The Quantum Coyote

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I’ve been systematically dismantling a copy of Ayn Rand’s horrible early fiction with a sharpie into a work of really queer erasure poetry. Here’s what happened. 

“and I” 

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Treebeard by  Cal Redback (credit re-added to post)

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Some scary ass shit

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noelsewhere

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March of TIMES

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Motivational Polyphemus

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body

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Nigerian Student Solves 30 Year Old Math Equation and Breaks Academic Record at Japanese University

Nigerian student Utof Ekong has just become the first Nigerian to earn a “First Class Degree” and become the best overall student at Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan since 1965! 

The last time anyone graduated with a grade point average similar to Utof Ekong was over 50 years ago. Utof, who put himself through school by working two jobs has won many other academic awards at the university; totaling to about six awards. On top of all his academic excellence, Utof also solved a 30 year old outstanding mathematical equation in his first semester! 

Utof speaks English, Yoruba, French and Japanese. 

Now that’s young, brilliant and black at it’s FINEST!

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BEE DRAGONS

 o h n o o o 

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Medieval map of Ireland, showing Irish tribes

via Marie McKeown

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Takato Yamamoto (山本タカト) | Secret Metamorphosis

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Canaanite Bronze and Silver Bull,  12th-8th Century BC

This bull was probably originally covered entirely in silver. It recalls the Bible’s story of Jeroboam and the two golden calves (I Kings 12) which the prophets condemned as idolatrous. In Canaanite art, the bull is thought to represent the animal form of the deity Baal. Baal is also sometimes depicted in human form but with the horns of a bull.

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Mike Huckabee’s comments about transgender bathroom laws have recently gained attention on social media. I have avoided making a formal video about transgender bathrooms, but I decided that I would discuss it in light of his comments

In this video I discuss Mike Huckabee’s comments, my experience as a trans woman using the women’s restroom and how transphobia/queerphobia is taught to children who of course become adults like Mike Huckabee who believe that trans women are predators.

Watch the full video here (x)

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It’s W. B. Yeats’s sesquicentennial. From the archive: how “The Second Coming” is the most pilfered poem in literary history.

(An undated photo of Yeats by the Bain News Service.)

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Maned wolves should just be called leg-dogs.

The parts of maned wolves that aren’t legs is negligible it’s true

I mean seriously

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A Tasting Menu of Female Representation:

The Bechdel:

two or more women talking to each other about something other than a man

The Mako Mori:

at least one female character with her own narrative arc that is not about supporting a man’s story

The Sexy Lamp:

a female character that cannot be removed from the plot and replaced with a sexy lamp without destroying the story.

Chef’s Specials:

The Anti-Freeze:

no woman assaulted, injured or killed to further the story of another character.

The “Strength is Relative”:

complex women defined by solid characterization rather than a handful of underdeveloped masculine-coded stereotypes.

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