#women's march dc 2017

[sugaredge]

lynzway: Womb tang clan ain't nothin to fuck with. @fairouxx @kylieriot @alka_seltzer666

[tracychamberlainhigginbotham]

(via Teaching Our Sons to Advocate for Women)

[contemplatingoutlander]

A Trump judge sends Southwest Airlines to right-wing reeducation camp

Ruth Marcus does an excellent job of pointing out how another Trump appointed judge (from Texas) is stomping on the Constitution when it comes to the separation of church and state. The judge in this case doesn't seem to understand the difference between people being allowed to hold religious beliefs and religious people harassing others who don't share their religious beliefs. The article is well worth reading. Here are some excerpts:

Another day, another extremist ruling by another extremist Trump judge, and this decision — from Texas, no surprise — is straight out of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The judge held lawyers for Southwest Airlines in contempt of court for their actions in a religious-discrimination case brought by a former flight attendant and ordered them to undergo “religious liberty training.” And not just any instruction, but training conducted by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative group that litigates against same-sex marriage, transgender rights and abortion rights. [emphasis added] The issue arises from a lawsuit filed by Charlene Carter, a flight attendant for more than 20 years and a longtime antagonist of the Southwest flight attendants union. In 2017, after union members attended the Women’s March under a “Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants” banner, Carter sent Facebook messages to the union president containing graphic antiabortion messages.

[See more under the cut.]

“This is what you supported during your Paid Leave with others at the Women’s MARCH in DC …. You truly are Despicable in so many ways,” Carter wrote in one message accompanying a video of an aborted fetus. After the union president complained, Southwest fired Carter, saying her conduct “crossed the boundaries of acceptable behavior,” was “inappropriate, harassing, and offensive,” and “did not adhere to Southwest policies and guidelines.” An arbitrator found that Southwest had just cause for the firing. Carter, represented by the National Right to Work Committee, sued, claiming Southwest and the union violated her rights under federal labor laws and Title VII. The federal job-bias law bars employers from discriminating on the basis of religion, and Carter claimed she was dismissed because of her sincerely held religious beliefs against abortion. [...] The scary part is what came next. [U.S. District Judge Brantley] Starr instructed the airline to “inform Southwest Flight Attendants that, under Title VII, [Southwest] may not discriminate against Southwest flight attendants for their religious practices and beliefs.” Instead, Southwest said in a message to staff that the court “ordered us to inform you that Southwest does not discriminate against our Employees for their religious practices and beliefs.” This sent Starr into orbit.... “In the universe we live in — the one where words mean something — Southwest’s notice didn’t come close to complying with the Court’s order,” Starr said. “To make matters worse,” he said, Southwest had circulated a memo about the decision to its employees repeating its view that Carter’s conduct was unacceptable and emphasizing the need for civility. “Southwest’s speech and actions toward employees demonstrate a chronic failure to understand the role of federal protections for religious freedom,” Starr decreed. He proceeded to order three Southwest lawyers to undergo eight hours of religious-liberty training — a move he described as “the least restrictive means of achieving compliance with the Court’s order.” Luckily, Starr observed, “there are esteemed nonprofit organizations that are dedicated to preserving free speech and religious freedom.” [...] Adjectives fail me here. This is not even close to normal.... the notion of subjecting lawyers to a reeducation campaign by the likes of the ADF is tantamount to creating a government-endorsed thought police. Imagine the uproar — and I’m not suggesting these groups are in any way comparable — if a liberal-leaning federal judge ordered instruction on women’s rights (those are constitutionally protected, too) by Planned Parenthood. [...] This is the alarming legacy that former president Donald Trump has left us — a skewed bench that he would augment if reelected. The Trump judges seem to be competing among themselves for who can engage in the greatest overreach. [...] Conservatives are quick to balk at anything resembling the order that Starr issued when they disagree with the underlying principle. [...] I need no excuses for calling this what it is: a reeducation program — outrageous, unconstitutional and an abuse of judicial authority. [emphasis added]

[notjustpictures]

Shot by Nafisah Muhtar

The 2017 Women’s March at the Monument in Washington DC, known to be the largest single-day protest in Modern U.S. history. The march ensued Trump’s inauguration against Hilary Clinton, and it was prompted by his several remarks suggesting that you can get away with gender-based attacks as long as you have power. I was 15 years old, and a friend’s mom took us to the protest and ensured our safety. I will never forget.

[grison-in-space]

I'm slowly beginning to realize that it was maybe not as ordinary as I thought to have this experience, but I know I was not remotely the only kid knocking around in those spaces, and most of the ones I was in had pretty gigantic overlaps with one another.

It's a mind fuck to find yourself involved in not one but two online communities trading speculative theories and making stupid jokes online about emojis as a teenager, making your own comments and forming your own ideas... and then find those ideas showing up in more and more prestigious and formal places. Wait. Shit. 3 — I've been in nonbinary communities since at latest 2009. That's not quite teenagery but I was definitely reading along in autism liberation circles as well as asexual or queer spaces by probably about 2004. It's such a weird place to watch people successfully pull off almost silent social revolutions.

Uh, and then I got gay immigration married in the year between Windsor and Obergefell, and then there's the two years of climate change-driven housing and the time at the 2017 DC women's march where on the night before the Trump inauguration my grandparents abandoned me and my spouse on the side of the road after picking a truly apocalyptic fight, which was both absurdly dramatic and absurdly reflective of what felt like the zeitgeist.

Do—this is objectively a list of unusual experience that yields a particular set of insights, right? That's not just me imagining things to feel special or something?

Is—is that self esteem?

