#deirdre owens

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1942, a man had suddenly found himself aboard a ship on the Atlantic during World War II. He could only remember his name and where he was born. He did not remember anything else including how he got on the ship, but he was certain of one thing… that the ship was going to be hunted down and sunk by a U- Boat. He was in his own personal hell courtesy of… The Twilight Zone ("Judgment Night", The Twilight Zone, TV)

[oceanusborealis]

The Penguin: A Great Or Little Thing & Full Season – TV Review

TL;DR – A phenomenal ending to one of the great surprises of 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Binge service that viewed this series. The Penguin Review – To say that the DCU has had a bit of a bad run up until now might be putting it mildly. Indeed, even this year, they had the absolute disaster of Joker: Folie à Deux. So, I am not sure that I had much hope in a…

[headmateelevator]

hello!! can we request a lvl 2 creator's choice headmate from fnaf with a typing quirk? anyone from fnaf would be cool! :D

order up!

name(s) - Mangle , Camellia , Cassie , Deirdre , Dianthe , Estella , Heather , Jamie , Kit , Madison , Kitt , Skipper , Valentine , Rose(anne) , Dollie , Striker , Adore , Glory , Lovesick , Blanc(he) , Bonnibelle , Camellia , Kipp , Maple , Marrow , Mink , Maeve , Mallory , Marion , Marlowe , Marrow , Martie , Mink , Manon , Morrigan , Persephone , Roseanne , Syd , Vixen.

pronouns - any / it / they / she / he / ra / radio / err / errors / toy / toys / tech / techs / bite / bites / wire / wires / ro / robots / lunge / lunges / jump / jumpscares / des / destroyed / party / partys / eat / eats / fun / funs / broken / brokens / party / parties / blood / bloods / dis / distorts / hide / hiding / active / actives / glitch / glitches / pizza / pizzas / play / plays / rock / star / <3 / <3s / :3 / :3s / ♡ / ♡s / ☆ / ☆s / sh♡ / h♡r / h♡ / h♡m / th♡y / th♡m.

gender(s) - Manglepangender , Folpine , Chigen , Raporidae, Foxtronian , Boncharic , Fnaf4rine , Fnafweirdo , Chicaweirdgirlic , Fnafbootmerchic , Fnafmesta , Oldfnartic , Fnaf2vibic , Fnaf3vibic, Fnaf4vibic , Fnaf4gender , Springlocksuitgender , Mangleplushic , Cherishfated , Fnafplushyic , Manglecieve , Manglemaxxing , Mechanicmasc.

orientations - demiaroace pansexual , mangledqueer.

role(s) - avenger , protector , mood booster , emotional funnel.

species - animatronic.

source(s) - Mangle , FNAF.

emoji(s) - 🦾 , 🔩 , ⚙️ , 🦿 , 🦊 , 🎀 , 🫀, ❤️‍🩹 , ⛓️ , ⛓️‍💥.

likes - loud music , the color pink , fnaf 2 sourcemates , playing games , stars , parties , repeating patterns , plushies , dolphins , seafood.

dislikes - pain , being alone , large crowds , sickness , corn , being itchy , sudden noises , yelling.

front triggers - source , sourcemates , parties , potential to get a new plushie (bite is DEFINITELY a plush hoarder.) , the body being hurt , any situation she could help with.

personality description - a usually very quiet but generally friendly animatronic, she enjoys speaking to friends from time to time, but likes to take time to herself and focus on things it'd like to get done. when with others she likes to play games often and likes to tell jokes to pass the time. she may often wait for others to start conversations with him, not liking to approach people, but blood will do so if alone too often.

typing quirk - (multiple suggestions , can be combined!!) (all but the first example say "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.) types in third person (ex: The mangle thinks this is a wonderful idea.) leetspeak (ex: 7h3 qu1ck 820wn f0x jump5 0v32 7h3 142y d09.) o=0 (ex: the quick br0wn f0x jump 0ver the lazy d0g.) o=☆ (ex: the quick br☆wn f☆x jumps ☆ver the lazy d☆g.) [tumblr only] pink text (ex: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.)

