Oiticica, who was gay, invited home men he picked up on the street and photographed them in the nests. At the Carnegie, a slide projector cycles through these images, much as they would’ve appeared on the walls of the artist’s apartment, revealing men in various states of undress staring seductively at the camera. Living in New York during the time of the Stonewall riots, his home became a haven for gay men, and his sexuality became intertwined with his art.
did you know that in 1953 eisenhower issued an executive order which banned gay people from being employed in government
and it was specifically to root out lesbians who enjoyed the job security of government work
“To protect their careers, lesbian government workers moderated their behavior to avoid suspicion. They refused to socialize with other lesbians in public, attended social functions with gay men as their ‘dates,’ and carefully chose their wardrobes and makeup to project a feminine persona. Male employees who resented reporting to a female boss could trigger an investigation into her sexuality.” – Robert J Corber “Cold War Femme”
this era was called the lavender scare and was both a direct result of mccarthyism and the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness during ww2. over 10,000 lesbians and gay men lost their jobs and as a result the daughters of bilitis (the first ever lesbian activist group in the u.s.) formed in order to protect themselves and gay men
A Parliamentarian battle flag, back after 350 years. This ultra-rare English Civil War battle standard, due to go on public display for the first time in three and a half centuries, was kept and preserved by 11 generations of the same English country family. It will be on permanent show at the National Army Museum in London as from this coming Thursday. (National Army Museum).
Cary’s own troop’s cornet was red with a creature in a barrel and the motto ‘come out you cuckold’ (Illustration 1) referring to the Earl of Essex’s notorious marital problems. The creature might be a ‘fox in a barrel’ or perhaps a stag or reindeer without his antlers.
The major’s cornet simply bore the motto ‘cuckolds we come’ (Illustration 2).
So there’s actually a 400 year old tradition of reactionary shitheads calling their opponents cucks?
I remember someone posted an article once about how during victorian times i think the tuberculosis “look” became the new beauty ideal for women, like unhealthily skinny, pale skin, glowing (with sweat due to fever), rosy cheeks, etc and i for real think about that almost every day because its like. We never had a chance lmao
DUDE I DID A WHOLE PAPER ON THIS. It was a huge Romantic fad for both men and women. It was considered specifically the poet’s disease (the umbrella “artist’s disease” was syphilis, so many composers had it holy shit, it was probs why Beethoven went deaf) and women and poets were seen as especially susceptible because of their sensitivity specifically, not necessarily miasma. It got to the point of popularity where a good poet and handsome man were both consumptive that none other than Lord Byron once wrote to a friend that he wished he had it cause then he would get all the ladies. Alexandre Dumas wrote about the same thing when he was remembering his youth in Paris. This wasn’t just England, it was all over Western Europe. (Also fun to look at: the treatments and prescriptions given by doctors to cure tb, I ended up banging my head against the wall when I was researching it)
hi. i dont usually respond to posts like this but like. whats your fucking problem. how are you just gonna take this historical fact that beauty standards glorify this “ideal” body that actually in reality can be the result of a devastating illness or otherwise just malnourishment or illness in general and use that for your au of kylo fucking ren. who do you think you are im so pissed off right now
*inhales deeply, tries to not send a FICTION ISN’T REALITY XOXO reply*
hi, i don’t usually respond to posts like this but like. you went totally out of your way to annoy me and try to accuse me of ED apologism, what is SERIOUS AS HELL and completely IMPOSSIBLE to justify
“whats your fucking problem” you accusing me of making ED apologism bc i like romanticism and its aesthetics
“how are you
just gonna take this historical fact that beauty standards glorify this “ideal” body that actually in reality can be the result of a devastating illness or otherwise just malnourishment or illness in general and use that for your au of kylo fucking ren
“ BECAUSE MY AU OF KYLO FUCKING REN [i liked that, gonna use that] IS SET ON THE ROMANTIC PERIOD and yeah, he pretty much fits the stereotype
“
who do you think you are” an artist/ficwriter who enjoys his historical accuracy, enjoys his personal preferences and ENJOYS KNOWING FICTION ISN’T REALITY, a thing you clearly don’t know
im sorry you have to deal with an ED, but please, stay the fuck away of my historical fiction.
I don’t even like Reylo. But I’m sick of antis and anti-Reylo’s in particular.
What she means: Why isn’t it taught that abortion was perfectly legal in the US in early 1870s and it wasn’t until a Jewish doctor, who was being framed, was put on trial for manslaughter (a trial, as well as the press covering it, which was greatly tinged with antisemitism) that opened the floodgates for antiabortion crusaders which eventually led to its criminalization?
I did not know this!
Me neither, until I read this book.
Look at the notes for the name of the book if anyone else is interested.
In the fourth grade, we had to pick an inventor, dress like the inventor, and explain our invention. I decided to pick something off the wall (instead of, like, a light bulb), so I ended up doing my little presentation as George Crum. I remember reading about his work as a chef, learning about his shortness with customers, and the interaction (possibly apocryphal, although Crum certainly invented the potato chip) with the diner who kept complaining about his home fries being too thick.
I literally made a presentation as this man, and used a few websites and a couple encyclopediae (yeah, I’m old) to source all the data. I certainly know more than most people do about George Crum.
The point of all this is that, until I came across this post on Tumblr, I had absolutely no idea he was black. I’ve known who Crum was for over twenty years and never knew his race, because no website or encyclopedia thought it was worth mentioning.
Erasure is a fucking disease.
Wait @aurric if you had to dress like him for the presentation, wouldn’t you have had to look up a picture reference? How would you not know he was black?
It was 1995. I found encyclopedia articles and some old websites that referenced him as a chef, but never as a Black or Native man.
Procrastination Station 