I just found all your many posts about Egypt(ology). They were very informative and well written, and I found them easy to understand as a non-historian. As a queer person I was especially a fan of you talking about how we can’t view ancient figures through our modern framework of queer identity. I love seeing evidence of queer people in history, but there are lots of posts that I tell lack nuance, even if I don’t know enough to tell if they are accurate
Aw thank you, that’s really good to hear! Queerness in history is a thorny and difficult subject, and there are definitely people who are much better at explaining it than I am, but I try my best. Mostly I’m annoyed by people erasing the existence of other, non-Western gender frameworks by insisting we apply the modern Western one to the ancient world without pausing to think what doing so means. Yes, queer people have existed since time immemorial, but the way we talk about these people very much matters when it comes to being respectful of the lives they lived and the experiences they had.