faceclaims -

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name(s) - Susie , Park , Denver , Owen , Milo , Miles , Scruff , Rudy , Ruby , Charlie , Bud(dy) , Duke , Rocky , Pebble , Scout , Luna , Lucy , Cooper , Spot , Sadie , Cailean , Catellus , Conan , Lycus , Kaleb , Mob , Mace , Morland , Haldir , Thistle , Rymuth , Pike , Foggle , Marigold , Beesbeth , Holly , Elowind , Daisy , Hazelnut.

pronouns - she / her / they / them / pup / pups / paw / paws / yip / yips / bark / barks / fluff / fluffs / friend / friends / fur / furs / soft / softs / ruff / ruffs / tail / tails / wag / wags / bite / bites / bone / bones / berry / berries / fruit / fruits/

gender(s) - girl , dognipic , pupgender , dolfem , dogbonegender , doggen , doglexic , fangic , cannix , Yarnpuppic , Cyberpup, Pupsleepyic , Dogthing , Pupenby , Zomdoggender , Pupboyflux , Herdpupic , Sportpupic , Workpupic , Terrierpupic , Housepupic , Houndpupic , Dogtailwagic , Dogboygender , Canimougirl , Girlyboypup , Mascpupnightic , Cutepupboygender , Girlmutt , Phantompuptailic , Thingmutt , Traumamutt , Yellowdogplushic , Muttdollic.

orientations - unlabeled.

role(s) - mood booster , playmate , frijōn , paichmate , ògregulator , scout.

species - human , ghost.

source(s) - Susie , FNAF.

emoji(s) - 🐕 , 🐾 , 🦴 , 🎀 , 🎁.

likes - dogs , playing games , playing dress-up , talking to friends , drawing / coloring , sourcemates of the missing kids or animatronics , parties , crowds of people , fantasy books , alice in wonderland.

dislikes - most source stuff , being alone , getting dirty , the darkness , being stuck or trapped.

front triggers - good sourcemates , any pets or animals (especially dogs!) , parties , mentions of her , stress , overwhelming anger.

personality description - a very energetic girl , who loves meeting with friends and drawing pictures in her free time. she has a big interest and love for dogs. fur also enjoys fantasy books , such as alice in wonderland and things like that. fluff is always open to meeting new people and often seeks them out in headspace to say hello.

typing quirk - o=❤️ (ex: the quick br❤️wn f❤️x jumps ❤️ver the lazy d❤️g.) quotation marks (ex: "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") [tumblr only] pink text (ex: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.) dog sounds (ex: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, woof! , the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, yip!)

faceclaims -

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[soulcluster]

here it is, what no one asked for: my ship bias list under a read more cause oof it's long

main roster

disney hans — anna, kristoff

dragon age blackwall — josie, inquisitor colum cousland — morrigan, anora, zevran fenris — hawke, isabela, bethany kaitlyn hawke — varric, fenris, cullen, alistair, loghain roland gilmore — cousland, bethany

dragon ball z android 18 — krillin bulma briefs — vegeta, goku cell — ....honestly just send me your ideas dende — gohan goku — chi-chi, bulma piccolo — bulma trunks briefs (future) — none yet

final fantasy aerith — cloud, tifa, sephiroth cid highwind — reeve, tifa clive rosfield — jill, cid cloud — aerith yuna — tidus, baralai

fire emblem citrinne — none yet cyril — lysithea eirika — seth, saleh, cormag ephraim — forde, gerik, tethys, marisa, tana frederick — olivia, sumia, cherche gerome — cynthia, lucina, laurent kagetsu — alear nel — none yet olivia — frederick, lon'qu, gregor seteth — jeralt, hanneman

