#summer 1936

[internatlvelvet]

Loretta Young and Janet Gaynor on set of Ladies in Love in 1936.

[justinssportscorner]

Alex Abad-Santos at Vox:

Despite being a time when people from all over the world come together in equality and peace, the Olympics are still uncertain territory for transgender athletes. There are no transgender athletes who are competing outside of the gender they were assigned at birth at this year’s Games. Transgender women who transitioned after puberty aren’t allowed to compete in major sports on a college level. Athletes Nikki Hiltz, a runner, and Hergie Bacyadan, a boxer, both identify as transgender (Hiltz also identifies as nonbinary), but both have always and continue to compete in the women’s division, which is the sex they were assigned at birth. Athletes who do not identify as trans, like Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, have also been scrutinized for their gender. Along with China’s Lin Yu-ting, Khelif is one of two women boxers who failed a “sex test” from the International Boxing Association last year. They have since been connected to discussions of sports and Differences of Sexual Development (DSD), a rare group of genetic and hormonal disorders allowed under International Olympic Committee guidelines. After Khelif’s Italian competitor Angela Carini conceded their match less than a minute into their bout, many have weighed in, including Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling.

Outside of the Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear. It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way? The answers found in historian and journalist Michael Waters’s The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of Zdeněk Koubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.

Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s. Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for eugenics, gender anxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into gender surveillance and trans panic — stuff that eerily mirrors the transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today.

Anti-trans discrimination in the Olympics stretches as far back as the infamous 1936 games in Berlin.

[dandyads]

BVD, 1936

Theme Week: Summer ☀️

[stone-cold-groove]

German spas. Where nature cures. Vintage travel poster - circa 1935.

[illustratus]

XI. Olympische Spiele Berlin 1936 | XI Olympic Games Berlin 1936

Ich rufe die Jugend der Welt! I Call the Youth of the World!

[winnix85]

"Nixon was a hard drinker, a free spirit who enjoyed the wild life and partied with the best of them."----Dick Winters

[rabbitcruiser]

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic on November 12, 1936.

[artdecoandmodernist]

Andreas Feininger for Life Magazine. 1936

[tomoleary]

Otto von Hanno “Summer in Norway” (1936)

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[darshanan-blog]

Boys in a Boat: Movie Review

When I read Daniel James Brown’s acclaimed book “Boys in a Boat”, I fell in love with rowing. When I saw the movie by the same name, I fell in love with Callum Turner who gives a thoughtful, heartrending performance as Joe Rantz. Many interesting details from the book are missing in the movie but it is just as inspirational and elegant. Drawing on the true events from newspaper articles, photos,…

[panafrocore]

Jesse Owens: A Legacy of Courage, Athletic Triumph & Who Single-handedly Crushed Hitler's Myth of Aryan Supremacy

James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens (September 12, 1913–March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. Owens was known as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history” during his career. He specialised in sprints and long jumps. At the 1935 Big Ten track meet at Ann Arbour, Michigan, he set three world records and tied…

[internatlvelvet]

Loretta Young on set of Ladies in Love in 1936.

[boundlss]

@starwonderz / this might be a baccano starter call. ( laz smith )

"Hotshots who try to silence the gunfire aren't worth anything in my eyes. You can try all you want, but you'll never catch a bullet, or the smoke from my barrel. You're not even partway to interpreting my message correctly, but you should consider yourself lucky for your lack of insanity. Only I take the time to decipher the beauty in this fine weapon's destruction. Only I could."

Saying some things that don't ultimately have wider meaning in response to a rather reasonable request to put his guns away for the moment, Laz huffs.

"You have no reason to believe in my talent, it's true---but if I'd wanted to shoot to kill, someone would have dropped." Most people wouldn't say a thing like that with a smile on their face, but Laz can't help feeling a little cool. Most people who know him well don't bother to pretend to find him impressive or intimidating. The young performer before him hasn't purposefully done either, but he's put weight behind the drawn gun that his close acquaintances understand isn't there.

Most of the time, he's firing for his own pleasure. Killing someone for real, even in self defense, would probably make him sick.

"But, there you have it. I've lain my lunacy aside for your petty demands, and the songs have ceased. In other words, it wouldn't have mattered whether or not I shot anyone; they've been scared off. I wonder what complaints you can conjure about the beautiful instrument of mine that saved your skin just now."

[dolceaspidenera]

We all know at this point that the name Astarion is connected to the word "star" (starry or little star).

But Larian decided that they wanted to go all in with the details and they delivered!

The flower you can place on his tomb in the final romance scene (which I think is such a cute and tender gesture and I love his reaction to it), seems to be an Ornithogalum umbellatum, a star-shaped white flower with six petals. Among the plant's many common names, there are summer snowflake, starflower, and star-of-Bethlehem.

Moreover, in the language of flowers, its meanings are related to trauma, mourning, and welcoming pain without repressing it.

According to Doctor Edward Bach (1886 – 1936), these flowers are "For those who find themselves in a state of great anguish due to situations that, in a given period, have caused so much unhappiness", and can be used to help with the aftermath of a trauma, the alleviation of pain and the mourning process.

Edit: every time I see an artist include this flower in their Astarion fanart my heart swells with joy. Love this community

[stone-cold-groove]

Handy Guide-Map Through Berlin. Issued for the Games of the XI Olympiad - 1936 Summer Olympics.

[dirjoh-blog]

The survival story of Ben Bril.

It’s hard to believe that the only time an Olympic games was held in the Netherlands, is nearly 100 years ago, the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. One of the competing Dutch athletes was Ben Bril. Ben (Barend) Bril was born on July 16, 1912 in Amsterdam, the host city for the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was one of seven children to Jewish parents Klaartie Moffie and Abraham Bril, who worked as a…