Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus
anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Fuck ICE. Articles and (award-winning!) books at Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
The reason this defense is so common is that the behavior is common: if women cut off social ties after being attacked, they risk greater danger, including (all too often) murder. They often, and reasonably, choose to try to keep the peace instead. This does not speak to Miller's innocence.
On the rest of the vase, several scenes show the Greeks killing children as their mothers protest (as Euripides explains in The Trojan Women), probably to disencumber the women before enslaving them.
My favorite depiction of the Trojan Horse, and the earliest known version. I love the windows, like an airplane, and that the windows go up the neck too.
Marched with ACLU today in Portland Pride parade (yes we have ours in late July), turns out I *can* be bought for a cool t-shirt. They threw in the umbrella
Just read that Poseidon/Neptune's white hair is because when you harvest sea salt from the ocean, it's like you were giving him a haircut: "When the sea’s dry element has collected, Ocean’s white locks are shorn for use at table" - Marcus Manilius’ Astronomica (5.682–92)
The Six Grandfathers (Mount Rushmore) Lakota medicine man Nicolas Black Elk named Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe after a vision of "the six sacred directions: west, east, north, south, above, and below...kindness and love, full of years and wisdom, like human grandfathers.” h/t Oliver Wasow
Just got back from paying Portland State’s respects to Marc and Simone Bloch, lying in state at the Ecole Normale before being interred in the Pantheon tonight. Here’s a note warning that his father (also a Normalien) is taking too long to finish his dissertation:
For Father’s Day I helped my dad get to Notre Dane cathedral, to see it in its restored glory. And safely back to his apartment.
Specials menu at Chicago’s Duck Inn, where we had a great graduation dinner last night but were amused at this apparent? reference to the milkshake duck.
Delighted to say that my son Simon graduated from Northwestern’s Medill school of journalism today, with a second major in American Studies! Congrats Simon!
Just throwing this out there: my son is graduating from Medill journalism school at Northwestern this weekend and looking for work anywhere; he's interested in public policy and has interned with Chicago housing and prison abolition non-profits. I'd be happy to pass on any leads or suggestions.
Today's the 4th anniversary of the day I got my author's copies of Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming!! (available here: a.co/d/7rCKdSL ) I'm still just as proud of it now.
Uh, I think it is working as intended: 1) it has made untold, undisclosed millions for the two Dem. Congressional aides who started it and accepted donations, and 2) it has allowed libs to feel they tried to resist, without having to actually do anything or put themselves in any danger.
This chart, from the same article, however, shows the terrible effect social class has on swimming, and (though the chart doesn't say so) also on drowning.
Apparently a real thing! They want to make it in Europe and sell it for under $15,000, and apparently yes they will be making it somewhat safer than it used to be. Sad to find out that the company now belongs to Stellantis, which also makes Jeeps.
bravely continuing to soak up sunshine on my porch despite the presence *under* the porch of a very large and rustly (but apparently geriatric) raccoon.
Proud to say I refreshed the chips on the path, then made applesauce and blintzes for dinner starting from apples, flour, milk and eggs.
May 13th: anniversary of the MOVE bombing, in which Philly cops killed 5 adults and 6 children in the Black liberation and environmentalist group and destroyed 61 of their neighbors' houses too. Their names were Katricia, Netta, Delitia, Phil, Tomasa, Rhonda, Teresa, Frank, CP, Conrad, and John.
well I forget who it was that wanted to slide the word 'wannabe' into their book, but I want them to know that Kim Bowes totally got away with it in Surviving Rome (2025):