[lenayener]

LENA YENER —

cis female & she/her

32

august 8, 1991

artist / owner of the broken spine

south addition

biography

lightening round —

born and raised in washington dc. parents emigrated from turkey. father was a diplomat and mother still works as a translator/interpreter 

had a very strict and conservative upbringing. suffered abuse at the hands of a family member and was kept in silence about it

went to nyc for university and her first art project. the first exlorations into her art and ideas began with photography at music festivals, art directing for advertisements and magazines, and music videos

met her first partner and began a relationship with them during this time, even asked them to move back to washington dc with her when her time in nyc came to an end

the relationship always felt as though it were missing something and as though lena kept coming up short. when a new project came up and lena was to relocate for her work (to anchorage) she asked her partner to come with her and proposed. the no on both counts was devastating but she poured her pain into her work. plus it went along with the theme of her life

the move to anchorage was only meant to be temporary but lena ended up in a rebound relationship that fulfilled a void and she ended up staying even after her project was complete. making a home in anchorage and traveling when necessary

upon settling into anchorage, lena opened a book bar called the broken spine and has too much fun running it

as with anything else in her life relating to love, the rebound relationship eventually came to an end. leaving lena to stop making her work about heartbreak and push for something greater

a few of her projects/series have brought her international attention and acclaim. the first being, ‘i could not protect her’, a multimedia work, both her signature cinematic still photography along with a silent film detail her journey though abuse and the unchecked actions by the abuser. the next being her series titled “3ieb!” in arabic / “shame on me!” in english. a series that equally caused an uproar and gave voice to hundreds of thousands of middle eastern women all over the world

recently lena has been dipping her toe into video work once again, beginning to shift away from her decade long photography medium by publishing a book of a compilation of all her work. a little different from the music videos she’d produced in the past and her recent foray into short film, lena is interested in moving forward in long-form video work

the positive shift in her love life, experiencing real love for the first time without the usual toxicity she’d fallen into in the past and finally experiencing healthy love has also made a big difference

+ art series —

sex and takeout

summer without a pool

for arabella

this is not for you

i love you, me neither

i could not protect her

bonjour bitch

3ieb!

fool me twice

dear love

( + 10 more )

+ film —

not ok

think about you

what’s love got to do with it

i _ _ _ _ you

+ exhibitions —

2018

women’s choice awards - conversations, panelist, los angeles, nov 2018

artnews x miami art basel week panelist - “how art is used as a platform to influence current issues” - miami, dec 2018

vogue italia - photo vogue festival - base milano - nov 15- 18

the museum of pizza new york

the canon creator class toronto - solo show and talk - sept 27

solo exhibition - splash - milan - larusmiani, level 2 - june 27 - july 20

solo exhibition - splash - london lawrence alkin gallery - june 8- 22

solo exhibition - fuck me, fuck you - new york - castle fitzjohns gallery - march 10- april 8

international women’s day dinner hosted by sarah bahbah and the edition hotel - march 9

nyfw valentine's day party - indulgence of the alter ego - public arts

solo exhibition - fuck me, fuck you- hvw8 gallery, west hollywood. jan 13- jan 21.

la art show - jan 11-14

2017

first solo exhibition - the w miami dec 7-10

the lobby of nautilus, a sixty hotel, miami until december 31, 2017.

scope miami beach, 5-10 december 2017

sofa chicago

start saatchi gallery, london

la art show 2017, los angeles

scope art fair, new york

art market, san francisco

art! vancouver

scope basel, switzerland

art market, hamptons

2016

zonamaco, mexico

scope art fair, switzerland

enough space, melbourne

affordable art fair, new york

art south hampton, new york

art new york, new york

pop up at the refinery hotel, new york

art wynwood miami, florida

cushnie et ochs pop up store, retail lab, new york

scope art fair, miami beach

2015

affordable art fair, new york

art 15, london

texas contemporary, houston, texas

art wynwood miami, florida

contemporary istanbul, turkey

scope art fair, miami beach

art toronto, canada

+ press —

featured in publications such as: vogue, paper, nylon, new york times, new york post, forbes, gq, glamour, elle, cosmopolitan, buzzfeed, plus more...

[thalialunacy]

Finally put my pride flag up this weekend. I bought it originally for the January 2017 Women's March in DC, which was one of the top five absolute fuck-all obliteratingly intense experiences of my life, and I like to think she carries some of that energy still.

[reasoningdaily]

Last weekend the Texas-based white supremacist group Patriot Front took to the streets of Washington, D.C., to rally in the nation’s capital.

Law enforcement was on hand to make sure no one from either side lashed out and disrupted the peace.

Related: ‘Huge Surprise’: Fox Political Commentator Tomi Lahren Dragged for Calling White Supremacy a ‘Boogeyman’ That Is Used to ‘Fire Up’ the Masses

On Saturday, May 13, the self-styled patriots were lined up in rows wearing boots, tan pants, blue shirts, white face masks and tan dad caps with the logo of the organization in the center as they presented themselves for their demonstration. According to videos that circulated on social media, various members carried upside-down American flags, shields, and drums as they walked.

The signs bore their mantra, “Reclaim America,” and the members chanted “life, liberty, victory.”

The Washington D.C. branch of the Anti-Defamation League released a statement expressing its disgust at the rally.

“We are disgusted by the actions of Patriot Front today in DC. This white supremacist group known for its flash demonstrations marched on the National Mall carrying banners spewing their hateful rhetoric,” the civil rights organization stated. “Since 2019, Patriot Front has been responsible for the vast majority of white supremacist propaganda distributions in the US. The group has neo-Nazi roots and held four large demonstrations in several cities in 2022. We strongly condemn their presence and messages of hate.”

Also in 2019, the FBI established the Domestic Terrorism-Hate Crimes Fusion Cell, a division created to combat domestic terrorism in the country and fight for justice for victims of hate crimes. 

The ADL published a report in March that showed a 38 percent rise in white supremacist activity from 2021 to 2022. This number represented over 6,700 incidents that transpired over the year span, according to Newsweek.

Fueling the rise is a belief in the “replacement theory.” Some 66 percent of white Christian nationalism sympathizers and 81 percent of adherents believe immigrants are “invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background.”

