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Lillian Darby

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Hai! ^^ 🐸 I am an activist indulging in the fight against inequality & oppression. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Here, my love, you'll find a smol blend of things I am interested in, including: nature, LGBTQIA+ history, activism, feminism, poetry, spiritual thoughts, & memes! :D 🔞

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · Jul 26

I beg of everyone in congress to have it in your hearts to reconsider any and all anti-trans bills — these bills would lead to the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of children... Children who need comfort, not reproach.

#congress #gop #usa #trump #mikejohnson

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The Sweeping Anti-Trans Bills Moving Through Congress No One’s Talking About

Republicans are jamming in dozens of anti-trans measures across a series of government funding bills. Few Democrats have spoken out against them. The failure of Democrats, the press and Gay Inc organi...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 6h

Johnsongate 2025

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck are we doing?

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, I did not know that :> Thank you! I will definitely be checking it out! 🌸 I simplyy wanted to add from my own list that I've no reason to gatekeep, lol :p I see fellow people interested in intersex history, I wan help with what I've got ^^

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Take my loquacious usage of words and grammar as a total gag and travesty — I realise I may sound like I'm attempting to come off as intelligent Ben Shapiro-style, but that is the very LAST thing I want 😭 I just really, really like languages and acting goofy... ya dig?

a man in a suit is standing in front of a plant .

ALT: a man in a suit is standing in front of a plant .

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Here is Mowry Saben's essay on their dear friend, Edwin Arlington Robinson — last I checked, it wasn't publicly available, but it would seem that has changed since!

www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

Edwin Arlington Robinson: An Essay by Mowry Saben on JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Then there's also Nibru tiru in some Mesopotamian tablets, or 'eunuch' as some translations put it, but it's actually someone 'born a eunuch' as I've furyer seen it quite insensitively described >.<

Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

".... The drunken shall smite their faces, and the mighty shall imprison them."
See here how this plot point functions to tell us why society looks down on these folks? I do not know enough to say how babylon viewed intersex and Assinnu, Kalu/Gala etc 1,000 years before this.

Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

".... For many ages you will suffer. Those who are like you, lovers of men, kin, my sacred women, shall be strangers in their homes. Their families will keep them in the shadows and will leave them nothing.... (2)"

Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

"When Ishtar learned of the curse placed upon the 'man-woman' [SIC], She wept and spoke so that no one might hear, “The power of Ereshkigal is great. No one dares defy Her. But I may soften Her curse upon you..... (1)

Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

here we see in this later version the changing views of Assinnu, and that society now views them with quite mixed views compared to in the earlier sources we have of Assinnu, described in a version of Epic of Erra as a person who transgress taboos to please Ishtar, and dressing feminine etc

Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

In a later Babylonian var. of Descent, this happens to intersex, non-binary Asushunamir:

“The food of the gutter shall be your food!” Great Ereshkigal cried “The drink of the sewer shall be your drink. In the shadows shall you abide” Having pronounced Her curse upon Them, She banished Asushunamir"

Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

-Ugucius of Pisa on intersex people
-Herculine Barbin
-Silimabzuta

And seemingly Inanna and Ishtar were the goddess(es) of not just gender variant people, but also intersex people...

Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Abu Zakariya al-Nawawi on intersex people
-Ibn Qudama on intersex people
-Ibrahim Al-Halabi on intersex slaves
-Decretum Gratiani on intersex people
-Huguccio on intersex people
-Henry de Bracton on intersex people
-Henry of Segusio on intersex people
-Edward Coke on intersex people

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Maria Nikiforova
"Miss" M mentioned by Hirschfeld & Burchard
Agdistis
Hapi
Wadj-wer
A few south American, Chinese, African deities I forget the name of
Rashidun caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib on an intersex person
Khuntha / khuntha mushkil
Hanafi & Hanbalist lawyers on intersex people

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a short list of intersex or possibly intersex people or related in history:

Diophantus of Abae
Callon of Epidarus
Isidore of Seville's description of an intersex person
Ulpian on intersex people
Tom Shammy, 1727
Anglo Saxon laws on intersex people
Uesugi Kenshin
Akhenaten(?)
Giacoma Foroni

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Jennie June locked in and sigma womf'd, as the kids say.

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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 18d

A strange book called Strange Lives, 1933. Dr La Forest Potter describes queer New York, but misunderstands so much.

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La Forest Potter (1855-1951), an early 1930s witness to queer New York

La Forest Potter. Strange Loves: A Study in Sexual Abnormalities . Robert Dodsley Company/ National Library Press, 1933. Trigger warning:...

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

I also managed to track down a copy of Twilight Of the Gods and contacted Boston Public Library—the holder—and they digitized it; here is the link incase you or anyone else reading this hasn't read it :)
archive.org/details/twil...

With... Cordial-est-est regards....,

-Lillian Darby

The twilight of the gods : an essay. [Part first of The gospel of freedom] : Saben, Mowry, 1870- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

74 p. ; 19 cm

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Zagria, do you happen to know what became of Saben's Gospel Of Freedom that was proclaimed in papers ca 1904? The book from whence Twilight Of The Gods belonged? June seemingly backed out of publishing it despite it being in print, which I can imagine wouldn't have been good for the wallet.

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 22d

Writer Edith Södergran to fellow writer Hagar Olsson

"I shall write my love-letters to you, Hagar, when I’m in the mood. Now I’ve got someone of my own, for the rest of my life.

I’ve kissed your letter countless times. I do so desperately want to come."

26 Jan 1919

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 21d

If you happen to be in Vienna on the 29th of October 2025, don't miss it as it will apparently be screened in Metro Kinokulturhaus'
Eric Pleskow Hall!

Patrick! @tragicgay.bsky.social · May 14

Another film from the exhibit: the 1933 Mysterium des Geschleschtes (Mysteries of gender), one of the first to document trans women and gender confirmation surgery. The trans women featured in the film, Toni Ebel, Charlotte Charlaque, and Dora Richter, all worked at the Institute for Sexual Science

Mysterium des Geschlechts (The Mystery of Gender),
1933, Austria
Film clips, 5 min. selection
Film Archiv Austria.
This film follows two medical students as they investigate the "mysteries" of gender, featuring some of the first depictions of trans women in film, namely Toni Ebel, Charlotte Charlaque, and Dora Richter. It documents an early vaginoplasty technique for trans women, which involved using a portion of the intestines to construct a vaginal canal. The film also includes rare footage of a gay bar and a drag performance. In April 1933, it screened in Viennese cinemas for approximately two
weeks before it was banned.

A still from the 1933 film Mysterium des Geschleschtes (Mysteries of gender)

Transgender women Toni Ebel, Charlotte Charlaque, and Dora in a still from the 1933 film Mysterium des Geschlechts

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Lillian Darby @lilliandarby.bsky.social · 16d

Obligatory Candy Darling post 🌺🌸🌺🌸 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️