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“The police don’t target black people,” says the white person.

“LGBTQ+ people have plenty of protection,” says the straight, cisgender person.

“Women don’t feel harassed at work,” says the man. 

“Poor people don’t need more government help,” says the rich person. 

“Immigrants feel welcome here,” says the natural-born citizen. 

Please stop invalidating the concerns of people who have problems that you’re not experiencing. Instead, listen to them, and learn what you can do to help. 

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the day started out kind of nice

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This detailed mosaic portrait of a young woman was found in a cubiculum, a private room in a roman villa, and can now be seen in the National Museum of Archeology in Napels. It dates back from the 1st century AD.

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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

Audre Lorde (via qvotext)

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it must be really weird for anyone who was taught by dumbledore and mcgonagall and the rest to become teachers and have to, like, treat them as colleagues

like, snape and lupin have one (1) thing in common and it’s a pathological inability to call dumbledore by his first name

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Women in Anthropology: MARGARET ALICE MURRAY

In the 100 years Margaret Murray was on this Earth she became a driving force for women in anthropology and in academia, earning the titles of archaeologst, Egyptologist, author, lecturer, Folkorist, and feminist. 

Murray was born to wealthy English parents in Calcutta, India in 1863. She spent her early years living in Britain and Germany before settling back in India as a nurse until 1887 when she moved to England and became a social worker.

She began attending the University College London (UCL) at the age of 31 in 1894 (proving that there is no set age to being your academic career) and by 1898 she was working as a junior lecturer of linguistics in the Egyptology department. 

In 1902 she joined British Egyptologist Sir William Flinders Petrie for 2 field seasons in Egypt. During the first field season she helped to excavate a temple to Osiris, the Osireion, built during the New kingdom (roughly 16th to 11th century BCE) under the Pharaoh Seti I (pictured below). 

After returning to London, she became a big supporter of the first wave feminist movement and joined the Women’s Social and Political Union. Murray initiated many campaigns to change the culture for women in academia and make it more accessible. At her insistence for inclusivity, the UCL common room was opened to women and later a redesigned room was constructed and named the Margaret Murray Room. 

During World War I, she began studying and publishing articles and books on the history of witchcraft in Europe and Folklorism. Eventually, in 1927 she was awarded an honorary doctorate for her work in Egyptology. Throughout her career she wrote several books and many articles on Egyptology, Folklorism and also authored her own autobiography titled “My First Hundred Years” published in the year of her death 1963. 

It is challenging for modern day academics to truly comprehend the different era and culture for a woman in anthropology during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. Although, I am sure many of us agree that the academic climate of today oftentimes has much more progress to make. In any case, Margaret Murray was one of the first women to ‘make it’ within this scientific field dominated by a white men, and her contributions to academia were significant, well known, and respected.

However, this does not mean she was perfect. Much of her academic work and theory, especially in the field of Folklorism, is often criticized. Anthropology has changed quite a bit since Murray first entered the field over 158 years ago, and our views and methods of understanding are extremely different today.

What will not change is Murray’s solidified importance as an academic mind and as a woman in archaeology. She paved the way for other female scholars, and she fought for their advancement and their voices along the way. 

Refs:

Drower, Margaret S. (2004). “Margaret Alice Murray”. In Getzel M. Cohen; Martha Joukowsky (eds.). Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 109–141

Margaret Murray. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2021, from https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/biography/margaret-murray/

Margaret Murray. 25 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray.

“Margaret Murray”. Stories From The Museum Floor, 2021, https://storiesfromthemuseumfloor.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/margaret-murray/.

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You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway; The Sun Also Rises (via qvotext)

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The back side of the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, France.

Photography artist: Marco van Leeuwen

⚜ Gothic month on @mynocturnality

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“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” ― Charles Baudelaire

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“Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.”

-Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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I love my solitude but i was meant to be a lover.

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let me just snuggle up with a warm cup of coffee and a good book 📖☕️🍁🕯

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*The Golden trio got pranked to be covered by slime by some random Slytherin’s*

Ron, picking slime off his robe: I hate these new guys, they’re worse then Malfoy.

Hermione, trying to brush it out of her hair: I know, it actually makes me kinda miss him.

Harry, wiping the slime off his glasses: Yeah, where even is he? He normally bothers us by now.

Draco, popping out of nowhere: WELL WELL, IF IT ISNT HOGWARTS LOCAL LOSE-*insult dies out as he noticed the slime on them.

Draco, confused: Have I gotten to you guys already? *checks watch* It’s only 10AM, there is no way I’ve gotten to you three yet.

Harry: It wasn’t you, it was some other Slytherin.

Draco: Oh. I didn’t know we did that.

Harry: What?

Draco, rushing his words: Is this payback because I hexed Longbottom, I swear it didn’t mean anything. He just happened to be there and I was frustrated because Flitwick failed me and-

Golden trio, look at eachother confused: ummm…

Draco, actually hurt: I just really thought our relationship meant more than that.

Ron: We didn’t choose for them to torment us.

Draco, understanding: Ahh, I get. Who exactly did this to you three?

Hermione: *whispers their names into Draco’s ear*

Draco, nods in understanding: Thank you, I guess I’ll see you guys later.*begins to walk away*

Harry, yells after him: AREN’T YOU GONNA INSULT US?

Draco, solemnly: You know, I’m not really feeling it today.

Hermione: He sounds really sad.

Harry & Ron: Yeah, I kinda feel bad.

*Later in the Great Hall*

Draco, standing on top of the Slytherin table: IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT ONE OF YOU *indicating to all the Slytherin’s* ASSHOLES, THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PICK ON THE SO CALLED “GOLDEN TRIO” AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, IM THEIR BULLY AND I HAVE BEEN THEIR BULLY FOR 4 YEARS, GET WITH THE SYSTEM. ANYONE WHO TRIES THAT SHIT AGAIN, IS GONNA MEET MY FATHER AND THE END OF MY WAND. AM I UNDERSTOOD!!

Everyone: *silence*

Draco, sits back down: Good, enjoy your meal.

Mcgonagall, to Snape: I’m not sure if I should be happy or not.

Snape: I assure you, this is a good thing.

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hey there LGBTQ kids who are also Christian/Jewish! If you feel like you’re disobeying God, questioning your faith, or feel wrong and dirty for loving who you love, there’s this fantastic site I found today called hoperemains that accurately and thoroughly combs through scripture and its (many) mistranslations, validates your orientation, and basically let’s you know that you’re not pissing off God. It’s insanely thorough and after reading through every page on the entire site it’s super helpful. Go check it out!

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