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Hai! ^^ ๐Ÿธ I am an activist indulging in the fight against inequality & oppression. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ Here, my love, you'll find a smol blend of things I am interested in, including: nature, LGBTQIA+ history, activism, feminism, poetry, thoughts on religion, & memes! :D ๐Ÿ”ž

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Based desire >.>

Big need ๐Ÿ˜”

08.08.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That must be why I'm so sick... Perkele.... Kivutar, i beg of youโ€” lessen my burden and I shall give libations in your name! I shall sing your name to the trees and it shall echo from mountain to mountain!...

Yeah, it's pretty cool! ^^ And we likely had gender diversity before Christianization:3

08.08.2025 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't forget Kanteletar and Kantele! ^^ nor Mythologica Fennica (still need to buy that >.>)

07.08.2025 23:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did someone say Baltic Finnic Paganism?!!!! :OOO

07.08.2025 23:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello, i come tell you about whyruss on your computer โ€” this walrus is eating your files and shell make yooyt commuter very slow... We request immidieight assces to your PC and goodbye

-Sent from my Nintendo 3DS

07.08.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The British "transvestite" in Sweden in the 1940s who had a deep anxiety that only went away when wearing women's clothing.

(a translation of the full article)

"The human is an enigma"

#transhistory #lgbthistory

07.08.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When it comes to trans & trans+ people, Dr. Alan Hart Is pretty high up there when it comes to heroes, due to his efforts in pioneering Tuberculosis detection by way of x-ray, and other things...
As is Dr. James Barry, who saved countless lives.

07.08.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The False Freedom of Womenโ€™s Choices The decisions might be ours, but the options laid out in front of us too often still arenโ€™t

medium.com/the-no%C3%B6...

07.08.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This man is clearly a victim of westernization & colonialism in more ways than one, but this is one that is very apparent...

07.08.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Liberal MP says women prefer hairdressing and men drawn to maths in debate over gender quotas Labor minister likens Longman MP Terry Youngโ€™s parliament speech to infamous comments from Tony Abbott

Absolutely nothing but ignorant... There is no inherent nature that pulls man to maths and woman to hairdressing ๐Ÿ˜ญ

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

07.08.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But should we then even praise Ingaz Bu for what she did saving a dying squirrel 18,000 years ago? If she was just raised by her peers to take care of animals? Of course we should praise her!
Same should we judge Omago Bog, but I think mostly the people & processes that made her that violent way.

07.08.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How should we judge Omago Bog for murdering her sister 20,000 years ago when she was raised in a society with violent ideas imposed on her since birth? I mean, she was groomed to become that way... Shouldn't we blame the people who raised her? or humanity as a whole for those morals developing?

07.08.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think it is very fair to judge the people of old, but also recognize what made them that way, and the environment they grew up in... Basically everyone and their grandma knew a child coerced to marry an adult in 1800s US, and that doesn't make it okay, but they somehow thought that was okay :I

07.08.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I find some things she did gross & morally deplorable, & others good & inspiring. But weren't some of our greatest heroes, too, flawed and often disgusting? If we held them to our modern standards, we'd have next to noone left to celebrateโ€”That doesn't mean we shouldn't judge them, lol.

07.08.2025 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't know why Jennie's story captivates me so โ€” it could be due to a number of details in our childhoods that mirror eachother very well, aswell... I hope to not remain just a Jennie June account, though, lol. I'd like to make some posts about other people like Pauline Berloget, & Amaesia Sentia

07.08.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Werther, Ralph u. June, Jennie (EarlLind), The Female-Impersonators (Book Review)
Archiv fรผr Kriminologie, 1923, Vol.75 (3), p.236

Long island medical journal Vol 13 1919 (? Had this in my notes)

07.08.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A fairies response to Dr Lichtenstein... Medical review of reviews. 1921

Werther-Juneโ€™s "The Biological Sport of Fairie-ism, Medical Life Dec 1920

07.08.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Perry M. Lichtensteinโ€™s article โ€œThe โ€˜Fairyโ€™ and the Lady Loverโ€ in volume 27 of Medical Review of Reviews

Ralph Werther -Jennie June. "Studies in Androgynism." Medical Life (NY), (1920) 27: 235-46 babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

07.08.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The female impersonator Ralph Werther Jennie June American journal of urology and sexology v 15 July 1919

Long Island medical journal. Associated Physicians of Long Island. Medical Book News. June, 1919,
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07.08.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ralph Werther - Jennie June. โ€œThe Female Impersonator.โ€ The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 6. June 1919.

Ralph Werther - Jennie June. โ€œProtest from an Androgyne.โ€ The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 7. July 1919.

07.08.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ralph Werther - Jennie June. โ€œThe Sorrows of Jennie June.โ€ The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 4. April 1919.

07.08.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ralph Werther - Jennie June. โ€œBoy โ€“ But Never Man.โ€ The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 3. March 1919.

Book Notes. โ€œThe American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr., 1919).โ€

07.08.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ralph Werther - Jennie June. โ€œThe Girl-boyโ€™s Suicide.โ€ The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Vol. 14. No. 11. November 1918.

07.08.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ralph Werther - Jennie June. โ€œThe Fairie Boy (An Autobiographical Sketch).โ€ The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Vol. 14. No. 10. October 1918.

07.08.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

William Lee Howard. "Two Souls in One Body: A Realistic but Scientific Account of a True Psychologicalโ€, The Arena; 34, 192, Nov 1905: 467-9. An account of Jennie/Karl.

07.08.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Prologue: I. How I Came to Write This Book ยท Jennie June/Ralph Werther/Earl Lind, 1870-1950: Researching the Author ยท OutHistory

The Riddle of the Underworld (partial manuscript) (was to be released in 1923)

outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...
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R. W. Shufeldtโ€™s โ€œThe Medico-Legal Consideration of Perverts and Inverts" Pacific Medical Journal Vol. 48 No. 7. July 1905

07.08.2025 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Female-Impersonators - Wikisource, the free online library

Below, i will give links or names to all the known / extant writings:

(1918) Autobiography Of An Androgyne
en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Autobio...

(1922) The Female Impersonators by RALPH WERTHERโ€”JENNIE JUNE
(EARL LIND)
en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fem...

07.08.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The books & articles are also very graphic and written by a gifted kid Harvard student with a vocabulary so wide and syntax so fluid that it may leave a few head scratchers, but they're an amazing read despite the outdated language and some parts of shocking & disturbing events.

07.08.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The books dive into many kind of people, not limited to trans+ individuals or cis gay/lesbians, but many others, aswell, such as those asexual. This was a time when being trans & homosexual was seen by many as the same, just different flavors... A really lacking view that thankfully mostly died out.

07.08.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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and we could include Jennie June / Ralph Werther, too, for her trilogy of books & many medical articles written to garner support and understanding for what we today call the LGBTQIA+โ€”her efforts failed mostly :/ But the books are an amazing insight into LGBTQIA+ life from the 1870s to 1920s.

07.08.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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