#paskov

[makingqueerhistory]

I feel reasonably certain you're the one to ask, but if not, i hope you can point me in the right direction.

A while back, you put up a quote from someone about realising their queer identity being akin to wanting to quietly change train carriages. That particular idea has stuck with me, and I wanted to find the exact quote so I could remember it properly. Do you know who it was that said it, and in what context?

I know exactly what you are talking about! The quote you're thinking of is:

"I confess that I am one of those passengers that Fate put in the wrong train. Should I have caused an alarm? I chose the second, quieter way: I applied for a rewrite of the ticket.”

Which was said by Zdeněk Koubek, who was an olympic athlete!

Here is a snippet from our article about him:

"Koubek was born December 8, 1913, in Paskov, Czechia (Now the Czech Republic). Growing up with eight siblings in a poor Catholic household, he was an active child and very fond of athletics. His family moved to Brno while Koubek was still a child, and there he became interested in track and field. With very little formal training, he managed to reach peak performance. He had a decent education and considered becoming a clerk, but chose to dedicate himself to sports. Due to his outstanding performance at 17, he moved to Prague and joined the Prague University team, also working part-time as an instructor and coach. In 1932, at the age of 19, he broke his first national record and shortly after set five more. He won two medals in the Women’s World Games in London in 1934 and set two world records. It was at this point, due to his excellent performance and his gender-non-conforming nature, that rumours started circulating. Newspapers pointed out his “masculine” behaviours. Following this, there was an anonymous request for Koubek to be examined by Olympic-sanctioned doctors to ensure he was not lying about his gender. As this happened, Koubek left competitive sports entirely. Around the same time, writer Lída Merlínová wrote a biography about Zdeněk Koubek titled Zdenin světový rekord // Zdena’s world record. Merlínová was known for her writing on queer people, publishing the first Czech book about lesbians. In Zdenin světový rekord, Koubek is written as various degrees of gender non-conforming, androgynous, and masculine, and this book also added to the controversy of Zdenek’s sportsmanship. After disappearing from sports for some time, Koubek resurfaced with The World Record Woman. Published in Prague Illustrated Newsletter, Koubek himself wrote the 20-part biographical series. In it, he spoke of how doctors had mistakenly assigned him female at birth and how this had affected his life for over two decades. He once again disappeared, this time journeying to the United States of America for six months. He held lectures and told his life story. Upon his return to Prague in 1936, he underwent gender affirmation surgery and changed his legal name. He lived the rest of his life in Prague with his wife, later joined his brother’s rugby team, and never returned to the world of competitive sports. He passed away at the age of 73."

Zdeněk Koubek

[enbycrip]

ID: a black and white photo and caption from a newspaper showing a young white trans man with light hair wearing a tweed jacket and high collar smiling at a young white woman in a pale dress as he brushes her mid-length dark hair. She is smiling at him from the slightly complex angle as he brushes her hair. The photo is faded and not great quality but their faces are clear.

The headline over the photo is “Here’s How I Used To Do It!”

The caption below reads “An expert at women's coiffures although not a hairdresser, Zdenek Koubek proves himself as he combs the locks of Cinda Glenn, New York night club beauty. Koubek knows all about coiffures from experience, since they were of concern to him when he was the foremost girl athlete of Czechoslovakia, prior to a sex-change.”

Zdenek Koubek was born in Paskov, Czechoslovakia (at the time) in December 1913, one of eight siblings, and competed as an athlete. With minimal formal training, he began running at age 17, decided to pursue it formally aged 19, and broke two world records at the 1934 world olympics.

Because queer and gender-diverse history is complex, I’m genuinely unsure if Zdenek was intersex. He seems to have been pretty gender-nonconforming when read as a woman in his early life and seems to have retired from athletics because he was harassed by people wanting him to undergo invasive “gender checks” after his gold medals at the 1934 Olympics.

Apparently the current obsession with “defining gender in sport” has roots back to the 1930s. Athletes competing in female athletics have been forced to undergo a variety of examinations for the purpose of declaring them “female enough”. They seem to have never been pleasant, appropriate, or anything other than invasive and dehumanising, and they seem to have always focused on a) defining gender by physicality b) defined that physicality in fairly arbitrary ways that are actually incredibly difficult to relate to anything objective, despite a veneer of scientific objectivity.

