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Dr Florence H R Scott
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Dr Florence H R Scott
@FlorenceHRScott
Historian: coronation & queens in early medieval England. Antiracist. Non-binary. Marxist. Writes Ælfgif-who?, bios of medieval women @ florencehrs.substack.com
- Jupiter says trans rightsJupiter appears different in near ultraviolet light, partly because the amount of sunlight reflected back is distinct, giving differing cloud heights and latitudes discrepant brightnesses. Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede appears on the upper left [source: buff.ly/2CkLnSU]
- My grandma has dementia and is on end of life care. She wasn't able to communicate today, going in and out of sleep. Suddenly she asked, 'Who's that?'. I said, 'It's Florence, do you remember me?'. She says, 'Of course I remember you Florence, don't be daft!'
- One of my favourite things that ever happened is when William Shatner went to space, came back and had an existential crisis like 'there's nothing there'. Think about it daily
- Sorry, as a historian of early medieval English royal women: the fuck are you talking about?
- Me looking up at the star of Bethlehem: oh so we're just doxxing Jesus now
- As a non-binary historian of medieval women my real take on non-binary Joan of Arc is that literally any time we prescribe a gender label to someone in the past we are making an assumption that is muddied by modern conceptions of the gender binary.
- You can literally give birth but TERFs will still call you a man if you’re taller than 5’7Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke welcome first child bbc.in/40C1R0q
- One year since this powerful and iconic moment
- Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the entire point of a competitive women’s boxing match that both participants are stronger than the average woman but one is better at boxing than the other?Replying to @ThomasWillett9Genuine question, if it turned out that Imane had XY chromosomes and that she was stronger than the average woman would you not think that it is, in the very least, bad for her to punch women with less of an advantage? Why shouldn't sports be fair?
- 'The queen can't be seen using a wheelchair' Are you seriously suggesting the wonderful, liberating mobility aids many of us disabled people use are seen as less morally acceptable than ...leaning on an alleged paedophile?
- There hasn’t been an altercation between William and Harold this spicy since 1066Prince Harry reveals he was physically attacked and knocked to the floor by his brother Prince William during a confrontation in 2019. The confrontation escalated because William called Meghan Markle “difficult, rude, and abrasive.”
