I was lately bopping off an email to a complete stranger anent their post to a subject-related blog concerning a minor point of interest to we sifilis-nerds (it is a niche interest, I admit, even when we extend it to include ye clappe) -
- and I thought, maybe I ought to include 'she/her' in my signature, it seems to be the thing these days?
It ( Read more... )

- and I will go around being pedantic with it, as my dr rdrz are aware. (e.g. Sid says, actually you could cure syphilis before penicillin, it just took rather a long time and a course of painful injections. Plus, penicillin was not a viable treatment before the early 1940s... I'll shut up now.)
Part of this was being an archivist, which is the ( Read more... )

Interview with Vivien Gornick - I'd got the new book, didn't know about the reissues - one of which I've got already from that time I discovered Gornick and went wild acquiring her works.
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I keep forgetting to link to this blog post from the Harry Ransom Center on Frieda Kahlo, so I put it here at last.
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I vaguely assume everybody has ( Read more... )

On that 'Let's publish a swathe of books by women who took male pseudonyms under their real names' gesture of 'reclamation -
I'm, like, you know, I think Mary Ann, or Marian, she experimented a lot with her name, might have preferred to have been Lewes rather than Evans? As far as ye patriarchy goes, we think her brother was a far worse ( Read more... )

I tend to assume that, well, everybody has heard of James Miranda Barry (I'm not entirely behind that Wikipedia entry, as it attrib. to other hands material that as I recollect was originally dug up by June Rose and published in her 1977 bio of Barry, The Perfect Gentleman. The remarkable life of Dr James Miranda Barry, the woman who served as an ( Read more... )

I will concede that one comes across a lot of unusual names given to infants of the present generation, some of which one imagined long lost in the mists of time and indeed, conveying, one had supposed, significant generational information themselves. (Just as certain names are dating to the 60s...)
Walking up the road this morning I passed two ( Read more... )

Dept of of, gender and sexuality, ORL B MOAR COMPLYK8D: Guillaume Gallienne was different from his three athletic brothers - he liked to dance and dress up as a woman. His mother treated him like a girl and told him he was gay. The thing is, he was actually heterosexual
Dept of, there are reasons for this: Home is where the greatest accident risk ( Read more... )

Realised that the title of this journal, 'Something like an agora, something like a salon' is possibly a bit outdated: these days I feel DW/LJ is more of a salon, and the agora/news on the Rialto aspect is much more on Twitter (maybe Facebook, but somehow that's not quite the same, possibly because of the family members and the people who post ( Read more... )

And possibly causing me to judge the actual book a bit unfairly?

Anyway, the set-up is that there is a secret organisation in which the members have noms de guerre which are [names of individuals famous in a particular field].

Except, a leading character's n-de-g is that of an individual who, though famed in the wider category of which [particular ( Read more... )

Interesting article about internet interaction that actually gets the anonymous/pseudonymous distinction. And additional major plus points for citing research that finds that pseudonymity is Not A Bad Thing.

This reminded me that I spotted something in the paper yesterday going WOEZ and claiming that in Ye Olden Dayez, people signed their official ( Read more... )