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theancientgeekoroman

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The Sportula is Back! As many of you have heard, at the SCS we experienced an act of anti-Black racial profiling against our co-director Djesika when we posted the part we recorded online it got 18k hits and racist trolls started deluging our account and DMs The SCS fully supported us but we are also socially anxious and need to hide a bit before we decide what to do Thank you for all the support!!! We will have our backlog cleared by tonight, students waiting on grants! And we are making OUR OWN CONFERENCE in response! Called Naked Soul… 1) After the end of Plato’s Gorgias – a dream of being judged by our own works, not our bodies (Gorgias 523a-527c) 2) Reference to Prof. Padilla Peralta’s article asking why are we expected to sever our mind from our body as POC academics? 3) Tongue in cheek allusion to “soul” as associated w/ Blackness And our desire for this conference to nakedly/unabashedly invite us to confront our racism and celebrate and center Black Excellence Please share our CFP widely! we will not be inviting individual ppl bc we don’t wanna pressure already hyper-visible POC to do even more unpaid labor So consider this yr invitation!!

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Naked Soul: A Conference for All of Us Are you a classicist at any stage of your career? (From high school to tenured professor!) Do you self-identify as part of a group that’s faced structural barriers to educational success? (E.g. BIPOC*, disabled, LGBTQ+, working class, student parent…) *BIPOC= Black, Indigenous, and/or Person of Color; including mixed ppl) This is a conference BY us and FOR us, to showcase our excellence! IT WILL BE ONLINE: SATURDAY, JUNE 22ND. Students: Get your papers read/developed w/ UC Berkeley PhD students! Professors: Show the next gen the brilliance of classicists like us! Call for Papers! CFP: Paper presentations (OR creative performances like poetry/art) 15-20 minutes in length, on any classical topic Submissions and questions: [email protected] Hosted by The Sportula (twitter.com/libertinopatren)

Please share this so that more people know about the upcoming conference for Classics hosted by The Sportula! It’s an online conference, so it should be more accessible for folks who don’t have the means to travel. I’m extremely excited about this!

birlinterrupted

Like I feel like it’s not controversial to say that we live in a profoundly immoral society, so why wouldn’t acting ethically be punished??

just-shower-thoughts

“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure” describes garage sales AND homosexuality.

jessicarmetcalfe

The relationship between predator and prey is unique. Each needs the other in different ways but both are essential to create balance. Shop new items for the home, like this print ($25) by Topah Spoonhunter >> http://shop.beyondbuckskin.com #native #nativeamerican #nativeart #greatquotes

Ladypug.

i hate this

justwanttobreaktherules

class-struggle-anarchism

drew a thing for @thumbcramps fat mermaid zine! I really like how it came out!

@fatphobiabusters

dragonfruit-daydreams

Caption: A digital drawing of a fat mermaid showing off their body. They have curly, medium-length, red hair, stretch marks, red starfish covering their breasts, and a red tail. They sit in front of a yellow sky. Below them, in the water are two other mermaids looking up at them. The one on the left has long, blonde/blond hair and red tail and the one on the right is black and has short, light brown or dark blonde/blond hair and has light brown and yellowish starfish covering their breasts as well as a dark red tail.

Daehyun Kim

You Are Going to Die

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life advice:

never say anything to a penguin that the penguin has not already said to you

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this reads like a shitpost but i’m actually 100% serious. i was walking along the side of the harbour this evening, just after all the penguins had come in from the ocean to nest. there was one penguin right by the footpath, and when it saw me it kept saying ‘höö’. so i said ‘höö’ right back. it seemed to like that, and we had a lovely conversation where we just kept saying ‘höö’ to each other. i crouched down about two metres away from it, and we kept talking, and it actually moved towards me a little bit, seeming to prefer my company to the heartless embrace of the sea. but then i made the mistake of trying to change things up. i said ‘hweh’, which was something that a previous penguin said to me, and this penguin hated it, and fucked right off. never said another word to me. i felt so rude.

livinganecstaticlife-blog

anatomicaletymology

Baculum

Latin for “stick, staff, sceptre, cudgel”. The baculum is the bone found in the penises of some mammals. Argumentum ad baculum (argument from the cudgel) is a logical fallacy involving the threat of force or negative consequences.

Pictured: Emily Graslie @thebrainscoop holding a walrus baculum.

Image source: http://craigduff.tumblr.com/post/89299470541/emily-graslie-castoridae-the-chief-curiosity

gallusrostromegalus

Nyquil fucks me up every time I take it and furthermore, has the audacity to make me forget what fucking happens every single time. Since taking it at about midnight last night, My day:

Woke up at 4-6 AM and apparently did the dishes

Fiance gets up at 8:00AM, allegedly has fully cognizant conversation with me about his plans to stay late and tutor classmates. I don’t remember even being awake.

at 9:32 AM, my Dad called me and i had a 23-minute phone call with him that I have no recollection of, but apparently I spent most of it discussing the merits and drawbacks of the various tablets my mother is interested in. I was mad about how expensive updating storage capacity was for most of them.

Felling way more sober than I actually am, attempt to drive to school at 10:12. and spend enough time confused why my keys aren’t working on my car that my neighbor actually comes out of his apartment to ask what I’m doing to his car. I decide to stay home.

10:40: Send emails to professors to tell them I’m in no shape to be in class. I think I am eloquent. Upon opening my email later I realize I’ve sent them emails with the subject line “fuckt up” and message: “sorry, love you.”

Benefits of going to a small college: they know I’ve got exciting drug reactions already and are sick as well and reply with “I understand and hope you are feeling well soon, here is today’s lecture slides” and “lol” respectively.

~11- 12:30 : Get lost in neighborhood walking dog. In my defense, it’s 99% off-beige generic prefab housing on nonlinear-bordering-on-noneuclidean streets and Charlie had no interest in going home either.

12:30-3:00: Wall

3:00 : phone alarm goes off and I suddenly realize fiance was supposed to be home an hour and a half ago. Fly into immediate panic, try to find phone to call him and/or the sherrif becuase he’s obviously dead in a ditch or something. I am holding my phone the whole time.

3:16 : Fiance gets home, I cry like a bitch, the dog also cries, everyone has a really bad 15 minutes.

3:33 : Realize I haven’t actually ate or drank yet today. Immediately consume a quart of apple cider and plate of taquitos. Make pork chops and potatoes and don’t stop talking about what happens if a werewolf has sex with a dog while shifted the entire time.

4:00: pass out on couch to the soothing sounds of Mario Oddesy

1AM: Why is it thursday?

The moral of the story is that you should always write down any drug reactions and label medication you should take with a large index card that says “DO NOT TAKE THIS IT FUCKS YOU UP THEN YOU FORGET” in large, friendly letters.

feelings

Because sometimes what you need most is a guinea pig cosplaying as a jar of Kewpie Mayonnaise who, when she’s feeling fancy, decides that mayo cap is instead a jaunty fez.

[Photo via /r/guineapigs, h/t Pleated-Jeans]

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