fma: brotherhood ed — winry ling yao — lan fan riza — roy

harvest moon chelsea — vaughn kai — popuri, karen, leia mark (awl) — muffy molly (ap) — candace, phoebe, renee popuri — gray, karen, kai soseki — none yet vaughn — chelsea

the last unicorn amalthea — lir

legend of zelda link — mipha, malon malon — link mipha — link, zelda, revali zelda — ganondorf

marvel 616 adam warlock — gamora drax — mantis gamora — adam warlock, angela, tony stark peter quill — none yet rocket — lylla

mortal kombat fujin — none yet jax — sonja, vera takeda — jacqui

my time gwen/oc — logan, unsuur, owen, qi, heidi logan — fang, grace, builder

persona kotone — shinjiro, akihiko, ryoji ren — yoshizawa, ann, futaba, shiho, ryuji ryuji — joker, ann shiho — ann, joker shinjiro — kotone

resident evil leon — claire rebecca — none yet

star wars briayla/oc — corso, darmas, theron, lana doc — jedi knight kihanda/oc — doc, obi-wan

stardew valley abigail — sam, leah, penny, farmer eris/oc — harvey harvey — farmer

studio ghibli arrietty — spiller baron — baroness kiki — none yet pazu — sheeta

tales of kratos — anna, raine lailah — zaveid

threads of fate rue — none yet

tomb raider jonah — abigaile lara — sam, jaocb sam — lara

request roster

chrono trigger/cross serge — leena magus — none yet

cyberpunk 2077 takemura — none yet v/oc — none yet

DC lucifer — mazikeen soarnik natu — none yet

disney jack skellington — sally jane porter — tarzan, belle

final fantasy basch — none yet fran — balthier penelo — none yet zidane — garnet/dagger

fire emblem byleth — dimitri, claude, hanneman, shamir deirdre — sigurd franz — none yet gregory — none yet marianne — byleth, dimitri mikoto — yukimura, gunter quan — ethlyn rhys — none yet silas — corrin

harvest moon calvin — farmer lyla — basil, louis muffy — farmer, griffin, nami

legend of dragoon dart — shana lavitz — rose

mass effect garrus — shepard jeff/joker — shepard zaeed — shepard

metal gear solid cécile — kaz gray fox — none yet quiet — venom snake solid snake — hal, meryl

my hero academia tenya iida — ochako mina ashido — none yet

once upon a time belle — emma, ruby, ariel, killian, neal emma swan — neal, belle, ruby, graham grace — henry jefferson — belle, graham, robin, ruby milah — graham, robin, killian neal — emma, belle, robin, graham

rune factory felicity — raguna russell — none yet

tales of zaveid — lailah

*note 1: for any oc type characters I have a preference for (inquisitor, hawke, builder, assorted farmers, shepard, etc.), shipping will depend on that muse's character and if it works with my muse.

**note 2: just because a ship isn't on here doesn't mean I wouldn't ship it at all, except in the rare case of a notp

***notps: aerith/zack, cloud/tifa. these are only in a romantic sense, platonic is fine. if you see me shipping these it's because I'm close with the other mun

[rladpeps]

all the books I read in 2024

 “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand

“The Do-Over” by Lynn Painter

 “Ash House” by Angharad Walker

“The Prince and the Pauper” by Mark Twain

 “Jane Against the World: Roe V. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights” by Karen Blumenthal - ⭐️

 “The Ghosts of Rose Hill” by R. M. Romeo

“Scattered Showers: Nine Beautiful Short Stories” by Rainbow Rowell - ❤️

 “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka - ❤️

 “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys - ⭐️

 “The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power” by Deirdre Mask - ⭐️

 “The Ghost of Midnight Lake” by Lucy Strange

 “Again, But Better: A Novel” by Christine Riccio

 “Emma” by Jane Austen - ❤️

 “The Shame” by Makenna Goodman - ❤️

 “Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted” by Daniel Sokatch - ❤️

