My puppy is starting her new year off barking at the Random Spooky Plastic ™ blowing around in either the neighbor’s yard or the drainage ditch area.
Last night, I had a dream that Marvel Comics was doing Yet Another Massive “Civil War” Crossover Event, only this time it was an AU where it was Protestants vs Catholics. Dream-Me was like, “…wtf” but was also somehow Not That Surprised about it.
[Ethel Smyth, a dapper and butch-presenting woman, as a younger and an older woman.
Annie Kenney, shown as a young woman.
Edith Craig, posed with a thoughtful hand to her jaw and looking rather like a Byronic hero.
(From left) Edith Craig with her partners Clare “Tony” Atwood and Christabel Marshall St. John.
Rosa May Billinghurst, depicted at the center of two crowd scenes. In the first, she is wearing an overcoat and sitting in an old-fashioned wheelchair; in the second, she has a rather grand hat and is in her famous adaptive tricycle. ]
For @disabilityfest this year, I wanted to continue what I
started last year, making posts about historical figures who were disabled. It’s
been really important to me to know that my forebears existed, survived, and in
some cases thrived. In the historical record, disability erasure is a huge
issue: many historical figures’ disabilities aren’t talked about, or the
individuals are forgotten entirely.
As an autistic bisexual woman, I’m very aware that sexuality
is also subject to historical erasure, often in much the same way. So I’ve
decided to focus especially on disabled historical figures who were also gay or
bisexual. For me, finding out about and researching historical people who
represent those important intersections in my identity has been very powerful,
and I hope my information can also benefit some of you.
Today’s post is about disabled suffragettes! (trigger warning for brief mentions of police brutality).
why are there all these posts n articles n stuff that are like “girls can have short hair!” “girls can wear suits!” but all the women shown are still always only feminine, and whats actually being said is “girls can have short hair and still be feminine!” and “girls can wear suits and still be attractive to men!” like whenever women want to do something men (and sometimes other women too, but men are awful at this) have to find a way to make it Still Okay, Still Acceptable to them, instead of just letting women be! women dont need to fit any standards of femininity or beauty to do something, and they certainly don’t need mens approval
and its really gross considering these articles are usually about styles/behaviors associated with wlw, like they’re basically saying “doing this is okay, as long as youre straight!”
yeah. if we’re going to say this is great (and it is)
then we also need to honestly promote this as well
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 