#bynum

[boseiju]

20230126-2084 The only means to protect the world is to fight those who harm it. ~someone

[unusuallittlethings]

[hairtusk]

Caroline Walker Bynum, The Female Body and Religious Practices in the Later Middle Ages

[babadork]

[all-yourn]

dean winchester & ethel cain "strangers"

[on youtube]

[cigarrw-s]

Hot Summer Nights (2017) dir. Elijah Bynum

[schraubd]

Portland: America's Last Bastion of Normalcy

In my congressional district, local media is now projecting that Janelle Bynum has ousted incumbent Republican Representative Lori Chavez-Deremer. As terrible as election day was on the whole, I am grateful that I'll be represented by a Democrat in Congress once again, and I'm glad my neighbors made the right choice in sending Bynum to Congress. Meanwhile, across the river in Washington state, Democratic incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won her rematch against Republican challenger Joe Kent. This was a result that thrills and honestly confuses me. Perez's 2022 victory over Kent was one of the night's bigger upsets, largely chalked up to Kent being basically a White supremacist. But clearly the lesson of 2024 is that that's no longer any object, and if you told me ahead of time that election night would see a broad-based "red shift" compared to 2020 I would have been dead certain that Perez was absolute toast. So why exactly did this nut crack? I don't have an answer to that,* and I acknowledge that Perez has annoyed Democratic leadership before. But she seems to have some ideas of how to present progressive priorities in a way that speaks outside of our current base (e.g., her championing of "right to repair" laws, or pairing student loan debt relief with "dollar-for-dollar ... investments in career [and] technical education"), and she is a voice worth paying attention to going forward. Needless to say, both Bynum and Perez bucked a pretty terrible national trend. As most of the country embraced the chaos and the void, the single, solitary exception was the Pacific Northwest. Here, we rejected crude reflex and base instinct. And it's not just the local congressional races. In the Portland mayor's race, we didn't pick the woman who thinks the law doesn't apply to her just because she's "progressive", and we didn't pick the man who wants to execute the homeless because he promised "law and order". Our new mayor is going to be Keith Wilson, whose major appeal in the field, from my vantage point, is that he seemed like a normal, good guy making reasonable efforts to resolve the problems in front of our city. That shouldn't always be enough, but in the field we had it was better than all the alternatives.  In my city council district, I felt like we had a plethora of good candidates to choose from, and the three winners all were among my top six picks. Here too, I'm very happy with the choices offered and choices made, and none of them seem (yet, anyway) like kooks, cranks, or gadflies. I'm optimistic that they will be diligent and attentive public servants when they enter office, and again, that's not something I take for granted anymore. It is, of course, quite off-brand for Portland to be America's avatar of normalcy. Locally, we're more used to embracing our "weird" identity, nationally, our reputation is something like that of a post-apocalyptic drag show. "Normal" is not historically our forte. But for my part, I am so, so happy that this is the city my wife and I have chosen to build our life in and raise our child in. Portland is a great city. It is full of great people, great beauty, great resources, great activities, and great values. I'm under no illusions that anywhere, blue states included, will be "safe" in the coming years. But there are very few places I'd rather be than here, and if you're looking for a new place to call home, I'd encourage you to look our way. * One thing I will say, and someone inundated with ads for the Perez/Kent race, is that Kent went 100% all-in on anti-trans fearmongering. The result was Perez likely expanding her margin of victory in an otherwise red wave year. Take from that what you will. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/91uKjqv

[gimmeshelter]

re sexualising nuns and monks of course there's more stuff with nuns because the stakes there are control and power over women's bodies either in a typical "i want what's denied to me" way or more genuinely in a belief in the liberating power of sex way. now with monks it's not just the haircut it's also that monasticism implies a degree of symbolical castration that most men and sadly also women find unattractive and laughable + there's nothing at stake (woman renouncing worldly sexuality for a patriarcal religion = we have to save her / man renouncing worldly sexuality for a patriarcal religion = who gives a shit) so it has to be done by true perverts purely for the love of the game. which works well because there is so much material in medieval theology and religious sexuality like a lot of stuff around mpreg or that idea of castration for instance but very few people are tuned into that... tldr i should put the "research interests include medieval theology" part of my academic cv to good use and write some monk fiction as an example

[virgin-martyr]

Historical context gave me a weapon against metaphysics.

In an Interview with Caroline Walker Bynum by Roger Adelson

[emiliosandozsequence]

✕ suggested by @nimfeach

teeth never sleep, ángel garcía / bones and all (2022) dir. luca guadagnino / alta cocina by santiago caruso / this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar & max gladstone / holy feast and holy fast, caroline walker bynum

[iggy-behaviour]

mothman by dirty bynum is so pelle ohlin core

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Likes" is available to read here

[neuro-lab]

Mary of Oignies and Villana de' Botti refused prayers for relief of sickness; Gertrude of Helfta embraced headaches as a source of grace; Beatrice of Nazareth, who desired the torments of illness, was healed almost against her wishes; Margaret of Ypres so desired to join with Christ's suffering that she prayed for her illness to last beyond the grave. Dauphine of Puimichel even suggested that if people knew how useful diseases were for self-discipline, they would purchase them in the marketplace.

Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast

[h00dsw0rld]

Camryn Bynum