I can entirely see why the threat of such harassment would have caused Zdenek to decide an athletic or adjacent career wasn’t worth undergoing it, whether he personally believed himself to be intersex or whether we would recognise him as such today. The term “intersex” has many definitions, and is often challenged by medical professionals if it could potentially cover too many people - e.g. medical professionals have repeatedly challenged the term when used by AFAB people with PCOS, which can cause fertility issues, hirstutism etc, purely on the grounds of “that would make around 10% of women intersex”. Zdenek simply publicly stated “I was wrongly assigned as female at birth” without giving any other details - as he had *every* right to. Some historians have characterised him as intersex based on this, and others simply as trans; he appears, very reasonably, to have preferred to preserve his privacy on the details.

Zdenek went on a lecture tour of the US talking about his life and transitioned in 1936. At the time of this photo, he was pursuing a career in cabaret in the US. He seems to have been reasonably successful but never settled there, returning home and marrying a cis woman with whom he lived happily for the rest of his life, dying in Prague aged 72 in 1986.

He joined a local rugby team along with his brother Jaroslov after WWII and seems to have been an enthusiastic amateur player. I hope he got a lot of joy out of it, which he does seem to have.

Like so many queer and trans histories, Zdenek’s is somewhat obscured because so much of what has been written about him is always skewed by the writer’s own perspectives about gender and transness. Including the drive to impose a false binary on trans experience - which I as a nonbinary person know is certainly not universally present.

There are, of course, *absolutely* trans people who always have a strong feeling of gender equating to “knowing they are a boy/girl from an early age”, and I in no way wish to erase them or their experiences, but it must also be noted and acknowledged there are plenty of us with different experiences. There are people like me who feel “wrong” in our assigned gender from pretty early in life, all the way down to having quite strong dysphoria in puberty and afterwards, but don’t strongly ID as the “opposite” binary gender either. There are people who rub along fine in their assigned gender, or who have many issues with it but don’t know what they equate to, until they have some experience presenting otherwise and suddenly experience strong gender euphoria for the first time in their lives. There are people who never feel anything much at all about gender and only ever do any identifying purely as a matter of convenience because a very binary society requires it.

Cis people seem to find the “always knew/born in the wrong body” narrative the easiest to relate to, and I can only assume that is because it is the narrative that allows them to challenge our society’s gender-essentialist, binarist worldview the *least*. It is considerably easier, and requires much less thought and critical attention, to say “I guess sometimes the occasional person is just mistakenly assigned to the wrong category” than to question those categories, why they exist, what they actually are, how they are imposed, and whether they actually mean anything at all in an objective sense.

I have no idea where Zdenek fell on any of this, or if his experience was very different in another way.

I posted this to, as ever, note that we are not a new phenomenon. Trans people are part of human history. We have always existed. We have always contributed. The way the society we lived in perceived us *and* how the societies our stories have passed through perceived us affect how our stories are told today, and those things can make it complex to uncover the lived experience of the trans person behind all of that. Queer and trans history must always be about acknowledging those facts and uncertainties while doing our best to find out as much as possible about the actual lived experiences of our siblings in the past.

[tveitertotwrites]

Question 1:

Brooklyn:

Top 5 Artists: Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, SIX: The Musical, Heathers: The Musical (Off Broadway Version), Olivia Rodrigo

Top 5 Songs: Cardigan - Taylor Swift, Don't Lose Ur Head - Andrea Macasaet, Love Story (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift, Candy Store - Heathers The Musical

Claire:

Top 5 Artists: Moulin Rouge!: The Musical, Taylor Swift, Heathers: The Musical, Jason Mraz, Aaron Tveit

Top 5 Songs: El Tango De Roxanne - Aaron Tveit, Don't Blame Me - Taylor Swift, You're on Your Own Kid - Taylor Swift, Seventeen - Heathers: The Musical, Crazy Rolling - Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Adelaide:

Top 5 Artists: SIX: The Musical, Lana Del Rey, Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Anastasia: The Musical

Top 5 Songs - Heart of Stone - Abby Muller, All You Wanna Do - Samantha Pauly, The Megasix - SIX: The Musical, Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Rey, closure - Taylor Swift

Charlie:

Top 5 Artists: Heathers: The Musical, Taylor Swift, R5, Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter

Top 5 Songs: Beautiful - Heathers: The Musical, Lifeboat - Heathers: The Musical, Meant to be Yours - Heathers: The Musical, London Boy - Taylor Swift, Smoke and Fire - Sabrina Carpenter

Question 2:

Brooklyn: She always loved Choir and Theatre. It allowed her to escape at times. She was also one of her teachers favorites (along with her siblings).

Claire: Her favorite was Science. She always had great teachers and she always did well.

Adelaide: Her favorite was History. Before she decided to pursue medicine, she wanted to be either a History teacher, or a History professor.

