Cant Wait

Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

Some people say the Legend of Zelda series has too many different ancient sky-dwelling precursor civilisations. I say those people are cowards. The next Zelda game should feature the ruins of an ancient sky-dwelling precursor civilisation whose statues and murals all inexplicably look exactly like Tingle.

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

Queer fans shouldn't have to fight for every piece of media they love.

I finally got polls!

Since posts can run for a full week I wanted to see how this spreads

Daily Kos

Trump proposes genocidal national ban on transgender existence if he wins 2024

On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump released an anti-transgender tirade of a speech on his social media website Truth Social, outlining a genoc

On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump released an anti-transgender tirade of a speech on his social media website Truth Social, outlining a genocidal plan against all transgender existence in the United States. Everyone on the right from mainstream Republicans to hardcore neo-Nazis are celebrating the video while Democrats and legacy news media outlets have so far largely ignored it. “So this is what we are up against,” tweeted legislative researcher and pro-transgender activist Erin Reed. She continues, “a national transgender ban in 2024. This is what they are planning. DeSantis is practicing this through executive actions in Florida. Trump is openly saying he will do the same.” This is unambiguously genocidal territory. Holocaust museums have warned that this rising anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric mirrors the hate that led up to the rise of Nazi Germany.

every so often i just yell HIS OWN BROTHER?? at my friends, so, this episode was fun :) can luz pls catch a break now i am no longer asking

Hello! I hope you have a nice Whitsuntide and celebrated in the memory of our may-bringer Arthur. I wanted to ask, if you had any recommendations (or websites) on Old/Middle English literature for someone, who's already gotten themselves into the German mess of medieval literature? I am mainly looking for your personal 'must-read' texts that you might be able to name from the top of your head. I'm trying to get cross-knowledge because I'm so much in love with it. Q_Q

Recommendations for people interested in getting into medieval literature: https://professorerudite.tumblr.com/post/159132582176/hi-there-what-kind-of-books-would-recommend-to

My recommended reading list for Viking Era/Heroic Poetry (this includes Italian and Old French) https://professorerudite.tumblr.com/post/159591094086/hi-there-saw-your-medieval-book-recs-could-you

Medieval research resources: https://professorerudite.tumblr.com/post/188677352835/medieval-research-resources

Here’s a link to a list of other Old English Poetry manuscripts (with summaries) Some great reads in Middle English would be Gawain and the Green Knight or Malory’s Morte Darthur. 

Literary criticism book suggestions here

Free resource for teaching and learning about Chaucer: Open Access Canterbury Tales