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Through the years something as simple as Anne Boleyn's hair color has been a topic of discussion; her hair has been described as brunette, black, or even auburn. But there's something weird about this because in her most famous projects her hair has a dark brown tone. So, with that we'll think that the mystery is solved, but the thing is that this portrait was made years after her death, and other portraits are based in that one, so the closest that we have to what she actually looked like it's a portrait made by Hans Holbein and an old coin that shows her bust, but here enters the problem.

For obvious reasons the coin doesn't have color, but the drawing does, and nowadays looks blond, we cannot say she's blond because we have to remember that this sketch it's really old, and it isn't even fully coloured, but we can suspect it originally was made with yellow, reddish brown, and some black tonalities.

We don't have a final answer, but some people say that this confusion was on purpose, but I guess we'll never now

One of the least comprehended things about autism is masking, masking consists in an adaptative phenomenon that autistic people develop to live and adapt to an allistic (non-autistic) society, we can think about it as a way of camouflage, a way in which autistic people supress some of their natural behaviours. For allistic people or people that doesn’t understand it, this may sound like a great mechanism, because it allows autistic people to look “normal”, but it really is not. Masking it’s  harmful, and it can lead to another things that are really horrible stuff, and the worst thing, most of the time it isn’t really conscious, and unmasking it’s really difficult journey, but today I am not going to talk about that, actually, I am going to explain one of comorbidities of autism that it's extremely related to masking, the coke bottle effect.

For those who don’t now, let’s explain the coke bottle effect in a really simple way imagine an autistic person as a coke bottle, as they day goes on they’re going to get shaken, and if they don’t stim or make any of their normal mechanisms to regulate because of masking, so they don’t let our any of this pressure because they feel like they can’t, not at that moment, not at that place, so the second they feel safe enough to react everything explodes. The whole content of the coke bottle it’s released, instead of relaxing because they’re in a safe space they just release all of the tension and pressure that they have been accumulating all day long, while before for the people that were with them everything look normal, they didn’t look or act eny different, for everyone they’re fine, but in the interior everything just keeps adding pressure that is waiting to release.

Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an activist, primatologist, and conservationist. She was burned at Hampstead, London and although she just died at the age of 91, she really left a mark in the study of Apes.

Whe she was a kid she received a chimpanzee plushie which she named Jubilee, since then she loved chimpanzees, and that motivated her to work to defend then.

So, I cannot mention Jane without mentioning Fifi, which was one of her initial subjects of study, but one day she disappeared, which made Jane really sad. But she was definitely not her only study, because by her notebook we can find a lot of notes of different chimpanzees. And how does she got to interact with them?, exactly, bananas. Talking of that we have David Greybeard which was the first chimpanzee who lost the fear to humans, eating 50 bananas in one seat.

She made a lot of important contributions to the world, including the redefinition of humans, because before her the a was defines as a toolmaker, it chimpanzees also make tools, and she discovered that, they also have cultural manifestations that go through generations, just like us. They use leaves and moss as utensils to eat and drink, and also women can be independent.

I think that’s marketing but now guys, quick lesson, let’s think about the iconic pride phrase “love is love”, every kind of love, and liking and dating someone of your opposite gender when you are queer doesn’t make you straight or less queer, you are still queer, you are still existing and deserving to be seen, and I just like my same gender but please respect queer people who also like the opposite one.

Omnisexuality is a sexuality in which people feel attracted to all genders but they actually have preferences, not like pansexual people, but now their flag.

This one was created at Devianart (another big place for pride flags) by pastelmemer, and this one has 5 stripes.

With light pink and light blue representing the gender spectrum, pink representing attraction to female identifying persons and feminity, blue representing attraction to male identifying persons, and dark purple for everyone that falls outside of gender binary.

So I usually start with who created it but we don’t certainly know for this one

It has three stripes

Pink: Attraction for people that identify as female

Yellow: Atrtraction for people that identify as non binary

Blue: Attraction for people that identify as male

Now what we were all expecting, flags, this was created on Tumblr on 2012, it has three stripes.

A pink one that represents attraction for people that identify as female, a green one for people who doesn’t identify as male or female, and a blue one for people that identify as male.

All flags are pretty, but this one is pretty and simple, love it.

This was designed in 1998 by Michael page which is an activist that made it because he felt that the rainbow flag didn’t represented bisexuals (which is true).

So now we use the sunset lesbian flag, which was designed by Emily Gwen in 2018, originally with 7 stripes, but now we only use 5 because of the controversial meaning of the last two.

The ones that we use nowadays mean:

Independence

Community

Unique relationships with woman hood

Serenity and peace

Love and sex

I still find love and sec triggering because asexuals exist, but we’ll talk about that later.

Thanks for reading.

This is not the first time it happens to me, it always happens and it downgrades my grades a lot, I can know the topic and explain it and do excercises but if the exam is like that, I fail.