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[jstor]

Happy Pride! JSTOR Daily has a round up of LGBTQ+ articles happening this month - check them out: https://daily.jstor.org/lgbtq-pride-month-editors-picks/

[souvenirs]

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

[chronic-illness-resources]

yes!!!!!!!!

[estrangeloedessa]

Lots of well-intentioned (I hope) but extremely condescending comments in the notes like “maybe don’t film yourself doing crime.” Respectfully… This man knew what he was doing. He didn’t just film himself, he invited media to film him. He did this to make his own statement, with his own voice, with his own face. He wanted himself and his actions to be visible.

Collin Kennedy died in 2018, just two years after this video was taken. What would anonymity have achieved for him in those last two years? Avoiding punishment? His whole point was that these parking fees are already a punishment on the sick.

Is public protest dangerous? Sure. Is it more dangerous than merely existing as a sick or disabled person navigating a hostile healthcare system? I think that is for every individual experiencing it to decide for themselves.

Cancer patient who filled Winnipeg meter with spray foam to protest hospital parking fees dies | CBC News

A Winnipeg man who filled a city parking meter with spray foam to protest the high cost of parking for sick people around hospitals has died

Collin Kennedy, 50, lived with multiple myeloma — a type of blood cancer — for 19 years.

He invited media to watch him fill a parking meter with spray foam to raise awareness about the high costs of parking for cancer patients and other sick people getting treatment. Video of Kennedy vandalizing the meter was widely shared on social media. It led to a Canada-wide petition to end the practice of charging for parking near hospitals.

He was a man who fought the only way he knew how, even if that meant taking matters into his own hands and disabling parking meters. He wasn’t in the boardrooms or corridors of power, he was on the streets trying to make a difference. (CBC News, December 12, 2018)

[ltwilliammowett]

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

[joeinct]

Transvestite with her birthday cake, NYC, Photo by Diane Arbus, 1969

[makingqueerhistory]

Crush

Richard Siken

Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has become a modern classic. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Dana Levin and a new afterword by the author.

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[blackqueernotables]

Audrey Mbugua: activist and co-founder of Transgender Education and Advocacy group

[cheshirepirouette]

Audrey Mbugua wins in fresh court battle over gender identity

Court says that refusing to amend gender markers in official identification documents of transgender persons breaches the constitutional ri

"The High Court on Wednesday [Kenya, 05/20/2026] ruled that refusing to amend gender markers in official identification documents of transgender persons breaches the constitutional rights. ...The judgement capped years of legal battles by Ms. Mbugua, a transgender rights activist, whose fight with State institutions dates back more than 10 years."

@patrochilles-or-bust

[tridentandtales]

Etruscan necklace with a Phoenician pendant in the form of a bearded head

550 - 450 BCE

British Museum 1872,0604.644

[markus-h]

Burgweiler-Pfrunger-Ried pic was made in 2019 August the 3rd.

It was my last time I went into this moorland out from the village Riedhausen. I would love to see how it looks today. A visit is of course always worth it ;) (had photographed between the gaps through, from this one small wooden observation tower)

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Géza Vastagh (Hungarian, 1866–1919), "Reclining Tiger" (close-up)

[todaysdocument]

An aerial view of the Golden Gate Bridge

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of DefenseSeries: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files 

This photograph shows the Golden Gate Bridge with traffic going over it and hills in the background.

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

Rundāle Palace, Latvia

[johnnycrass]

everything you're debunking i'm rebunking it

[the1920sinpictures]

1920 Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline, in Wisconsin. Womanhood must have rejoiced loudly when an automatic clothes washer was invented just two years later. From Vintage America Uncovered, FB.

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

[portalibis]

Jain Cosmologoical map, 13th Century

P.I. Telegram/ P.I. Facebook

[tammuz]

Persian ceramic bowl, dating back to 10th-12th century CE. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle