#quaker ladies

[angeloftheodd]

The Quaker Ladies at Gay City don’t mind if I step on them. 🌸🤍🏳️‍🌈

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[chickenmeow]

[faguscarolinensis]

Houstonia caerulea / Azure Bluet at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC

[h-y-d-r-aa-n-g-e-aa]

A list of my favourite flowers!! ♡

-Hydrangeas

-Rhododendrons

-Forget Me Nots

-Snowdrops

-Roses

-Lilies of the Valley

-Dandelions

-Daisies

-Quaker Ladies

♡♡♡

[reddirttown]

Language of Flowers: Houstonia

In the language of flowers, every day has its own designated flower. Today, November 18, that flower is Houstonia, which signifies contentment. Image from Wikipedia. Houstonia caerulea, also known as azure bluet and Quaker ladies, is native to the eastern United States and Canada. Well-loved for its delicate light-blue flowers, this tiny plant thrives in moist woodlands. The Cherokee used an…

[amor-madonna]

𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 🍎🌼💚

[pourablecat]

Another way Carpe Jugulum could've gone:

Oh, but boba's way too cutesy! Granny can't be having with it! That's where you're wrong. Boba is exactly the kind of thing somebody who takes tea with ten sugars and a jug of milk would drink. Also, the presence of a straw means there will be vampiric-sounding slurping.

Extra cursed Nanny reaction under cut:

[cruelsister-moved2]

lecturer pulling up a slide entitled 'judeo-christian tradition' and not only is it full of stuff about original sin etc but we're also literally talking about a period in which jews were exiled from england. another day on this earth

[digestionmachine]

snow mesa, colorado trail, july 2022

[arc-angel-o]

If Julian Schwartz is from Pennsylvania, what about QUAKER TOAD?!

[angeloftheodd]

I still fantasize about the Quaker Ladies I met at Gay City. 🤍 Take me to the nearest flower field ASAP! 🌼

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[chickenmeow]

[queerism1969]

Notable transgender people from history

Here's the list I put together for when people on non-trans subreddits claim we didn't exist until recently:

Ashurbanipal (669-631BCE) - King of the Neo-Assryian empire, who according to Diodorus Siculus is reported to have dressed, behaved, and socialized as a woman.

Elagabalus (204-222) - Roman Emperor who preferred to be called a lady and not a lord, presented as a woman, called herself her lover's queen and wife, and offered vast sums of money to any doctor able to make her anatomically female.

Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (1286-1328) - French Jewish philosopher who wrote poetry about longing to be a woman.

Eleanor Rykener (14th century) - trans woman in London who was questioned under charges of sex work

[Thomas(ine) Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas(ine)_Hall) - (1603-unknown) - English servant in colonial Virginia who alternated between presenting as a woman and presenting as a man, before a court ruled that they were both a man and a woman simultaneously, and were required to wear both men's and women's clothing simultaneously.

Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810) - French diplomat, spy, freemason, and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War, who transitioned at the age of 49 and lived the remaining 33 years of her life as a woman.

Public Universal Friend (1752-1819) - Quaker religious leader in revolutionary era America who identified and lived as androgynous and genderless.

Surgeon James Barry (1789-1865) - Trans man and military surgeon in the British army.

Berel - a Jewish trans man who transitioned in a shtetel in Ukraine in the 1800's, and whose story was shared with the Jewish Daily Forward in a 1930 letter to the editor by Yeshaye Kotofsky, a Jewish immigrant in Brooklyn who knew Berel

Mary Jones (1803-unknown) - trans woman in New York whose 1836 trial for stealing a man's wallet received much public attention

Albert Cashier (1843-1915) - Trans man who served in the US Civil War.

Harry Allen (1882-1922) - Trans man who was the subject of sensationalistic newspaper coverage for his string of petty crimes.

Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886–1954) - socialite, chef and hostess in Oxnard California, whose family and doctors supported her transition at a young age.

Lili Elbe (1882-1931) - Trans woman who underwent surgery in 1930 with Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran one of the first dedicated medical facilities for trans patients.

Karl M. Baer (1885-1956) - Trans man who underwent reconstructive surgery (the details of which are not known) in 1906, and was legally recognized as male in Germany in 1907.

Dr. Alan Hart (1890-1962) - Groundbreaking radiologist who pioneered the use of x-ray photography in tuberculosis detection, and in 1917 he became one of the first trans men to undergo hysterectomy and gonadectomy in the US.

[Louise Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Lawrence_(activist)) (1912–1976) - trans activist, artist, writer and lecturer, who transitioned in the early 1940's. She struck up a correspondence with the groundbreaking sexologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey as he worked to understand sex and gender in a more expansive way. She wrote up life histories of her acquaintances for Kinsey, encouraged peers to do interviews with him, and sent him a collection of newspaper clippings, photographs, personal correspondences, etc.

Dr. Michael Dillon (1915-1962) - British physician who updated his birth certificate to Male in the early 1940's, and in 1946 became the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty.

Reed Erickson (1917-1992) - trans man whose philanthropic work contributed millions of dollars to the early LGBTQ rights movement

Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax (1916-1992) - early 20th century gospel quartet singer.

Peter Alexander (unknown, interview 1937) - trans man from New Zealand, discusses his transition in this interview from 1937

Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989) - The first widely known trans woman in the US in 1952, after her surgery attracted media attention.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (1940-present) - Feminist, trans rights and gay rights activist who came out and started transition in the late 1950's. She was at Stonewall, was injured and taken into custody, and had her jaw broken by police while in custody. She was the first Executive Director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project, which works to end human rights abuses against trans/intersex/GNC people in the prison system.

Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer and community worker in NYC; co-founded STAR, a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women

Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer; co-founded STAR with Sylvia Rivera

[thesimline]

1700s WOMEN - LOOKBOOK (1740 to 1769)

Ooooo boy, have I been looking forward to putting this lookbook together! Fashion in the middle 18th century saw the absolute peak in ostentatious excess. Dress historian Aileen Ribeiro categorises this period as "the triumph of rococo". Hoops, or paniers as they were known, were at their very widest to support the outrageously sized gowns of the aristocracy. Lace, bows and feathers were the trimmings de jour.

OUTFIT RESOURCES

Noblewoman: Feathers, Hair & Hair Flowers | Earrings (TSR) | Face Powder & Blush | Beauty Mark One (retired - direct download) | Beauty Mark Two | Necklace (TSR) | Dress Base | Dress Trim | Bouquet | Fan

Court Lady: Hat | Hair | Earrings | Choker | Dress | Brooch | Shoes

Venetian Lady: Hat | Head Scarf | Mask (TSR) | Beauty Mark (retired - direct download) | Undershirt | Dress Base | Dress Trim | Gloves (TSR)

French Lady: Hat & Hair | Face Powder & Blush (TSR) | Earrings (TSR) | Choker | Dress | Bouquet | Gloves

American Quaker: Cap | Fichu | Dress (TSR)

Middle Class Woman: Hat | Hair | Earrings (Curseforge) | Fichu & Lace Trim | Undershirt | Dress

Countrywoman: Hat | Hair | Dress

Flower Seller: Cap | Hair | Fichu | Dress | Basket (flowers added in post) | Hose (TSR) | Boots

With thanks to some amazing creators: @simulatedstyles @elfdor @historicalsimslife @anachrosims

[handweavers]

kiran handweavers informal thesis on the 4 general naming conventions for streets in halifax and dartmouth, as follows:

1. Upper Street, Lower Street, North Street, South Street, Spring Garden Street (has gardens in the spring), Water St (near water), First St, Second St, Third St and so on

2. Dead white settler names ranging from 'old lady who ran the first orphanage' to 'name of boat that brought a lot of settlers' to 'guy who literally killed hundreds of people for money and power in 1832'

2a. Quaker shit like Jubilee St, Bliss St

2b. The most Celtic looking word you've ever seen west of the Emerald Isle

3. Names related to Maroon communities who escaped slavery in the West Indies as well as Africans who escaped bondage in the US and built the Afro-Nova Scotian community, and their Descendents (ex. Africville)

3a. Sometimes this overlaps with 2b, due to the presence of Irish and Scottish slaveowners and landlords in the Americas

4. Indigenous names and words, typically some variation of 'Micmac' (Mi'kmaq) including a shopping mall

[whencyclopedia]

Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison (1768-1849), born Dolley Payne, was a prominent American First Lady, a function she held both during the presidency of her husband, James Madison, and for his predecessor, the widower Thomas Jefferson. Known for her elegance and charm, Madison acted as hostess of the White House, helping to define the role of the presidential spouse.

Early Life

Dolley Payne was born in the Quaker community of New Garden in Guilford County, North Carolina (present-day Greensboro), on 20 May 1768. She was one of eight children born to John Payne, a merchant, and his wife Mary Coles Payne, both of whom came from prominent Virginian families. Shortly after Dolley's birth, the family moved back to Virginia; although their reasons for moving are unclear, some historians have speculated that they had failed at business in North Carolina and wanted a fresh start, or that they were facing discrimination because of their Quaker religion. In any case, the family settled on a 176-acre farm in Hanover County, Virginia, where Dolley grew up. She spent her childhood working the land alongside her parents and siblings and was given a strict Quaker education.

Although John Payne had not been born into the Society of Friends – he had adopted the religion in 1765 to please his Quaker wife – he quickly proved a devoted Quaker himself. He stayed out of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) to adhere to the Quaker doctrine of pacifism, and his family was not much affected by the fighting. Prior to his conversion, Payne had been a slaveholder, but now became "doubtful and afterwards conscientiously scrupulous about…holding slaves as property" (quoted in Feldman, 384). He desperately wanted to emancipate his slaves, but, since Virginia forbade voluntary manumission, Payne was forced to pack up his family and move them yet again. This time, they went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was not only the second largest city in the newly independent United States but also a bastion of Quakerism. Here, Payne freed his slaves and moved his family into a house on North Third Street. Partnering with his oldest son, he opened a business to manufacture and sell starch.

In Philadelphia, 15-year-old Dolley continued her Quaker education. Her father forbade her studies from including music or dancing, which most young ladies of her status were expected to know; indeed, Dolley's niece would later write that the Payne daughters were denied "the acquirement of those graceful and ornamental accomplishments which are too generally considered the most important parts of the female education" (quoted in Feldman, 384). Still, the teenage Dolley had no lack of suitors, all of whom she rejected so as to not "relinquish her girlhood" (ibid). But Dolley could not expect to remain a spinster forever, especially not once her family began to fall on hard times. John Payne's starch manufacturing business had never taken off and finally failed in 1789. He then decided to put the money saved from the sale of the Virginia farm into speculative land investments but soon lost this money as well. Payne suddenly found that his family was "reduced to poverty", although the biggest blow of all was when he found himself ostracized from Quaker meetings for his poor financial management.

Distraught and desperate, John Payne arranged for Dolley to marry John Todd, a young lawyer and a Quaker. Dolley accepted – whether there was any love between her and Todd, or whether she was just playing the dutiful daughter, is unknown. In any case, they were married in January 1790, although the Paynes were unable to provide a dowry. John Payne lived long enough to see his daughter married off before dying in October 1792, having never recovered from the stresses of his failures. In the shadow of her father's death, Dolley Payne Todd gave birth to two children of her own: her oldest son, John Payne Todd (called Payne) was born on 29 February 1792, while a second son, William Todd, was born on 4 July 1793. As Dolley was settling into her new life as a mother, little could she have known that it all would soon be upended by death and tragedy.

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