I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. —Elie Weisel Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 21 1869 – Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March
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Assimilation is the blurring or erasure of identity and culture. ~~~Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 20 1308, France – Jacques de Molay (1243 – March 18, 1314), the leader of the Knights Templar, who denied
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Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 18 1721, Germany – Catherina Margaretha Linck(died 1721)is executed for female sodomy. She was a Prussianwoman who for most of her adult life presented herself as a man named Anastasius Lagrantius Rosenstengel. She
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“…In this world of right and wrong, All that matters when we’re gone, All that mattered all along, All we have that carries on…is how we love.”— Beth Neilsen Chapman. Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 15 1880,
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“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 14 384 BC, Greece – Demosthenes (Aug. 14, 384 – October 12, 322 BC) is born in Athens. He was a Greekstatesmanand orator. His orations constituted a
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Nothing in American politics matters more right now than the outcome of the midterms. It is the difference between emboldening Trump and starting to hold him accountable. It really may be ‘the fight of our lives. —Van Vlack Jill Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your
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#sayhername Heather Heyer Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 12 1642, France – Henri Coiffier de Ruzé,Marquis of Cinq Mars is beheaded for treason at Lyon. Cardinal Richelieu introduced King Louis XIII (September 27, 1601 – May
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Any situation in which some prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate from their own decision-making is to change them into objects. —Paolo Freire Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now