 “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett - ⭐️

 “Far from the Tree” by Robin Benway - ❤️

 “The Lost Property Office” by James R. Hannibal

“A Little Princess” by  Frances Hodgson Burnett - ⭐️

 “Instant Karma” by Marissa Meyer

 “Once Upon a Broken Heart” trilogy by Stephanie Garber - ❤️

 “Rosehead” by Ksenia Anske

 “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” by Victor Hugo - 7/10 (❤️)

 “Sorcery of Thorns series” by Margaret Rogerson - 5/10

 “The Fountains of Silence" by Ruta Sepetys - 7.8/10 (❤️)

 “Gumiho” series by Kat Cho - 5/10

 “Caraval” trilogy by Stephanie Garber - 2/10

 “Realm Breaker” trilogy by Victoria Aveyard - 7/10 (❤️)

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy - 8.5/10 (⭐️)

 “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen - 6/10 (❤️)

“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin - 6.8/10 (❤️)

 “Gilded” duology by Marissa Meyer - 7/10 (❤️)

 “The Midnight Lie” (Forgotten Gods series) by Marie Rutkoski - 7/10 (❤️) 

 “Afterlife” by Julia Alvarez - 6.5/10 

 “When We Had Summer” by Jennifer Castle - 5/10

“Yolk” by Mary H.K. Choi - 9/10 (⭐️)

“How It Feels to Float” by Helena Fox - 7/10 (❤️)

 “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding - 7/10 (❤️)

“Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens - 7/10 (❤️)

 “14 Ways to Die” by Vincent Ralph - 4/10

“The Brothers Hawthorne” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 7/10 (❤️)

“Family of Liars” by E. Lockhart - 4/10

“I Am Not Okay With This” by Charles Forsman - 6.5/10 (❤️)

 “The Tatami” series by Tomihiko Morimi - 7.5/10 (❤️)

“Redeeming Love” by Francine Rivers - 6/10

“The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus” by Lee Strobel - 8/10 (❤️)

“Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis - 6.5/10

 "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan - 7/10

 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath - 8/10 (⭐️)

 “What Do We Know About Atlantis?” by Emma Carlson Berne - 5/10

 “Blue Period 1-9” by Tsubasa Yamaguchi - 8/10

“What Do We Know About Bigfoot?” by Steve Korté - 5/10

 “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman - 6.8/10 (❤️)

 “Children of the Whales 1-15” by Abi Umeda - 8/10

“Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov - 7/10 (❤️)

“Blue Period 10-14” by Tsubasa Yamaguchi - 10/10 (⭐️) 

"More Happy Than Not” by Adam Silvera - 7/10 (❤️)

“The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place” by Julie Berry - 6/10 (❤️)

“Dragonslayer (Wings of Fire: Legends) by Tui T. Sutherland - 6.5/10 (❤️)

 “Monsters of Verity” series by V.E. Schwab - 7.5/10 (❤️)

“The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig - 7.5/10 (❤️)

“The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” by V. E. Schwab - 8/10 (⭐️)

 “Two Roads from Here” by Teddy Steinkellner - 4.5/10

“History Is All You Left Me” by Adam Silvera - 8/10 (⭐️)

 “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - 9/10 (⭐️)

“The Hollow Heart” by Marie Rutkoski - 7/10 (❤️)

“Qualia Under the Snow” by Kanna Kii - 9/10 (⭐️)

“The Setting Sun” by Osamu Dazai - 9/10 (⭐️)

“Vicious” & “Vengeful” (part of Villains series) by V. E. Schwab  - 7/10 (❤)

“Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Chalice of the Gods” by Rick Riordan - 7/10 (❤️)

“American Gods” by Neil Gaiman - 7/10 (❤️)

“Iron Widow” by Xiran Jay Zhao - 7.5/10 (⭐️)

“Our Dreams at Dusk” manga series by Shimanami Tasogare - 8/10 (⭐️)

“When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb - 7/10 (❤️)

