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There are a lot of things you can read into Shamhat's "taming" of Enkidu through sex, some uncharitable. I think it's really interesting that loss of "virginity" in this story irreversibly changes you but doesn't have a gendered or "moral" meaning. I feel like interpreting it as a condensed way of depicting, like, 'adult' experience/interfacing with other people/intimacy/understanding that Other People Are People and You Are A Person in a mature way

Up until this point Enkidu's relationship with other humans is distant and dislocated, like he knows that other humans exist but he hasn't Realized. He feels more kinship with the animals than human beings. And then he meets Shamhat and he gets intimate with her and it's like...oh shit. He IS a human. Once you've realized you're a Person you can't un-realize it.

Like experiences do change you. And throughout your maturation process you repeatedly realize: Oh no. I can't go back.

Two videos uploaded to TikTok by Harper Watters @‌ theharperwatters, who is the first black queer soloist in the history of the Houston Ballet.

The start of the first video is captioned with a reply to a comment by someone with the handle ‘broadcast711’, that reads:

Post more for Black history month please [clasped hands emoji, red heart emoji, black heart emoji, green heart emoji]

The videos show Harper Watters executing some fluidly elegant ballet choreography in a studio. At various junctures he freezes momentarily as the camera cuts away to a photo (often vintage) of a male black dancer in exactly the same pose that Harper has adopted, heightening the drama of each pause. The choreography is studied, deliberate and respectful, and the videos read like a beautiful homage to talented dancers who have come before (and perhaps helped to pave the way) for Harper himself.

The dancers featured in the various cutaways are:

Benjamin Feliksdal

Sylvester Campbell

Kiyon Ross

Jermel Johnson

John Alleyne

Rubinald Pronk

Christopher Boatwright

Ronald Darden

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The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

Then in 2020: