LMAO the cis are at it again. It’s been suggested that the facial model for the statue of liberty was a dude and so now all the news orgs are like “is the statue of liberty actually a man?” Well I for one just congratulate Lady Liberty on being the largest trans woman in North America if not the world.
I, for one, love our country’s giant metal trans woman who welcomes immigrants as they arrive here from across the Atlantic
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Me Interviewing a Bird On My Porch: So is it scary to fly in the rain?
“When I was growing up, my parents spoke to each other in Spanish, but they didn’t speak to us in Spanish because they were told not to. In school we weren’t allowed to speak it.”
and also???
“… But America is the only country that promotes monolingualism. Here it’s English, English, English. Every other country makes their children learn a second language very early on. So as my political and social activism grew, I was like, ‘I really need to learn Spanish.’ So I did.“
idk how many people i’ve known growing up in texas whose parents speak fluent spanish but they don’t speak a lick solely because their parents were afraid or told not to teach their children. it’s unspeakably common and doesn’t in any way shape or form diminish someone’s claim to or pride in their heritage.
fuck that guy. you go eva.
lack of intergenerational language exchange is one of the leading causes of language death for endangered and indigenous languages because of this culture of shame attached to “lesser” coded languages so frankly if yr mocking people for not speaking their mother tongue without taking the colonial reasons for this into account, you’re an ignorant prick and you can go fuck yourself like
aries: once cried because there were so many worlds to conquer and he hadn’t even managed to conquer one
taurus: (when nobody could tame the horse bucephalus and the horse was ordered away) kept talking about how bucephalus was a wonderful horse and they were losing a beautiful creature by taking him away over and over until finally his father let him try to tame the horse
gemini: slept with his copy of the iliad under his pillow
cancer: treated the conquered persians well after he drove king darius to flight because, in his words, darius was his enemy, not persia
leo: would get pissy whenever news of one of his father’s great victories would come because he was worried his father wouldn’t leave any conquering for him to do
virgo: had a habit of quoting poetry and plays and even did so in terrible situations such as when his father was killed or he was wounded in battle
libra: had a great distaste for athletes and would set up all sorts of competitions for poets and musicians and hunters while pointedly not awarding prizes for more athletic competitions
scorpio: once got mad at a guy and drunkenly threw a cup at him, then made fun of his father when his father was too drunk to do anything about it
saggitarius: traveled so quickly along the coast of pamphylia as to make a legend of himself and then played it off as if it were nothing special
capricorn: slept late on the day when he was supposed to meet darius in battle, and when questioned as to why he was sleeping as if he had already won, smiled and said that he was already victorious for finally getting to go into battle with darius rather than having to chase darius all over the place
aquarius: so admired diogenes the cynic that when diogenes was a dick to him he said that if he were not alexander, he would be diogenes
pisces: after a night of drinking would sleep usually until midday and sometimes even slept the entire day
