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“BAKKHAI : Holiness is a word I love to hear, it sounds like wings to me, wings brushing the world, grazing my life.”

— Euripides, Bakkhai (tr. by Anne Carson)

the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad's hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he's in weird ambidexterity situation where he's not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf

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It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just...went away. As you note, it...hasn't in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.

But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.

If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can't. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.

It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don't even make them. And it's not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.

All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.

I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren't enough lefty desks--and there never were. Some classrooms didn't even have a single one.

I could go on.

But the point is, bigotry isn't just a mindset shift. People can't just decide they're not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything's fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they're never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.

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Theodore Major (1908–1999), “Skeleton With Flag”

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT JEROME EMILIANI The Patron of the Abandoned Children Feast Day: February 8

"Therefore, having done what you could, the Lord will be satisfied with you because for Him, who is the most benign, goodwill compensates for the lack of success."

Jerome Mauroceli Emiliani, the devotee to the Archangel Raphael, the founder of the Clerics Regular of Somasca (aka the Somaschi Fathers) and was dubbed the 'Father of the Orphans', was born in 1486 in Venice and is the son of Angelo Emiliani (popularly called Miani) and Eleonore Mauroceni.

When he was a teenager, his father died and ran away at the age of 15 to join the army. A skillful officer of the army, in 1508, he participated in the defense of Castelnuovo against the League of Cambray (this was two years before Pope Julius II joined the Venetians). When the town fell into the hands of the enemy, he was captured and chained in prison, where he meditated about his sinful life. He had not cared about God but he attributed his escape to the intercession of the Mother of God; and he made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Treviso, in fulfillment of a vow, and left his chains as an offering.

He established orphanages, hospitals and shelters for penitent prostitutes. In 1532, he founded the Clerics Regular of Somasca, a town near Milan, whose charism was the care of orphans, the education of youth, and the formation of young priests.

Jerome said to them: 'Christ ordained that you experience poverty, distress, abandonment, weariness and universal scorn. God alone knows the reasons for all this, yet we can recognize three causes. First, God desires to include you among his beloved sons, for this is the way he treats his friends and makes them holy. Second, he is asking you to trust in him alone and not in others. Third, God wishes to test you like gold in the furnace. If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in the world, and for ever in the next.'

Jerome, being a victim of an epidemic he caught while assisting the sick, died on February 8, 1537 in Somasca at the age of 50 (or 51 in some sources).

Beatified by Pope Benedict XIV in 1747 and canonized as a saint twenty years later by Pope Clement XIII, Jerome is declared as the patron of orphans and abandoned children by Pope Pius XI in 1928. His major shrine can be found at St. Girolamo Emiliani Sanctuary in Somasca.