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zippers · 1 year ago

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shout out to high school "reverse bicurious" "cis woman" me who just thought trans people in antiquity were fascinating and did my Latin IA on trans/gnc romans so now when I'm making lesson plans for my actual job teaching about gay and trans romans i literally just have a document from 2016 called "Gender links" that cites whole books with relevant quotes and summaries and even better, my own translations of primary sources.

thank you pre-burnout me!!!! for doing the leg work as an "ally"!!!!

#everything in my life was foreshadowing me being gay and trans #from my warrior cat name being gaypaw on the playground to me wanting to prove i was straight so bad i faked an interest in latin only to #discover i was obsessed with researching gay and trans people in antiquity/history/prehistory and now i'm an archaeologist #and we all know that archaeology is the gayest of the nerd professions #i mean i was dating a nonbinary person at the time i just got soo freaked out by the twinge of gender euphoria when an acquaintance used #they/them pronouns for me that i took it as evidence i was deffo not a they/them and did not examine my gender again until i was 19 #and it was really like a revelation i had zero seconds of questioning i just realized sitting in my living room. it just made sense.#anyway lol long gender ramble in the tags here #pride #ancient rome #yes i am gonna talk about catullus but how do i talk about attis to a bunch of 9 year olds #am i going to do it? yes. do i expect a few blank stares? yes but who cares bc it means they are focused on their clay!#okay i am spending way too long writing this post back to work!

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