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It has been quite hot recently here and what do crows do - sunbathing. In this case this young crow decided to do some sunbathing in the blazing midday sun. Apparently crows do that as part of their feather care (Here is a good article explaining it.) and the crow looks rather shiny for a fledgling.
Here's another unusual print we found while perusing through the more than 500 free images by José Guadalupe Posada on JSTOR. It depicts a party in 1901 in which men in drag danced with men in suits. While this was surely not intended as a celebratory image originally, we're making it one now because we love knowing that these parties were happening in Mexico more than 100 years ago!
This particular example comes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which features more than 1/2 million open access images.
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The most ridiculous thing about this shit is that the idea that skeletal remains can be easily and unambiguously 'sexed' is absolutely bunkus
In 1972, Kenneth Weiss, now a professor emeritus of anthropology and genetics at Pennsylvania State University, noticed that there were about 12 percent more male skeletons than females reported at archaeological sites. This seemed odd, since the proportion of men to women should have been about half and half. The reason for the bias, Weiss concluded, was an “irresistible temptation in many cases to call doubtful specimens male.” For example, a particularly tall, narrow-hipped woman might be mistakenly cataloged as a man. After Weiss published about this male bias, research practices began to change. In 1993, 21 years later, the aptly named Karen Bone, then a master’s student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, examined a more recent dataset and found that the bias had declined: The ratio of male to female skeletons had balanced out. In part that might be because of better, more accurate ways of sexing skeletons. But also, when I went back through the papers Bone cited, I noticed there were more individuals categorized as “indeterminate” after 1972 and basically none prior.
Allowing skeletons to remain unsexed, or “indeterminate,” reflects an acceptance of the variability and overlap between the sexes. It does not necessarily mean that the skeletons classified this way are, in fact, neither male nor female, but it does mean that there is no clear or easy way to tell the difference. As science and social change in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that sex is complicated, the category of “indeterminate sex” individuals in skeletal research became more common and improved scientific accuracy.
Source: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/intersex-biological-sex/
Cis transphobes, you too could have your skeleton miscategorised hundreds of years after your death, because neither gender nor sex are the clear binaries you want them to be. Which you would know if your view of science in these fields wasn't perpetually stuck in the first half of the 20th century.
(another good article from Sapiens on transgender perspectives on archaeology/anthropology - https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/transgender-people-exist-in-history/ )
Anyway I just wanted to put this here to say that the assholes who go "when they find your bones" aren't even correct, in recent decades that narrow approach has been challenged in the fields of archaeology and anthropology, and don't let anyone invalidate the joy we feel in life.
Trans joy now and forever.
Yes!!!!
A) not all archaeologists are osteoarchaeologists
B) the ones that are, are aware of ambiguity in human bones!! Which exists! This is like osteo-archaeology 101 (literally my intro bones & stones class covered this. It was "likely," this or that, not guaranteed).
C) all of them can conceive of human remains in context of how they were found meaning that a good archaeologist doesn't just look at a pelvis and declare the sex of the skeleton and that's all they ever study or do. ....that would be silly and also pointless. Archaeologists are gonna look at lots of things. They're going to look at epitaphs/tombstones, burial objects, clothing, location of burial, etc etc.
Like if an archaeologist digs up a person whose tombstone says "loving daughter, friend, sister, she will be missed," and that person's pelvis isn't as wide as expected they're going to get laughed at if they declare that the skeleton is actually a man on the basis of ignoring literally all other data points and the fact that outliers exist all the time.
An archaeologist might be able to gather enough data to argue: "this person could have been/was likely a trans woman, and here's what we know about their life, and they existed back then, and here's how they were honored in death." But it won't be done by bone size alone, and also... just shows trans people exist and are real and have history.
terfs just hate admitting science might validate trans existence as legitimate and real. But science doesn't work by running around making claims and then forcing evidence to fit those claims.
Also I just don't care what a random archaeologist in a thousand years is going to say about my bones? I'm pretty sure I bone spur riddled skeleton will be the least interesting thing about me. Why was she buried with a sword and a staff? Why is she holding a metal tablet saying "This Is Not A Place Of Honor"? Why is she wearing an amulet that is CLEARLY cursed, but also real cheap and beat up sneakers?
"Damn, bitch," the archaeologist will say to my skeleton as the seal is broken and the Hungry Gods descend from a shattered sky to eat reality from the edges, "Did you seriously live like this?!"
Can we just appreciate "Karen Bone" as well
My grandmother, who is a cis woman, will undoubtedly confuse many a future archaeologist.
To wit:
1) she has far fewer bones than she should, and they don't all look human. This is the result of multiple surgeries due to multiple injuries, and bits of her bones having to be fused together.
2) her bones are insanely dense. This is a woman who's as big around as she is tall, and based on her bone size, this is a healthy weight for her. At one point she dropped like 50 pounds on the order of a dumbass doctor who went entirely based on her BMI and the fact she has diabetes, and she looked absolutely skeletal. It was horrifying--and according to Dumbass Doc she actually should have dropped a hundred. Her skeleton is huge. If the whole "drink milk for healthier, bigger bones" thing was as simple and unambiguous as it's made out to be, you'd assume she must have been raised directly on a cow teat.
3) .....and she's also only 4'9". She rides a trike (used to ride a regular motorcycle, had to give it up due to #1) and actually had to have it modified so she could reach everything. When we take pictures together I usually sit down so her head isn't on a direct level with my boobs, and I'm only 5'6". In any photos we take standing next to each other I have to take off my shoes even if I'm only in "these are flats with good arch support"-height shoes, or the photographer actually won't be able to get us both in.
4) And if you're wondering, no, she does not exhibit symptoms of things like high testosterone or PCOS, and there is no evidence she's intersex. (Actually, the pregnancy stretch marks are a big indicator against.) Her bones are just Like That. Also, if you're wondering if this might be the result of her being partly indigenous from somewhere and having recessive genes at play or something,
5) No. She's 100% German-American.
I would love to see a TERF try to explain this.
Zaju chuishao fu
usually categorized as a type of paofu however some scholars classify it as a type of shenyi. The Zaju chuishao fu is also called guiyi and depending on its construction a guipao or guichang. It is a multi-layered garment that was decorated with an apron-like decorative cloth at the waist with triangular strips at the bottom and with pieces of ribbons worn underneath the apron which would hang down from the waist.
His Lioness
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by Aerandir
As Tywin Lannister takes in the sunrise over King’s Landing, he thinks about Joanna.
Words: 1727, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: F/M
- Characters: Tywin Lannister, Joanna Lannister
- Relationships: Joanna Lannister/Tywin Lannister
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A Lion’s Protection
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by Aerandir
Tywin Lannister decides to end the discomfort Aerys Targaryen is causing Joanna. Companion piece to “His Lioness”.
Words: 3677, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: F/M
- Characters: Tywin Lannister, Joanna Lannister
- Relationships: Joanna Lannister/Tywin Lannister
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