“Aristotle and Dante” series by Benjamin Alire Sáenz - 9.5/10 (⭐️)

“The Gilded Wolves” by Roshani Chokshi - 3/10

“Hearts Overboard” by Becky Dean - 6/10 (❤️)

“The Poppy War” trilogy by R. F. Kuang - 10/10 (⭐️)

“Yellowface” by R. F. Kuang - 10/10 (⭐️)

“Babel” by R. F. Kuang - 10/10 (⭐️)

“If You Could See the Sun” by Ann Liang - 7/10 (❤️)

“Permanent Record” by Mary H. K. Choi - 6.5/10 

“The Book of Tea” duology by Judy I. Lin - 7/10 (❤️)

“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury - 6.5/10 (❤️)

“1Q84” by Haruki Murakami - 7/10

“Six Crimson Cranes” duology by Elizabeth Lim - 7/10 (❤️)

“Her Radiant Curse” by Elizabeth Lim - 7/10 (❤️)

“The Folk of the Air” series by Holly Black - 6.5/10 (❤️)

“The Stolen Heir” duology by Holly Black - 6.5/10 (❤️)

“Girl Made of Stars” by Ashley Herring Blake - 7.5/10 (❤️)

“Dry” by Jarrod and Neal Shusterman - 8.5/10 (⭐️)

“Remarkably Ruby” by Terri Libenson - 7/10 (⭐️)

“Surprisingly Sarah” by Terri Libenson - 6.5/10 (⭐️)

“Always Anthony” by Terri Libenson - 7/10 (⭐️)

“Demon in the Wood” by Leigh Bardugo - 6/10

“The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic” by Leigh Bardugo - 7/10

“Letters of Enchantment” duology by Rebecca Ross - 7.5/10 (❤️)

“Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries” by Heather Fawcett - 8/10 (⭐️)

“Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands” Heather Fawcett - 8/10 (⭐️)

“Song of the Six Realms” by Judy I. Lin - 6.8/10 (❤️)

“These Violent Delights” duet by Chloe Gong - 7/10 (❤️)

“I Must Betray You” by Ruta Sepetys - 8/10 (⭐️)

“Wrath of the Triple Goddess” by Rick Riordan - 6/10

“When Haru Was Here” by Dustin Thao - 6/10

“Rise of the School for Good and Evil” & “Fall of the School for Good and Evil” by Soman Chainani - 6.5/10

“The School for Good and Evil” #1-3 by Soman Chainani - 6/10

“An Enchantment of Ravens” by Margaret Rogerson - 6/10

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

Last song: tides of the lagoon by bloody crying twinks

Last book: Medical Bondage by Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

Last movie: 9 (2009)

Last show: naruto shippuden (dub)

Last search: cockatoo vs cockatiel (they're the same but one is smaller)

Favorite color: red

Sweet/spicy/savory: savory

Relationship status: taken

Looking forward to: getting my dryer fixed. It died on me today

Current obsession: pixies (band) and also tie dye

Thank u @guavamandering for tagging me :') I tag @2009impala @bloodless-lies @wonkyfaint and if anybody else sees my post and wants to do it u can tag me in :)

[kittymetalhead]

・┆✦ʚ♡ɞ✦ ┆・

Hi, welcome to our blog, we're the butterfly system. This is a mental health progress blog and also to help with coping with our negative emotions and intrusie thoughts safely (all posts will have triggers accordingly). We have BPD, Polyfragmented DID, and are schizoaffective, among other things. Many of our alters are queer. This is a safe space for anyone struggling with mental health, and our DMs will always be open to those who need it.