Charlie: During elementary and middle school her favorite was Science, as she got older, she had a really great English teacher and it became her favorite class.

Question 3:

Brooklyn: If she were the celeb on DWTS, I think she would probably be paired with Val Chmerkovskiy or Brandon Armstrong. If she were the pro, celebs I could see her paired with are Derek Klena or Milo Manheim.

Claire: If she were the celeb on DWTS, I think she would be paired with Gleb Savchenko or Pasha Paskov. If she were the pro, celebs I could see her paired with are Isaac Rochell or Jason Mraz.

Adelaide: If she were the celeb on DWTS, I could see her paired with Maks Chmerkovskiy or Val Chmerkovskiy. If she were the pro, celebs I could see her with are Aaron Tveit or Jordan Fisher.

Charlie: If she were the celeb on DWTS, I could see her paired with Alan Bersten or Daniella Karagach. If she were the pro, celebs I could see her paired with are Joseph Baena or Jules Leblanc.

And for the bonus, I'm rooting for Jason and Daniella.

Random Question Time (Week 14)

Random Question Time Rules:

Reblog your responses - this ensures that I can see your responses and should allow others to see your responses a little easier as well. There may be some general questions but it will mostly be within the Choices universe.

Be kind to other people - don't hate on someone for what they think fits in their universe and their characters, just because it's not the same as yours, doesn't mean it's wrong.

There will be three questions, you don't have to respond to all of them at once or even at all.

If you aren't currently apart of the tags and you want to be, reblog the post and I can add you (preferably reblog saying that you wanted to be added so that I don't have to assume)

Now anyone can participate at anytime (whether its 2 hours after posting or 5 years later), but if you would like to be tagged, let me know! I will try to have at least one question that most people can answer but I can't guarantee it every time.

Questions and Tags below the break.

Question 1: What is/What would be your MC's/OC's top 5 songs and artists for their spotify wrapped

Question 2: What was your MC's favorite school subject (from elementary to high school, we'll do college later)?

Question 3: If your MC's/OC's were on Dancing with the Stars as a celeb, who would be the pro they were paired with? If they were the pro, what celeb(s) would they be paired with?

Bonus Question: If you're interested in this season of DWTS, who are you rooting for?

Tags: @cariantha @delmissesryanandcassi @driverstveit @jerzwriter @liaromancewriter @peonierose @tessa-liam @zealouscanonindeer

[petpav]

Wood pulp production. Looks nice for lens, but I hate that smoke - non stop all year long - day and night.

[skewedwayoflife]

Loco & Jam - Snap Shot (Matt Sassari Remix) - SoundCloud

Listen to Loco & Jam - Snap Shot (Matt Sassari Remix) by Lyubomir Paskov on #SoundCloud

[katieamazeballs]

Speaking of the Paskovs.....I can’t figure out why they’re both in the DWTS apts. Didn’t they move to LA? Why isn’t one of them home?

[cinema-confidential]

Behind the scenes of the short criminal thriller "I know what you did".

Director: Stanislava Ivy DOP: Tomislav Mihaylov - Chocho BTS Camera: Krassimir Mihaylov Production Design: Andrea Popova Stylist: Mirela Vasileva Stayling Assistant: Gergana Ivanova First AD: Yana Alexieva Second AD: Lorina Kamburova Scriptor: Zuzi Asparuhova First AC: Vanq Ivanova Second AC: Sevastian Tonchev BTS Photographer: Diliana Florentin Camera Assistant: Veronika Hristova Sound on set: Svetozar Shenkov, Audiogenetik Ltd. Gaffer: Filip Penev, Georgi Penev, Daniel Savov, Nikola Lilovski Grip: Atanas Stoyanov. Andrey Slavkov, Anatoli Todorov MUAs: Slav Anastasov, Marina Mladenova, Evgenia Djaferovic, Alina Manova Hair: Georgi Petkov, Blagovesta Markova Editing and color: Vladislav Lakov Music Composer: Mario Grigorov UPM: Ivan Hristov, HandPlayed Productions Production coordinator: Krasimira Krasteva, HandPlayed Productions Produced by: Vlady Gerasimov, HandPlayed Productions, Nikolai Pavlov, Infinity Films, Jacqueline Wagenstein CineLibri, Stanislava Ivy

Cast: Michael McKell, Arsenia Ivanova, Claudia Grace McKell, Militsa Gladnishka, Vladimir Zombori, Leart Dokle, Ivan Paskov, Lorina Kamburova, Alexandar Ivanchev

[burningsuitpaper]

What the Best How does Cytisine work? Pros Do (and You Should Too)

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Tabex has an extensive impact on pathogenetic mechanisms of nicotine dependence:

The alkaloid cytisine is a robust antagonist of nicotine receptors.

