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[biscuitsarenice]

The Big Questions:  Is there more truth in Shakespeare than the Bible?

Akala, Rapper, Writer, Academic and founder of the Hip-hop Shakespeare Company.

Prof Stanley Wells, the world’s leading Shakespeare scholar.

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[nemesispawn-deactivated20181005]

Oh my god, this is interesting.

[medievalpoc]

Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England

“Race Card” by Gary Taylor

British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database

Bartles, Emily C. “Making More of the Moor: Aaron, Othello, and Renaissance Refashionings of Race”. Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 433-454. Folger Shakespeare Library, in association with George Washington University.

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[half-black-phillip]

I’m so mad because this worked

[britney2007spears]

help me roger

[telanu]

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

[luthienebonyx]

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

[riskpig]

………my friend has made me curious

[maryburgers]

help me roger

[maryburgers]

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

[zombbeans]

These never work for me, but here’s to trying.

[strangenewclassrooms]

I don’t believe in these things

But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job

But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.

Roger is cute.

[sugared-violets]

Eh Roger is cute I might as well

[secondlina]

That fish is so happy it makes me happy.

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[fragments-of-sappho]

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

[okayysophia]

WE DONT CARE IN 2018!!!

[lapinchecanela]

México para dummies

[thoughtsof-r]

[wickedclothes]

i fucking hate donald trump // sold on etsy

[micdotcom]

Don’t let anyone tell you Obama didn’t do anything.

[moonnlesbian]

where’s the interview w/ andy samberg where the interviewer asks about why there’s no jokes made around holt being gay and andy’s face twitches like “don’t do it.” and the interviewer goes on like “we live in such a weird PC culture though!” and andy laughs so uncomfortably i need it for science 

[moonnlesbian]

[corbinite]

The ironic thing is, there are plenty of jokes which involve him being gay. But it just doesn’t register as humor to those people if it’s not making fun of him for it, or using his sexuality as the actual punchline. A show actually respects its characters (for the most part) while still managing to provide top-notch humor and all a lot of people have to say is complaining about “pc culture”

[polarbarbarian-deactivated20200]

here’s a link to the video if anyone’s interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idQsYQfkR5o

[sophrosynic]

i don’t understand how anyone who’s watched the episodes where ray holt pretends to be a hetero would ever believe that there are “no jokes about him being gay.”

because that’s not the problem. the problem is that the jokes about him being gay are specifically for an lgbtq audience. they’re jokes that heteros don’t understand because for once, we’re not the punchline like we usually are. we’re not being made fun of in a way that tears us down. they’re jokes about the absurdity of our existence. of having to fake being straight, even though a lot of us are actually really bad at it, and having straight people actually believe you. 

the other really great example is that one joke ray holt makes in the first season, about how the hardest thing about being a gay black police officer in the nypd is the discrimination. that joke was funny for so many reasons, and yet, not a single straight person really got it when i watched it with them. it feels like there are no jokes because the jokes aren’t intended for straight/homophobic people, where the punchline isn’t all about how they relate to us. it’s about how we relate to them for once, and that’s the greatest thing.

[captainlordauditor]

other show’s lgbt jokes are “loltranswomen” or “lol flamboyant gay men”

brooklyn nine nine’s lgbt jokes are “we got married as quickly as we could bc we were worried they’d repeal it” and then footage of Kevin and Raymond not letting the officient finish his sentence before they say “I do”

[thatmattattack]

i remember watching the first episode of season 4 where jake peralta — one of the main characters of the shows who could so easily be depicted as a toxically masculine cop who doesn’t “get” political correction or like, basic human decency in general — casually mentions the existence of transphobia in passing. the show had been fairly liberal and good at playing jokes for laughs instead of hurting people’s feelings, but this solidified my loyalty to the show and its brand of humor.

what’s more, jake mentions transphobia in connection with media content and delivers the line in such a way that it was only after seeing this post (literally months after the initial episode aired) that i realized people who are not queer or in the know about queer things would not find it funny because they wouldn’t understand it. 

in short: jokes at the expense of others humanity is rarely, if ever, funny. consequently, b99 comes out with better hi-jinks and bigger laughs because they get it and work within those (not actually at all limiting) confines.

[chillyfeetsteak]

PLEASE WATCH BROOKLYN 99 IT WILL HEAL YOU.

[kateordie]

I love this fucking show TO DEATH

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[flawedmangoes]

alright i wanna talk about nazis and oregon for a moment. Oregon was known as the ‘ white utopia’ for a while there. the history of hate runs deep in oregon. the government in the 60′s was made of of mainly KKK members and prob nazis

oregon had something called the Black Exclusion Law in the 1800′s oregon is just as and in some ways more racist than the south.

a black woman walking her dog im ashland oregon, one of the most liberal hippy towns in oregon was told and i quote:

‘It’s still an Oregon law, I could kill a black person and be out of jail in a day and a half. Look it up, The KKK is alive and well here.’

American redguard has put up flyers and now we have neo nazi groups doing the same this. 

not bringing attention to this dark underbelly of one of the most ‘blue, liberal’ states is letting them win.  this needs to be talked about this needs to be addressed and oregon needs to do something to step up their game or shits gonna go bad fast. 

[flawedmangoes]

this is the flyer 

this is their twitter page

they show pictures of tearing down pro feminism flyer, posting their flyers on protesting signs

they have targeted a local theatre known as the oregon cabaret with the tweet saying :

 your lights went out. Where is your safe space? What about the gaslight project? #Ghostlightproject

they are calling out antifa and activists in the area

this is real

this is scary

and it needs to be known

[flawedmangoes]

alright folks here we go again!!!!

same town that the nazi (cascadian national resistance) group is back at it again

only this time it is this

that is right folks. a nazi truck parked downtown main street. this is a high traffic area. its a theatre town with a international known theatre and shakespearean festival. so TONS of out of towners coming in to see shows. they fucking see this! 

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE NAZI ISSUE IN SOUTHERN OREGON. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. THIS IS REAL. THEY HAVE THREATEN BUSINESS AND NOW THIS. PLEASE. 

“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”

[krispy-lays]

nazi using literal nazi propaganda and hate speech: lol u mad

shia labeouf (a jewish person directly harmed by nazism): HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US

white supremacist news (also known as just the the regular news): shia labeouf BULLIES an innocent childlike white boy child kid youngling of the age of 20-something because hes a trump supporter!! the inhumanity of it all.

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[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

Holy…SHIT

[luckyones]

the struggle is real aka when sehun mistook svt’s jeonghan for nct’s johnny

bonus: jeonghan telling members of monsta x what happened (sehun is really never gonna live this down!)

[fonzworthcutlass]

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[a-liminal-life]

“When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she told the audience. “I used to clean houses. My parents, my mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trash man — they all wore uniforms. And that’s why I stand here today in my black and white and I wear my uniform to honor them.”

[gendersnaps]

^ thank you for including this quote - because it isn’t solely (or even primarily) a feminist statement, it’s a statement on class egalitarianism, which is separate and equally important but doesn’t have half the soapbox

[vancouverfoodmonster-deactivate]

Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean mental illness don’t exist.

[fiberworker-deactivated20160928]

If that kind of discrepancy showed up on the outside, people would be horrified.  Because it’s on the inside, they want to believe it isn’t real.