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Sketches 🕊️ °˖➴

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incredible how much housework you can get done if you take a chance and believe in yourself and also have fifteen other much more pressing responsibilities

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many people know about the 1950s doctor who was obsessed with lobotomies (Dr. Walter Freeman)

fewer people know about the 1860s doctor who was obsessed with clitoridectomies, Isaac Baker Brown

he claimed the operation could cure pretty much all forms of mental illness in women- and then-undesirable behaviors that weren't mental illness at all, like masturbation. it's not known how many women and girls he mutilated, but some were teenagers on whom the procedure was performed without their (or their parents') knowledge or consent

Baker Brown cited a text by Hippocrates as support for this practice- a text which in fact concerned surgical removal of genital warts

he was kicked out of the Obstetrical Society of London in 1867 because of his lax approach to consent, but clitoridectomies remained in sporadic use as a mental health treatment in the US and UK until the mid-20th century. thank heaven they don't seem to have ever been commonplace exactly, but...one person subjected to this is one too many

(note: I use language exclusively referring to women here because, as far as we know, his victims were all what we'd now call cis women and girls. obviously not everyone with a clitoris is a woman, and not every woman has a clitoris)

#history #victorian #medical history #fgm #csa mention #misogyny #surgery

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Agostino Brunius : "Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape", ca. 1770-1796. (Brooklyn Museum)

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Amelia C. Van Buren with a Cat. Ca. 1893-1897. Source.

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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tag / dash game!

A person's favorite color, favorite animal, and favorite flavor of ice cream can say a lot about them when considering the answers as a whole. Tag some friends and get a sense of who they are! :)

Favorite color: several-way tie between black, deep red, deep green, and peacock blue

Favorite animal: fennec fox

Favorite ice cream: mint chip (J.P. Licks' Mint Irish Lace is my absolute favorite- and it's only available here in Boston, in March)

Tagged by: @angelofchiralium

Tagging: @maureen-corpse @margridarnauds @vinceaddams @monstrousgourmandizingcats

#tag game #about #personal

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Today's Seal Is: Peeking So Nicely

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the only one stopping you from lurking around an ancient ruin, dressing like a disgraced nobleman, and duelling everyone who comes your way, is yourself. 

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I would LOVE to know why the original photo is apparently in the Marine Corps History Division

source

Unidentified women c. 1900

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by KAREN JERZYK

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meeting of the moon and the sun

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Some frog wizard magic ✨

#gif #luck post

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A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland (F/F romance between a midwife and a selkie who's being held hostage by her new husband, set in 1830s Nova Scotia)

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (F/F romance between two girls forced to become concubines to an evil emperor in a fantasy world inspired by Malaysia. there are sequels; I haven't read them)

Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carringer (F/F romance in a steampunk fantasy version of Victorian England. a parlormaid with prodigious math skills, working for a house of vampires, falls for the lady inventor in residence. technically part of an extended series, but a standalone novella)

There's a sequel to A Marvellous Light, called A Restless Truth! It's F/F-focused (hence why I've read that and not the first book; just more interesting to me than M/M) and deals with two women falling in love while trying to find a magical McGuffin on a luxury ocean liner. I found it to be just Fine; wouldn't re-read or buy a copy. But it wasn't bad either!

Does anyone have recs for historical romance books with a fantasy element? I’m really enjoying the historical society with magic genre at the minute (not really sure if this has a name or not!) and loved the Meddle and Mend series by Sarah Wallace and am currently reading A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

All recs are appreciated :))

#can't attest to the books higher up the post- haven't read them #long post #book recs