ok here we go, a thread of some great books by POC that i've read or am in the process of reading and very much enjoying ![]()
In an earlier thread, I wrote briefly about trans people in medieval Europe, and discussed some of the main issues when studying the medieval history of trans people.
Today, if you'll indulge me, I want to spend some time discussing a single person in detail. I want to talk about the way she's been written about, and about her and what she can teach us about life as a trans person 600 years ago.
This is the story of Eleanor Rykener.
materialists are always thinking backwards. someone once argued to me that their interpretation of the chinese room thought experiment is that semantics doesnt exist and our minds are just manipulating symbols. like, i would have to mentally exert myself until i passed out to come up with an idea that wrong