Religion and white nationalism have been twin spirits for over a hundred years, with many early white supremacist groups considering their missions sanctioned by God.

The University of Chicago reported in 2017 the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, America’s oldest hate group, in the 1920s. was rooted in “fierce religious bigotry” and “xenophobia.” Those themes echoed those that inspired the group’s founding during Reconstruction, when many whites believed the newly emancipated Blacks were going to take over their nation, drive crime up, and infect the nation (and white women) with their sexual depravity.

Like the Patriot Front, the KKK lived by a concept of “one hundred percent Americanism.”

Kelly Baker, an essayist on the topic for the university’s religion and culture forum, said, “Religion remains a prominent part of the Klan … though many would like to pretend that it’s not.” 

“The changing social climate in the U.S., including immigration, urbanization, and the migration of African Americans, made the Klan’s white, patriotic, and Protestant message appealing to white men and white women,” Baker added. “Their popular nativism was a backlash to the changing demographics and the changing culture of the nation.”

Ultimately, Baker says The Klan’s appeal is because it tells “a story of the importance of white Protestants from the nation’s founding until the 1920s, and their artifacts—the robes, the fiery cross, and the American flag—materialized the order’s commitment to Protestantism, white supremacy, and 100% Americanism.”

Like its masked social descendants the Patriot Front, the KKK also marched on Washington D.C. almost 100 years ago. In 1925 and 1926, the Klan organized two parades to canvass Pennsylvania Avenue. Reports say thousands attended both marches, with 30,000 being the accepted number for the latter demonstration.

Saturday’s Patriot Front march was considerably smaller.

The Patriot Front was founded in 2017 by Thomas Rousseau in Texas. Members of the organization “define themselves as American fascists or American nationalists who are focused on preserving America’s identity as a European-American one.”

[shesholy]

𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖓𝖊     .     initial     .

full     name:   leighton     huntley     valmont     . nicknames,     aliases:

hunter     valmont     .     (          known     publicly     as         )

lord     of     the     night     .     (         by     fans     /     teammates          )

age:   twenty     -     seven     . date     of     birth:    february     seventh     . place     of     birth:   16th     arrondissement     ,     paris     ,     france     . hometown:     upper     east     side     ,     new     york     city     ,     new     york     . nationality:     french     -     american     . languages     spoken:     french     ,     english     ,     spanish     .

zodiac     sign:    aquarius     . hogwarts     house:    slytherin     . myers     -    briggs:   entj     -     t     .

occupation:    professional     soccer     player     and     philanthropist     . notable     career     details:

soccer     :   went  pro  at  16  years  old  when  he  signed  on  with  fc  barcelona  (          where  he  totaled   156  goals  while  with  the  club         )    that  same  year  he  joined  the  french  national  team  (          where  he  has  totaled  77  goals  to  date          )  .  

in  2017  ,  he  became  the  highest  paid  soccer  player  in  the  world  when  he  signed  a  $263  million  dollar  transfer  to  paris  saint  -  germain  fc  at  just  21  years  old  . 

in  2020  he  was  named  captain  of  the  french  national  team  and  has  held  onto  the  title  since  .  

currently  wears  #10  as  a  forward  for  paris  saint  -  germain  fc  and  the  french  national  team  . 

awards  /  accolades  :  golden  ball  (  for  best  player  in  a  tournament  )  by  fifa  confederations  cup  ,  2013  .  holds  the  record  for  most  man  of  march  awards  (  for  mvp  of  each  fifa  tournament  )  won  ,  four  all  in  2013  .  bronze  boot  (  for  third  top  goal  scorer  of  the  fifa  world  cup  )  by  fifa  confederations  cup  ,  2014  .  la  liga  best  world  player  for  2014  -  2015  season  .  la  liga  player  of  the  month  in  november  of  2015  .  unfp  ligue  1  best  player  of  the  year  for  2017  -  2018  season  .  2x  unfp  ligue  1  player  of  the  month  january  2020  ,  august  2022  .  golden  boot  (  for  top  goal  scorer  of  the  fifa  world  cup  )  by  fifa  confederations  cup  ,  2022  .                  

height:   six     foot     one     . weight:   187     lbs     . tattoos,     piercings:   batman     and     the     joker     on     the     top    of     his     back     (     something     like     this     ,     but     spiderman     is     the    joker    )     .

father:    richard     valmont     (         fifty     -     eight          )     ,     a     french     -     american     business    mogul     and     ceo     of     vortex     enterprises     .     relationship     :    they’ve     always     gotten     along     ,     often     seeing     on     to     eye     on     most     things     but     as     of     recent     their     relationship     has     been     more     strained     behind     closed     door     .   mother:   aira     park     -     valmont     (         fifty     -     five          )     ,     an     american     banking     heiress     ,     philanthropist     ,     and     art     collector     .   relationship     :   a     mama’s     boy     ,     she     struggles     to     ever     shed     light     on     anything     he     does     wrong     ,     in     her     eyes     he     can     do     no     wrong     .     she’s     the     one     woman     in     the     world     he’d     do     absolutely     anything     for       .       pets:     ajax     (         german     shepard     ,     ten     years     old          )     ,     mercy     (         rottweiler     ,     six     years     old         )

gender:   cis     male     . pronouns:   he     /     him     . orientation:   heterosexual     . status:   single     . past     relationships:

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𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖜𝖔     .     background     .

inspo     :     wednesday  addams  ( wednesday  )  ,  bruce  wayne   (  dc  universe  )  ,  chuck  bass  ( gossip  girl  )  ,  tyler  durden  (  fight  club  )  ,  neymar  jr.     .

