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🌈 Today, we celebrate Harvey Milk Day, honoring the life and legacy of one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. Harvey Milk’s tireless activism and unwavering commitment to equality paved the way for countless LGBTQ+ individuals to live openly and proudly. His courage to speak out and advocate for marginalized communities continues to inspire and empower us to this day.
For those of you interested in modern and contemporary art, Art Resource recently added around 750 new images to JSTOR–featuring iconic figures like Georgia O'Keefe and Jacob Lawrence.
Through a critical re-reading of feminist texts, Sempruch develops a new concept of the witch, one that challenges traditional gender-biased theories linking it either to a malevolent “hag” on the margins of culture or to unrestrained “feminine” sexual desire.
Image: “We Are The Daughters Of The Witches You Didn’t Burn,” from St Lawrence University’s Street Art Graphics collection on JSTOR.
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✨ New on the blog: If your heart is in the humanities, you may be discouraged in the face of other academic fields–but the humanities remain critical. Through a journey of loss, literature, and scholarly accounts, learn how the humanities are vital to human understanding.
Two women writers collaborated under a male pseudonym to circumvent the sexism of Victorian society… Until that jerk Robert Browning spilled the beans. There’s lots more to the story, though!