Does anyone know of a dyestuff called asgodano, iscotano, nasgodanum, scuodano, suodano in duocento Venice? Later these words seem to refer to dyer's mulberry / maclura tinctoria a yellow dyewood from Brazil.

#Banning #Trans #HealthCare Puts #TransKids at #Risk of #Harm.

Contrary to what #conservative #Republican #lawmakers argue, the #SupremeCourt will increase the number of #trans #kids needlessly #dying by upholding #state #bans on #genderaffirmingcare.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/banning-trans-health-care-puts-young-people-at-risk/

The dark side of #GHB: This is what the #sex and #party #drug is doing to the #UK's #LGBTQ #community.

A lack of #awareness and #education paired with outdated #nightlife #practices is resulting in a growing number of LGBTQ people #dying from accidental GHB #overdoses. #JordanPage #investigates how #lives can be #saved

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #NightLife #DrugAbuse #Overdoses

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ghb-sex-party-drug-londons-lgbtq-community-b1198129.html

#Republicans #dontcare if #women #die from their #ChristianNationalist (#Fascism) #abortion #bans — but they don't want you to know about it.

#Women are and will keep #dying, but the #GOP is working hard to #destroy the #evidence

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomansRights #AbortionRights #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Misogyny #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.salon.com/2024/12/02/dont-care-if-women-from-abortion-bans--but-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about-it/

A quotation from Horace:

«
The glorious and the decent way of dying
Is for one’s country. Run, and death will seize
You no less surely. The young coward, flying,
Gets his quietus in the back and knees.
 
[Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
poplitibus timidoque tergo.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/horace/9161/

Excerpt from a really wonderful poem by Anne Alexander Bingham, "It Is Enough":

To know that the atoms
of my body
will remain

to think of them rising
through the roots of a great oak
to live in
leaves, branches, twigs

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/07/anne-alexander-bingham-it-is-enough.html

What does death mean to a #mystery writer?

Recently a friend of mine passed away, and it got me thinking about what death represents to someone who writes #murder mysteries. I think about #death every day, almost like a coworker, and so my response to deaths is probably not typical.

On today's #thursday #blog, I take a look at death and how I view it (and why that might be).

https://michaelthomet.com/2024/07/18/what-does-death-mean-to-a-mystery-writer/

Graphic from whenyoudie.org.

I am still afraid of dying, but I want to be open to the idea, as this quote suggests, that it is "just a change".

A #gay #man #calledout #JKRowling’s #transphobia. Her #fans buried him in #homophobic #slurs.

“#Gendercritical” #feminists, or #TERFS, have been #dying on the #antitrans hill for quite some time now. But it seems they’ve pivoted to just being straight-up #antigay #bigots at this point.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Scotland #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #TERFIsland

https://www.intomore.com/culture/a-gay-man-called-out-jk-rowlings-transphobia-her-fans-buried-him-in-homophobic-slurs/

This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man by Dakshana Bascaramurty

For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#death
#dying
#cancer

*NEW POST*

My latest post discusses the fascinating world of Shropshire's Death Folklore. These systems of belief provide us with an intimate insight into grief, love, and the people of the past. I hope you enjoy reading.

https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/03/whispers-from-grave-folklore-of-death.html?m=1

I got an email from an old friend's niece that he had died. We only talked about once a year and cancer took him since our last conversation. I wish I'd talked to him again

I've had 2 other #friends die. One was of #AIDS back in the early 80s. I didn't go to see him in the hospital at the end because I worried I wouldn't say the "right" things. Life has since taught me that your just being there is what counts to the #dying #death #BeThere

One was a middle aged housewife who got ensnared by #fentanyl and overdosed

I realize that I often #assume all my people will always be there

So call your #people. Say hi. It's always welcome

#Man #pleads #guilty to #harassment after #hospital #selfie with #LGBTQ #activist’s #dying #father

“In southwestern #Ontario, we have seen an increase of his presence in a lot of these #antichoice #antiLGBTQ+ #groups, and so there are quite a few people that have had #interactions with #Bubba.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Canada #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Harassment #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/29/bubba-pollock-guilty-harassment/