hunter  pulled  the  ultimate  lottery  ticket  at  birth  .  born  the  only  child  to  a  banking  heiress  and  business  mogul  .  learning  to  take  full  advantage  of  his  silver  spoon  life  at  a  young  age  .  gifts  and  spontaneous  trips  where  how  his  parents  showed  their  love  ,  often  leaving  their  son  to  his  own  devices  while  they  focused  on  their  careers  and  public  image  .  mostly  cared  for  by  a  revolving  door  of  nanny’s  (  thanks  to  mother  dearests  jealousy  of  another  women  getting  closer  to  her  son  than  she  was  )  .  when  his  parents  were  around  ,  the  walls  of  their  parisian  estate  were  filled  with  arguing  over  his  father’s  endless  affairs  .  it  was  unbearable  for  a  young  hunter  and  he  quickly  grew  a  resentment  towards  any  woman  who  wasn’t  his  mother  that  got  too  close  to  his  father  .  

the  move  to  the  states  happened  when  he  was  six  .  his  parents  relationship  had  fallen  entirely  by  the  wayside  and  his  mother  decided  to  move  to  new  york  city  with  her  son  .  unbeknownst  to  the  public  his  parents  were  living  in  entirely  separate  countries  for  nearly  seven  years  .  during  this  time  hunter  spent  the  school  months  in  america  and  his  summers  with  his  dad  in  paris  .  from  a  young  age  he’d  taken  a  liking  to  soccer  and  it  became  clear  very  early  on  to  both  his  parents  and  coaches  he  was  incredibly  talented  .  a  young  prodigy  ,  the  massive  ego  was  inevitable  .  at  the  big  dogs  of  the  soccer  world  noticed  him  ,  at  thirteen  he  moved  to  barcelona  were  he  joined  fc  barcelona’s  youth  academy  .  just  under  two  years  in  the  academy  ,  he  rapidly  rose  in  the  team  ranks  and  made  the  first  team  at  just  sixteen  .  despite  his  young  age  ,  he  quickly  rose  as  one  of  the  world’s  best  soccer  players  proving  early  suspicions  of  his  level  of  talent  correct  .  

despite  his  talent  and  fan  fare  ,  his  personal  life  and  overall  attitude  has  long  threatened  to  undermine  his  career  .  a  career  laced  with  scandal  for  over  a  decade  .  early  on  in  life  ,  things  had  been  perfectly  laid  out  for  him  ,  all  he  had  to  do  was  follow  the  script  .  succeed  in  whatever  he  does  ,  smile  and  wave  when  out  with  his  parents  ,  and  never  hang  out  with  the  wrong  crowd  ,  in  simpler  words  :  don’t  embarrass  the  family  .  so  long  as  he  followed  his  parents  lead  ,  there  was  the  silent  promise  that  he  could  do  what  he  wanted  behind  closed  door  ,  and  that  he  did  .  but  with  a  fame  all  of  his  own  his  antics  became  much  harder  to  conceal  .  dubbed  a  diva  on  the  turf  by  many  naysayers  ,  a  number  of  unsportsmanlike  behavior  reported  (  but  never  getting  any  major  consequences  for  )  ,  strings  of  scorned  woman  in  and  out  of  his  life  ,  and  an  affinity  for  night  life  that  could  put  jordan  belfort  to  shame  .  the  most  damaging  report  came  in  2019  ,  when  a  fight  broke  out  during  one  of  his  infamous  yacht  parties  in  the  french  rivera  .  boat  docked  by  a  rooftop  bar  where  hunter  was  reported  to  have  gotten  into  an  altercation  with  another  party  goer  (  only  one  of  a  long  string  of  altercations  he’s  been  reported  to  have  )  ,  the  fight  only  ending  once  hunter  lifted  the  other  guy  up  and  threw  him  overboard  .  the  guy  later  suing  hunter  for  over  a  million  dollar  .  it  was  a  point  in  many’s  eyes  where  it  had  become  clear  hunter  valmont  was  a  monster  .  a  narrative  he  doesn’t  particularly  love  or  hate  .  

his  parents  on  the  other  hand  couldn’t  hate  anything  more  than  his  public  persona  ,  noting  on  various  occasions  to  him  that  he  is  routinely  breaking  their  only  rule  set  in  place  for  him  .  with  his  inheritance  on  the  line  he  has  tried  his  hand  at  cleaning  up  his  image  with  his  parents  help  in  the  last  couple  of  years  but  a  leopard  can  never  truly  change  it’s  spots  .

𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖊𝖊     .     facts     .

as  his  father’s  only  child  ,  he  stands  to  inherit  everything  the  old  man  has  when  the  time  comes  .  allowing  him  the  comfort  of  knowing  what  his  life  has  in  store  for  him  when  his  soccer  career  does  inevitably  come  to  an  end  :  heading  vortex  enterprises  an  international  hospitality  company  .  although  his  antics  have  put  conditions  on  his  inheritance  ,  facing  the  potential  of  being  taken  off  the  will  if  he  can’t  clean  up  his  act  .    

started  a  charity  in  2017  for  underprivileged  kids  ,  the  park  project  .  a  category  of  people  in  this  world  he  has  true  compassion  for  ,  now  that  he’s  a  bit  older  .  throughout  the  year  he  uses  the  money  donated  as  a  way  to  go  into  low  income  parts  of  cities  and  better  public  schools  ,  start  up  after  school  programs  for  free  ,  and  open  food  banks  for  families  in  need  of  a  little  bit  of  assistance  .  holding  an  annual  charity  gala  for  these  kids  ,  where  kids  from  the  community  are  the  guests  of  honor  and  awarded  with  scholarships  ,  clothing  and  food  vouchers  .  since  ,  it  has  become  his  best  quality  that  many  don’t  even  know  about  because  he  started  it  under  the  guise  of  a  pseudonym  (  lee  park  )  ,  starting  the  charity  without  the  need  of  praise  or  approval  but  simply  because  he  cared  enough  to  do  so  .  it’s  out  of  character  and  just  about  anyone  he  tells  doesn’t  believe  he’s  actually  the  one  behind  the  charity  .    

