Stop painting us out of the picture. We’ve been there all along.
Tag: history
Women’s History Month: Birka Warrior
The confirmation that the Birka Warrior is a woman does more than just rearrange our assumptions, it shows us that when we have women archeologists and historians, we’re allowing different assumptions to seed and grow.
Mozart Had a Sister
Mozart had a sister who played as masterfully as he but Nanneral was married off, a career cut short because Ms. Mozart was a “she” Ros Franklin spent her whole career X-raying DNA but Crick and Watson got the Prize using all her work along the way The French Queen never said that…
Castle on a Cloud
Like many, I waited to see if a piece of history would be leveled. Paris and Hugo and Hemingway. Bells and bell towers, hunchbacks and fear of the marginalized. Asylum, refuge. And above all, the infuriating human trait of naiveté. ***** We humans, sacks of blood and bone, architects of these castles in the sky,…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 