hello everyone. many of you may remember that earlier this year someone very dear to me lost her home in a fire. this came as the end result of a series of abusive relationships, and she lost almost everything she had - her phone, laptop, books, bank cards, her cat, literally decades of paintings - as well as most of her social support system in one fell swoop. she is now housed again but we need your help to keep her in rent money and to try to replace some of what she lost. æora not only means the world to me but has been one of the most active organisers i know for as long as ive known her, anything u can spare will not only support her but will help support this ongoing work. please help a disabled trans woman rebuild her life, anything u can spare helps
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hello everyone. many of you may remember that earlier this year someone very dear to me lost her home in a fire. this came as the end result of a series of abusive relationships, and she lost almost everything she had - her phone, laptop, books, bank cards, her cat, literally decades of paintings - as well as most of her social support system in one fell swoop. she is now housed again but we need your help to keep her in rent money and to try to replace some of what she lost. æora not only means the world to me but has been one of the most active organisers i know for as long as ive known her, anything u can spare will not only support her but will help support this ongoing work. please help a disabled trans woman rebuild her life, anything u can spare helps
Hi, I’m Æora, a disabled white trans woman who celebrated her 40th birthday … The Orca needs your support for Help Æora rebuild her life fol
anyway from my point of view this account has run its course im moving elsewhere if we’re mutuals and ur interested in that elsewhere, u can like this and it may find u thank u all
hello everyone. many of you may remember that earlier this year someone very dear to me lost her home in a fire. this came as the end result of a series of abusive relationships, and she lost almost everything she had - her phone, laptop, books, bank cards, her cat, literally decades of paintings - as well as most of her social support system in one fell swoop. she is now housed again but we need your help to keep her in rent money and to try to replace some of what she lost. æora not only means the world to me but has been one of the most active organisers i know for as long as ive known her, anything u can spare will not only support her but will help support this ongoing work. please help a disabled trans woman rebuild her life, anything u can spare helps
Hi, I’m Æora, a disabled white trans woman who celebrated her 40th birthday … The Orca needs your support for Help Æora rebuild her life fol
anyway from my point of view this account has run its course im moving elsewhere if we’re mutuals and ur interested in that elsewhere, u can like this and it may find u thank u all
anyway from my point of view this account has run its course im moving elsewhere if we’re mutuals and ur interested in that elsewhere, u can like this and it may find u thank u all
do you have any recs for history books similar to janet abu-loghod's before european hegemony? :-)
it depends what u liked about abu-lughod.. economic history for the period is not my area of expertise tho she has a lot of citations u could follow up on.. open veins of latin america and the early parts of how europe underdeveloped africa both bring that kinda marxian (post marxian, in abu lughod’s case) attention to political economy to earlier periods than are usually covered by contemporary left discourses each with their own strengths and limits.. bataille’s the accursed share attempts something similar if a bit less linear and more speculative, with mixed success imo idk these are all a little vague it’s kinda an unusual book because so much of what makes it useful is this collation of a range of material not usually placed alongside one another so i guess it depends on which of those relations most interest u.. sorry i cant be more helpful
Two things possess the power,
Two things deserve the name,
Two things can reawaken
Perpetually the flame.
Two things are full of wonder,
Two things cast off all shame.
One is known by the name of Death.
And the other has no name
Except the name each gives it—
In no single mouth the same.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
in The Collected Poems, written between 1931 and 1940
watching game of thrones and this was considered a historically accurate portrayal of steppe nomads??? the faux leather strapless crops and faux leather yoga pants?????
one thing this show clearly doesn’t get, which a lot of modern portrayals of premodern times don’t seem to get, is that in a preindustrial society where literally everything is handmade, people preferred (and prefer!) to take a little longer to make things beautiful. if you’re personally spinning and weaving and stitching every inch your new coat, you might as well take an extra afternoon to dye the fibers a really lovely yellow with some onion scraps, and spend a little longer to embroider on a nice pattern. if you’re personally carving every angle of every chair in your house, you may as well slow down and carve them with a beautiful and culturally significant design, especially if you know your great-grandchildren will be sitting in them. in a hyperconsumerist industrial society it’s expected that you just buy what you can afford and settle for however beautiful or ugly the thing happens to be, but it wasn’t always that way. the vast majority of people in the premodern world were hobbyist artists, and they dressed in and sat on and slept under and smoked with and ate out of their and their ancestors’ canvases every day
This is the interior of a modern Kyrgyz yurt. Btw. Those tapestries on the walls and ceiling are usually made of felted wool and are for insulation (traditionally they were also for weather-proofing, but now that's usually done with plastic sheeting). The ribbing is traditionally bright red and the rugs and tapestries are also usually brightly colored. Many people involved in animal husbandry still live in these for part of the year, and some year-round.
The past and the culturally in-touch present were and are extremely colorful.
i feel part of this view of the past is informed by the american frontiersmen (or at least the popular image of them). for many when they think of crafting and connection with nature, they think of these 'lone individuals' who made simplistic log cabins and such out of practical need, someone who needs that rustic chair yesterday, and not people who are part of community, have been since before they were born, have had chairs and shelter and all the rest, and therefore have that sort of time and safety to spend more attention and effort.
Jerry is invited to partake of the paschal lamb by his new girlfriend, who roasted the lamb with gravy, rendering it partly cooked and thus disqualified. Rather than to say anything, Jerry secretly spits the meat into his napkin and puts it in his pocket.
Elaine, due to her habit of eating red beets, is misdiagnosed as menstruating and thus ritually impure. She gets scheduled for a second appointment to prove her ritual purity, but unwittingly eats salad with beets in it again, thus being declared impure and unfit to partake in the ritual of the paschal lamb.
George is seen by Wilhelm scratching a moscito bite. Thinking George is trying to remove a dry wart before the Temple service, he informs Steinbrenner that George must be of priestly descent. Steinbrenner decides he should be chosen to sacrifice the paschal lamb on behalf of the New York Yankees this year.
Since after Elaine's diagnosis exactly half of the community are ritually impure, Kramer, who is ritually pure, gets sent away so that the community will be able to perform the ritual of the paschal lamb in a state of impurity. However, he gets abducted by bandits, so Jerry, his girlfriend, Elaine, and George go to retrieve him. Elaine borrows Jerry's jacket, who keeps trying to tell her about the meat in the pocket, but never goes through with it lest his girlfriend finds out. They find Kramer by sunrise and due to not having burned the leftover meat in Jerry's pocket, they are all punished by karet.
hello everyone. many of you may remember that earlier this year someone very dear to me lost her home in a fire. this came as the end result of a series of abusive relationships, and she lost almost everything she had - her phone, laptop, books, bank cards, her cat, literally decades of paintings - as well as most of her social support system in one fell swoop. she is now housed again but we need your help to keep her in rent money and to try to replace some of what she lost. æora not only means the world to me but has been one of the most active organisers i know for as long as ive known her, anything u can spare will not only support her but will help support this ongoing work. please help a disabled trans woman rebuild her life, anything u can spare helps
Hi, I’m Æora, a disabled white trans woman who celebrated her 40th birthday … The Orca needs your support for Help Æora rebuild her life fol
anyway from my point of view this account has run its course im moving elsewhere if we’re mutuals and ur interested in that elsewhere, u can like this and it may find u thank u all
Michael Robartes and the Dancer, W. B. Yeats (re-read)
Revolutionary Messages, Antonin Artaud, translated by Joel White
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lamp
‘Against friendship’, Aragorn!, undated, via The Anarchist Library [link]
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