welcome to all my recent followers. cliff notes:
more medieval manuscript repairs
all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.
source: Basel, UniversitΓ€tsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r
Londonβs biggest screening party for the Eurovision Song Contest finals has been canceled, the venue Rio Cinema and organizer Eurovision Party London have said.
βFollowing discussion with the organizers of Eurovision Party London, we have collectively decided not to screen the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest this year while Israel remains in the competition,β the Rio Cinema said in a statement on X. βThe Eurovision Party London has been a beloved partner of The Rio Cinema for many years, and we will continue to work with them in the future. We firmly believe that the Eurovision Song Contest has the power to bring people together across the world, and when its core values of inclusivity, equality and universality are upheld, it can be a genuine force for good. With its own slogan in mind, we hope that we can all be United By Music again soon. We will continue to organize fundraising events for the charities we support, including Doctors Without Borders and Medical Aid for Palestine.β
Reminder that Eurovision is an official BDS target this year. And one of the actions they recommend, which can be carried out on a local level, is to pressure venues and event organizers to drop their Eurovision screening parties.
If you're in a country that broadcasts Eurovision, consider whether there's anything you can do to pressure local venues to also drop their screening parties. Even getting a small venue to cancel their Eurovision screening can make a difference, especially if you're able to get them to organize a pro-Palestinian event in its place.
Since Wael El Dahdouh, Motaz Azaiza, Plestia Al Aqad have all left Ghazzah in a brain drain, and the ongoing killing of 100+ Palestinian journalists, I want to link all the Palestinian journalists still on the ground documenting. The number is shrinking but they're still there.
Wissam Nasser. Hatem H. Rawagh.
translating_gaza (while they're not journalists, they translate what journalists who only post in Arabic have to say)
Ahmed Hijazi. Bayan Abusultan.
Suhail Nassar. Motasem Mortaja.
Hafez M. Abu Samra (Arabic only).
Hala BenAsfour (Arabic only).
Anas Jamal (Arabic only).
Awny Abu Hasira (Arabic only).
Amer Sultan (Arabic only).
Abd Elrahman Al Shareef (Arabic only).
Mahmoud Abu Ajjour (Arabic only).
If you care about the situation on the ground, go follow them. It's a situation of genocide, I advise you to think about whether you have the energy and mental space to handle it when you open your Instagram.
being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years
what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made
“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”
— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.
March 17th 2024 update. The results of another donation drive! Thank you all for donating! These are the same packages Mona risked her life yesterday to distribute. I have sent her all your messages I saw in the tags, in the replies and in my inbox from this post. If she wants to send you guys a message back I'll be sure to post it!
Please keep donating! It's helping so many people.
G*f*ndme for her to get her family out of Ghazzah.
G*f*ndme for the aid distribution initiative.
ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me
Hi! Croatian here. As an inland country, I found a job processing uranium. We have a lot of it.
God I wish I was processing uranium in Croatia
I think about this post every day
Hey, another Croatian here! Croatia has a coastline and I can’t find a single mention of uranium in Croatia. I don’t know what kind of paralel universe this person is from.
The IOF also kidnapped the entire Al Jazeera team that was at al-Shifa.
i saw a post floating around that provided a link to pirate the hundred years' war on palestine by rashid khalidi which like, fine, if that's the only way you can access that book i won't judge. but i would also encourage you to consider if you can request it from your local library, bc that shows the library that there is interest in books about palestine that are sympathetic to palestinians and critical of zionism. and if you can purchase the book, that shows publishers that publishing a book that is sympathetic to palestine is profitable. and that's a pretty big deal! the hundred years' war on palestine is actually on the new york times bestseller list right now, bc there is so much interest in this book at this current moment. that sends a message to publishers. so like pirate if you must, but know that library holds and book purchases do have a tangible effect
“After a performance, I came out into the lobby where a middle-aged Dutch woman was waiting to see me. She politely inquired, “What is Hans doing now?” I responded, “Who do you mean by Hans?” “Hans Buruma, my husband,” she said. As she explained it, Hans Buruma was once in charge of mail delivery at the Amsterdam Central Post Office. Three years before, he had attended Heretics (Jashumon), a guest production from Tokyo presented by my theatre troupe at the Mickery Theater. Just after the play began, two men masked in black leaped down into the audience area, grabbed her husband by the arms, and forcibly dragged him up onto the stage. Once onstage, Hans was dressed in a costume and made up, and before he knew it, he had become a character in the play. At least two times during the course of the play, she clearly saw her husband joining other characters who together pulled the ropes. He seemed to be enjoying himself. But when the play was over, Hans never returned to his seat in the audience. The wife waited for two hours, then went to the dressing room, but the members of the company had already returned to the hotel. That night, Hans failed to come home. After two more nights, he still hadn’t returned. By then, the company had left Holland and moved on to West Germany. She thought he had joined the company, that “they hired Hans for his acting skill.” She thought, “My husband is in the play.” Now. after three years had passed, she was pleading with me, “Please give me back my husband.” I had to tell her that I had never heard this story before. Neither I nor anyone in the company knew a middle-aged Dutchman named Hans Buruma. There was no evidence indicating that such a person had been with us during the past three years. When I told her that I didn’t know him, she was on the verge of tears. “Then where is Hans?” she asked. Three years ago–one middle-aged male post-office delivery worker evaporated into our play. In this case, we cannot distinguish where the drama ends and reality begins.”
— Shuji Terayama, The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea: My Theatre, translated by Carol Sorgenfried in Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji
every spring I think about the very earnest english white girl at work who told me that she goes out of her way to scare off male pigeons doing mating displays bc she doesn’t think they care about consent
Censorship surrounding topics of Palestine is nothing new - but in the last few months there has been an alarming increase in censorship, where artists have their exhibitions shut down, universities are setting up barriers to knowledge about Palestine, highly unserious articles with very serious accusations about academics are popping up, ... Now two lectures on Palestine were canceled, and another scholar was just uninvited for what he posted on his social media (pro-Palestinian content). A previous protest letter from the academic community was ignored by the University, and a recent sit-in there was met with an unnecessarily high number of police who intimidated the small group of protesters. That is the only reaction anti-Zionist protests yield. -> more info in the petition link
Why/How does the University of Vienna do this? Basically, any public criticism of the Israeli government is misconstrued as antisemitism. Then, the University disinvites the academics in question and cancels lectures, or forces lecturers to "adjust" their content. Scholars are being muzzled. The University doesn't want its students to learn about various perspectives on Palestine. Mind you, this is a public institution we're talking about.
The petition is intended to show the University that people disapprove of these practices. The argument of "safety" is brought up all the time, but at the same time, the University gladly erects barriers between their students and the valuable knowledge that would foster critical thinking and understanding. Palestinians are directly affected by this deadly apathy, and Muslim and Jewish people everywhere suffer from heightened antisemitism and islamophobia fueled by misinformation and myths. And at the end of the day, censorship is nothing but bad academic practice. It is an attempt to shape the minds of students by making information harder to access and to exclude scholars who talk about/are from Palestine. It's discrimination against Palestinians and it's shameless instrumentalization of Jewish trauma.
Anybody who is concerned can sign. Please share widely with any and all communities! The petition should go international! Every signature counts.