History

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Best Part of Researching Trans History Is When I’m Wrong

Lost pieces are being found, and pictures are coming together after generations of obscurity.


If you or your people are being hunted, write down your history and culture. Copy it. And then scatter it as widely as you possibly can. Hide it in walls, under floorboards, tuck it into other books. Stamp it on clay, fire it, and drop the tablets into a landfill because archaeologists always know to look for middens. Fling the copies so far that your enemies will never find them all. And then you can speak your truth to the future and the listening ears who come after.

Now is the perfect time for this kind of activism.  It's something anyone can do.  It's cheap and easy.  Just pick any thing the fuckwits in charge want to suppress, and work against that to preserve it.  You can do this every time they piss you off.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I've gone out of my way in the past fifty odd years to make damn sure I know this history and as a historian I know how it's done too!

[siliconshaman]

I knew a gay/queer potter who used to do the thing with clay tablets, he got the idea because he'd be brought in to consult with archeological ceramic finds.

[andrewducker]

Thank you for this!

June 1 Quotation

[goatgodschild]

"'They asked for my history, and they shall have my history. If someone else will have the battle take place on a spring-green field with pennants at the lance points and songs sung over the honored dead, let them write it thus.'"
- Wistala Irelianova, Dragon Avenger by E. E. Knight