an unspeakable of the oscar wilde sort

history student, writer, lover of the ghostly and gothic ⋆ nineteen ☭ she/him⋆

[undeadp0et]

🌿 introduction post

i've been here a while so i figure i should actually make one of these :)

hi! my name is mar and i am an autistic history student living in scotland. i'm nineteen and genderqueer (she/him).

i am interested in socialism, labour history, histories of the marginalised, fascist states, and antifascist resistance. i also like film and fashion history, and most things to do with the modernist period (roughly 1890s to 1940s).

on this blog i primarily reblog things i find interesting, a variety of history and film-related content, art, etc. i will occasionally talk about university or other personal things. i am also currently trying to write a book, so you may see me complaining about that process.

languages: polish (native), english (native), spanish (b1), german (absolute beginner)

let's be friends! PLEASE SEND ME BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 💋

transphobes and terfs, get away from here. what are you doing here?

blog icon is annemarie schwarzenbach.

[ahmadwaleedfamily]

🚨 Gaza is not okay people are breaking.

The killing of innocent people has not stopped. Violence is everywhere in Gaza.

No food. No clean water. No medicine. Just hunger, fear, and days that keep getting harder.

Families are exhausted. People are collapsing under the weight of everything.

We say it in every language, hoping someone, somewhere, will listen:

🇵🇸 غزة ليست بخير والناس تنهار

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Gaza is not okay and people are breaking

🇨🇦 Gaza is not okay and people are breaking

🇳🇱 Gaza is niet oké en mensen breken

🇫🇷 Gaza ne va pas bien et les gens s’effondrent

🇪🇸 Gaza no está bien y la gente se derrumba

🇩🇪 Gaza geht es nicht gut und die Menschen brechen zusammen

🇮🇹 Gaza non sta bene e le persone stanno crollando

🇷🇺 Газа не в порядке, люди ломаются

🇨🇳 加沙情况不好，人们正在崩溃

🇯🇵 ガザは大丈夫ではなく、人々は崩れている

🇰🇷 가자는 괜찮지 않고 사람들은 무너지고 있다

🇹🇷 Gazze iyi değil, insanlar çöküyor

🇮🇳 गाज़ा ठीक नहीं है, लोग टूट रहे हैं

🇧🇷 Gaza não está bem e as pessoas estão desmoronando

🇮🇩 Gaza tidak baik-baik saja dan orang-orang sedang runtuh

🇵🇰 غزہ ٹھیک نہیں ہے اور لوگ ٹوٹ رہے ہیں

🇮🇷 غزه حال خوبی ندارد و مردم در حال فروپاشی هستند

🇬🇷 Η Γάζα δεν είναι καλά και οι άνθρωποι καταρρέουν

🇸🇪 Gaza mår inte bra och människor bryter samman

🆘 Please don’t scroll away. Share, speak, help in any way you can.

[frostedmagnolias]

Blue Silk Dress with Chiffon

1900s

Sörmland Museum

[darkacademiavibes]

Borrow books, share pdfs, email ebooks. Understand that academia is expensive. Make it more accessible, help someone gain knowledge. Dismantle the disparity with second-hand books and hand-me-downs. Share. Share. Share.

[farahhaboub]

Can you donate to save my elderly parents ?

Yes , I can

No , I can’t

Remaining time: 3 days 19 hours

Deadline 12 June

Subject: Collecting the money to buy the medicine to my elderly parents

Current process:

USD 16,145 / $17,065

Vatted by @90-ghost

Vatted by @sar-soor

Vatted by @fairuzfan

Donate to Gaza Family Left With Nothing Help Them Start Again, organized by Rania A

In the heart of Gaza, a family of four clings to survival in the shadow of… Rania A needs your support for Gaza Family Left With Nothing Hel

My heart is breaking. We still need $920 to buy the medications that keep my mother and father alive. They are elderly, sick, and depend on these medicines every day. I try to stay strong in front of them, but inside I am terrified. I cannot bear the thought of watching their health decline simply because we cannot afford the treatment they need.💔

I keep staring at the remaining amount and wondering how I can save them. Yet if only 37 people donated $25 each, we could reach our goal. For many, $25 may be a small expense, but for my parents it could mean receiving the medicine that helps them continue their fight against illness.