a  notorious  serial  dater  .  always  having  a  new  girl  on  his  arm  .  he’s  never  had  much  of  an  issue  getting  whatever  girl  he  wants  but  has  a  tendency  of  ruining  whatever  relationship  he  gets  into  one  way  or  another  --  cheating  ,  excessive  arguments  ,  ghosting  ,  name  a  poor  way  to  end  a  relationship  and  hunter  probably  has  experience  with  it  .  

extravagance  is  a  personality  trait  to  him  .  luxury  cars  ,  a  home  in  the  french  rivera  with  a  yacht  with  his  name  etched  into  it  docked  in  the  backyard  ,  fashion  show  appearances  ,  sending  one  of  a  kind  gifts  as  apologies  ,  dinners  worth  over  a  grand  ,  spontaneous  trips  out  of  the  country  .  he  has  money  and  he’s  never  been  all  that  afraid  to  throw  it  around  .  

an  instigator  through  and  through  .  he’s  fairly  observant  and  is  able  to  pick  up  on  what  irritates  other’s  the  most  and  pokes  and  prods  until  they  reach  their  breaking  point  ,  out  of  pure  boredom  .  he  loves  a  good  fight  and  has  a  tendency  to  be  able  to  twist  a  story  to  favor  him  in  almost  all  situations  .

𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗 𝖋𝖔𝖚𝖗     .     wanted     connections     .

i’ll  put  something  here  one  day    !

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Playlist Masterlist

Fan Playlists

DC

Jonathan Crane

Edward Nygma x Selina Kyle

Pamela Isley

Edward Nygma

Oswald Cobblepot

Arthur Fleck

Diana Prince

Greys Anatomy

April Kepner

Teddy Altman

Game of Thrones universe

Daemon x Rhaenyra

Sherlock (2010-2017)

Mycroft Holmes

Silence of the Lambs

Hannibal x Clarice

Little Women

Amy March

Twilight

Alice Cullen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Bennet

Yellowstone

Beth Dutton

Lara Croft (2001-2003)

Lara Croft

Die Hard

Hans Gruber

A Team

HM Murdock

Universes (playlists to make you feel like you're there)

Peaky Blinders

Narnia

Supernatural

Ghost World (2001)

Charlie's Angels (2000-2003)

Nothing but Vibes

That Girl

Model Off Duty

Southern Belle

Slightly Trashier Southern Belle

The Trashiest Southern Belle

Stuck in a 90's RomCom

Stuck in a 2000s RomCom

Sexy Y2K Vampire with a dash of brooding

I am literally a majestic ass nymph

Music for backroading

60's Housewife Music

But what if you were a sugar baby in the 60's

music for pathetic kings with mommy issues and their murderous wives (macbeth vibes?)

[tracychamberlainhigginbotham]

(via Wednesday Wisdom: Women's March 2.0)

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works cited

general works cited, kept updated, that I've used in research for my fanworks.

[not all of these were fully read, and some I read years ago; I just have a Zotero full of the books, articles, etc. if I ever typed or copied something into my worldbuilding masterdoc]

Mental health and psychology:

Fast, Julie A., and John D. Preston. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner. 2nd ed. New Harbinger Publications, 2012.

Gartner, John D. The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America. Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Jamison, Kay Renfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. Reed Business Information, Inc., 1996.

———. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. Reed Business Information, Inc., 1996.

Phelps, M.D., Dr. Jim. “The Basics of Bipolar Treatment.” Psych Education (blog), October 8, 2014.

Rantala, Markus J., Severi Luoto, Javier I. Borráz-León, and Indrikis Krams. “Bipolar Disorder: An Evolutionary Psychoneuroimmunological Approach.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 122 (March 2021): 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.12.031.

Wallon, Henry. “The Role of the Other in the Consciousness of the Ego.” In The World of Henri Wallon, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Marxists Internet Archive, 1946.

Wootton, Tom. The Bipolar Advantage, 2005.

For my research on the Ainu history:

Dubreuil, Chisato. “Ainu-e: Instruction Resources for the Study of Japan’s Other People.” Education About Asia, Spring 2004.

Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil, eds. Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, 1999.

Isabella, Jude. “How Japan’s Bear-Worshipping Indigenous Group Fought Its Way to Cultural Relevance.” Hakai Magazine, October 18, 2017.

Knight, John. Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.

Sakata, Minako. “Possibilities of Reality, Variety of Versions: The Historical Consciousness of Ainu Folktales.” Oral Tradition 26, no. 1 (2011): 175–90.

Siddle, Richard M. Race, Resistance, and the Ainu of Japan. London: Routledge, 1996.

For my research on East and Southeast Asian history, culture, religion, and politics [for worldbuilding]:

Bohnet, Adam. Turning Toward Edification: Foreigners in Choson Korea. University of Hawai’i Press, 2020.

Bossler, Beverly, ed. Gender & Chinese History: Transformative Encounters. University of Washington Press, 2015.

Brook, Timothy. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. History of Imperial China 5. Belknap Press, 2013.

Chen, Shangsheng. “The Chinese Tributary System and Traditional International Order in East Asia during the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Chinese Humanities 5, no. 2 (2020): 171–99. https://doi.org/0.1163/23521341-12340079.

Choi, Hyaeweol. Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Chung, Sung-il. “Foreign Relations between Joseon and Japan Seen from State Letters and Sogye in the Late Joseon Period (1600-1870).” Journal of Ming-Qing Historical Studies 52 (2019): 107–42.

Dai, Yuanfang. Transcultural Feminist Philosophy. Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020.

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Anne Walthall. Pre-Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Volume I: To 1800. 3rd ed. Cengage Learning, 2013.

Franceschini, Ivan, and Christian Sorace, eds. Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour. London: Verso, 2022.

Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation. Harmony, 1999.

Hinton, David. Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China. New Directions, 2005.

———. The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius. Counterpoint, 2016.

Hui, Wang. The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity. London: Verso, 2009.

