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angelicsaggie · 3 years

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Class of Uranus in Aquarius

Even if your placements are not in the exact order you might still be able to relate. Focus on the sign, planet, or house that you have that is mentioned below because those traits could also apply to you.

(Uranus in Aquarius) and in the (7th house)

Teacher: Hello class, I want you all to look at the board and read aloud what it says...

Class: Uranus in Aquarius is like the mama and child placement.

Teacher: Perfect. Uranus rules Aquarius so to have this duo work together makes this a strong placement. Uranus was in Aquarius from January 1996 to December 2003 so many people from your age range will have this combination in their natal chart as well. Do you know what I noticed about these specific individuals with this placement? I noticed that these individuals have the ability to influence a mass of people. It is indeed a part of human nature for people to be influenced either by stupid or intelligent things but with this placement it influences the crowd with a sprinkle of Aquarian energy. Right now, we are living in the year 2021 but think about how different life was in 1921. There was a lot of segregation, specific fashion trends that had to be followed, the 19th amendment was passed 2 years prior but women were still not treated as equals, and technology was not as advanced as it is today. If we zoom back to 2021, we see that racism still exists but it is not as segregated as before, you can dress more openly, women can get paid the same amount of money as their male counterparts, and technology is more advanced. Although, the world still has a few cracks in it, it is not in complete ruins and it seems that people are coming together more each day- The Age of Aquarius. My dear Aquarians you have been gifted the ability to break tradition and the norm. You are to fill the world with your zesty pallet of imagination so do not be afraid to be judged. The most important thing in this world is to make your spirit melt in happiness by doing things that make your soul feel complete no matter how "different" it is. Earth is a contradicting planet; It is young and old but still holds the wounds of your ancestors that could never imagine having as much freedom as you do. You should proudly express yourself if not for you then for them. It took over thousands of your ancestors to be born, live, give birth, and suffer in order for you to be here right now. You have been chosen to show the world who is boss. You also have the tools and technology to leave your mark on the world so start today. What path do you want to represent? What legacy do you want to leave behind? For those of you with the duo placement in the 7th house, it is ruled by the alluring Libra which represents relationships and unions. You might be attracted to friendships, romantic relationships, and people who are out of the ordinary or who follows an untraditional union. Remember to stay in healthy relationships but if you find yourself attracted to a person who breaks the norm then do so, it will replenish your energy and teach you lessons. Okay class so, later on today I will send you all an e-mail stating who will be in which group. You all have a new surprise group project and it is due next week.

Now, you are all dismissed.

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harpersplay · 3 years

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The 19th Amendment & My Mama by Mahogany L. Browne

I always took it for granted, the right to vote She said And I knew what my mother meant Her voice constricted tightly by the flu A virus & a 30-year-relationship with Newport 100s I ain’t no chain smoker she attempts to silence my concern only a pack a week. That’s good, you know?

My mother survived a husband she didn’t want and an addiction that loved her more than any human needs

I sit to write a poem about the 100 year Anniversary of the 19th Amendment & my first thought returns to the womb & those abortions I did not want at first but alas

The thirst of an almost anything is a gorge always looking to be until the body is filled with more fibroids than possibilities

On the 19th hour of the fourth day in a new decade I will wake restless from some nightmare about a bomb & a man with no backbone on a golf course who clicks closed his Motorola phone like an exclamation point against his misogynistic stance He swings the golf club with each chant Women let me grab Women like me Women vote until I say they don’t

In my nightmare he is an infective agent In the clear of day he is just the same

Every day he breathes is a threat to this country’s marrow For Ida & Susan & Lucretia & Elizabeth Cady

& every day he tweets grief like a cynical cornball comic’s receipts like a red light signaling the end of times

The final night of 2019 & my New Year’s Eve plans involves anything that will numb the pain of a world breaking its own heart

My mother & I have already spoken & her lungs are croaking wet I just want you to know I don’t feel well & I pause to pull up my stockings beneath my crumpled smile On this day I sigh I just wanted to dance & drink & forget about the 61.7% votes

My silk dress falls to my knees with the same swiftness defiant as the white feminist who said “I’m your ally” then voted for the demise of our nation’s most ignored underpaid, imprisoned & impoverished citizens

Every day there is a telephone near I miss my mother In the waiting room of the OB/GYN Uptown bound on the dirt orange train seat of the subway O! How my mother loves the places she can never go Her bones swaddled with arthritis & smoke So she relies on my daily bemoans

The train smells like yesterday, Ma They raise the tolls & fix nothing for the people My landlord refuses to fix my toilet, my bathroom sink, my refrigerator The city is annoying like an old boyfriend, always buzzing about nothing & in the way of me making it on time to the polls This woman didn’t say thank you when I held the door & who does she think she is?

