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"My worries began when the exhibition's introductory sign omitted Felix's connection to the AIDS crisis, highlighting instead the 'multiple dynamic meanings of his work.' My fears turned into outrage when I read the museum label for 'Untitled' (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), which, instead of explaining the installation's title and meaning, refers to '175 pounds as ideal weight,' not specifically Ross's."

out.com/gay-news/felix-gonzale…

#art #entertainment #HIV #AIDS #lgbtq #queer #history



Mud, glorious mud!

#OnThisDay, 9 Feb 1907, around 3,000 people take part in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies' march through London, demanding the vote.

The weather was dreadful, hence its nickname of “the Mud March”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons


For those following the hacking world, I have made a significant revision to my Ethical Hacking Tutorial/ Materials (Free).

#News #Politics #Democrats #USA #Security #NationalSecurity #Freedom #Hacking #Hacktivism #History #Privacy #MAGA #Technology #Anonymous #Linux #EthicalHacking

eirenicon.org/2025/02/07/ethic…


In 1976, The New Yorker magazine published Saul Steinberg's famous cover meant to show the perspective on the world of the average person on 9th Ave in NYC. Its impact was immediate and still continues today, as it wasn't just a specific joke, but a lens by which you can portray the local perspective of anyone. In a paper publishing next month we look at Saul Steinberg's projection and how its a culmination of regionalism in geography.
#maps #history #nyc #map #geography


‘People who do not know what others in a group actually think often decide that it is safer to go along with what appear to be the dominant norms in order not to stand out.’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 8/52 ★★★★☆

Must read. Here's why in 🇬🇧 🇺🇲
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En hier in 🇳🇱
verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/02/08…

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Geschiedenis #History
#TweedeWereldoorlog
#WWII #WorldWarTwo #Holocaust


Today is the feast day of Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria, abbess of Whitby Abbey in the late 7th and early 8th centuries cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/ha… #travel #Britain #history


Chiayi Train Station (嘉義驛) - some interesting details about the history of Chiayi in this post by Josh Ellis

goteamjosh.com/blog/kagieki

#Taiwan #Chiayi #Taiwanderful #history #台灣 #嘉義


Up to 300,000 people with "mental or physical defects" were murdered during the Nazi reign because they were deemed unworthy, too costly and a threat for the pure Aryan blood.
All of this was of course illegal by the existing laws then and unacceptable to many. So Hitler, against the rules, made a decree on paper with his private letter head, skipped the mandatory counter-signature, did not have it officially published as required and just put outsider people in charge he seemed fit. To avoid being directly associated with it a new agency was created. Sounds familiar?!
Two years later, they stopped as things did get out to to the public, some influential clergymen did publicly oppose it and above all: those involved were re-asigned to new roles in central positions executing the #Holocaust with millions murdered by the same means on an industrial scale.
#history #AktionT4 #trump #fascism #neveragain
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion…


In the early 1870s, extremely wealthy businessmen began to dominate vital industries and exert influence on politicians. They came to be known as the Robber Barons, and their names — Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie — are still familiar in America today. Now, we’re in an era with an income gap not seen since the Gilded Age. @damemagazine compares then and now — rent seeking, financial panic, cronyism, assaults on labor, and state capture.

damemagazine.com/2025/02/05/we…

#Oligarchy #RobberBarons #GildedAge #History @histodons #Tech #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday


Prepping a Vaesen scenario set in the woods near the Dannemora Mine in the 1860s. To someone with my job and interests, these things just write themselves after a few rolls on the scenario generation tables!

#ttrpg #history


This sculpture stands out as an impressive interpretation of modern art. With its delicately crafted surface and flowing organic forms, it appears to be inspired by nature. The figure is depicted dynamically, while the cape or veil extending backward, intricately designed like lace, evokes a sense of freedom, lightness, and spirituality.
By #WorldOfArt
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned


Can you read #cursive? The National Archives needs you! There's so much history that is written longhand, and there is some doubt that future generations will be able to transcribe it.

Step away from the firehose, grab a cup of your beverage of choice, and settle down with some old copperplate handwriting and help preserve history.

archives.gov/citizen-archivist

#NationalArchives #history #preservation


"Despite this #history of failure, Americans haven’t shaken the hope that some benevolent, hyperrational leader... will step in to redesign the nation, to solve the problems that politicians can’t...

But in his short stay in Washington, #Musk has already evinced the same moral shortcoming that afflicted Hoover & McNamara, the same inability to calculate the costs of #cruelty.

[To Musk] #democracy is waste and inefficiency."
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

#ElonMusk #Coup #TechnoCoup #Tech #News #US


Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own government.

propublica.org/article/january…

#News #Jan6 #History #DOJ #Government #Trump


#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.

#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons


#OnThisDay, 4 Feb 1981, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the first of her three terms. She is the first woman to hold the role.

She was also Director General of the World Health Organisation between 1998 and 2003.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #Histodons


Harvard's adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism sparks debate over what constitutes #antisemitism and when anti-Israel rhetoric crosses the line. A Jewish history scholar offers a primer to help clarify this complex issue. theconversation.com/harvard-ex… #Israel #Palestine #history


Canadian - This Man is Your Friend. He Fights for Freedom.

US Office of War Information World War II poster, series of anti-fascist allies.

#Canada #USpol #History #AntiFascism



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...risqué. As #CarolineCox notes in Bags: An Illustrated #History:

These early 👉#handbags were also daring, one of the first examples of underwear as outerwear—and thus for many a rather absurd affectation.👈 The idea of 👉a woman parading her personal belongings in a visible pocket was an act akin to lifting up her skirts and publicly revealing her underwear.👈"

Hm, so the final re-entroduction of the #ManBag is only risqué for #Scotsmen, I see...
😂

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It took about 2,000 years for men to gain equality, 😁

Below: Quite entertaining #History of the #handbag. 1)

#Handbags for women only came en vogue in the 1790's:

"The first handbags were essentially women’s pockets with handles attached to them, but women’s pockets, because they were worn under a woman’s skirts and close to her skin, were considered undergarments. So, 👉when bags for women first became popular, many viewed them as vulgar or...

womensmuseumca.org/the-history…


#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.

In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons



@JensHannemann

#History #Fascism #NightOfTheLongKnives / #RöhmPutsch / #BloodPurge

Agreed.--However, #Bannon being one of the most dangerous players in this game, apart from #PeterThiel (brains and military high-tech) and #ElonMusk (financials,) I will not be sad at all when it happens. Being a #PsyOps mastermind, he simply *must* be seeing that he has it coming.

britannica.com/event/Night-of-…

@christinkallama @w7voa


It is a truth universally acknowledged that #OnThisDay, 28 Jan 1813, a new novel 'by the author of Sense & Sensibility' was published.

'Pride & Prejudice' by Jane Austen has sold over 20 million copies, and had many imitators. During her lifetime, it never carried her name as the author.

Bonus photo of Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie Bennett, giving us side-eye.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LiteraryWomen #Histodons


It's been 80 years since the Red Army liberated 7,000 prisoners from Auschwitz. Here's what to know about Holocaust Remembrance Day: lessons we shouldn't forget, survivors' experiences, and the ongoing fight against antisemitism.

A collection of stories curated by us: flip.it/msdcgM

#Holocaust #HolocaustRemembranceDay #History #Auschwitz #Antisemitism


January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We're excited to share a step-by-step guide to teaching Holocaust Education with film. From award-winning documentaries to tools for fostering critical discussions, these resources help educators teach the Holocaust authentically, inspire empathy, and honor the lessons of history. 1/2

#HolocaustRemembranceDay #HolocaustEducation #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay #Holocaust #Education #Teachers #Histodons #History #Homeschooling @education @histodons


#OnThisDay, 26 Jan 1961, Dr Janet Travell is appointed as the Physician to the President of the USA. The role includes being the director of the White House Medical Unit. Travell was the first woman to hold the post.

She specialised in the treatment of skeletal muscle pain, and developed the ice spray still in use in sports medicine today.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons


Donald Trump can order all federal agencies—even the National Hurricane Center—to use the new name in documents, websites, and future maps. But state and local officials are another matter—to say nothing of other countries. texasobserver.org/name-gulf-me…

#GulfCoast #water #politics #USpol #news #DonaldTrump #Trump #Mexico #history


#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrives back in New York to huge crowds, becoming the first *person* to circumnavigate the world in under 80 days (she took 72).

Read all about Nellie and the 'stunt girl' reporters who made front page news in the 1880s-90s in our new blog post here: carvehername.org.uk/nellie-bly…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons


Photo of the Day

It is 1940.

William Shirer, the CBS radio journalist, is in Berlin,

where he reports on developments in Nazi Germany.

And he has an answer to the question why even intelligent,

educated Germans supported Hitler.

He explains that, from his observations

and own personal experience,

a person fed an incessant diet of lies from a censored press

can become convinced of almost anything.

open.substack.com/pub/look/p/p…

#history #photography


Paleontologists claim to have re-discovered dinosaur species in pre-WWII photographs.

From @Gizmodo: "The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images."

flip.it/RUG4qm

#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science #History