Please, I am begging you, do not scroll past our plea. Imagine your mother or father needing medication and you being unable to provide it. Imagine watching them grow weaker while feeling completely helpless. That is the reality I am living every day.😔

Every donation, no matter how small, brings hope to my family. Please help us protect my parents and give them a chance to continue their treatment. We are desperately holding on, praying that compassionate people will hear our cry and stand beside us in this difficult moment.🙏💔😔

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[farahfamily4]

Please donate whatever you can and share the post 🙏

[rosieandthemoon]

by Belgian photographer Alfonse Van Besten, 1913

[sovietpostcards]

Irkutsk (Eastern Siberia) on vintage postcards from 1970s

[stillnaomi]

Bolivians are 4 weeks into a general strike which has seen them shut down highways across the country, with union members manning the barricades. And now workers have seized control of an oil field in Santa Cruz, shutting down production. if you're wondering why 24 hour strikes and week long consumer boycotts don't achieve anything, it's because they don't put any actual pressure on capital. the Bolivians are showing us how to inflict sustained losses on business. it's still a long way from taking political control out of the hands of capitalists and putting into the workers, but it's how you actually operate if you want to win concessions. in fact, their state has already offered concessions but the workers and peasants are demanding more

[marzipanandminutiae]

"there were major systemic problems in that era of the past!"

"yes!"

"so nobody in an oppressed group was ever happy!"

"no, some of them were sometimes"

"oh so the oppression wasn't real then!"

"no, it very much was and needed to change"

"but...if they were happy..."

"humans find ways to be happy in even bleak circumstances. it's kind of a defining trait of humanity. they had to live their lives in the world as it was, even while fighting to change it, so. yeah. they made happiness for themselves the way everyone does, even now with the problems we have today. there were good things in their world, too, alongside the bad. even some things we could learn from now, though definitely not their macro-level social attitudes!"

"...ohhh you're a shill for conservative values and you wish you lived back then! got it!"

"let's go over this again"

[sailermoon]

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

[random-brushstrokes]

Sergey Luppov - Mourning (1919)

[sovietpostcards]

Covers of Soviet magazine “Technology for the Youth” (1961)

[rosieandthemoon]

Molinard French Glass Cicada-form Perfume bottle, c. 1900

[frostedmagnolias]

Emile Pingat Silk Jacket with Braidwork

1880s

Whitaker Auction

[elierlick]

This is the only known photo of the first trans woman to have her gender legally recognized in Switzerland.

In 1914, Adine T. sent a letter to her local police to grant her a pass to dress as she pleased. She petitioned that "I be granted permission to live as a woman, to wear female clothing and to pursue female occupations, and to be considered a woman before the world in all and every respect, since my emotional feelings are totally feminine and I feel unspeakably unhappy in male clothing."

Her gender was so clear that even the conservative Swiss government had to recognize it. Obtaining permission to live as a woman "is a matter of life and death for me," Adine added.

111 years ago, it was the first pass of its kind in her nation (although not the first in Europe). When interviewed, Adine described herself similarly to other trans lesbians in the 20th century: "a homosexual woman in a male body.” Source: Matthias Ruoss, "Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine."

[perverted-asexual]

I think a lot of people hear "Misandry/hating men isn't a constructive use of time and does harm to marginalised men." and hear instead "You have no reason to be wary of men, they're all victims too".

I, as a trans man, am still wary of cis men I don't know. I am still very aware that a lot of peri-cis white men have not only priviledge, but power over others, including me.

I am also aware that I don't feel safe around people who recite things like "Kill all men" or are self proclaimed misanderists. And this mindset can lead to dangerous ideals of bio-essentialism and even gender-essentialism that labels any man evil, any woman pure, and treats trans men as traitors.

And a lot of these takes lump all men in together when intersex, disabled, trans and men of colour, etc, do not inherintly carry all the same privilege as the white, able bodied, peri-cis man you all default to. In fact they are all oppressed in their own ways. (Money, education and upbringing can also play a part in this)

No one is saying that you can't or shouldn't be wary of men in general, or you can't of had bad experiences with them. But acting as if it is the default of all men does not help anyone but excuse it as something all men do and not an active choice some men make. And something our society does not correctly punish or call out.

The problem is the patriarchy, not a random disabled trans man implying that maybe he understands what oppression feels like.

Insisting on lumping in marginalised men, and the rise in hatred towards trans men lately, does not help anyone. Its not punching up. It's punching sideways.

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.