Each time I crack & cap on the everydayness of my day My mother laughs as if she can see the flimsy MTA card The yellow cabs that refuse to stop for her daughter In these moments she can live again A whole bodied woman with a full mouth to speak it plain

I ask my mother what hurts? What hurts? How can I help from here?

3000 miles away Alone in a tower between the sea & the Mexico borders

My mother sighs a little sigh & says Nothing I just wanted to hear your voice

Listen to the poet read the poem here.

#poetry #mahogany l browne #national poetry month

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blackandbrownspoons · 5 years

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#BlackHistoryMonth: Disability History is Black History is American History

[Image Description: A graphic featuring a vintage brown photo of Harriet Tubman against a white background next to gray, black, and brown text that reads “disability history is black history is american history.” @blackbrownspoon]

Each year in February, America reflects on milestones and achievements in the Black community, as well as its role in shaping American history. Often left out of this discussion is the integral role that disability, healthcare, and the treatment of black bodies played in shaping Black history and American history as a whole. So please enjoy a timeline of #DisabledBlackHistory that shows some of the most well-known Black historical events-- and the influence of disabled POC and black bodies on those events.

(This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclaimer for more details.)

*TW/Note: These events may feature ableist/racist stereotypes or notably graphic/triggering depictions of abuse, mistreatment, or trauma of disabled POC. Feel free to read at your own risk.

1619-1808:

Slaves are legally transported from Africa to the Americas through the Middle Passage, the route slaves traders took across the Atlantic Ocean via slave ships. Captives were housed in tightly confined, unsanitary compartments in the ship, at times stacked onto each other. Physical and medical neglect and abuse were the norm, and as a rule captives were forced to release bodily fluids where they were seated, leading to the spread of infectious diseases. An estimated 15% of captives did not survive the journey, with a total of up to 2 million deaths as a result of the Middle Passage until the importing of slaves was outlawed in the US in 1808.

Read more: “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage” by Sowande M. Mustakeem

1600’s-1800’s:

“The Dozens” is a well-known, rich tradition within the African American community in which participants playfully (or not so much) drag not only each other, but often their moms with a series of incisive, targeted jokes. Less well known about the tradition is its roots during slavery, as it was often used by slaves to judge and devalue other slaves on the basis of their flaws-- frequently of their apparent disabilities. According to Krip Hop Nation, “The name itself [“The Dozens”] refers to the sale of slaves who had been overworked, were disabled, or beaten-down – their physical (and often mental) conditions affected their value and they were sold by the dozen, which was considered by slaves, the lowest position within the community.” The game was played as an “outlet of aggression” for slaves who could not yet fight or prevent their oppression or the discarding of slaves on an ableist basis, but could instead encourage each other to develop a thick skin emotionally in the meantime.

Read more: Yo Mama! New Raps, Toasts, Dozens, Jokes, and Children's Rhymes From Urban Black America by Onwuchekwa Jemie

Mid-1600’s:

Colonies develop “Slaves Codes” that, for the first time, codify that slavery will happen on the basis of skin color alone. Previously, indentured servants and slaves were of every race. Once Slave Codes limited slavery solely to African Americans, physicians and academics became instrumental in the medicalization of slavery and pathologization of blackness to justify continuing slavery.

Read more: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberle Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller, and K. Thomas

Late-1700’s:

Physician Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Surgeon General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, theorizes a disease known as “negritude”, which he considered a form of congenital leprosy, to explain dark skin tones, which could be treated with aggressive rubbing of the skin.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Mid-1800’s:

Physician Samuel Cartwright theorizes diseases to explain disobedient or rebellious slaves. “Drapetomania” is a curable mental illness in which slaves develop the desire to run away from their masters and obtain freedom, which is treated by keeping slaves “well-fed and clothed” and “not overworked”. “Dysaethesia Aethiopica”, or “rascality” in layman’s terms, is another mental illness marked by a “difficult [...] mind and sensibility” that are “apt to do much mischief” and “slight their work” whose root cause is “negro liberty”, which is curable via whippings and abuse.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Early-to-Mid-1800’s:

Slavery ends in the North, and continues in the South, sparking the Abolitionist Movement. The Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses owned by freed African Americans and White allies from the South leading into the Northern US and Canada, is established to allow slaves to escape often by foot. The most well-known “conductor” of the Railroad was Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave woman who developed a traumatic brain injury and consequently epilepsy and narcolepsy while enslaved and eventually facilitated the freedom of more than 70 slaves.

