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Carved coral, nephrite, hardstone, diamond, and gilt wild strawberries in a rock crystal vase on a jasper plinth (at Christie’s)

#GIMME

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“THE TRANSEXUAL MENACE – NEW YORK CITY,” Camp Trans members, including, from left, Riki Anne Wilchins, Leslie Feinberg (September 1, 1949 - November 15, 2014), and Prof. Minnie Bruce Pratt, Oceana County, Michigan, August 1994. Photo c/o R. Wilchins. For more on Camp Trans—and for other incredible stories from trans history—check out Rhys Ernst’s (@rhysernst) “We’ve Been Around” (wevebeenaround.com). From its inception in 1975, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF)—a week-long music and culture festival that sought to provide lesbian-feminists and lesbian-separatists a safe environment free from domination, oppression, and interference by men—maintained a “womyn-born-womyn” policy, and therefore excluded trans women from attending. In 1991, trans activist Nancy Burkholder was ejected by MWMF organizers after an embarrassing interrogation; according to TransAdvocate.com, “what happened to Nancy sparked the first community-wide response to the Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) oppression of trans people,” which found its roots in womyn-born-womyn radical feminism and in the trans exclusionary outlook of gay cis-male activists like Jim Fouratt. Perhaps most notably, Burkholder’s experience gave rise to Camp Trans, led by Leslie Feinberg, who died two years ago today, and Riki Anne Wilchins. Camp Trans “consisted of several dozen trans women and supporters who leafleted [MWMF] attendees and held workshops and readings that attracted hundreds of women from the other side of the road.” Wilchins noted the significance of Camp Trans: “…it was the first time that significant numbers of the hard-core lesbian community backed us.” While an official change in MWMF policy never came, resistance to the festival grew, with attendees and artists withdrawing until organizers announced that MWMF 2015 would be the last. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #TransWeek #CampTrans #WeveBeenAround #LeslieFeinberg (at Oceana County, Michigan)

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#birds

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Great egret

#i saw one of these today!!!#birds

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Strike a pose

Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

June 7, 2021

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania

#birds

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I found an excellent photo today

Purple gallinule

You simply cannot predict the length of these babies’ legs until you see them stand up

#sandhill cranes #birds

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when people put "trigger warning" on their content without specifying what the trigger warning is for

creepish

they should make grocery stores without the sensory overload

#WHERE DO I SIGN UP

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A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.

Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food.

i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!!

#birds