knitmeapony:

gahdamnpunk:

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

marisatomay:

medievalpoc:

nemesispawn:

biscuitsarenice:

The Big Questions:

Is there more truth in Shakespeare than the Bible?

Akala, Rapper, Writer, Academic and founder of the Hip-hop Shakespeare Company.

Prof Stanley Wells, the world’s leading Shakespeare scholar.

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Oh my god, this is interesting.

Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England

“Race Card” by Gary Taylor

British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database

Bartles, Emily C. “Making More of the Moor: Aaron, Othello, and Renaissance Refashionings of Race”. Shakespeare
Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 433-454. Folger
Shakespeare Library, in association with George Washington University.

ex-libris-blog:

“But Maria explained and painted their life cycle. Their metamorphosis from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. She not only explained that process, she showed which plant species each butterfly species was dependent upon. This book revolutionised the study of insects in Europe. But it also helped Maria raise the funds to embark upon a journey to study the more exotic creatures that she knew she would find in the tropical regions of the Dutch empire.”

David Olusoga, Civilisations, ep. 6 ‘First Contact’ (BBC 2018)

crewdlydrawn:

crewdlydrawn:

TBC since tumblr’s posting methods changed

Linked article URLs, in order of appearance:

1. Exploiting harassment claims

2. Bob Livingston admits claim is true

3. Truth about false allegations

4. Coming forward is traumatic

5. Accusational statistics

6. Assault victims’ memory reliability

7. Truck stop killer

8. Not worth the book deal

9. Percentage of women who have experienced sexual harassment.

brett kavanaugh to the fucking guillotine

babyfairy:

ichi-okami:

likeful:

hmmm i dont like it when men say bitch

Unless they are gay

gay men shouldn’t be saying bitch either you clown.

buzzfeed:

Women Around The Country Were Crying As They Watched Christine Blasey Ford Testify Against Brett Kavanaugh

victuuriplease:

one of the most bizarre things I have seen come out of this whole Dr. Ford/Kavanaugh situation is men saying something along the lines of “This will make all boys afraid to do anything that could be considered sexual assault against women for fear it will ruin their whole lives thirty years later” and it’s like…………GOOD???? wtf is the matter with you

usatodayopinion:

— Samantha Bee, in Best of Late Night