Do interact: Sallyface fans, traumagenic systems, metalheads, RE fans, Castlevania fans, Madoka magica fans, silent hill fans, Hannibal fans, horror fans, writers, LGBTQ+

DNI: Conservatives, homo/transphobes, misogynists, racists, etc. (Fascists), fake claimers, pedophiles, incest, nontraumagenic systems

Alter list & sign off:

Alice - 🍓

Anna - 🌷

Bee - 🔮

Blair - ⛓️

Bunni - 🫐

Candy - 🍬

Caspian - 🪽

Christa - 🌌

Clem - 🦊

Cupid - 💘

Deirdre - ✨️

Demetri - 🌨

Ellise - 🎀

Faye - 🐚

Hiro - 🦇

Iris - 🫁

Jane - 💊

Jun - ⛱️

Juno - 🕶

Kip - 🚬

Luciel - 🌕

Maeve - 🐛

Marceline - 🧛‍♀️ (Co-host)

Milo - 🕯

Neo - 🐬

Nicolai - 🫀

Nyx - 🐺

Owen - 🌲

Quinn - 👻

Remi - 🌻

Salem - 💉

Sammi - 🌊

Shiloh - 🐸

Silas - 🐰 (Host)

Skye - 🍂

Victor - 🖋

Will Graham - 🔪

Wren - ��

Xerxes - 🪶

[butchniqabi]

started reading Medical Bondage by Deirdre Cooper Owens and i think im going to kill the next white man who looks at me funny

[mosscoveredpages]

after the biggest identity crisis, feelings of failure and major breakdowns, i've decided that my next academic year will be... different. i need a break from uni, which still hurts to admit. i intend to make learning enjoyable again, so i will start my year of rest and slow learning. the idea is to go back to learning at my own pace about whatever im curious about and NOT for obligation. so! this is a list of nonfic titles i am considering picking up!

- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, by Angela Chen

- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong

- Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, by Sunaura Taylor

- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton

- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, by Amanda Leduc

- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake

- Having and Being Had, by Eula Biss

- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, by Deirdre Cooper Owens

- Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World, by Honor Cargill-Martin

- Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power, Eleanor Herman

- Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses, by Jackie Higgins

- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan

- The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy, by Tristam Adams

- Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, by Elinor Cleghorn

- Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, by Linda Nochlin

- Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

- Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother, by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

[oceanusborealis]

The Penguin: Top Hat – TV Review

TL;DR – While this is an episode of big action beats, I was more interested in the small conversations that spoke loudly. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Binge service that viewed this series. The Penguin Review – Goodness, we are already at the penultimate episode of this series, which is astounding. This season has flown by, but it never felt rushed because it was…

[wankerwatch]

Commons Vote

On: The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

Ayes: 304 (97.0% Lab, 2.0% Ind, 1.0% Green) Noes: 105 (94.1% Con, 3.0% DUP, 1.0% RUK, 1.0% Ind, 1.0% UUP) Absent: ~240

Day's business papers: 2025-04-02

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Labour (295 votes)

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Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Siân Berry

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Conservative (95 votes)

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Lee Anderson

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Rupert Lowe

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

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CONVEGNO STUDI CULTURALI Bologna, 13 settembre 2024

Spermologia della nazione:

ideologia della fertilità e colonialismo di insediamento in Israele

Tecnologie di riproduzione; Sperma; Paternità postuma; Militarizzazione; Colonialismo d’insediamento

L’intrinseco legame tra ricerca medica e politiche di controllo della riproduzione non è cosa nuova: lo stesso concetto di salute “globale” origina dalla Medicina Tropicale/Coloniale/Missionaria, discipline sviluppate nel contesto del colonialismo occidentale con la funzione di regolamentare le popolazioni colonizzate per facilitare i processi di sfruttamento delle risorse umane e non umane. La ginecologia moderna, ad esempio, nasce al tramonto dell’epoca schiavista, quando la necessità di riprodurre manodopera non più importata attraverso la tratta atlantica si affida a dottori come J. Marion Sims e ai loro esperimenti a vivo su corpi di donne nere schiavizzate nelle piantagioni (Deirdre Cooper Owens 2017; Harriet A. Washington 2006). Tuttavia, l’attuale controllo della riproduzione da parte del governo israeliano tramite la pratica di prelievo e conservazione di sperma dai corpi dei soldati deceduti è uno specifico da indagare.

Prendendo in considerazione diversi testi mediali, dalle pubblicità ai film, in questo intervento analizziamo in particolare l’immaginario militarizzato della “riproduzione postuma” di cui il governo israeliano si serve per promuovere la fertilità di insediamento, attraverso l’impiego di tecnologie riproduttive, la cui storia e la cui retorica in Israele risale agli anni Trenta del secolo scorso (Boas et al. 2018; Bokek-Cohen 2016; Novick 2023). Una vera e propria spermologia, in cui il sacrificio della vita da soldato si ricompensa con paternità post-mortem e la gestazione volontaria dello sperma di morti, si fa vocazione e missione nazionale. Questa ideologia della fertilità selettiva e genocidaria, insieme ad altre ideologie promosse dal governo israeliano, come ad esempio nel campo dei diritti LGBTQI+ (Puar and Rai 2012; Shafie 2015) o del veganismo (Weiss 2016; Alloun 2020), alimenta la retorica del progresso della nazione e ne veicola un’immagine innovativa e all’avanguardia, mentre ne maschera la politica fascista.

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UTSA hosts reproductive justice activists Dana-Ain Davis and Deirdre Cooper Owens

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Life-Saving Tool or Torture Device?

The Answer, Once You Learn the History of the Speculum, is a Little of Both

— March 15, 2024 | Kirstin Butler

1847 Specula. Source image: National Library of Medicine.

Many iterations came before and have gone since, but the most controversial version of the speculum started out, in 1845, as a bent spoon. That was when an Alabama-based doctor named James Marion Sims set out to treat an agonizing medical condition, and in the process established precedent for the practice of modern gynecology—in more ways than one.

Sims was attending to a patient who had been thrown off of her horse, and in landing on her pelvis, developed uterine retroversion (a tipping, or tilting backward, of the uterus). In the process of attending to her, Sims was struck by the insight that a custom-fashioned tool would allow him to see better into the vaginal canal. His first foray into speculum design was a doubly bent spoon that allowed him to separate and hold apart the vaginal walls. “Introducing the bent handle of the spoon I saw everything, as no man had ever seen before,” Sims later wrote in his unfinished memoir, The Story of My Life. “I felt I was on the eve of one of the great discoveries of the day.” Sims’s first experiments with that speculum were all done on enslaved women.

An Engraving Demonstrating the Sims Speculum (Bracket-Shaped Metal Instrument). Wikimedia Commons.

He ran a small private hospital—a “Surgical Infirmary for Negroes,” read an 1852 ad in Montgomery’s Weekly Advertiser, where he was “enabled to offer his professional services to his friends.” “It's really impossible to talk about the beginning of gynecology in America without talking about slavery because they were so deeply entwined and dependent on each other,” says Rachel Gross, science journalist and the author of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage. Sims himself had slaves, and, Gross adds, “worked with other slaveholders to experiment on enslaved women in order to develop techniques that would help them continue to give birth, and continue to work.”

Sims used his new speculum to perform surgery on vesicovaginal fistulas, abscesses that often developed during difficult births, where the pressure of labor damaged tissue between the vagina and bladder or rectum. His surgeries on enslaved women were conducted without the use of anesthesia. Sims noted in his memoir that he operated on one woman, named only as Anarcha, 30 times.

He was lauded for his work, becoming the president of the American Medical Association in 1876 and then the founder and president of the American Gynecological Association. In a tribute written after Sims’s death, the American doctor W.O. Baldwin breathlessly wrote that the eponymous Sims speculum “has been to diseases of the womb what the printing press is to civilization, what the compass is to the mariner, what steam is to navigation, what the telescope is to astronomy.”

