Also I really like “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia”, which I wouldn't say is dense theory but it is a bit more of an academic style historical approach, certainly information-dense.

I haven't read her books, but I think Virginia Sole Smith does this well in her podcasts, personally!

Thanks! Did you initiate imaging or did your doctor?

Trandscendentalist landscapes paintings of mountains for me, because I so associate that philosophical and artistic movement (and mountaineering) with the construction of "wilderness" in the US.

This same thing happened to me once in Sweden, but I think that was just the natural Swedish reaction to being spoken to at all by an excited stranger.

Shapeshifters is my recommendation. They have a lot of customization options (functional and aesthetic), are made for safety, and I know the owner (who's great). They are not the lowest cost option out there probably but well made, comfortable, and long lasting. They also have a good info page.

They did look so good though!!!

I like transexual and use it for myself! But I really dislike it being used to separate people based on their transitional paths (also enforces a "transitioned/not transitioned" false binary). I'm generally tetchy about other people using the term for me - should be a self descriptor IMO.

but on the surface the CLA is free of all of it. Still you can't help but try (and fail) to imagine how it could have possibly come together. Lowe must have lived a very interesting life. Also, neither here nor there really, but Lowe was Boris Johnson's great grandfather.

He was injured and then spent much of the rest of the war reading manuscripts in Prague. I don't know if there are letters between the two of them about the Codices effort - I would be fascinated to read them. Some of the effort may have been motivated by the war - to preserve the manuscripts (🧵)

from France, England, Italy, Germany. How did Elias collect these photographed manuscripts, assess their condition, etc. across Europe during wartime? One of his main collaborators was Bernard Bischoff, a German historian/philologist. Bischoff fought as a soldier against France during WWII. (🧵)

from all over Europe (21 countries). If you work in paleography, you know Codices Latini Antiquiores (CLA). This was a large part of his life's work. Much of it took place during and just after WWII. I always wondered about this when I used CLA in college and saw all the MSS compiled (🧵)