It Hurt, But I Don’t Regret It. 

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the Guardian

Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic book writer, dies aged 77

Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin’s lymphoma

This is my friend Rachel. Writer, teacher, Tarot interpreter, creator of magic.

May you, whoever you are, have a life like Rachel's, one that changes things for people, a life where you follow your star and leave a more interesting world behind you. And may you, like Rachel, never lose your sense of humour.

The remorseful player

François Furet - Weasel on Watch

(oil on canvas)

Okay, this is pretty incredible. A 3D artist, consulting scholars and archaeologists, worked for a year and a half in Blender to create a reconstruction of pre-Columbian Tenochtitlán, complete with the surrounding landscape. It’s staggeringly beautiful, and—at least to me—gives a wonderful impression of the city as a place where people worked and lived and worshiped

For #InternationalBeaverDay here are two wooden beaver effigies spotted at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian:

object name: beaver figure culture: Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) place of origin: British Columbia date: c. 1900 materials: wood, paint dimensions: 16.5 cm. I.; 15 w.; 28 h. NMAI catalogue # 21/1355

object name: beaver bowl culture: Tlingit place of origin: Klukwan, Alaska date: c. 1850 materials: wood dimensions: 33 cm. I.; 16 w.; 13 h. NMAI catalogue # 23/8417

He's been salted on!

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