#daily history

[jokergirlout]

Imagine that you came to a coffee shop, ordered coffee and at the last moment said "Give me Nace, please" 😐😐😐😐 NACE

And I don't even need to imagine. I just wanted to buy a Nuts today. 💀👍

[dailydoseofoldshit]

Sourced from the 21 January 1939 issue of The Waterbury Democrat; page 5 - accessed via Chronicling America.

[studywithjennifer]

whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england

[jstor]

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.

[todaysmodernmindset]

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“i wanted to vanish completely, that even i would not remember me. no feelings, no memories. just the freedom of oblivion.”

— unknown.

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[incaseimakeit-daily]

"WOA, that sounds very good. what song is this?"

"oh ! it's blackboxwarrior - okultra. it's by my favorite music artist, his name is -

[fanbun]

In 1973, activists succeeded in their efforts. As they had in years past, gay activists disrupted panels and gave speeches. One of the more famous speeches offered at the May 1973 APA conference in Honolulu was by a gay activist named Ronald Gold, who told the APA members, “Stop it, you’re making me sick.” The resounding line was somewhat of a double entendre: the APA was literally saying that Gold, as a gay man, was ill, implying that the “medical professionals” were creating sickness where there was none. And, in stigmatizing Gold’s personhood, the APA was helping to further the social conditions that alienated and ostracized queer people—like him. Ultimately, activists were successful in part by pointing out the gaps in the APA’s own reasoning behind classification. The declassification movement made heavy use of the fact that, until this time, the members had not really defined what a mental illness was, only asserted that they existed and had a distinct etiology, though the brain’s complexity prevented complete precision. “In fact, the controversy over the homosexuality diagnosis was able to reach such heights of publicity in part because the APA had never had cause to reach consensus on a standardized definition of mental illness,” Lewis writes.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 11: 19th Century II and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

*There is a lot of discourse around gender and sexuality with these two historical figures and it can get pretty ugly. I know most of us have opinions, but absent a time machine we can't know for sure, so please be gentle with each other.

[dayurno]

kevin is funny and perfect he knows very well the effect he has on a man's psyche and he uses it to his advantage several times while remaining (?) perfectly heterosexual (?). the canonical pretty face that fucked jean over & sent riko to an early grave & made andrew take on the mafia. first male femme fatale

[laurapetrie]

The wedding, when it came, had a fairy-tale quality, in this very remote church, with no electricity, and it happened after dark. It felt quite otherworldly, very dreamlike. - John Perry Barlow

Carolyn was stunning and very stark — as if the few lights were just for her, with the rest of us in darkness and her betrothed's face leaning into her halo. When John fumbled with the ring, Carolyn gently put her hand on his shoulder and laughed. The moment that she put her hand on his shoulder to reassure him that everything was okay, that was quite a loving subtlety. But that was her. - Billy Noonan

It was an incredibly magical moment. I saw it as it was unfolding, almost in silhouette. It was virtually dark outside. John reached for the hand of Carolyn; she was caught off guard. I'm walking backwards in the light rain at dusk, and John does this amazing gesture, taking her hand and bringing it to his lips. It was lovely, the spontaneity of that gesture. - Denis Reggie

[dailydoseofoldshit]

Sourced from the 9 February 1907 issue of The Ottumwa Tri-Weekly Courier; page 4 - accessed via Chronicling America.

[eldathe]

Dracula narrating his past in @re-dracula is honestly so fucking good. You can hear him being taken back to being on the very battlefield, I can feel the way skin tore under his teeth and the way blood and conquest must have tasted on his tongue. There is such a charisma to the delivery thst for a moment yoh feel impressed and almost wajt to agree it is righteous, before you slip back into the creeping horror of knowing what Johnathan is trapped with.

(I enjoyed that some of the sound design behind thinking back on this had a grinding, empty, apocalyptic feel to it - and this might just be me? But there is something of the instrumental you hear on Doctor Who that gets played when they hit on a vast and triumphant moment. Very fun)

This perspective also makes me sort of wonder on any extra inplications on the implications of blood (blood, the lineage, blood, that is spilled, blood, a prize won)

[jstor]

It's October 1st, and that means it's officially ghost story season! 👻 ✨

There's nothing better than curling up with a spine-tingling tale while the autumn winds howl outside. If you're like us and love a good eerie read, you're in for a treat—we've found some of the best ghostly legends and creepy folklore just in time for Halloween.

Check out JSTOR Daily’s Halloween Editor's Picks and prepare to get spooked.

Image: R.W. Buss, The Ghost Story! n.d. Chromolithograph. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

[todaysmodernmindset]