singing house of the rising sun at the pub last night and when the song ended the musicians just kept playing while people ad-libbed more verses about various pubs they knew

(with ominous hurdy-gurdy accompaniment): "there is a pub in walthamstow, it's called the fox and mole, but we don't go there (long pause) any more. Because the manager is an arsehole."

i’m so obsessed with this 6 seconds of an eminem freestyle it’s not even funny

I just realized this is actually Eminem and not a guy making fun of him

Someday your hands will be old and wrinkled, the skin spotted and bunching over your knuckles. And a child will watch you make something. It's a simple task, you'll have done it a thousand times before. But to that child, the smooth, confident way your hands move will seem like impossible magic. You have to keep living.

prev these tags have me crying. this is absolutely what it's all about

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #i sat next to a student this week and played piano alongside them #and suddenly my hands were my father's playing alongside little child me. 38 years and 6 years sat next to each other #one teaching. one learning. #i remember sitting and admiring the confident way my father's hands moved on keyboard #and i could see my little student stealing sideways glances at my hands. imitating my posture. envying my sureness #it was a weird mirror into my own past #i wonder how many generations of humans have had this parallel experience? #not only on the piano keyboard which tops out at about 10-13 generations 3but on the guitar. the harpsichord. the harp and the lyre. the drums. the lute and theorbo. etc etc etc /End ID]

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She felt safe beneath her husband's sizeable breast

it's husband titty time once more

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Positive affirmations

- I'm still good meat

- I'm perfectly good meat

- I taste fine

90% of pregnancy plotlines

90% of pregnancy plotlines

90% of pregnancy plotlines

The Women's House of Detention

A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan 

This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher.

Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.

Winner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award--Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award CrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year

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