Read more: Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History by Milton C. Sernett

Mid-1800’s:

While growing medical literature distinguishes blackness as a syndrome and Black people as a separate species, physicians simultaneously primarily use slaves for experimentation of new procedures and treatments to generalize for use in mainstream white populations. J. Marion Sims, known as the father of modern gynecology, created the speculum and a procedure to repair post-childbirth vaginal fistulas by buying and experimenting on slaves. Despite being available in 1845, Sims did not use anesthesia on his black female subjects because Black people were believed to experience less pain from injury. This has long been debunked.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Mid 1800’s-Early 1900’s:

Traveling vaudeville and circus acts are the leading form of entertainment in the US. Many vaudeville acts prominently feature minstrelsy or “blackface”, the act of White (and eventually some Black) actors painting their skin to take on a caricatured, deliberately mocking impression of African Americans. The first popular blackface act was “Jumping Jim Crow” in the 1820’s, said to be inspired by the dance of a physically disabled slave by the same name. Travelling circus acts prominently feature “freakshows” featuring performers displaying their rare conditions and disabilities, including dwarfism, albinism, and other conditions. African Americans were frequently used in these acts. Sarah Baartman, known as the “Hottentot Venus” was put on display due to having an exaggeratedly large bottom due to a condition called steatopygia.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

1861-1865:

The Civil War is fought, and won by the North following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which eventually led to the freedom of slaves starting on June 19th, 1865 (otherwise celebrated as Juneteenth). Black soldiers were an integral part of the Union’s victory, with more than 15 soldier earning a Medal of Honor after the war. Those who fought in the war are also the first African Americans to receive federal disability pensions for veterans.

Read more: Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War by Margaret Humphreys

Late 1800’s:

Following the abolishment of the 13th Amendment and of slavery, all Southern States eventually passed “Black Codes” and “Jim Crow Laws” to segregate and restrict the rights of former slaves and their descendants during Reconstruction. This leads to segregations of most major institutions and facilities, including hospitals, schools, and facilities for people with disabilities. Black physicians build their careers during this time via segregated hospitals, nursing and medical schools, medical journals and-- in response to the whites-only American Medical Association at the time-- establishing the National Medical Association specifically for African Americans.

Read more: Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew

1880’s-1920’s:

Booker T. Washington establishes the Tuskegee institute, which initially teaches nursing and eventually established the first Veterans Hospital for African Americans. He also founded “National Negro Health Week” in the 1920’s to spotlight unaddressed health disparities in the African American community. It spotlights diseases prevalent in the Black community, particularly syphilis and tuberculosis. At the time, African Americans are believed to be predisposed to these diseases due to genetics. Germ Theory later emerges in the 1930’s that reveals that both diseases are infectious. Their prevalence in Black communities is later explained by segregation and poverty concentrating and restricting African Americans to living under unsanitary conditions in low-income communities.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Early 1900’s:

The field of “Eugenics” is created and mainstreamed in the United States via the American Eugenics Society. The eugenics movement, which originally promoted selective breeding for exceptionally positive traits in affluent communities, eventually focused on eliminating negative traits across society. Eugenicists lobbied for legislation in many states to forcibly sterilize groups with high rates of “undesirable” traits, primarily in poor, disabled, and minority communities. The US Supreme Court upheld the practice in the case Buck vs. Bell in 1927. This resulted in the forced sterilization of over 64,000 people (a low estimate) in the United States alone. The rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and the Holocaust eventually led the movement to lose power by the 1940s, but the practice of involuntary sterilization continued until the mid-1970s, and laws are not codified explicitly banning it until as late as the 2000s.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

1930’s-1940’s:

