[scurvydogs]

Introduction

Hello! I’m Samantha!

I am:

23 years old

she/her

American

Undergrad history major

Potential future lawyer? Librarian? Social worker? Living in my parent’s basement? We’ll see

Revolutionary history nerd

This is my primary blog that started off as a history blog but has devolved into a messy amalgamation of all my interests. You’ll primarily find history stuff, studyblr, books, movies, forms of media, politics, etc. etc. on this blog. This is just a space for me to share my interests and connect with other people who have the same weird little worms in their brain.

Also my DMs are ALWAYS open!! Please, I love making friends.

DNI: basic criteria. this is a blog of love and acceptance.

[alliethelemon734]

depictions of christine de pizan from the book of the city of ladies

[1five1two]

'Rapid City, South Dakota'. Gianfranco Gorgoni. 1978.

[mysharona1987]

[inolongerknowwhatimdoing]

[tommypw]

Cover design~

[starlightandtears]

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

[vodcar]

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself

[tamamita]

The true face of Iran is the potato salesman giving away potatoes for free on the streets of Tehran; the thousands who’ve rushed to donate blood across the country; the families who look after their elderly neighbours. Not the bloodthirsty monarchists begging for more bombs.

[o6eiyrskb4hg7rix8hih-deactivate]

just ate an orange… no scurvy for me thank you… #NoScurvy

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Morheeba Khorshid, Palestinian freedom fighter and leader of the Zahrat al-Uqhuwan (the Daisy Flower) in Yafa, a secret women’s squad charged with urging others to fight and provide aid to the resistance during the 1948 war.

Via Team Palestina

[not-like-other-girls-much-worse]

“The woman who checks her makeup half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy. It is also the reflection in woman’s consciousness of the fact that she is under surveillance in ways that he is not, that whatever else she may become, she is importantly a body designed to please or to excite.”

— Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via aishawarma)

[opencommunion]

people who tell you to stop reading the news to "regulate your nervous system" do not have your best interests at heart. if following current events makes you spiral you probably need a better analytical frame, not less information

[opencommunion]

and the analytical frame you need is probably dialectical materialism

[opencommunion]

i'm totally crazy, i freak out all the time, but you know what helps me most? learning. reading. studying. discussing. sometimes you do need a nap, but sometimes you need a conversation with someone more knowledgeable/experienced, or a day at the (physical or digital) library. and really i think everyone has a different baseline emotional register that's best for them and their circumstances, but i recommend aiming to feel solid and anchored, not necessarily "calm." of course we won't feel "calm" after reading about genocide. but if we approach what we're reading correctly, it can strengthen our resolve; feed our fighting spirit; show us paths to liberation. a lot of people in my life have diagnosed me with "revolutionary optimism" and wonder how i maintain that mindset but i'm not an optimist by nature, it all comes from studying

[scurvydogs]

it gets slightly warm and the sun comes out and suddenly the world doesn’t feel like it’s crashing down around me

also update on my one post on 3/3: I won’t be dropping my two half semester classes. I’m going to do them. It may be a bit hard but it’ll be worth it. Plus they are really interesting sounding classes (films in the Middle East and history of Muslim social movements) and I really don’t want to have to drop them anyways

[is-it-the-ides-of-march]

[scurvydogs]

3/3/26

Trying not to feel like a failure today. Days like today make me hate university and academia. I’m supposed to be starting two half semester courses tomorrow and my professors posted the classes today on Canvas… “yay that’s great!” One who knows my love for education would say but… I’m stressed to the point I’ve made myself physically ill and having muscular cramps. How fun! (Sarcasm). These courses at condensed from 15 weeks to 7 weeks and still have the same amount of content. So id pretty much be having to do 2 weeks worth of content per week for 2 separate classes. I simply cannot do that. I work and frankly, have a life outside of academia. I really don’t need to have this level stress that led me to me having a really bad panic attack that I nearly vomited. I cannot handle stress so I need to build my life, and in turn my academic life, with as minimal stress as possible.

Anyways, I emailed my advisor for her insight and just the thought alone of dropping these classes has put me at some level of peace.

[depsidase]

[redgoldsparks]

PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON H.R. 7661, THE TRANSPHOBIC NATIONAL BOOK BAN BILL!

House Republicans have introduced a bill to effectively grant the federal government decision-making power over what books make it into the library. Misleadingly called the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act," H.R. 7661 is a national-level book banning bill that would ban any book that, according to the bill's language, "(ii) involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism." This means any book about a trans person or the trans experience would be banned from every public school in the United States. You can read the full text here. The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. If you are represented by one of the members of this committee listed below, they need to hear from you. Rep. Kevin Kiley, California (CA-3) (Chair) - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mary E. Miller, Illinois (Vice Chair) Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, Pennsylvania Rep. Burgess Owens, Utah Rep. Michael A. Rulli, Ohio Rep. James C. Moylan, Guam - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Pennsylvania - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mark Harris, North Carolina Rep. Mark B. Messmer, Indiana Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon, Ranking Member Rep. Jahana Hayes, Connecticut Rep. Summer L. Lee, Pennsylvania Rep. John W. Mannion, New York Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, Florida Rep. Alma S. Adams, North Carolina Rep. Adelita Grijalva, Arizona Call your reps. Tell them they must oppose this bill at every turn. It is egregiously unconstitutional, targets ideas based on ideological disapproval, and misleads parents and the public about the content of children's books. It does nothing to protect kids and will badly harm education. It will tie school material funding into knots and hurt anyone who is a library materials vendor, regardless of content. If you are a bookseller, librarian, or author, tell them your livelihood depends on the next generation of readers. If you are a supporter of free speech, please call your reps and tell them to vote no on HR 7661! Thank you to @authorsagainstbookbans for the graphics and text in the four blue slides.

[opencommunion]

how are westerners so thoroughly programmed that even when you see the violence of your empire, you parrot the same lies used to sell that violence. "bombing a school is wrong but the iranian people should be freed from the regime—" "abducting a president is wrong but the venezuelan people should be freed from the regime—" "starving people with sanctions is wrong but the cuban people should be freed from the regime —" the western people need to be freed from the regimes that brainwashed you, and I mean that

[opencommunion]

#not brainwashed #they see the violence and celebrate it because they want it to happen yes many are like that, probably more of them, but I'm talking about the people who will protest these attacks but turn around and say "the regime should still fall." I chose my words carefully; I really think that programming and brainwashing are accurate descriptors. there seem to be certain thoughts and even feelings that are inaccessible to people who are fully habituated to dominant western culture. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the popularity of behaviorism in western institutions. on top of the obscene fortunes poured into propagandizing media, every school, hospital, etc conditions them towards compliance and away from resistance. I don't believe even the most evil westerners are born celebrating violence, they're made that way

[opencommunion]

so many people in the notes are doing exactly what I described but believe they're agreeing with me. this is not the work of liberated free-thinking minds