progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

White-throated Sparrow
Assembled typewriter parts

A late 2022 postscript: an image of the " A Letter to Young People" printed in the first issue of La Jeunesse, 1915 (see top of thread) at Zhejiang University; and quotes from Lu Xun's "A Madman's Diary" and "Preface," spotted taped to benches on Beijing Languages Academy campus this evening.
Shared on weibo, hat tip to @bokane

#China #救救孩子 #LuXun

A helpful truck owner parked beside the protesters at the #abortion clinic where I volunteer as an escort; they played music to drown out the hate and were much appreciated. Specifically, they played “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back,” which is the darkest musical trolling I’ve heard in a good while.

Good morning, everybody.

Been feeling the urge to dip back into 4x5 #photography lately.

I haven’t done any LF work since I was flattened by Covid in Berlin in early 2020. Kind of intimidated by how heavy all the equipment feels right now (#hrt). Also, I generally only use LF when I’m travelling, and I don’t expect to be doing any of that for the next six months. 😌

Still, … there’s that tickle.

This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.

The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.

The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.

Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker.
He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints.

New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s

https://www.openculture.com/2019/05/new-web-project-immortalizes-the-forgotten-women-who-gave-birth-to-rock-n-roll-in-the-1950s.html

UC faculty colleagues: please consider reading and signing this appeal to the state government to reinvest in the UC system.
The only way the admin will give our grad students a livable wage, without just shrinking our grad programs to make up the budget, is if the state legislature actually forks over the money.
#fairUCnow

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezYkxaYjtD7ho5lqNEM8zl4NzrxxWJBlB6I2iAK4ufa86vqQ/viewform

@litstudies, I was identified as someone who might make #Middlemarch jokes on this site, but can #HenryJames get ❤️ here too? (and w/o a bk about a 🐳 ?) Here's my girl Isabel Archer,

"What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had conceived the design of drawing her into a system in which he rather invidiously lived & moved. A certain instinct, not imperious, but persuasive, told her to resist--murmured to her that virtually she had a system and an orbit of her own."

Dionne Brand, from The Blue Clerk

#poetry

TDOR 2022 in Hamburg

Mahnwache mit Die-In, Videoinstallation, Reden und Open Mic. Wir protestieren zum Trans Day of Remembrance mit dem Die-In gegen die gewaltsamen Versuche, unsere Existenz auszulöschen.

Legt gerne Blumen nieder, bringt eure Fahnen mit, haltet eine Rede und macht mit.

@queeramnesty_hamburg und
@enby_galactic_transtastic machen zusammen am Sonntag, den 20. November, von 16 bis 18 Uhr eine Protestaktion am Heidi Kabel Platz beim Hauptbahnhof Hamburg.

#tdor2022 #tdor

Only we can keep us safe. Sending so much love to my #queer and #trans community today ❤️‍🩹

How it started / How it's going