Hitler assumes power, begins the Third Reich, and eventually begins the Holocaust by segregating, interning, and engaging in genocide of Jewish people, other ethnic minorities, and disabled people across Germany and Western Europe, triggering World War II. Hitler cites American eugenics and sterilization laws as his inspiration for ethnic cleansing and segregation. Over 100,000 African Americans fight in World War II, under segregated conditions. The victory of the US in World War II is thought to be one of the catalysts of the Civil Rights movement and ending of segregation in the US.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Mid 1930-1970’s:

The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”, also known as the Tuskegee Experiments, is initiated by the United States Public Health Service in the 1930s. Contrary to the popular misconception, the study did not infect any African American participants with syphilis. However, a small, predominantly African American community in Alabama was targeted for its high rate of syphilis infections before treatment existed. The goal of the study was to gain an understanding of the long-term effects of syphilis and to discover a potential treatment. Very early into the study, penicillin was discovered as a treatment for syphilis and other bacterial infections and mainstreamed quickly into medical practice around the country. Up to 600 Black participants in the study, however, were left untreated for syphilis during the course of the decades-long study. Many participants were never offered treatment, not formally diagnosed with syphilis but told they had “bad blood”, enticed into continuing treatment in the participating hospital with free healthcare, and given placebos and experimental treatments in place of penicillin. The study was later stopped and abandoned due to these unethical practices, and revealed to the public in the 1970’s with led to lawsuits and congressional hearings. A number of medical studies followed a similar practice of withholding treatment during this era, which disproportionately targeted Black civilians and prisoners in the US.

Read more: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

1950′s:

A number of advances in the medical field and science emerge starting in the post-World War era, among them the discovery of the Polio Vaccine in the 1950′s, advances in cancer treatment, and by the end of the 20th century the study of the human genome. A little-known fact about each of these discoveries is that they are in part thanks to a black woman named Henrietta Lacks. Lacks died in 1951 of a rare form of cancer that produced the first known “immortal cells” that would reproduce outside of the human body indefinitely. Her cancerous tissue, now known as “HeLa cells”, have since been used by researchers to develop treatments and cures of many diseases. Her contribution to medicine is controversial, however, because her tissue was taken without her consent and her family initially was neither made aware of, nor as of today compensated for, the medical discoveries her tissue facilitated.

Read more: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

1950’s-1970’s:

The Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education finds “separate, but equal” segregated facilities unconstitutional and inherently unequal, which slowly leads to the integration of schools, hospitals, and other public facilities. This win eventually sparks the Civil Rights Movement and victories such as the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act in the 1960’s. Among prominent leaders in the movement is Fannie Lou Hamer, who helped organize the Freedom Summer in Mississippi to register Black residents to vote. Fannie Lou Hamer is a survivor of an involuntary hysterectomy, which occurred without her knowledge during a procedure for chronic kidney disease and was a result of forced sterilization laws that targeted Black women and were popular in the South. Another prominent group was the Black Panther Party who, while advocating for Black power, also provided for local Black communities with free healthcare clinics and food pantries. Bradley Lomax, a Black Panther with Multiple Sclerosis, helped to organize the occupation of regional offices of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) for disability rights, knowns are the “504 Sit-ins” that led to the addition of Section 504 of the American Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a precursor to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Read more: Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

1980’s:

The HIV/AIDS epidemic begins in the early 1980s. It’s first clinically observed in gay communities and receives the name “gay-related immune deficiency” (GRID) until it’s observed in non-LGBTQ communities and receives the name AIDS in 1982. The disease eventually gets the reputation of affecting “the 4-H Club”-- primarily attacking 1) heroine and intravenous (IV/needle) drug users, 2) hemophiliacs and chronically ill patients who give and receive blood in medical settings, 3) homosexuals and the LGBTQ community, and 4) Haitians and poor Black communities in the US and, eventually, globally. The United States government was slow to fund research for AIDS through much of the 1980’s, and one of the Reagan Administration’s first references to the disease was to propose a travel ban on immigrants and tourists with the disease in 1987. While treatment and prevention methods eventually cut infection and mortality rates for HIV, both cisgender and transgender women of color are disproportionately infected and die from AIDS.

Read more: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

1990′s:

Disability rights advocacy leads to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The ADA ensures the right to “reasonable accommodation” for people with disabilities in public spaces in the US. The ADA is the basis on which Olmstead vs. L.C. and E.W. is decided, which allows people with disabilities to be able to live in their communities rather than be put in nursing homes and other institutions. One of the plaintiffs in the case is Louis Curtis (L.C.), a black woman with a developmental disability.

