ossuariies:

As an offshoot of the concerted uprising movement, a new form of political struggle, called the dau tranh truc dien (face-to-face struggle) was devised in Ben Tre province. It was usually carried out by a large group of women marching into the district or province towns to present petitions to GVN authorities, protesting the atrocities committed by Sai Gon troops on an operation, the criminal activities of local officials, or demanding compensation for losses of lives and property inflicted by GVN soldiers and officials. These demonstrations and public denunciations of GVN activities were a great embarrassment to GVN provincial authorities, for they did not know how to deal with them, since the demands were legitimate. Moreover, the fact that the demonstrators were mostly women made officials hesitant to resort to force to suppress them, for they were afraid of looking cowardly and becoming the laughingstock of the people. These face-to-face struggles proved to be a valuable political tool for the National Liberation Front. And the women who carried them out came to be known as the doi quan toc dai (soldiers with long hair) and hailed for their contribution to the revolution. 

No Other Road to Take, Memoir of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh, trans. Mai V. Elliott

Found it, finally.

hello… bitches. i’m back on here because i’m trying to find a book i read about a vietnamese woman who fought in the revolution and all i know is that i blogged about it like twice. i don’t even think it’s on this account tho hahaha. we’ll see. 

I’m depressed and bored and only blogging at /universal-equivalent from now on. Bye.

Depressed/demotivated and feeling like I’ve wasted my time. Can barely stand to even listen to french. Feel suffocated. Isolated. Trying to keep busy with other things but nothing really helps alleviate the doomed, futile, and humiliated feeling I have about myself.

Ātra has the cat flu! 😰

Me after reading Ellen Meiksins Wood: fuck the English for infecting the world with capitalism.

Hello everyone: say hi to Beatrix (L) and Ātra ®, my two babies.

You know what? I intellectually/aesthetically love female sadism toward men and i really wish men were actually humiliated by it instead of aroused by the impossibility of what it projects.

lupins:

lupins:

lupins:

one of the oldest and arguably the most important museum in Brazil is burning to the ground as we speak. home to the portuguese royal family from 1808 to 1821, the Museu Nacional stored fossils, meteorites, pre-historic human skeletons and a variety of artefacts related to natural history. it holds two centuries of latin & brazilian history and now it’s all gone.

some of the things that are now lost forever: the largest collection of egyptian artefacts in latin america; the skeleton of the largest flying reptile ever found in Brazil; the oldest human fossil ever found in the country, named “Luzia” (over 11.000 y.o) and other 20 million extremely important relics and researches just burned to the ground. never to be seen again.

thanks to our government, of course, who didn’t want to pay the museum the necessary funds to make the essencial maintenances since 2014 (which by the way, costed less than a supreme federal court judge’s sallary: R$520 in a year).

another sad instance where the state’s indifference towards culture and history becomes painfully obvious. this is a massive blow to our cultural legacy.

all that in our independe week. happy independe for us, brazilians, who just lost our history and culture in a fire caused by ignorance and indifference.

in case you’re wondering, this is what the museum used to look like:

this is what it looks like now:

thousands of years of culture lost. happy independence week.

“Authorities say the fire lasted for six hours, causing irreparable damage. To put it bluntly: it’s all gone. A meteorite, that can sustain incredibly high temperatures, was found intact. But other than that, there are apparently no other pieces left. It would not be an understatement to call the Museu Nacional the Brazilian equivalent of the Louvre or the British Museum.”

here is a thread of wonderful pictures taken before the fire started, so you can see details of the museum that now is lost forever.

here is some of the international news saying on this, because most articles and videos are all in portuguese, u can check some of the news in english: (here *new york times*) (here *bbc news*) (here *le monde* for french speaking readers) (here *shorouk news* for people who speak arabian) (here *azteca news* for spanish) (here *corriere della sera* for italian).

it was a natural science and historic museum, there were all sorts of important researches and relics. all burned. this was our culture. our history. the first human fossil found in brazil (mentioned above, Luzia) was so important for science, since it proved that way before indigenous tribes existed in Brazil, there were black people.

this is the place where our first constitution was made and the declaration of independence was signed. our independe day is this friday. heartbroken.

@roseseafoam

Can’t believe none of you fraudulent ass friends told me Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer did a duet.

Every time I think about how pina bausch and yoji yamamoto had an affair I need smelling salts what a fucking combo.