Kerr, George. Okinawa: The History of an Island People. Tuttle Publishing, 2018.

Kim, Hyunchul. "The Purification Process of Death: Mortuary Rites in a Japanese Rural Town." Asian Ethnology 71, no.2 (2012): 225-257.

Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2001. [did not read this full thing]

Maltsev, Vladimir. "Lessons from the Japanese ninja: on achieving a higher trade equilibrium under anarchy and private constitutions." Constitutional Political Economy. 33 (2021): 1-12.

Mizoguchi, Yūzō. “The Ming-Qing Transition as Turning Point.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 17, no. 4 (2016): 526–73.

Ono, Sokyo, and William P. Woodard. Shinto the Kami Way. Tuttle Publishing, 2004.

“Re: ‘Why Was Pyongyang Once Referred to as “Jerusalem of the East”?,’” April 11, 2021. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/mokqsq/why_was_pyongyang_once_referred_to_as_jerusalem/.

Richey, Jeffrey L. Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s History in China, Korea, Japan, and Viet Nam. 2nd ed. Key Issues in Asian Studies. Association for Asian Studies, 2022.

Smits, Gregory. Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2018.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. 3rd ed. W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.

Sung, Sirin, and Gillian Pascall, eds. Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Confucianism or Gender Equality. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Tham, Chui-Joe. “The Transnational Historiography of a Dynastic Transition: Writing the Ming-Qing Transition in Seventeenth-Century China, Korea, and Japan.” Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 3 (n.d.): 776–807. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X22000245.

Tran, Nhung Tuyet. Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778. Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory 6. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2018.

u/AsiaExpert. “Re: ‘The Respective Roles of Ninja and Shinobi,’” November 4, 2012. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12lwoi/comment/c6w7qva/?context=3.

u/EnclavedMicrostate. “Re: ‘As I Understand, It’s Well-Established That Gunpowder and Guns Were Invented in China. Why Didn’t This Lead to a Legacy of Chinese Primacy in Terms of Innovation and Dominance in Firearms Production?,’” October 7, 2022. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/xxsk8r/comment/irdw04c/?context=3.

———. “Re: ‘Were the Ming and Qing Courts Actually Unaware of the Satsuma Invasion of the Ryukyus and Subsequent Japanese Incorporation of the Islands as Vassal States?’” R/AskHistorians, December 18, 2022. reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zofi5x/were_the_ming_and_qing_courts_actually_unaware_of/j0oyc4k/.

———. “Re: ‘Why Didn’t China Splinter into Different Countries like Europe Did?,’” R/AskHistorians, May 31, 2018. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8nh0yv/why_didnt_china_splinter_into_different_countries/dzvl249/?context=3.

u/huianxin. “Re: ‘Is There Any Particular Reason Why Korean Queens of the Joseon Dynasty Were Preferred to Be Older than Their Husbands?,’” R/AskHistorians, April 24, 2020. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/g797c7/comment/foi86re/.

u/Iphikrates. “Re: ‘Did Ancient Civilians Get PTSD? What Do We Know of the Psychological Effects of War on Noncombatants, and How They Dealt with Them?’” R/AskHistorians, December 15, 2019. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/eaupqm/did_ancient_civilians_get_ptsd_what_do_we_know_of/fb01xji/.

u/Julius_Maximus. “Re: ‘In Ming-Qing China, a County Magistrate Was Basically Police Chief/Judge/Jury All Rolled into One. Was There Somewhere Commoners Could Report Abuse of Power or Appeal the Ruling of the County Magistrate?,’” July 12, 2016. reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4sckd6/in_mingqing_china_a_county_magistrate_was/d58ym1r/.

Walthall, Anne, ed. Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Uprisings. University of Chicago Press, 1991. .

Wang, Tianjun. "Brain in TCM Origin and Short History" in Acupuncture for Brain. Springer, Cham. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54666-3_1.

Yamakage, Motohisa. The Essence of Shinto: Japan’s Spiritual Heart. Kodansha International, 2012.

Philosophy/theory:

Caudwell, Christopher. Pacifism and Violence: A Study in Bourgeois Ethics. Oriole Chapbooks, 1960.

Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2004.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline. Marxists Internet Archive, 2005.

Marx, Karl. Wage Labour and Capital. Edited by Frederick Engels. Marx/Engels Internet Archive, 1999.

Trotsky, Leon. Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It. Revised. Pioneer Publishers, 1969.

———. The War and the International. Marxists Internet Archive, 1914.

Tuck, Eve, and C. Ree. “A Glossary of Haunting.” In Handbook of Autoethnography, 639–58. Left Coast Press, Inc., 2013.

Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40.

Zedong, Mao. On Guerrilla Warfare. Marxists Internet Archive, 2000.

Vibes:

Liston, Bonnie Mary. “The Wildness of Girlhood.” Overland (blog), July 2, 2019. https://overland.org.au/2019/07/the-wildness-of-girlhood/.

Peyton. “Notes on ‘Feral.’” The Niche (blog), February 4, 2019. https://the-niche.blog/2019/02/04/notes-on-feral/.

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This Day in X-Project - January 23

Tabitha Smith's Birthday

PHASE 2

2015: Adrienne emails Jessica and Arthur about starting X-Factor. Wade emails Gabriel about needing to eat. Topaz texts Hope about having found wine and joining her to drink it. Cecilia emails Angelo about having to quit X-Corps. Laurie posts about having found Kyle’s people. Wade posts about a possible vacation. Wade tracks Gabriel down and they have a talk. Julian stumbles home to find a most unexpected visitor: Sue. Julian texts Adrienne about having lunch with Sue.

