smol

oh my god?????

but anyway, yeah i’m totally petty enough to get a math ph.d, a subject i really enjoy, just to send hatemail to STEM k-12 teachers that told me i’d never be good at it. 8) #inspiration

Soooooo….. My sister had a teacher that gave her nightmares, she scared and bullied her witless. My sis would spent hours lying in bed crying, my dad perched on the side, talking to her, stroking her back, soothing her in the dark of her bedroom. That woman kept telling her she was no good, dumb, just not clever enough… framed in language of course that made it fucking impossible to sanction her…. on top of only having kids as witnesses. Years later my sister, now a trainee-teacher walks into her old school as a new member of staff… guess who her co-worker was?

My guidance counselor in high school told me that with my grades I should “be realistic” and apply to the local community college because I’d never get into my dream school. Five years later I sent her a graduation announcement from that very dream school 😎

But also, hey, as someone who fought with teachers and got bad grades in high school English, flunked out of a community college English course, and is now a full time English professor at one… There’s no shame in going to a community college.

I’m ok. I’m gonna be ok. I’m gonna live a beautiful life and I’ll get to know beautiful people. I will create things of beauty and be surrounded by flowers. And I’ll love myself, and I’ll be soft, I’ll be kind. And I’ll be ok.

I took a class about Ancient Egypt last semester and we had a whole lecture dedicated to talking about how gay Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were. Their tomb walls were decorated with scenes of them ignoring their wives in favor of embracing each other. In one scene, the couple is seated at a banquet table that is usually reserved for a husband and wife. There’s an entire motif of Khnumhotep holding lotus flowers which in ancient Egyptian tradition symbolizes femininity. Khnumhotep offers the lotus flower to Niankhkhnum, something that only wives were ever depicted as doing for their husbands. In fact, Khnumhotep is repeatedly depicted as uniquely feminine, being shown smaller and shorter than his partner Niankhkhnum and being placed in the role of a woman. Size is a big deal in Egyptian art, husbands are almost always shown as being larger and taller than their wives. So for two men of equal status to be shown in once again, a marital fashion, is pretty telling. Not to mention they were literally buried together which is the strongest bond two people could share in ancient Egypt, as it would mean sharing the journey to the afterlife together. And yet 90% of the academic text about these two talks about these clues in vague terms and analyze the great “brotherhood” they shared, and the enigma of Khnumhotep being depicted as feminine. Apparently it’s too hard for archaeologists to accept homosexuality in the ancient world, as well as the possibility of trans individuals.

There’s a lot of bigoted historian dragging on my dash these days and it makes me happy.

Once again, more proof that we queers have ALWAYS been here, and it’s a CHOSEN narrative to erase them.

No Homo: A History

This is very vivid. Did this guy actually have an affair with Chris Evans?

clarke shows everyone in arkadia her lexa drawings

“this is my girlfriend lexa, isn’t she pretty? she was super awesome but she’s dead now because SOMEONE couldn’t stop being a bunch of fuckassess”

you’re only a true gamer™ if you’ve played at least 1 (one) video game

Team USA hockey spends around $3.5 million per year developing and paying into Mens hockey. Team USA Men’s Hockey: 3 Gold Medals total in 97 years. Team USA Women’s Hockey is asking for $68,000 A year. Team USA Women’s Hockey: 8 Gold Medals total in 27 years. Yet Team USA can’t comprehend “What the big deal is here” Complete bullshit.

gays rb this with ur favourite song from the twilight soundtrack,,,mine is decode by paramore

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