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[transgenderer]

(cw for frank discussion of rape and murder)

ok so anon has been sending me messages about natalie shotter for like a month now so i finally googled the case and...

A man has been convicted of the rape and manslaughter of a woman while she lay unconscious on a park bench in west London after a night out. Natalie Shotter, 37, an NHS worker, was attacked after apparently passing out in Southall in July 2021. Mohamed Iidow orally raped her “until she died”, his trial heard. Iidow, 35, pleaded not guilty to rape and manslaughter but did not give evidence in his defence. The prosecutor, Alison Morgan KC, said Shotter’s body was discovered on the bench by a passerby early on 17 July, hours after the attack.

Shotter had been drinking on the night she died and is also thought to have taken poppers, but these were not identified as a cause of her death. Pathology reports found the cause to be “unascertained”, the trial at the Old Bailey heard. CCTV footage showed Iidow with his shorts around his ankles and his groin close to Shotter’s head as she lay on the bench. Shotter appeared to be unconscious in the footage. In his police interview, Iidow said Shotter had approached him and offered him sexual services. Morgan told the jury Shotter was raped repeatedly and that this led to her death, thought to be as a result of a heart attack.

i mean, it looks like he raped her but a murder charge seems pretty dubious! also the whole point of anons fixation is that this means immigration is bad but i cant even find any real sources saying he's an immigrant? surely bbc or the guardian would have mentioned that. lidow isnt a somali name

[vanillaxoshi]

I'm sorry but lidow sounds so close to widow that at first i thought solfang was gonna be a doomed relationship, as if one of them were gonna die (cahay most likely but still)

Yeah, tbh i thought of black widow when i typed that

And damn wow, noones dying-

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Hi! I saw your tags in that post about identifying skeletal remains, and what is the book you mentioned about gender? Do you have any other you recommend about gender marks in burials or gender in history? This sounds amazing, now I want to read more about it!

Hey!

 Yeah, I was referring to Neil Price's Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. I believe he also gets into it a little bit in his The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, but it's been a while since I've read it (still recommend as an overall text on magic in the time - also for anyone who has read my Grima stuff and thought: huh, that seidr shit sure is interesting). He's very good at saying archeologists can, at best, determine the sex of remains but gendering them is beyond the reach of science.

A small excerpt from Children of Ash and Elm to give you a flavour of his approach (any grammar or punctuations errors are mine):

However, in many cases the deceased were created an the resulting ashes are hard to sex reliably. More often, presercation conditions in the soil are unfavourable for the survival of bone in any state, and there are many graves without human remains at all (although they were evidently originally present). In these cases, for centuries archeologists have resorted to determining the sex of the dead through associated with supposedly gendered objects--this weapons in a grave are held to suggest a man, jewellery sets donate a woman, and so on. Beyond the obvious problem of conflating sex and gender, and also effectively sexing metal, these readings risk simply piling one set of assumptions on another in what forensic-decision-makers call a 'bias snowball' of cumulatively questionable interpretations. Clearly this is unsatisfactory, and at worst can lead to a potentially vast misreadying of Viking-Age gender from the literally tens of thousands of burials that have been analysed in this way over the years.

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At Vivallen in Swedish Harjedalen, there was even a male-bodied person buried according to Sami rituals, in a Sami settlement, but wearing conventional Sami man's equipment over a Nordic woman's linen dress, complete with jewellery to match--a crossing of both gender and cultural norms.

Some additional resources to consider (there are more Neil Price pieces in this list since early medieval Scandinavian burial practices are a cornerstone of his research). It's a mix of books and journal articles as well as a mix of more "layman" friendly and more true-academic texts. For the journal articles, I'm not sure if you're associated with a secondary educational institution, but some local libraries will grant access to online academic journals, as an FYI.

