It Is Likely I Will Die Next To A Pile Of Things I Was Meaning To Read.

After more than five years, the family of Michael Chakma, one of Bangladesh’s “disappeared”, held a funeral service for him, certain they would never see him again. Last week, the 45-year-old was one of a handful of people released from detention in the aftermath of the student uprising which led to the dramatic collapse of former prime minister Sheihk Hasina’s government. Chakma, an Indigenous rights activist who went “missing” after being snatched off the streets near his home in April 2019, said he endured mental and physical torture during his captivity in spaces so confined it felt like “a grave”, in a clandestine prison allegedly operated by the military intelligence directorate (DGFI). Chakma says he had lost all hope of ever seeing his family or daylight again. “My family assumed I was dead and conducted all religious rituals for a funeral in my absence,” Chakma tells the Guardian. “My return is as shocking to me as it is miraculous for them. It truly feels like a resurrection. “This ‘afterlife’ still unnerves me from time to time. I suffer from nightmares and mental breakdowns, and I’m often terrified by sounds. I can’t sleep; everything seems so scary to me,” he adds. In the early months of his disappearance, a police official told the media that he might be in hiding, evading arrest due to the charges against him. [...] “They kept asking me why I criticise the Awami League government in my social media, they said AL is the government and the government is the state. Therefore no one should criticise the actions of AL or Sheikh Hasina,” Chakma says. [...] Another local group, Odhikar, says over the past 15 years, 704 people have fallen victim to enforced disappearance. While some have returned home, the bodies of others have been found, often showing signs of torture. It’s thought 150 individuals remain unaccounted for, not including those who went missing during the student-led protests that began last month.

do lesbian terfs honestly think the straight white supremacist conservatives they willingly align themselves with actuality view them as equal people because they don't, we are all deviants who ought to be eradicated from society in their eyes and lesbian terfs are aiding them in their goals by turning their back on their own community

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                          It is probably the dirty story of history: that Catherine the Great (1727-1796), the lusty ruler of Russia, was so wild with sexual desire that one day she was screwing a horse when the harness broke and killed her.      It's simply not true. Catherine liked officers of the Imperial Horse Guard, not the horses. Yes, Catherine also liked sex - one of her favorite toasts was "God grant us our desires and grant them quickly." This ruler of a vast empire had a dozen documented lovers (really, male mistresses) over her thirty-four years in power. But she had them one after another. This level of sexual consumption would hardly rate a footnote for most male monarchs; in fact, their virility might have been questioned. What was unusual about Catherine was how organized she was in selecting her lovers. She had a lady-in-waiting sample the man's prowess in bed and then she had a British doctor examine him for diseases. The young officer would soon be given 100,000 rubles and a country estate. No doubt what roiled foreign diplomats was that this woman, who was pretty when young, grew stout and gray, and at age sixty-two was still taking the likes of twenty-one-year-old Platon Zuboff to bed. That bred jealousies and rumormongering, and tales of horses.      Actually, Catherine was one of the greatest and toughest female monarchs of all time: this German-born princess plotted the death of her dotty husband, Czar Peter III, she expanded the borders of Russia, crushed rebellions, built gorgeous palaces, and was a generous patron of the arts, corresponding personally with Voltaire and Diderot.      How did she die? Catherine suffered a stroke on her way to the water closet and died on a straw mat three days later, with eyewitnesses there.

- "Catherine the Great and the Horse" from An Underground Education by Richard Zacks

cannot imagine what it must be like to be a liberal who champions terrible shit and people your whole life. i hope those people are careful not to hurt others with their behavior. and consider others people and not someone to fill a pre-defined role as a means to a self-absorbed end. the gender essentialism i keep seeing in blue magas is alarming. now why can it co-exist peacefully with liberalism. that's a question

(via fuckyeahexistentialism, northerndelight)

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Drawing of Artificial Arm, 07/11/1865

democrats (and liz cheney) begging for george w bush's endorsement and acting like his "silence" in not endorsing kamala is the worst most indefensible thing he's ever done in his entire life………… god you really can just kill 4 million people in the middle east and american liberals will simply not hold that against you at all

oh my god i logged off most of the night tonight but they really brought this border sherriff up on stage to talk about how evil the traffickers are

bro we are so fucking cooked we are never getting out of here this shit is so evil

"Eva Jessye was a pioneer in the world of African American music and is recognized as the first black woman to receive international distinction as a choral director."