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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), Virtue and Nobility.

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love fighter by cyber bunny ss24

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Simon Leclerc, Reader, 2025, Gouache

Oksana Skorik after Swan Lake in the Mariinsky Theatre, ph. by Catherine Pollak.

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“the soul of my land” by jordanian-palestinian photographer anita bursheh

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Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

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Lobmeyr champagne bowl, ca. 1900

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Yi Yi Jeong-Eun - 거기, 일몰 속에 무지개 (There, a rainbow in the sunset), 2024

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people who uphold the tenets of “sex positivity” are taking issue with people pointing out that neil gaiman couched his abuse under the language of kink and freedom of speech. many such cases. people who question men that take sexual pleasure in humiliating women are seen as insufficiently liberal and even sexually “defective” if they critique sexual subordination—if you oppose the eroticization of male violence and female subordination, then you are broken and in need of fixing, you are sexually repressed, and they will misuse the word “puritan” to dismiss you (note: the christian puritan movement was not anti-sex).

it is 2025 and we cannot afford to keep tiptoeing around how this retrograde “sex positivity” sanitizes abuse and rape. sexual behaviors are not beyond critique simply because they give you an orgasm in the private sphere. no, women and queers and all manners of gender identity configurations are not exempt either. the idea that any act is completely beyond reproach if it causes arousal, the idea that any sex act is morally neutral if you consent, that abuse is impossible if you consent, that physical injury can be ignored if you consent to violence, all need to be flushed. i had a joke here but i deleted it cuz i’m being deadass serious for once. this is dangerous ma’am!!!!

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while i am on team #BanSex until we figure out what’s going on, i believe a disclaimer is in order for the freakazoids who have read this far and are crying. banning sex isn’t the solution, however, sexual violence must not be normalized. women will never be free from the chains of patriarchy if any form of sexual violence is culturally sanctioned. “kink shaming” is morally necessary. thank you.

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I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time

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it feels like the sort of unforced error that should be obsessively postmortemed for the next fifty years, a catastrophe that should utterly delegitimize the society that made it happen, but instead everybody’s like “oh yeah, that. lmao, that was crazy”

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I have to add to this because I was teaching a text about this topic to a bunch of post-2003 undergraduates recently and each time I do so I experience the same sense of disorientation.

This is a war about which the accepted, mainstream consensus is that no one is able to explain the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. The people involved in that decision are unable, in retrospect, to explain or justify it. In almost every postmortem of this decision, you will find some reference to the fact that Richard Haass, who advised Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001-3, has said that he “will go to [his] grave not knowing” why the U.S. invaded Iraq. George Packer, in The Assassins’ Gate, describes the invasion as “something that some people wanted to do.”

This is a war that destroyed a country. It created ISIS. It destabilized the Middle East. It killed a minimum of c. 200,000 people. It displaced millions more. It resulted in devastating losses to the cultural heritage of Iraq. And twenty years on, no one is able to explain why it happened.

It seems to me that there are several important lessons here.

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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours? You haven't even made progress, if what's being given to you, you should have had already. That's not progress.

[..] Civil rights, for those of us whose philosophy is black nationalism, means: ‘Give it to us now. Don't wait for next year. Give it to us yesterday, and that's not fast enough.’

I might stop right here to point out one thing. Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.”

–Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” (1964)

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