Freedom In Wickedness

It is a consistent theme in past cultures that elite courtesans were often the only truly free women. They were women of intellect, education, and power in worlds which denied that a woman could be anything.

It's time to reclaim that heritage.

In 1847, only 16 years since the Trail of Tears which displaced thousands of Native Americans, leaving them impoverished and malnourished without the right to remain on their traditional lands, the Choctaw tribe collected $710 in order to aid the victims of the Great Irish Famine

dreams-from-my-father:

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Taken inflation into account, the same amount today would be worth $19,722.22. The Choctaw had no reason to do this other than a shared sense of common humanity which led them to raise vital funds for the Irish.

Worth noting is that Queen Victoria, the monarch at the time who ought to have cared more about her people, only sent £2000 to the Irish and that she ordered that no-one else would be allowed to send more money than her, meaning that the Ottoman Sultan had to cut his original donation from £10,000 to £1,000.

at the bold, “why?”

Because she was a cruel and vile creature at the head of the most sanguinary empire of the history of humanity. 

(via thewaronindifference)

11 months ago
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    The Irish were fucked over and over and over by the Brittish.
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