Cytisine has broader therapeutic assortment than nicotine which makes its profile of motion safer.

Cytisine minimizes depressive signs and symptoms connected to discontinuation of nicotine intoxication.

When compared with nicotine, it's got Considerably weaker effect on the peripheral anxious method and hypertension

Inside your Mind

Cytisine is an agonist in the cholinoreceptors from vegetative ganglia and belong towards the team of gangliostimulating medicine. It excites the nicotine incredibly sensitive cholinoreceptors of your postsynaptic membranes at the vegetative ganglia, chromaffin cells on the molecular Component of the suprarenal gland and sinocarotid reflexogenic place, which results in excitation with the respiratory center, mainly all through the reflexes, simulation of adrenaline launch through the medullary side from the suprarenal glands plus a advancement during the blood pressure level. Adhering to its absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, cytisine performs the role of a smoking cigarettes substitution compound that decreases the period of conversation among smoking cigarettes and the corresponding receptors.

This subsequently causes the gradual minimize and cessation of smokers and bodily nicotine habit. A lot of scientists validate in various pharmacological experiments the connection between the medicinal Homes of cytisine and tobacco, How does Cytisine work? as described by Dale & Laidlaw and can also be supported by conclusions ofmore potent as ganglion-stimulating than as ganglioblocking Zachowsky, Anichkov, Dobrev and Paskov, Daleva, and so forth.much more powerful as ganglion-stimulating than as ganglioblocking substantially a lot more powerful as ganglion-stimulating than as ganglioblocking broker. Comparable results of The 2 medicine were being obtained in experiments on smoking cigarettes and cytisine is way more quantitative than qualitative. Equivalent effects of the two medicine had been acquired in experiments on rats and cats, or on guinea pig ileum and rat diaphragm, the doses of cytisine being 1/4 to two/three from the smoking dose. Technique, Cytisine features a weaker nerve procedure, Cytisine features a weaker influence as compared nerve technique.

[cysnews]

Manažer roku 2021

Ve 28. ročníku prestižní soutěže MANAŽER ROKU zvítězili Kateřina Kupková, ředitelka Lenzing Biocel Paskov, a Norbert Schellong, který vede Nemocnici Havířov.  Jejich příběhy mohou být inspirací pro zájemce o letošní ročník, jehož slavnostní vyhlášení proběhne 20. září 2022. Přihlášky je možné zasílat do 15. července. Formuláře jsou dostupné ke stažení na www.manazerroku.cz. (more…)

[prispru]

Пасков охарактеризовал кампанию

Пасков охарактеризовал кампанию по выборам лидера Болгарии http://vybor-naroda.org/lentanovostey/208280-paskov-oharakterizoval-kampaniju-po-vyboram-lidera-bolgarii.html

[petpav]

Post-industrial places has it’s character. Landscape around closed coal mine.

Paskov, 20.2.2020

[katieamazeballs]

It's Pasha/Daniella's first DWTS tour. Give 'em a break if they're enthusiastic and having a blast and want to document their travels together. Nothing different from ott Valenna and their barrage of pics from a couple of years ago (that y'all just looooved back in the day) when they got back together again.

I’m sorry, did I say anything bad about the Paskovs? I just mentioned them because they post their breakfast every day and their wandering. None of the other pros do....arguably because when they post they are stalkable and the Pashkovs are the least recognizable of the pros because they’re the new guys.

[vannieschu-blog]

Enjoying this tiny Czech town. . . . #czechsdrinkbeerandbike #vansadventures #dontgetlost (at Paskov, Moravskolezský Kraj, Czech Republic) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bJH-7D7Qb/?igshid=1rfftsujsklbp

[cysnews]

Manažery roku 2020 jsou Kateřina Kupková řídící závod na buničinu a ředitel Nemocnice Havířov Norbert Schellong

Manažery roku 2020 jsou Kateřina Kupková řídící závod na buničinu a ředitel Nemocnice Havířov Norbert Schellong

Soutěž Manažer roku už 28 let vyhledává a oceňuje nejlepší manažerské osobnosti, podnikatele a lídry v České republice. V letošním ročníku se podruhé v historii stala absolutní vítězkou žena. Národní komise udělila nejvyšší hodnocení Kateřině Kupkové, generální manažerce závodu na buničinu Lenzing Biocel Paskov. Nejlepším manažerem se stal Norbert Schellong, jenž kromě řízení Nemocnice Havířov…

[theloniousbach]

KDHX, 16 June 2019, “Music from the Hills” (Macedonian)

In many ways, this show was a redo of one of my last run.  There is nothing wrong with more Macedonian/Northern Greek music as it reflects a crossroads and very porous cultural boundaries.  What I thought missing last time was Sephardic music as Thessaloniki was one of the places folks settled after 1492.Savina Yannatou has a brilliant album, “Primavera en Salonica” that I wish I had played last time.  I included some Victoria Hazan and Voice of the Turtle too and the interplay with Esma Redezpova and others was fun to explore even if the selections were not geographically perfect.

