History In The Making

Everything about history, doing history, and learning about historical stuff. Doctorate student :: TX

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Fusako Shigenobu, founder of the Japanese Red Army and Palestinian solidarity fighter. Pictured with Ghassan Kanefani.

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Che Guevara photographed by Joseph Scherschel in Havana, Cuba on January 7, 1959.

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que chulo ❤️🔥

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“First of all, we say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx, and Lenin, and Che Guevara, and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else that has ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that revolution is a class struggle. It is one class, the oppressed, against the other class - the oppressor. And it’s got to be a universal fact. Those that don’t admit to that are those that don’t want to get involved in a revolution, because they know that as long as they’re dealing with a race thing, they’ll never be involved in a revolution. They can talk about numbers; they can hang you up in many, many ways, but as soon as you start talking about class, then you got to start talking about some guns. And that’s what the Party had to do.”

- Fred Hampton, Chicago chair of the Black Panther Party, 1968

Via Haroon Kavanoor

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Happy 70th birthday comrade Assata!

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The language of academia can be so fucking pretentious and elitist. You can’t write a critical paper about people that won’t even understand what you’re trying to say. Plus, the need to make something that supposed to educate and facilitate the exchange of ideas, so complex and complicated to understand is ridiculous. If someone, as a scholar cannot break down complex ideologies and theories into a form that the average person can understand then what the fuck are you doing, honestly? Academia is not about a continuous circle-jerk with your PhD buddies. It’s about exchanging ideas and reaching people, from all walks of life and background. The world is bigger than people with JSTOR memberships.

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I think this ALOT sitting in my current PhD classes and can’t help but feel belittled in discussion. BUT when I listen close enough... they usually ain’t ever saying shit!

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Today is our annual Meet the Special Collections open house! We’ll be in the Rabinowitz Room, 9-5, so stop by for a sample of some of the amazing items in our special collections.

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Courtney Love, 2005

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Holy shit

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Whoa.

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Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.

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That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!

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Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.

Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.

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excuse me while i write the novel 

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What a lovely day for a study session in the Hogwarts Library 📖⚡️

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, March 23, 1909 

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The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, May 21, 1903

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‘La Mazzafirra’ as Judith in “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” by Cristofano Allori. She was his lover. The head of Holofernes is a self-portrait of the artist.

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French people at the Palace of Versailles during the French Revolution: 

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this

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How taxpayers felt about having to bailout Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis. 

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Americans to President Herbert Hoover: You better fix this f*cking economy…