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People Without History Are Dust

Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust victims and survivors - including Anne Frank, Molly Applebaum, Margot Heuman, and Gad Beck - whose experiences help illuminate the hidden history of queerness in a time of genocide.

Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the lives of those who were doubly marginalized, not only persecuted as Jews but also as queer individuals. In doing so, it confronts the ways in which history has excluded or minimized their experiences, urging us to question normative accounts of the Holocaust.

By shedding light on these long-overlooked stories, People Without History Are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory, reminding us why an inclusive and complex approach to history is essential - not just for the sake of the past, but in service to the present and the future as well.

On September 7, 1996, the AISSG of North America held its first meeting in New York City. The group, made up of mostly females with AIS and founded by Sherri Groveman, sought to forge a collaborative relationship with the medical community, so that intersex individuals would be seen as more than patients to be fixed and forgotten.

Historically, the medical profession thought that surgeries, hormone therapy, and parental secrecy would ‘cure’ intersex children and allow them to lead ‘normal’ lives. But during the inaugural meeting, doctors learned that these surgeries and hormone therapies led to lifelong health issues and parental secrecy led to shame and broken families.

In 2020, we rebranded as InterConnect. We welcome all intersex people, their families, friends & allies to join our group for support, programming, outreach and education.

InterConnect is committed to building a community for all intersex people, their families, and allies. A space where you are heard, valued, and embraced regardless of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, socio-economic background, ability, experience, or perspective. A community where you can bring your whole self. We’re in this together, join us.

Our Mission: InterConnect is a compassionate and affirming community of intersex individuals, family members and allies, working together to promote a better quality of life through connection, support, education and awareness.

Our Vision: A world in which intersex individuals are celebrated as a natural variation of human biology, and all intersex people feel safe, seen and supported.

Our Values: We value the journey of intersex people, their families and allies, who support our right to self-determination, dignity, and purpose.

InterConnect welcomes inquiries from families, practitioners, teachers, clergy, and anyone who is looking to better support an intersex person that is important to them.

I thought I could never care for anyone again, until I met you.

Thursdays are for Open Mic at Molten Java!! 🎤🌈🥳 7-9PM, every week! Brought to you by @bethelctpride and @moltenjava ☕️

Calling all LGBTQ musicians, poets, storytellers, drag performers, magicians, comedians, burlesque dancers—show us what you got!

This is an LGBTQIA+ inclusive and welcoming event series. No cover fee but drink purchase suggested (show Molten some love, y’all!) And tip your barista! 💖

Making Queer History is making a mascot — or rather, we made a mascot! Meet Quinn the Queer Historian.

They came out. A lot of friends knew, but they were never officially, publically, out. For all the reasons above, plus dealing with workplace retaliation and potential loss of healthcare for same when they were at age of really needing it.

With current rollback on a lot of those protections and the general proliferation of "at will" states and decline of unions, there may still be a significant number of boomers in the closet trying to make it to that finish line. They saw how bad it all was and currently is. and the lower they are on the economic ladder, the higher the risk of being out.

That healthcare is tied to employment is a big factor there. Anyone who's working and dependent on not losing that for themself, a spouse, or child, is going to be extra cautious about making too much noise. Proving discrimination in a labor dispute is HARD... and the less money you had to start, the less ability you have to win.

Once social security and Medicare kicks in and they're safe... there may be more LGBTQ+ boomers that made it to that age than we thought. And are now unleashed to raise hell.

But this also may *not* happen. It's going to be up to individual choice.

They may stay relatively quiet. But LGBTQ community being actively hostile and indicating those people who stayed in the closet for their safety (or family safety) aren't welcome among younger community members means they may never come out.

On September 7, 1996, the AISSG of North America held its first meeting in New York City. The group, made up of mostly females with AIS and founded by Sherri Groveman, sought to forge a collaborative relationship with the medical community, so that intersex individuals would be seen as more than patients to be fixed and forgotten.

Historically, the medical profession thought that surgeries, hormone therapy, and parental secrecy would ‘cure’ intersex children and allow them to lead ‘normal’ lives. But during the inaugural meeting, doctors learned that these surgeries and hormone therapies led to lifelong health issues and parental secrecy led to shame and broken families.

In 2020, we rebranded as InterConnect. We welcome all intersex people, their families, friends & allies to join our group for support, programming, outreach and education.

InterConnect is committed to building a community for all intersex people, their families, and allies. A space where you are heard, valued, and embraced regardless of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, socio-economic background, ability, experience, or perspective. A community where you can bring your whole self. We’re in this together, join us.

Our Mission: InterConnect is a compassionate and affirming community of intersex individuals, family members and allies, working together to promote a better quality of life through connection, support, education and awareness.

Our Vision: A world in which intersex individuals are celebrated as a natural variation of human biology, and all intersex people feel safe, seen and supported.

Our Values: We value the journey of intersex people, their families and allies, who support our right to self-determination, dignity, and purpose.

InterConnect welcomes inquiries from families, practitioners, teachers, clergy, and anyone who is looking to better support an intersex person that is important to them.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th: