Clever Manka is dressed and undressed

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

This is a parasite that usually causes about 3000 cases of illness per year in the USA, Michigan currently has reported about 2900 (the confusion about “Michigan outbreak” is because Michigan is the first that caught an uptick in cases and has been very proactive about trying to trace them). Last official update from Massachusetts was 18 cases here centered in Greater Boston. The CDC recommends NOT assuming there are no sources of the parasite in your state even if no cases have been reported.

It isn’t an unknown illness but it is an unusual quantity of cases, and the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down the source after weeks of tracking is what makes it particularly concerning this year (harder to contain).

Evening Dress

c. 1921

by Callot Soeurs

The sharp edge of an era

Images: Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s

Image 1: Eine Frau modelt Jeanne Lanvins Version des Garçonne-Looks, 1925. Image 2: Jane Heap, photographed in Paris by Berenice Abbott, 1927. Image 3: “Garçonnes,” 1922. Paris, Palais Galliera–musée de la Mode; found on the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection.

Image 1: February 1925: British actress of stage and screen Edna Best (1900 - 1974) as Fay Collen in the play 'Spring Cleaning' at St Martins Theatre in London. Image 2: Edna Best by Dorothy Wilding, c. 1925.

Image 1 and 2: Le Grand Tailleur, No. 181 and 184; both 1926.

Image 1: Postcard of German film actress Elga Brink, c. mid-to-late 1920s. Image 2: Cover of Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, No. 46, 13 November 1927; found in Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak, pg. 270. Image 3: Publicity shot of German actress Ruth Landshoff in Das Leben; November 1929.

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The full illustration I did for @taplingzines "We've Always Been Here"