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anon you have just opened pandora’s box

My favorite particular bird is the Pfeilstorch! This is a piece of taxidermy from the early 1800s currently on display at the University of Rostock in Germany.

In the early 1800s, natural historians and biologists did not know where birds went for the winter. They just disappeared. Some people thought they hibernated like bears, or turned into fish (!!) or flew to the moon (!!)

or When the full moon syncs up with your holiday plans

Drew one of my absolute favorite possum pics.

There is a large intersection between queerness and disability, including marriage inequality, medical abuse, and legal discrimination. The lines between queerness and disability have been practically nonexistent within living memory and both communities can learn from the other as well as uplift each others voices.

As a queer disabled person, I wanted to share some articles about queer/disabled history:

Vaslav Nijinsky 

Emmeline Freda Du Faur

Gottfried von Bismarck

Victoria Arellano 

Anna Freud 

Lou Sullivan 

Lesbia Harford

Frida Kahlo 

Magnus Hirschfeld 

Kristina King of Sweden

Edward De Lacy Evans  

(To be clear, not all of these are about queer disabled people, but they all have connection to disability through medicalization, or disability)

Also if you want to support a queer disabled writer, who writes about queer history, please check out:

https://www.patreon.com/queerhistory

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