safflower [she/her]
Maybe these would be helpful, although the image quality is usually not amazing, these sites give you all the info so you can find better quality elsewhere https://www.wga.hu/
But what about the MET website? You can search for topics http://www.metmuseum.org/
I was homeschooled by southern baptists who eventually turned into self proclaimed “reformed” baptists/ Calvinists. Neither parents were college educated, and i was constantly reminded that my gender required a male guardian even in adulthood, and that my godly purpose was to obey and procreate. i still have social anxiety, intimacy issues, and im terribly insecure about my education, especially math. I dont talk to my family at all anymore either. They would hate what ive become ( a communist with no children or husband!)
Debt by Graeber and The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins-Wood
While I knew beforehand that I would love Debt, I’m especially proud of my progress in The Origin of Capitalism. I had been rather intimidated by it when I previewed a random page and found tons of technical sounding economics terms, but I feel like my brain is def getting bigger by persevering. Even though it’s not written emotionally at all I still find myself getting so sad for my ancestors, who in my imagination were the peasants that protested the Enclosures, the violation of ~ancient rights~ to communal lands and to the ~means of subsistence~. As shown in Caliban and the Witch, the peasant masses understood very well that new social order or ~social property relations~ was bad for them.
Howard Zinn! I perused his quotes page on goodreads, and here are some examples, but there are so many to choose from. Some of these are excerpts from his play about Marx but you wouldn’t have to include that bit of info
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
“History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.”
“The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.”
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”
“But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.”
“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.”
god i love this website
What the fuck! Those poor old mice
Blue jays are very cool and beautiful with many different vocalizations, and iirc they have a war cry essentially to call for backup in case birds of prey show up! Its sad but a lot of bird feeding enthusiasts actually try to discourage blue jays from their feeders bc ~they are too greedy and aggressive~ which is weird to me bc that describes the human behavior which our own culture rewards.! Same for house sparrows, only they also hate them more for being “invasive” …but it was european colonizers who brought them here, lol, to remind them of home
Proles of the Round Table! The End of History and the History of Art are my fav episodes
