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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

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i got this book of sappho's poetry only to find out it has translations that paint sappho as straight. like this absolute classic that every dyke knows by heart
istg i hate cishet academics so much.
There's a lot of very interesting meta analysis around the translation of Fragment 102!
The Anne Carson translation also uses 'boy' (Fortunately she translates MANY poems as very Sapphic, still) The back of the book includes in-depth analysis of many of her translation choices. I don't personally prefer with this one, but the reasoning
When looking into it, the word Sappho used for the object of her longing is παῖδος, paîdos, which is most commonly translated as “youth” because it’s not gendered. It can mean either a boy or a girl. (There are reasons besides heteronormative assumptions for translating it as “boy”—though the word is not gendered, it’s cognate with a lot of words like puer that mean “son” so may have had a more masculine-as-default assumption (like a lot of European languages do), and when Sappho wrote about young women, the word she commonly used was παρθένος parthénos “young woman, maiden, virgin.” But paîs/paîdos it is not a gendered word and could be translated either way!)
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Ahh, thanks for the shout-out!
Yeah, this fragment is really intriguing in its ambiguity, and has been approached in different ways by different translators and classicists. It's something I'm increasingly interested in, Sappho's use of the word "pais" (and its genitive form "paidos") throughout her work. For example, in another poem, she uses "pais" to refer to her own daughter! So it's far from cut-and-dry. Someday I will either find an article about that or write it myself, but for now, I can say about fragment 102 in particular, that a lot of ink has been spilled about these two little lines by different analysts from different backgrounds. And I think the popularization of one particular translation, the one by Diane Rayor that goes "slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl," does a disservice to the ambiguity of the lines as well as the statement Rayor is making with her translation choice!
I happen to have two books about Sappho on hand, and this is what they say about it:
Introduction by Pamela Gordon to Sappho: Poems and Fragments, translated by Stephen Lombardo and edited by Susan Warden, 2002, p. xix. (This book uses a different numbering system for the fragments for reasons I'm not fully clear on, ignore that.)
from Sappho’s Sweetbitter Songs: Configurations of Female and Male in Ancient Greek Lyric by Lyn Hatherly Wilson, 1996, pp. 118-119.
Two very different approaches to the fragment, but both use the assumption that "paidos" here should be translated as "boy." Gordon problematizes Lombardo's choice to do so; Wilson takes a different interpretation entirely. Simple heteronormative assumptions on the part of the translators almost certainly play a part, but it's neither deliberate erasure nor complete obliviousness. However, many translations translate this word as "boy" in this fragment.
So Diane Rayor's choice to translate "paidos" in the fragment as "girl" is extremely deliberate and pointed! She's saying, you all are choosing to interpret the object of the speaker's affections as a boy, but it is also equally correct to translate this word as 'girl.' It's pointed, it's intentional, it's a deliberate pushback against common translation practice to point out that the choice to say "boy" is making just as much of an assumption as the choice to say "girl." And that point gets lost when the fragment is presented as an uncomplicatedly straightforward or objective reflection of what's in Sappho's original text - in either direction!
the united states should not exist reblog if you agree
I love being a transsexual
Reblog if you also love being a transsexual
Cis people can reblog, but watch out
My deepest hope is to someday wake up to see someone reblogged this post with “I reblogged this when I was cis but now I’ve Realized Somwthing”
As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.
I'm also gonna stop listing the reasons why I recognize something is a scam. It's becoming more and more clear there is 1 person behind this STRING of scams and they're leaving less trails behind but it still reeks of them and their MO.
DO NOT TRUST ANY GOFUNDME OR REQUEST FOR CROWDFUNDING THAT PALESTINIAN BLOGGERS HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
At this point I'm fine receiving a bunch of inbox messages asking me to vet x y z so y'all can avoid this shit. But please have some critical thinking!
People are exploiting our situation.
Reblog this post.
Whether you wanna read the whole thing or not idc.
REBLOG IT.
The person this was about deleted the 4th or 5th scam account they made and are definitely gonna make a new one soon. I don't want anybody falling for this anymore.
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theres been bombs dropped on displaced families camps in congo so i wanna share some places to donate where u can help the congolese ppl
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if u cant donate just share and get it to someone who can!!
If you're still not seeing the genocide of Palestinians as a tangible reality,
If you're calling the genocide of Palestinians something along the 'activism of the week', 'social justice cause of the month',
If you're still finding or creating excuses for neutrality on the genocide of Palestinians,
If you think a zionist only has a 'slightly different opinion than yours',
If you think casting doubt on the experiences of Palestinians surviving genocide or questioning them in any way is acceptable,
You are not an 'ally'. Stay the fuck away from me, and keep Ghazzans out of your fucking mouth.
This is how American slavery & Jim Crow were allowed to continue. This is how the Holocaust was allowed to continue and was continuously justified by those who did nothing to stop it. This is how all of the atrocities of the world were justified by the onlookers who didn't take them seriously enough.
Some piece of shit is gonna see this and still pull a 'But VOTE BLUE'. No. If you feel the urge to come on my post and ask people to vote for the person responsible for turning my own family members into a mass grave under rubble, you are a fucking nazi. You are a fucking zionist. You deserve to see Hell.
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Beauty/Death
You smile at the deer eating grass by the underpass
you smile at the dead ones on the highway too
Beauty does not stop at death to you.
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oh its been a while since i said it so fuck off if you're pro-israel
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should I make a new blog and would you (especially my mutuals) follow it? this one just feels so high school its making me dysphoric
you know what!! i'm gonna do it!! no one can control me
should I make a new blog and would you (especially my mutuals) follow it? this one just feels so high school its making me dysphoric
FISH QUIZZZZ!!! FISH QUIZZZ!!!! TAKE IT!!! special request from my friend avery shoutout avery <3 it's right up my alley anyways... im so jellyfish coded !!
includes both freshwater and saltwater creatures, with 18 questions and 36 creatures!! interested in more quizzes? find me at @sashasactivit
quiz made: june 2024