I also shaded things more Greek than last time.  But, I wasn’t doing fine grained musicological analysis, rather I was suggesting some relationships and, above all, just playing stuff I liked from the questions I posed of the regular host and his CD collection.

It tickled me in the first hour to do a “Grewish” section--2 parts Sephardic, 2 parts Greek--to borrow dear friend Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis’s celebration of how our heritages would mash up. ��And, similarly, I did a run of wedding music in the second hour.

I had one community radio scare as I started an important announcement out of order, but last week there was a 10 minute power outage.  The song entry system for Spinitron changed and felt more demanding.  But it’s all minor.

Here’s the playlist, note that it starts at the end and works backwards:

5:52 PM Ilija Ampevski "Pembe, Pembe" from Macedonian Dance & Belly Dance Collection on Mister Company 

 5:47 PM Dragi Spasovski With The Stefče Stojkovski Ensemble "Zaspala Jana, Janinka" from Echo of My Soul—Ekoto Na Mojata Duša on Izvor Music 

5:43 PM Halkina Ihokromata "Pousteno" from Horendos sti Makedonis on Ziagsoe 

 5:37 PM Xanthippi Karathanassi "What Ails You, Poor Girl?" from Songs and tunes of Macedonia on Crete University Press 

 5:34 PM Usnija Jasarova "The Young Bride (Ustili Caj Rano Sabajle)" from Songs of the Macedonian Gypsy on Monitor Records 

5:30 PM Strune "Nevesto, mori nevesto (Oh, Bride)" from Traditional Music from Macedonia on ARC 

5:25 PM Traïcho Sinapov & Dimiter Paskov "Wedding Melodies and Kyustendiska Rûchenitsa" from Horos and Rachenitsas on Balkanton (LP) 

5:22 PM Voice of the Turtle "Ken Es Akeyo De La Meniana" from Balkan Vistas - Spanish Dreams: Music of the Spanish Jews of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia on Titanic 

5:14 PM Stefce Stojkovski "Staro Pirinsko Oro" from From the Well of the Pirin Mountains on self 

5:11 PM Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico "Alta es la Luna" from Primavera en Salonico on Lyra 

5:07 PM Xanthippi Karathanasi "Poulaki Kseno" from Unforgotten Homelands on Universal 

5:01 PM Milan Zavkov "Gajdarsko Oro" from The Very Best of Macedonia on ARC music 

4:55 PM Adrijana Alački "Makedonsko Devoojche" from Regards From Macedonia Vol. 1 on self

4:49 PM Goran Alački "Pajdushka" from For the Next Generations on self 

4:45 PM Dragi Spasovski "Oro Vodi Angelina" from Echo of My Soul on Izvor Music 

4:40 PM Ferus Mustafov "Medley (: Staro Cunovo Oro/Velesko Oro)" from King Ferus on Ace Records 

4:34 PM Xanthippe Karathanassi "Go Outside, Mother" from Tunes and Songs of Macedonia on Crete University Press 

4:30 PM Zizis Kokkinopoulos "Lytos" from Akousmata Kendro-Dytikes Makedonías on Fora 

4:26 PM Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico "Nani, Nani" from Spring in Salonica on Lyra 

4:23 PM Victoria Hazan "Mis Penserios Gazel" from Todas Mis Esperansas on Global Village Music 

4:18 PM Ilija Ampevski "Ampevo Oro" from Dance & Belly Dance on Mister Company 

4:13 PM Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico "El Sueno de la hija del rey" from Spring in Salonica on Lyra 

4:10 PM Halkina Ihokromata "Makedoniko Syrto" from Horeondos sti Makodonia on Zlogasoe 

4:06 PM Esma Redzepova "The Deceitful Shepherd (Jolandji Coban)" from Songs of the Macedonian Gypsy on Monitor Records 

4:03 PM Pece Atanasovski "Odeono" from Macedonian Folk Dances vol 1 on Moreau-Bouche