Read more: Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions by Leslie Francis and Anita Silva

2010’s:

A series of highly publicized, viral extra-judicial killings of unarmed African Americans by police and white civilians in the news and social media sparks the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, which advocates accountability for police brutality and discriminatory treatment of Black people by American institutions. Several of the most high-profile victims of the BLM movement, such as Eric Garner, Keith Lamont Scott, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Deborah Banner, and Laquan McDonald had some form of disability, medical or mental condition. Disabled and deaf people are disproportionately targeted by police brutality due to police hyper-reliance on “compliance” by those facing arrest.

Read more: Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada by L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman, A. Carey

You can find many of these milestones and more events in Black Disability History at the online Museum of Disability History.

Were they any major milestones in Black History that were missed? Please reach out to add it to the list!

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suffragettecity100 · 4 years

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It all comes down to Tennessee

86. It All Comes Down to Tennessee

A lot of books, websites, and news media have covered the amazing story of Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. This is the condensed version. By June of 1920, the 19th Amendment had 35 of the necessary 36 states needed to be ratified (episode 82 covers the other 35). Fierce lobbying is done from both pro-suffrage groups and anti-suffrage groups most of whom were all staying at the same hotel, the luxurious Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, TN. There are bribes, backroom deals, big money influencers, fist fights, and lots of flip-flopping by politicians over a long hot summer. The governor, Albert H. Roberts, is reluctant to call a vote on ratification but finally calls Tennessee General Assembly into session. From the founding of America as a democracy to this emergency scheduled vote, the 144 year fight for an amendment preventing voter discrimation on the basis of sex hung in the balance as the Tennesse legislature came to order on August 18, 1920.

Legislators wore roses pinned to their lapels to signify their stance on suffrage: red roses were voting anti-suffrage and yellow roses were voting pro-suffrage. By a slim majority there were more red roses. Suffragists were resigned to probable defeat. Harry T. Burns wore a red rose thinking that his vote wouldn’t change things. In fact, he even voted with the antis in favor of tabling the issue and not taking the vote, essentially kicking the can down the road for some other state. Fortunately, suffrage did get voted on that day. By the time it got to him, it was a 48:48 tie (Banks Turner had abstained from his vote.) When Burns realized that his vote would make a difference, he had to make a moral choice. In his breast pocket, just below his red anti-suffrage rose, he was carrying a letter from his mother, Phoebe “Febb” Burns, a college educated widow who was a fiercely independent farmer and suffragist. Here is an excerpt from that letter:

“Dear Son, ... Hurray and vote for Suffrage and don’t keep them in doubt. I noticed Chandlers’ speech, it was very bitter. I’ve been waiting to see how you stood but have not seen anything yet.... Don’t forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt with her “Rats.” Is she the one that put rat in ratification, Ha! No more from mama this time. With lots of love, Mama.”

He quietly voted “aye” in favor of ratification and the room erupted with both cheers and boos. It was 49:48 in favor and just to seal the deal, legislator Banks Turner asked to change his vote from abstaining to “aye” making the final tally 50:48 The 19th Amendment was ratified!

The next day Burns was quoted as saying "I knew that a mother's advice is always safest for a boy to follow, and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification”. On October 9, 1920, Febb Burns registered to vote in McMinn County.

This week’s song pick:

It’s a compilation of some of the best goals in women’s soccer set to electronic music because it took teams of women working together to get the passage of the 19th Amendment. GOOOOAAAALLLL!!!!! https://youtu.be/XzSWdi2Ln5k

#SuffragetteCity100 #SufferingForSuffrage

Episode 86 Sources:

https://knoxfocus.com/archives/this-weeks-focus/tennessee-womens-suffrage-ratifying-19th-amendment/

https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-perfect-36-tennessee-delivers-suffrage-for-women/

https://www.nps.gov/places/hermitage-hotel.htm

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/902345079/the-nudge-and-tie-breaker-that-took-womens-suffrage-from-nay-to-yea

#suffragettecity100 #19th amendment #febb burns #harry t burns #red roses #yellow roses #suffrage #anti suffrage #votes for women #womens history #tennessee history #phoebe burns #womenempowerment #thanks mom #moms are the best #mom son #be a good boy #mothers love #moms change the world

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