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Uzbek May Day postcard (1960s)

"May, Labour, Peace" is the traditional Soviet May Day slogan.

冯伟 Feng Wei

May Day poster by Nina Vatolina (1950s)

Angel of Sadness, or Angel in a Cemetery (Wilhelm Kotarbiński, c. 1900)

The preservation of transgender history is essential to ensuring that the stories and experiences of trans people are not forgotten. The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) has taken on the vital task of gathering and protecting this history, bringing together documents, images, and materials that reflect the rich and diverse experiences of transgender people across time and place.

By making these resources accessible, the DTA facilitates explorations of the often-hidden or erased narratives of trans communities. From personal stories to institutional records, these materials provide a window into the challenges and triumphs faced by trans individuals, while also celebrating the resilience and diversity of these communities.

Preserving this history is also about ensuring that future generations can learn, understand, and be inspired by the stories of those who came before them.

Explore more about how these efforts are safeguarding trans history, and why it matters, on JSTOR Daily.

Image: A man in drag and a man in male clothes looking into each other’s eyes, via Digital Transgender Archive.

“Life begins at ejaculation on the small of one’s back. Who are we to play God? We must let gravity take its course. Semen is a living, squirming thing, and any wipe-down after a completed sexual act amounts to homicide.” Ivey added that anyone found to have handed women a towel to mop up the semen would be prosecuted as an accessory to murder.

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La Grace is a replica of a brig from the 18th century.

The original ship of Augustine Herman bore this name, during merchant and exploratory travels around Europe, United States, Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean. La Grace was also renowned for her corsair activities. She was launched 2010.

God Speed (1900)

— by Edmund Leighton

Bark Europa in the Drake Passage

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— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 1: 1931-1934) (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Talking to smart people who are scared of nuclear waste has me like AHAHHHHHH

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,

CALL ESTROGEN HTML/CSS THE WAY IT DEVELOPS YOUR FRONT END

I love how ominous and cryptically poetic the ravens part sounds

I was really hesitant when my mom said she wanted to go to this wolf dog sanctuary several hours south of us. I didn’t want to be a tourist for a shady off brand zoo. But I looked the place up before agreeing. They’re completely aboveboard, all animals are spayed/neutered when entering the haven and they’re all given the space and respect they deserve.

The sanctuary serves as education and warning. Don’t get wolf dogs is practically emblazoned on every sign.

All the animals were high content, 95% wolf were most common. Their lowest was about 75% and his silly curled tail marked him as doggier than any of the others, yet he still had a sad story of being dumped in a shipping crate for days because he was too much for a house pet. Probably because he’s largely a wolf.

At the end the owner invited their two friendly ambassador animals to see if they’d like to say hello. They both did. I was politely sniffed and had my chin gently licked by the older male. The younger female demanded aggressive belly rubs and then set about biting the owner in a rough game that only she enjoyed.

Overhead ravens swooped in the treetops and made eerie eldritch calls to each other, like an echoing plink of water at the bottom of a well. It was honestly such a day.

Lumi, my favorite wolf of the day as tax he was huge and gangly and paced the fence staring at me, perhaps remembering the eighteen year old girl who had kept him in an apartment to be bred before he came to the sanctuary.

Having a much older, much more experienced person tell you you're doing well in your shared hobby is better than crack, especially when the hobby tends to be 80% retired ppl. Like, hell yeah I'm gonna get a good grade in birdwatching and I'm not even 50. Child prodigy moment

sorry i didn’t text back i was busy thinking about nothing for 5 hours straight

May 7, 1914 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

French, Spanish : I call myself: me llamo, je m'appelle; self-determined identity

Russian: they call me: меня зовут; other-determined identity

English: my name is: an inchoate hell where even the most basic causal links are veiled, if not absent entirely

reblog if u think that all pigeons should wear funky little outfits every wednesday

Got to hold a signed copy of Robert Frost’s poetry that’s worth $2k. My life is complete

sony walkman wm-f60 cassette player and radio, 1986.

pages from compute! magazine vol. 10, march 1981.

In Sweden, there is a fascinating statue of a woman named Danuta Danielsson who became a hero in 1985 when she used her purse to clobber a white Nazi supremacist while he marched in a right-wing rally.

What makes her statue unique among hero statues is that it captures her performing the heroic act of swinging her purse. It’s entirely an action-shot, a big departure from the universal practice of constructing hero statues intended to portray individuals as heroes.

Danielsson’s statue isn’t about her as a person; it’s about her one specific act of courage that day. Her mother had survived a concentration camp during World War II. Danielsson knew the horrors of the Nazi menace and took action on that April day in Sweden.

I just noticed he’s wearing those twinkle toes light up sketchers

THE definition of aura