(Apologies in advance for the lack of correct accents and other things on names (e.g., Th instead of the proper thorne), I'm working with a north American keyboard and doing this off the corner of my desk at work, so to speak)

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Stfean Brink, Neil Price, The Viking World

Hilda Ellis, The Road to Hel: A Study in the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature (this is a broad study of death rituals in the era, not really gender-archeology focused, but it's 100% worth the read and very thorough)

Anders Andren, Jens-Peter Schjodt, and John Lidow, Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Histories and Structures (Neil Price has a good essay/chapter contribution in here on death & mortuary behaviour)

Howard Williams, Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain

Marianne Moen, Matthew J. Walsh, "Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age," Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2021

Leszek Slupecki, Rudolf Simek, Conversions: Looking for Ideological Change in Early Middle Ages (has some stuff of "deviant" burial customs and concepts of the "dangerous dead" - stuff I fucking wet myself over, honestly)

Andrew Reynolds, Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Joanne O’Sullivan, "Strung Along: Re-evaluating Gendered Views of Viking-Age Beads," Medieval Archaeology, 2015

Judtih Jesch, Women in the Viking Age (note: it's from the early 90's and very much reflects academic gender and feminist work at that time - still always worth reading older texts for the sake of good historiography alone. Also to see what has been explored before and why we might have new approaches, or to see wher current views originated etc)

Sarah Tralow and Liv Nilsson Stutz, The Oxford Handbook of the Archeology of Death and Burial

Duncan Sayer, Howard Williams, Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages

Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Anna Kjellström, Torun Zachrisson, Maja Krzewińska, Veronica Sobrado, Neil Price, Torsten Günther, Mattias Jakobsson, Anders Götherström, Jan Storå, "A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics," Wily Online (link to article, it's open access)

Jacob Bell, "Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750‐1050," History Compass, 2021

Isabelle Algrain, "Gender and diversity in archaeological contexts," Revista Arqueologia Pública, 2021

Thora Petursdottir, "Icelandic Viking Age graves: Lack in material--lack of interpretations?", Archeologia Islandica, 2009

Anna Wessman, "Death, Destruction and Commemoration: Tracing Ritual Activities in Finnish Late Iron Age Cemeteries," Finnish Antiquarian Society, 2010

Ahmad ibn Fadlan was a 10th century Muslim traveler/explorer who visited these areas and wrote about it. You can find various translations of his works around. He has a description of at least one burial and related practices. Also some fun descriptions of sexual/fertility rituals though he sadly "fades to black" before the good stuff starts.

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I hope this helps! I am always very excited to talk about anything related to early medieval Scandinavia (also early modern Europe) and so always happy to get these asks <3 <3

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[ashik]

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[xisnxz]

Lidowally us

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me and gang after our sleepover and road trip soon ୨ৎ pictures from pinterest ୨ৎ

[antiqueanimals]

Lidow

[midcenturyblog]

Lidow het veel bewogen leven van Symen snoek ! ,1940ies,ill pg 14 by janwillemsen

[kassiahelenblr-blog]

AMOR!!😍💞 . . . . . . . . . #cat #amore #catstagram #maedepets #pink #rose #lidow #lovely (em Cidade de Caxias - Maranhão) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs1FjgNBahy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=afm2xnlmurfi

[vanillaxoshi]

Cahaya just seems like to the type of ace to both not really know about romance but also not care at all

While fang is an accidental ace because he doesn't know what counts as romance in earth terms

Ah yes

Solfang ace couple, wonderful

This is a random thought:

Cahafang or Fahaya, is mostly a more suitable ship name for them maybe if you consider the fact the Cahaya is what hes mostly called here, or Lidow(light+shadow)

[twiztidskull]

Me messing around with my camera, some editing apps and backgrounds, along with some scenery from the yard. Featuring some Lidow, Magpic and Picsart. If you look through my much older posts I've done some picsart editing way back in the day.... and now that I forgot to cancel a trial I got it back for at least a year. So I'll probably be using that more among other things Oh yea I tossed a pokemon cosplay or 2 in there too that I took pictures of at various conventions as well , along with one actually from pokemon go #picsart #lidow #magpic #scenery #nature #pokemon #cosplay #zangoose #litwick #dratini #pokemongo #bubble https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdr6TY7s9yP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ojuniorpereira]

Quando o seu gato sabe tirar fotos melhor que você kkkkk #cat #instagram #pictureoftheday #saturday #huji #lidow #me #tumblr #hey #ilovecats #🐱 # (em Belém, Brazil)

[deathexit12]

Aura is a babe and she loves me. • • • • #kitties #crazycatlady #kittycuddles #lidow #girlswithglasses #lazysaturday #blackandwhite #midwest (at Rockford, Illinois)

[simoviaggi]

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[aefward]

Hunter Schafer wears dress by Fendi, boots photographer’s own, hat and veil by Lidow Archive.