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[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying

"fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug"]

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#please I would actually wear this please contact the booty short makers 

#fuck guess I have to make this now, we are our own heroes people, with beautifully shaped asses

# not me though I am a white Jewish american woman of Irish and Russian  my ass is decent but nothing extraordinary 

# you should see my friends’ asses though.....

Bootyshorts with Καλλίπυγος on the back

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Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is…evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

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Meanwhile in Arizona … where the pillaging never stops. 

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Here’s my newest blog post, hope everyone’s well

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Reflecting on the gay past

As I am bored and procrastinating I have a decree: It’s time we stop comparing ancient sexuality to modern notions and saying they are the same. If you called Achilles gay, he wouldn’t understand. (Besides the fact that he’s a fictional dickhead whomst I disdain). In his world, men fucked men. Men had children with women. The notion that that behavior would have to be classified into a singular pattern of attraction would be absurd to him. Ancient Greek people did not live in a binary of desire, there was no notion of “straight”. Thus, there can be no ancient greek notion of “gay”. We map these terms onto the past because that’s how we understand our reality, but it does not make it the reality of the past. Carrying this further, an actual good example of this is Sappho. I love Sappho, i truly do, and I wholeheartedly believe her erotic poetry written about women should be interpreted as erotic desire towards women, not some weird expression of masculine lust communicated by a woman (an actual theory that someone said// odd but no one doubts Sappho’s male contemporaries as expressing their own desire organically). But Sappho also wrote erotic poetry about men. And she has been called bisexual, but this again relies on a binary that didn’t exist for her. Her duty as a noble woman was to marry a man (as a heterosexual marriage was the economic center of the household, the family structure, and it could be argued the city state), and bear his heirs. After that, she was free to love or fuck or desire whoever she pleased, (so long as there never was a dispute that any of the children she produced were not her husband’s). I support Sappho being a lesbian icon (Lesbian literally meaning, ‘a native of the isle of lesbos’ like the term Bostonian). I think she desired women, and I think it’s really important her work, and the beauty of it is celebrated (and I work continually to make it more accesible). I am not disputing that in ancient Greece men had sex with men (a lot) and women had sex with women (a lot). But they did so in a cultural system that in no way resembles our own, and it’s important to understand that while historians have certainly attempted to erase such couplings/ desire, that to insist that anyone in ancient Greece was ‘gay’ just isn’t true to how they lived their lives. What we consider to be a gay, queer, poly, questioning lifestyle they considered normal. Assuming your culture and understanding is universal is inaccurate, and another form of erasure. And it’s a dangerous assumption to make about cultures not your own. So as someone who lusts after women, and loves Sappho, I suggest we just let her speak for herself, and let’s just be gay here and now. 

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Some of you thought Achilles and Agamemnon were cool because they have big swords and do whatever tf they want, and IT SHOWS

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White cis men trying to play Oppression Bingo TM with me because they conclude I’m not the ‘right’ type of activist  confuses me so dang much. It’s like, bruh, you may think you’re the most oppressed person on the planet, but your ass occupies only the ‘free’ space in the center of the board. 

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For the whole two people that follow me (and those special spam bots, you know who you are) here’s a website on how to do cool stuff (that I made). Check it out if you want to see an unskilled suburban white girl’s attempt at ancient greek music, specifically the music of Sappho

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I don’t think I have any followers, and I enjoy screaming into a void so I’ll say it: Ellen Pompeo is hot. 

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you got Dionysus because of the wine, I got Hades because I have a default anxiety response which makes me act and think like a lonely sad boi TM.

made a quiz, tell me what greek deity favours you!!

https://uquiz.com/N17OGW

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I have decided to start calling my vagina medusa because it turns men to stone; and painted images of it are used to ward off evils spirits and frighten enemies in battle 

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I feel like you’re asking me out 

Date a sapphic who signs petitions

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Relationship realities

Stuff I was prepared to do in a relationship:

- Apologize, and say I’m sorry when I’m wrong (even if I don’t want to)

- Compromise

- Choose to love the other person, even when I don’t feel very loving

Stuff I was not prepared to do:

Convince my drunk ass long distance boyfriend that fucking a camp fire is cheating not because I care about flame faithfulness but because I’m concerned he’s going to burn his dingus off