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Sarah Ward's avatar

Vive la resistance! How is it that women in history keep appearing as supporting actresses around these men with power? It's time to flip that script.

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Celeste Davis's avatar

Riiight?!!! 🙌🙌🙌

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KRISTIN RENAULD's avatar

WoW. I learned so much new, disturbing stuff. Great piece Celeste!

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Celeste Davis's avatar

You’re welcome? 😂😂 also Thank you!!

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Lane Anderson's avatar

OMGGGG how did I never know this about Wilford Woodruff?!! Tell me you’re a cult w out telling me you’re a cult??

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Lane Anderson's avatar

Howww did you ever find this info and how was it so successfully buried? I'm blown away--in all my decades as a Mormon (who is a Mormon all the way back to Orson Hyde) I have never heard this. Major research props.

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Celeste Davis's avatar

I can’t remember where I first came across the Wilford Woodruff vomit fest of a birthday present to himself- probably some Reddit thread or Facebook group comment a few years ago. But I never forgot it. I thought then that it reminded me of King Tut. Been sitting on the idea of linking these old dead dudes burying themselves with brides for a while now. Weird how similar men with unchecked power are throughout the centuries.

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Lane Anderson's avatar

Agree! I loved this. Completely wild that he did this and also somehow not surprising? Very creepy on all accounts. Great piece.

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D L's avatar

How utterly selfish & self-serving! Learned this in Junior high when King Tut exhibition toured US, but forgot or didn’t understand how much killing was perpetrated to serve the king in his afterlife. Thanks for the reminder! All lives are precious, not just the king’s! Yep, No thank you.

‘Servants, wives & concubines were killed immediately following a Pharoah’s death to be buried w/him so his services would continue on uninterrupted in the afterlife.

King Djer had 318 retainer sacrifices surrounding his tomb. Most were his subsidiary wives, concubines & maid servants.’

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Steve Alston's avatar

Love the weaving in of space science. I think we were all created by a nebula. Thank you for the interesting, and sickening, history. Women are not disposable second rate humans just meant to serve men in life and in the afterlife. I find the Wilford Woodruff history especially disgusting.

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Celeste Davis's avatar

I think we were all created by a nebula too 🥰🥰

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D. C. Wilkinson's avatar

I believe I read somewhere that the wives of Indian men (from India) were burned with them on the funeral pyre after they died, as if they were one more posession of the deceased. Apparently, this practice ended when the British arrived. This is NOT to imply that British imperialisn was "good" or any such notion.

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HeatherRuby's avatar

I love all the science bits 💫

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Celeste Davis's avatar

🥰🥰🥰

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Kate Toronto's avatar

I love the imagery here! These men being the stars that pulled everything and everyone else into their orbit. I love how you connected the worlds of space and patriarchy. So cool.

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Celeste Davis's avatar

Thanks Kate! 🥰🥰🥰

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

Never dull. Totally fascinating stuff.

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Celeste Davis's avatar

Thanks Mary 🥰🥰 Never dull is a great compliment ❤️

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