Becky's bday

my flatmate Becky turned 19 so we celebrated her birthday with cake and finals. what a mix, right?

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The Great Witch-Hunt is a major historical event during Early Modern Europe, stretching over three hundred years and spreading from country to country, bringing together members of all classes in hysteria to torture, try, and execute thousands of persons for witchcraft. Feminist writer Silvia Federici, however, notes the lack of knowledge of the witch-hunt in popular culture:

Thus, not only has much been lost concerning our history, but the lesson it could have provided has not been drawn, as has been shown in the current debates concerning the meaning of western civilization, or the conditions of the capitalist take-off in Europe, and finally the relationship between the sexual and the political, or, more precisely, sex, race and class.

Moreover, philosopher Mary Daly points out “except for a few specialists who have made it their field of ‘expertise,’ there has been a policy of almost total erasure, wiping out the witches again and again through subterfuge of silence.” Noted historian Brian Levack stands as perhaps the most recognized voice on the witch-hunt. His book The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe offers an interesting examination of the intersection between history and anthropology, as well as addressing the cumulative concept of witchcraft, pre-conditions of witch hysteria, and the the deep underlying implications of the relationship between class, sex, and religion. In addressing these points, the following themes arise: the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition, the use of judicial torture, the wars of religion, the religious zeal of the clergy, the rise of the modern state, the development of capitalism, the widespread use of narcotics, changes in medical thought, social and cultural conflict, an attempt to wipe out paganism, the need of the ruling class to distract the masses, and the hatred of women.

P.S. I'm not a witch.

quick sand

why is there never enough time in the day? out of breath and with 3 minutes to spare, i just scaled 6 flights of stairs and stormed into my professor's office to hand in a term paper after sleeping a total of 6 hours in the past 3 days. term being the key word; as in, i had all term to work on it and was, somehow, still rushing to finish and am unhappy with the final product. and it's not like i have been procrastinating on it either. this is bad. not only am i always rushing, i'm also realizing i'm never on time. and i don't just mean i'm fashionably late, i'm talking late-late. so i'm sorry if i've made you wait in the recent past, don't take it personally. i'm probably going to make you wait in the future too. it's not my fault. seriously, no matter how much i plan ahead, i find myself rushing only to be late. why is there never enough time in the day?

World AIDS Day

There are 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS.

The epidemic is hardly over.

Dear Vaniglia Baily,

There's only one StyleSeeker and he's back... so back the fuck up.

P.S. "Fashions fade, style is eternal."

Favourite

we share a name. and, at times, a soul.

Are you where you want to be? Did you get there easily? Did they make you sacrifice? Did you make a sharp left, when you should've turned right? Are you where you want to be? Did you sell off all of your gold? Did you trade it in? Did you wait for love, or settle for somebody to hold?

last week was such a good week.
while this week is not. kill me now?