2016: Haller sends Cecilia an email asked her to move their lunch to the city due to the weather. Amadeus unveils his Snowdowser 3000X (the X is for Xtreme) to near-universal skepticism. Gabriel posts to the journals wishing he was still in the Caribbean. Alex leaves Tabitha a skateboard as a present. Illyana asks Amadeus if he should really be operating heavy machinery in the middle of the night. After his experience in Meggan and Topaz's minds Haller come to the realization that he no longer belongs at the mansion; Charles has other ideas. Tabitha gets her present, and she loves it and asks what bribes Kyle needs to build a skateboard ramp. While reshelving books with Topaz, Stephen gets some bad ideas to do with magic class. Alex and Bobby play around in the snow.

2017: With Extreme Prejudice: CBS reports that the Mayor is holding a meeting with mutant activist leaders to discuss the recent marches and violence. Maya asks if anyone went to the Women’s March in DC or New York. Cecilia makes a journal post announcing she’s back from the protests in DC. Ty texts Hope to tell her there are several jewelry boxes waiting for her.

2018: Laurie's life is measurable in coffee. Lorna sets a date in Spring to get take her PI licence test.

2019:

2020: Tandy emails Topaz, Molly and Hope to arrange a movie outing.

2021: Alex and Kyle go to Count Donutula's on Weird Flavour Day and decide to bring back some of the worst to prank folks at the mansion; that plan flops when Alison and others reveal they like the flavours.

2022: Exorcism Robotica: Garrison wakes up and faces Jean’s anger and disappointment. Emma announces that Adrienne has left the mansion permanently. Amanda finds Garrison in the empty suite he shared with Adrienne and takes him back to her and Marie-Ange’s place. Garrison posts to the main comms explaining what happened since his ‘death’ in August 2021. Emma emails Garrison to express her condolences for Adrienne’s departure.

2023:

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Studio Project #1: Awesome/Terrible Banners!

Our first studio project starts with a site: the fiber studio ceiling above our heads. This is the place where our studio project will be installed as a collaborative installation of individual artworks incorporating each of our individual artistic voices into a collective installation experience.

Inspired by the complexity of translations in a fiber reference from the Bible in Song of Soloman (Song of Solomon 6:10) and the plethora of flag based artwork about identity and culture in recent years by contemporary artists, as a class, we will be creating an installation experience with each of us contributing a flag/banner like work that hangs from the ceiling in the center of our fiber studio space. The challenge for each of us is to create an individual object that works in chorus with other artworks to create a unified installation experience.

What do you want to say in your work? How does your individual artistic voice hope to contribute to the conversations happening in art?

Here are the studio project #1 rules:

1.) You can choose what fabrics (cellulose, protein or synthetic or a combination of these) you use for this project. Your ideas should be the drivers of your material choices.

2.) The fabrics you use for your flag/banner should be primarily dyed and designed by you. You can use any of techniques we have covered and will cover in this class so far. This is not a project about using commercially sourced fabric.*

3.) Your project can include a composition of patched fabrics or can be a single piece of fabric. Use your sewing knowledge to patch together a larger piece of fabric from smaller parts. You can use the sewing machine, hand sew, or a combination of both.

4.) This is a mixed media friendly project. You are encouraged to use surface embellishments in your projects, things like embroidery, beading, sequins, etc. You can also include skills and materials you already have from outside of fiber into your fabric designs (such as photography, design, painting, etc.). Your ideas should be the drivers of your material choices.

5.) Your banner/flag will have 2 sides: one that faces the door of the studio and one that faces the back wall of the studio. Your concept should consider and utilize both sides of your fabrics surface toward meaningful ends.

6.) Your banner/flag should be about some of the ideas of current interest to your work at large. It should serve articulate your own point of view as an artist. Your flag represents you in the larger structure of the installation environment, much like an American flag functions in an international context.

Deadline: Thursday, October 19th. Your project should be installed and ready to discuss together by the beginning of class.

Images above from top:

woven flag project by artist Sonja Clark called “Monumental Cloth: The flag we should all know”

both sides of one of the banners included from the larger installation called  “In the Wake” project by Cauleen Smith for the 2017 Whitney Biennial

artwork by Kimsooja 

film still from 1960s Japanese film “Samuri Banners” 

an image of the women’s March in Washington DC in 2016

an image of one of artist/educator Corita Kent’s annual Mary’s Day parades from the 1960s

historic photo of suffragette protest with banners

an example of a suffragette banner preserved by the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Womens Clubs Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

one major inspiration for our project: the fiber studio site

another inspiration: the complexity of translating this biblical fiber reference

[grison-in-space]

yeah so I hadn't reread the bit of 1633 where spoiler happens and the crowd rises in a fury and everyone has to go out and talk it down since ... well, before 2017 really, when I went to the Women's March in DC.

having just done so: it is actually even more powerful when you have, in fact, stood in a crowd that uncertainly angry and that dangerously packed and felt the collective mood shifting. I cannot underscore that enough. especially given that in 2017 the crowd did get frustrated and angry and needed to be redirected, and Janelle Monae caught it up and channeled it and set it to rights just as smoothly and beautifully as you have ever seen.

Love Monae's music and acting, but I think I am always going to respect her brilliance under fire even more than her artistic genius in her own time. Obviously she wasn't the only gifted speaker and organizer shaping that crowd that day--not even close--but she's always going to be one of my touchstones for the power that an experienced speaker and decisive leader can bring to a crisis. Incredible work, and all the more so because she didn't direct the crowd to praise or even focus on herself; she quieted that crowd, swept it up, and directed it towards the Mothers of the Movement who had come to speak from Black Lives Matter. Set everyone listening to them.

There's a lot in that scene that reminds me of that experience. Perhaps most of all I remember the acute awareness that if someone says the wrong thing, steps wrong on the red hot dance floor, the consequences will be swift and dire... but if that tense grief and anger can be swept up and channeled, it can be used to temper a lasting and powerful determination.

Flint--and these bits are all Flint--was such a genius at turning historical events into inspirational narrative without ever allowing anyone to forget the notes of true shame that accompanied those inspirations. And yet even when he's openly scolding me, the reader--and the bits where he's writing Melissa Mailey taking young Darryl McCarthy to task about Oliver Cromwell were extremely pointedly heard by my adolescent self--he's so deftly careful not to break surges of earnest enthusiasm.

He's so American in that way: that unabashed refusal to cringe in shame for any reason; that direct insistence on finding things to cheer about to focus on, and that embarrassingly earnest enthusiasm for open, untempered praise where due, even in the midst of an open conflict. Don't get me wrong: he's very clear about what it means to do shameful things, or about grief in the face of injustice, or about the importance of squaring up directly to face down the times for which genuine, thoughtful contrition and reparations are warranted. But he won't let you dwell in that place of wallowing shame: rather, it's onward and upwards to try your best to make the next mistake better next time, once the lesson penetrates. Your shame solves nothing: your actions might.

It's such a valuable lesson, and I am glad to have those fingerprints on my soul alongside many others. He's so damn energetic. I can see Eric Flint listening to the Tumblresque refrain "death to cringe!" and laughing uproariously in delight. I hope whenever he is now, he's laughing once more.

[brookston]

Holidays 3.6

Holidays

Alamo Day (Texas)

Black Balloon Day

Blackout Day

Chamorro Heritage Day (Guam)

Day of the Dude (Dudeism)

Dentist’s Day

European Day of the Righteous (EU)

European Day of Speech & Language Therapy

Feast of Excited Insects (China, Korea)

Foundation Day (Norfolk Island)

Headache Relief Day

Hospitality Workers in HealthCare Day

International Agunah Day

International Day of the Sculptor

International Day of the Skype Call

King Tut Day

Labour Day (Western Australia, Australia)

Marion Berry Day (DC)

Narcissus Day

National Brian Day

National Day of Tolerance and Coexistence (Iraq)

National Dress Day

National Emotional Civility Day

National Jute Day (Bangladesh)

National Report General Service Administration (GSA) Fraud Day

Silly Putty Day

Snowshoe Day

Sofia Kovalesvskaya Math Day

Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day

Tolerance and Coexistence Day (Iraq)

Toronto Day (Canada)

Trollface Day

Women’s Day (Tajikistan)

World Conservation Strategy Day

World Lymphedema Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Frozen Food Day

National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day

Oreo Cookie Day (a.k.a. National Oreo Day)

World Laksa Day

1st Monday in March

Black Mental Health Day (Canada) [1st Monday]

Casmir Pulaski Day [1st Monday]

Fun Facts About Names Day [Monday of Name Week]

International Badge Day [1st Monday]

Labour Day (Western Australia) [1st Monday]

Magellan Day (a.k.a. Discovery Day; Guam) [1st Monday]

World Tennis Day [1st Monday]

Independence Days

Ghana (from UK, 1957)

Überstadt (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abelardo (Muppetism)

Baldred of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Borrowed Days begin (Pastafarian)

Cadroe (Christian; Saint)

Chrodegang (Christian; Saint)

Colette (Christian; Saint)

Day of the East Wind (Pagan)

Festival of Mars (Old Roman God of War)

Fridolin (Christian; Saint)

Fusilli Day (Pastafarian)

Holi (a.k.a. Phagwah, Festival of Color; Guyana, India, Nepal, Suriname)

Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba (Christian; Saint)

Marcian of Tortona (Christian; Saint)

William W. Mayo and Charles Frederick Menninger (Episcopal Church (USA))

Olegarius (Christian; Saint)

Purim (Judaism) [begins at sundown] (a.k.a. ... 

Fast of Esther;

Survival Celebration

Ta' Anit Ester

Quisling Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Rose of Viterbo (Christian; Saint)

Ta’anit Esther (The Fast of Esther; Judaism) [13 Adar]

Treachery Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Xenophanes (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [12 of 32]

Premieres

The Big Lebowski (Film; 1998)

Chappie (Film; 2015)

÷ (a.k.a. Divide), by Ed Sheeran (Album; 2017)

Everest (IMAX Documentary Film; 1998)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Film; 1921)

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (Film; 2015) 

Kissin’ Cousins (Film; 1964) [Elvis Presley #14]

La Traviata (The Fallen Woman), by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1853)

Lethal Weapon (Film; 1987)

Let It Be, by The Beatles (Song; 1970)

Lorenzo (Disney Cartoon; 2004)

Medusa, by Annie Lennox (Album; 1995)

Onward (Animated Film; 2020)

Paint It Black, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1966)

Playdate with Destiny (Animated Simpsons Cartoon; 2020)

There Goes My Baby, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1959)

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Film; 2015)

To Be or Not to Be (Film; 1942)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (TV Series; 2015)

U.S. Marshals (Film; 1998)

Watchmen (Film; 2009)

The Young Victoria (Film; 2009)

Today’s Name Days

Fridolin, Nicola, Rosa (Austria)

Ruža, Viktor, Zvjezdana (Croatia)

Miroslav (Czech Republic)

Gotfred (Denmark)

Tarmo, Tarmu (Estonia)

Tarmo (Finland)

Colette (France)

Fridolin, Nicola, Nicole, Rosa (Germany)

Isyhios (Greece)

Inez, Leonóra (Hungary)

Colette, Giordano, Ezio, Marziano, Marzio (Italy)

Centis, Gotfrids, Vents (Latvia)

Karigailė, Norvilas, Raminta, Rožė (Lithuania)

Andor, Annfrid (Norway)

Eugenia, Felicyta, Frydolin, Jordan, Klaudian, Koleta, Róża, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz, Wojsław (Poland)

Radoslav (Slovakia)

Julián, Olegario (Spain)

Ebba, Ebbe (Sweden)

Carlton, Charlton, Colette, Collette (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 65 of 2023; 300 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 10 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 16 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 15 (Gui-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 13 Adar 5783

Islamic: 13 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 4 Ver; Foursday [4 of 30]

Julian: 21 February 2023

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 9 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Xenophanes]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 76 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 15 of 29)