Lillian Darby

Good grief! Be adults, not children playing 'white house'! — Your policies and methods of presenting through childlike lambasting is really just contemptible and even pitiable at times.

Reading through old medical journals for trans+ & gay, lesbian history (they do contain much triggering content and bigotry)

Long Island medical journal

American journal of urology and sexology

Medical Life Journal

The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

Medical Review of Reviews

Aphrodite bless you, miss bot! Goddess of lesbians and woman woman love! (it is theorized and also alluded to by Sappho)

Actually, I realise now that it is an excerpt from Edvard Westermarck's The Origin And Development Of Morals

This should be of much interest to anyone into transmasc+ & lesbian history! :)

"Homosexuality Among Women" by Anonymous, in The American Journal Of Urology & Sexology (Aug 1919)

Johnsongate 2025

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

What the fuck are we doing?

Ooh, I did not know that :> Thank you! I will definitely be checking it out! 🌸 I simplyy wanted to add from my own list that I've no reason to gatekeep, lol :p I see fellow people interested in intersex history, I wan help with what I've got ^^

a man in a suit is standing in front of a plant . ALT: a man in a suit is standing in front of a plant .

Take my loquacious usage of words and grammar as a total gag and travesty — I realise I may sound like I'm attempting to come off as intelligent Ben Shapiro-style, but that is the very LAST thing I want 😭 I just really, really like languages and acting goofy... ya dig?

Here is Mowry Saben's essay on their dear friend, Edwin Arlington Robinson — last I checked, it wasn't publicly available, but it would seem that has changed since!

www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

Then there's also Nibru tiru in some Mesopotamian tablets, or 'eunuch' as some translations put it, but it's actually someone 'born a eunuch' as I've furyer seen it quite insensitively described >.<

".... The drunken shall smite their faces, and the mighty shall imprison them."
See here how this plot point functions to tell us why society looks down on these folks? I do not know enough to say how babylon viewed intersex and Assinnu, Kalu/Gala etc 1,000 years before this.

".... For many ages you will suffer. Those who are like you, lovers of men, kin, my sacred women, shall be strangers in their homes. Their families will keep them in the shadows and will leave them nothing.... (2)"

"When Ishtar learned of the curse placed upon the 'man-woman' [SIC], She wept and spoke so that no one might hear, “The power of Ereshkigal is great. No one dares defy Her. But I may soften Her curse upon you..... (1)

here we see in this later version the changing views of Assinnu, and that society now views them with quite mixed views compared to in the earlier sources we have of Assinnu, described in a version of Epic of Erra as a person who transgress taboos to please Ishtar, and dressing feminine etc

In a later Babylonian var. of Descent, this happens to intersex, non-binary Asushunamir:

“The food of the gutter shall be your food!” Great Ereshkigal cried “The drink of the sewer shall be your drink. In the shadows shall you abide” Having pronounced Her curse upon Them, She banished Asushunamir"

-Ugucius of Pisa on intersex people
-Herculine Barbin
-Silimabzuta

And seemingly Inanna and Ishtar were the goddess(es) of not just gender variant people, but also intersex people...

Abu Zakariya al-Nawawi on intersex people
-Ibn Qudama on intersex people
-Ibrahim Al-Halabi on intersex slaves
-Decretum Gratiani on intersex people
-Huguccio on intersex people
-Henry de Bracton on intersex people
-Henry of Segusio on intersex people
-Edward Coke on intersex people

Maria Nikiforova
"Miss" M mentioned by Hirschfeld & Burchard
Agdistis
Hapi
Wadj-wer
A few south American, Chinese, African deities I forget the name of
Rashidun caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib on an intersex person
Khuntha / khuntha mushkil
Hanafi & Hanbalist lawyers on intersex people

Here is a short list of intersex or possibly intersex people or related in history:

Diophantus of Abae
Callon of Epidarus
Isidore of Seville's description of an intersex person
Ulpian on intersex people
Tom Shammy, 1727
Anglo Saxon laws on intersex people
Uesugi Kenshin
Akhenaten(?)
Giacoma Foroni

Jennie June locked in and sigma womf'd, as the kids say.

La Forest Potter (1855-1951), an early 1930s witness to queer New York La Forest Potter. Strange Loves: A Study in Sexual Abnormalities . Robert Dodsley Company/ National Library Press, 1933. Trigger warning:...

A strange book called Strange Lives, 1933. Dr La Forest Potter describes queer New York, but misunderstands so much.

zagria.blogspot.com/2025/09/la-f...

The twilight of the gods : an essay. [Part first of The gospel of freedom] : Saben, Mowry, 1870- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 74 p. ; 19 cm

I also managed to track down a copy of Twilight Of the Gods and contacted Boston Public Library—the holder—and they digitized it; here is the link incase you or anyone else reading this hasn't read it :)
archive.org/details/twil...

With... Cordial-est-est regards....,

-Lillian Darby

Dear Zagria, do you happen to know what became of Saben's Gospel Of Freedom that was proclaimed in papers ca 1904? The book from whence Twilight Of The Gods belonged? June seemingly backed out of publishing it despite it being in print, which I can imagine wouldn't have been good for the wallet.

Writer Edith Södergran to fellow writer Hagar Olsson

"I shall write my love-letters to you, Hagar, when I’m in the mood. Now I’ve got someone of my own, for the rest of my life.

I’ve kissed your letter countless times. I do so desperately want to come."

26 Jan 1919

If you happen to be in Vienna on the 29th of October 2025, don't miss it as it will apparently be screened in Metro Kinokulturhaus'
Eric Pleskow Hall!

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