞 to the sea 🏖, Palestine 🇵🇸 will be free ✊!

-- Laura says ceasefire now!! 🍉, 3 Mar 2024

#palestine #massachusetts #cambridge #middlesex #greater boston

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#middlesex #jeffrey eugenides

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Syon House, Brentford, MIddlesex.

#syon house #london #brentford #stately homes #english stately homes #england #britain #meadows #mansions #middlesex

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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

#jeffrey eugenides #middlesex #classic #literature #book #book quote #quote #words #reading #fiction

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i have this list of books on goodreads that i resonate with / mean a lot to me and … there’s a theme there (the theme is i’m trans and mentally ill)

#stone butch blues #middlesex #paul takes the form of a mortal girl #what belongs to you #goodreads #she who became the sun #the other books are in my native language so i won’t list them

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#middlesex #jeffrey eugenides #the virgin suicides #lux lisbon #literature #bookshelf #lisbon sisters #brandy melville #coquette #dollette #lana del rey #pretty #girlblogger #cute #vintage #lily rose depp #lizzy grant #lolita #summer