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23.04.2024

My final papers are coming up now, so instead of outlining I’ve been reading up on my feminist philosophy yet again.

April accomplishments:

Read 4 1/2 books

Submitted draft for my final report

Submitted an essay

Signed up for summer classes <3

Studied French a whole ton

Je lis, j’écris, je bois du café glacé, j’ai des tendances homosexuelles.

Il me faut une cigarette.

📖: The Woman’s Bible. abridged edition (1985), Elizabeth Cady Stanton

🎧: Anyone out There, Duran Duran

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Venus in the Uffizi

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Sandro Botticelli,The Birth of Venus (details)

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11.06.24

This week (because one day is never long enough)

☕️ Finish Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

☕️ Finish first draft of my final project for sociology class

☕️ References

☕️ Reflection

☕️ Spend one hour studying French per day

☕️ Submit application for summer school

☕️ Sign up for any more summer/spring classes (currently signed up for yet another Feminist Philosophy class!!)

(All images are from Pinterest)

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amanufacturedheaven · 23 days

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The First Vampire Was a Lesbian.

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

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03.04.2024

My final papers are coming up now, so instead of outlining I’ve been reading up on my feminist philosophy yet again.

I adore it here, watching people overwhelming passionate about their education is never embarrassing. I used to get discouraged to be here, that I’m not at a good enough university, get good enough grades, or that I haven’t bought every item on an aesthetic list curated by a stranger.

Maybe physically, I already have everything I need.

🎧: All I Really Want, Alanis Morissette

📰: ‘Jane Fonda’s Next Act’ 8 April 2024, Time Magazine: International Edition

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Studying classical philology just so I can be your lesbian classics professor in a couple of years. You're welcome gays.

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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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She’s a summer girl ☀️🍒

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

— Henry James

#academia #moodboard #academia moodboard #queer academia #university studyblr #studyblr #uni #university #aesthetic #studyblr community #light academia moodboard #mood board #light academia aesthetic #light academic aesthetic #light academia #university student #college student #summer

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5.3.24

The sun is out and seasonal depression is a complete stranger. This is what taking molly at coachella must feel like.

I’ve been studying Latin & French every day and doing my best to be creative again. I’m an angry person with a romantic soul. If people didn’t make me angry enough to get my degree I’d be writing love letters in a grotto somewhere. A girl can dream.

studet et dormi 🔁

🎧: Off to the Races Lana del Rey

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24.2.24

One of the prettiest dates of the year.

I’ve been doing a lot of writing, and been hit by the tsunami of summer anxiety. How can I waste my favourite season, but how can I have wasted something that hasn’t started yet?

I’ve been obsessed with ‘Swan Lake’, I can only hope to be as moving and graceful one day.

🎧: Swan Theme Tchaikovsky

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“It was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now, because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.”

Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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Let us dive into the lake and never come out again, for this is the world where beauty dwells

Tschaïkowsky

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Rare Language Learning: Polari

If you have ever used the words:

- Naff

- Butch

- Camp

You have unknowingly been speaking the sociolect known as Polari, the language of queer people primarily used in the 30s to the 70s. Polari is now and endangered language, as labelled by the University of Cambridge

Something of note: Many resources out there imply (or state) that Polari was a language invented and used solely by white cis gay men, which is decidedly untrue. Many words of Polari come from drag culture, lesbians, and the Romani people and their language. The use of ‘the language of British gay men’ may be a more palatable title to the general public, but it is not to me. I did my best to curate a variety of resources, but unfortunately much of queer history has been lost many more decades than I’ve been alive, if you have any other resources for studying Polari I would love to read them, message me or leave a link in the replies.

Articles

Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays ⚢ Out Magazine

Polari: The code language gay men used to survive ⚢ BBC

Polari and the Hidden History of Gay Seafarers ⚢ National Museums Liverpool

The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari People ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

The secretive gay language that gave LGBTQ people a voice ⚢ GAYTIMES

A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men ⚢ The Conversation

Study Material

The Polari Bible ⚢ Internet Archive

Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang ⚢ Internet Archive

Sociolinguistics / Polari ⚢ StudySmarter

FlashCards ⚢ Quizlet

New Polari Translator ⚢ LingoJam

Polari: A sociohistorical study of the life and decline of a secret language. ⚢ Dissertation, University of Manchester

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

Simon Bowkett: a short blog in Polari for LGBT+ History Month ⚢ Civil Service LGBT+ Network

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Women in Classical Antiquity

Hey so I’ve compiled a list of surces I have used at some point or other and/or seen reccomended when it comes to the stuy of Women in Classical Antiquity. Feel free to add anything you have also found useful, though please try to keep it mainly to scholarly and balancrf sources.

Historical Studies

New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World by Georgia Tsouvala, Ronnie Ancona

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World by Jean Macintosh Turfa, Stephanie Lynn Budin

Women and Monarchy in Macedonia by Elizabeth Carney

Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra

Women in Antiquity: New Assessments by Richard Hawley, et al.

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sheila Dillon, Sharon L. James

Pandora’s Daughters: The Role & Status of Women in Greek & Roman Antiquity by Mauren Fant, Mary Lefkowitz

Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Elaine Fantham, et al.

Women in Greek Myth by Mary Lefkowitz

Women in Classical Antiquity: From Birth to Death by Laura K. McClure

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah Pomeroy

Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy

Women’s History and Ancient History by Sarah Pomeroy

Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra by Sarah Pomeroy

Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women by Amy Richland

The Women of Pliny’s Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton

Sourcebooks

Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk

Cleopatra: A Sourcebook by Prudence J. Jones

Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation

by Mary Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant

Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan

Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan

Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook by Jane Rowlandson

Biographies

Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra by Nathanael J. Andrade

Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire by Anthony A. Barrett

Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome by Anthony A. Barrett

Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey by T. Corey Brennan

Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life by Elizabeth Carney

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney

Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney

Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt by Dee L. Clayman

Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi by Suzanne Dixon

Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska

Julia Augusti: The Emperor’s Daughter by Elaine Fantham

Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk

Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age by Barbara M. Levick

Julia Domna: Syrian Empress by Barbara Levick

Turia: A Roman Woman’s Civil War by Josiah Osgood

Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller

Cleopatra’s Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Age by Duane W. Roller

Clodia Metelli: The Tribune’s Sister by Marilyn Berglund Skinner

Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women of Cicero’s Family by Susan Treggiari

Lectures, Documentaries, & Online Sources

Cleopatra: The Most Famous Woman of Classical Antiquity (Lecure by Dr. Duane Roller, 2021)

Lucretia and the Politics of Violence (Lecture by Dr. Mary Beard, 2019)

Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (2013)

Virgil: Aeneid: Women (lecture by Llewelyn Morgan, 2012)

Women in Antiquity: An Online Resource for the Study of Women in the Ancient World

Women Who Made History: Cleopatra (2015)

Women’s Classical Caucus

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Close-up detail of Venus Callipyge also known as Aphrodite Kallipygos or Callipygian Venus, is a Roman marble copy "Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks", Museum of Naples..

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