Yeah, I agree with you about the whole Kon thing! I feel like taking something from 30 years ago and applying it to modern takes like you describe is hmmmmm…. maybe not as progressive as the writer intends it to be. It’s sort of the same as people who look at Discowing and try to use it as an example of Dick being queer, imo. It’s just that times have changed imo
Look it is ALSO perfectly possible to look at Kon through a 1993 lens and say ‘that boy is queer’, it’s not like the punk and rave scenes didn’t have heavy overlap with the queer community (this is also the era of Magic Earring Ken).
But solely applying a modern fashion read on a character’s art from 30 years ago is reductionist, and loses a lot of the nuance of his character.
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Sois sérieux, dit Enjolras.
Je suis farouche, répondit Grantaire.
Republika Farusz | 2021 | fleece fabric, aluminum rods, acrylic composite | 200 × 60 × 30 cm
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Contemporaries viewed the Carolinas Campaign as more impressive than the March to the Sea but posterity only remembers the March:
The Carolinas Campaign in Sherman's own view and that of contemporaries was his finest hour, and in South Carolina he came closest to the reputation history assigned him in Georgia. In the course of the campaign he cleared Confederate power from the heartland of secession, unraveled it to the point that only Lee's army was left of it, and set the stage for Grant's campaign to finish undermining its last remnants entirely and for Black soldiers to march into the burned out desolation of late-stage Richmond.
In the wake of the Battle of Bentonville Sherman would capture and destroy Joe Johnston's leading the last detritus of Confederate power in the West, marking the not so grand finale of the decisive theater of the war where US power corresponded to Confederate weakness and the final dissolution of slavery in the Carolinas.
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20 Sep 2022
Iranians have taken to the streets of the capital Tehran to protest the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country’s conservative dress code.
The semiofficial Fars news agency said students in many Tehran universities gathered in protest on Monday, demanding an investigation into the death of Mahsa Amini and the dismantling of the morality police, who were holding her when she died.
Witnesses said demonstrators poured into Keshavarz Boulevard, a central thoroughfare, chanting “Death to the dictator”. They also chanted against the police and damaged a police vehicle. The witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
Late on Monday, Associated Press (AP) news agency reporters saw torched rubbish bins and rocks strewn across some downtown intersections as the smell of tear gas hovered in the air. Police closed roads leading to the central Vali-e Asr square. Plainclothes security forces and groups of riot police could be seen throughout the area, and mobile internet service was down in central Tehran.
Dozens of protesters on motorbikes briefly appeared at a couple of junctions, where they overturned rubbish cans and chanted against the authorities before speeding off.
Meanwhile, videos circulating on social media showed the third day of demonstrations in Kurdish-majority cities in western Iran as well as the northern city of Rasht and a university in the central city of Isfahan. AP could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage.
The morality police detained the 22-year-old Amini last Tuesday after they deemed her trousers too tight and that she did not have her hijab, or headscarf, on properly. Covering the head, hair and neck is mandatory for women in Iran, as is wearing loose clothing or a tunic or coat over regular clothes.
Police say she died of a heart attack and deny that she was mistreated. They released closed-circuit video footage last week purportedly showing the moment she collapsed. Her family says she had no history of heart trouble.
Amini, who was from the Kurdistan province, was buried on Saturday in her home city of Saqqez in western Iran. Protests erupted there after her funeral and police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators on Saturday and Sunday. Several protesters were arrested.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, who departed for New York on Monday to address the United Nations General Assembly, has ordered an investigation and pledged to pursue the case in a phone call with Amini’s family. The judiciary has launched a probe, and a parliamentary committee is also looking into the incident.
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