Baldwin’s encomium conveniently overlooked one historical aspect, however. “The speculum has been around for a really long time,” historian Deirdre Cooper Owens tells American Experience. “You can go to Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome, the site of modern western medicine, and you'll find specula that existed.” What changed with the popularization of Sims’s design were the mores around gynecology. “Most men did not perform vaginal examinations, or pelvic examinations on their female patients because of the gender ideals of the time,” says Dr. Cooper Owens. “Now, these things become a bit more nuanced when we’re talking about enslaved people, or poor people, or people who were institutionalized in asylums. They tended to be the ones that were exploited, as doctors experimented and used their bodies literally as canvases to learn from. That kind of paints the picture of American medicine that we know today.”

The 19th-Century Metal Cusco Vaginal Speculum Still Closely Resembles the Design of Most Specula Used Today. Science Museum Group, C. Firmin Cuthbert Collection.

As for the speculum itself, others refined Sims’s design in the decades that followed. In 1870, Edward Gabriel Cusco introduced a two-bladed instrument that featured a screw mechanism to hold the blades open inside the vaginal canal. Cusco’s bivalve construction was further iterated upon by T.W. Graves, a Massachusetts-based doctor. It was Graves’s duckbilled speculum—which combined elements of Sims’s curved design and Cusco’s double-bladed device—that eventually became most popular within the medical establishment.

Then a century after Sims’s crudely fashioned cutlery, the speculum came to play a central role in the battle against cervical cancer, at the time the deadliest form of cancer for women. Dr. George Papanicolaou conceived of taking a swab of cells from the cervix for examination under a microscope; the speculum made it possible for physicians to gather the cervical tissue from patients. Thus was the pap smear born, drastically diminishing the numbers of casualties as a result of cervical cancer.

However, today the incidence of advanced-stage cervical cancer is on the rise again, in part because fewer women are getting pap smears as a preventative measure. According to the National Institutes of Health, the percentage of women overdue for cervical cancer screening went from 14% in 2005 to 23% in 2019. Some of that reticence, perhaps, has to do with the long reach of Sims’s paternalistic legacy. “A pap smear is not done in a neutral environment,” Gross asserts. “When you enter an office with a doctor, a very real power dynamic becomes established where you feel like there is sort of an authority of your body.”

Vaginal Specula Today Tend to be Single-Use Plastic. Image by Whispyhistory, Wikimedia Commons.

The burgeoning “femtech” industry (a term coined in 2013 to describe technology geared toward female biology) aims to change that by making the experience of cervical cancer screenings feel less invasive—and that includes reimagining the speculum. But updating a 150-year-old design is only part of a larger picture. “People have really bad experiences getting pelvic exams and pap smears where they feel their body was violated, they weren't treated with respect or dignity,” says Gross. “That's not quite a problem with the tool, itself. That’s a problem with the culture of medicine, and the place of healthcare in our society, and how we communicate to women what this is for and what they’re allowed to know about their own bodies.”

— A Vaginal Speculum is a medical device that allows physicians and health providers to better view a woman’s cervix and vagina during pelvic exams. Most specula are made of metal and plastic, and physicians insert a portion of the speculum into the patient’s vagina to separate the vaginal walls.

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Deirdre Cooper Owens' Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology is the iconic book on the subject.

the category of “woman” has since its inception been bound up in fundamentally racial, cissexual, and class terms. “Woman” has never once been a category that all women belonged to, not because they aren’t “actually” women but because gender is a structure that mediates access to personhood, and being granted personhood has historically been a privilege reserved for the very few (white, bourgeois, cis-heterosexual, perisex, etc). JKR is not being a hypocrite by saying, on the one hand, that she wants to “protect women,” and then on the other attacks women of colour, trans women, intersex women, and so on. she is participating in the centuries-old Western tradition of policing the boundaries of gender and thus who gets counted as human. expressing incredulity at this supposed hypocrisy is just revealing that you have not engaged with even introductory level writing on the subject, which is why the charge of hypocrisy is not only unhelpful but actively obfuscates the oppressive structure of gender