OMG history u so sexy

Hello! I've been getting more into history and I wanted a separate place for it. That's a bloody lie-I just wanted a history blog that's it. Lettuce not pretend here. ALSO LISTEN I'm dropping my cashapp/venmo/ kofi Venmo: @sugarchains Ca$happ: $sugarchains Kofi: sugarchains1066. No obligations but its appreciated!

[sugarchains]

Making a bit of a pinned post for my sideblogs!

So this summer, I will be spending time exploring museums in NYC-partially because it’s my hometown and I’m regularly obsessed with museums, but also because there are SO MANY here that I haven’t gotten a chance to really explore.

I will also be trying to make content for that on tiktok and possibly kofi.

But while I’m doing that, I will STILL need supplies for school starting back up in September. The goal will be for us to continue our PBIS  store once school starts back up again, AND I will be going for my advanced certificate in Special Education this year!

(Just in case someone doesn’t know, PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. There is lowkey a bit of controversy with this program in schools, as some people don’t believe in essentially “buying” the kids behavior and effort, but based off what we saw wiht our students last year, they enjoyed it and asked if we could continue it in the upcoming year so-)

That means once it hits August, I won’t really have time to work per session to get extra money to buy school supplies or anything extra for the store. Attached to this post, I will leave my Amazon wish list for the regular classroom, and a Lakeshore wish list, which is just more fancy teacher stuff! I’ll also leave my kofi and venmo if you just feel bad for me as a teacher.

ALSO-if you want me to explain the logic/reasoning behind anything I’ve listed, I’m totally down to do this.

Amazon classroom wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3GGDFHKMNUW1F?ref_=wl_share

Lakeshore registry: https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/lists-and-registries/registry-details/?registryId=kFJm1RYePtrOnuo9waypuA%3D%3D

Kofi

Venmo: @sugarchains Ca$happ: $sugarchains

[efemmera-archive]

Manuscript illumination depicting a lesbian couple kissing and a gay male couple embracing from the Moralized Bible of Vienna (1220s).

This illustration is one of the only explicit depictions of female homosexuality known from the medieval era.

[chocolatepot]

This detail in context with the rest of the page

Catalogue listing in the University of Michigan library making it clear that this is how it's interpreted

[frostedmagnolias]

Wedding Dress

c. 1916

unknown maker

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

[parkchanwoohoo]

I thought this was really cool! This is an installation at the New York Historical, aptly called "Creating Chop Suey," curated by Shiyong Lu and Anna Danziger Halperin! I grew up in an area with a large Jewish population and a friend whose family ran a Chinese restaurant that did indeed make a number of alterations to their menu to accommodate the neighborhood, and these kinds of blends of cuisines are always so fascinating to me. I have not seen this installation personally, but I badly would like to, and this inspired me to check out their website and look at some of the other things on display:

Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New York Historical Collections

The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes

The Gay Harlem Renaissance

The New York Sari

I dunno when I'll have time to go, but would love to hear from people who have!

[frostedmagnolias]

House of Worth Gown

c. 1880

silk, metal, glass

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Jacket

c. 1890

silk, jet, linen

by House of Worth

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[sociallyunacceptableart4]

This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies

[mando-lore]

Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.

[mando-lore]

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck

[smsomah]

India, 1926-27. Martin Hürlimann

[luxus-aeterna]

little Versailles in dtla

[jungwildeandfree]

so this guy right he makes ancient egyptian themed furry costumes. he makes all kinds but mostly he specializes in Horus heads. it's his passion really. he loves to make the beautiful falcon head of the Sun God. anyway so he's at a con one day and he sees this whole bunch of people in middle kingdom dress with these indistinguishable animal heads. he's like. oh man these folks could really use a new source, i can hardly tell what animal those are! so he goes over and he says "hey guys! i see you are into ancient egyptian mythological themed furry costumes--if any of you are interested in being the radiant Son of Ra, I am the BEST in the business!"

and the group of people look at each other, then at him. awkward. finally one of them says: "uh. no thanks. we're all Set."

[s-cullayy]

[semioticapocalypse]

AlanGrant. Waitress in a Drive-In Movie Theater. Chicago. 1948

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[cikero]

“it’s their first time living too! 🥺” yeah and the last #YouWillNotBeReincarnated

[bauliya]

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

[darkshrimpemotions]

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

[tzikeh]

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

[batsandboba]

@munnchausenzip i can't lie, it goes hard (x) (x)

[frostedmagnolias]

Wedding Dress

c. 1894

Wales

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

[frostedmagnolias]

let us not forget all the people who are in ICE custody right now who are NOT "documented" citizens. let us not dehumanize anybody due to legal status. they deserve justice and safety just as much as those with documented status.

[daystarsearcher]

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