it’s okay to have clumsy and awkward sex and it’s actually really common
the ability to laugh while you’re lying tangled and naked together bc you realize just how silly something is is really really intimate and trusting, and it’s the best feeling to be like that with someone and to be relaxed
it happens with long-term partners, it happens on hookups, and it’s rarely as bad as it’s always made out to be, except we usually think it’s bad we're told that’s not how sex is supposed to go. but that’s not true.
it can still be passionate and intimate while being messy and clumsy, absolutely. you don’t need to “perform well.” sex isn’t a show: it’s about feeling good. sometimes it takes experimenting to figure out what feels good, and fumbles and awkward moments and laughter is all just part of it. sometimes that’s a huge part of the fun.
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. As a Holocaust Historian, I have specifically devoted myself to working on the history of women and gender in the Holocaust, and bringing those histories ever-closer to mainstream historical memory.
So, I’d like to link you all to a few pieces of writing I’ve done on the topic.
A profile of Hannah Szenes, a Hungarian Jewish paratrooper who worked behind Nazi lines in services of the SOE (Special Operations Executive, same as Peggy Carter and Noor Khan).
Note for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 (OP was written a year ago):
Don’t reblog my shit with caustic commentary about Israel’s ongoing war crimes in Gaza. I’m an American Jewish Holocaust historian, and I have less than nothing to do with that country or how it appropriates Holocaust memory for its own nationalist mythology/state building.
My patience is low, and I will bully you without blurring usernames.
Since it’s January, reminder that Shen Yun is a front for an insanely racist, homophobic, right-wing cult called Falun Gong that teaches among other things that homosexuality and race-mixing are evil and heaven is segregated by race. If you see their brochures at stores/coffee shops/libraries/whatever while you’re out 99 times out of 100 it’s because people don’t know who they are and assume Shen Yun is a harmless dance troupe, and if you tell management/owners/etc. about their politics they’ll get rid of their advertising. Do the right thing lol.
In 2019 there was a New Yorker article that mentioned merchants being told “put this poster in your window or we’ll tank your Yelp reviews.” Never forgotten that part.
high school teacher voice hello neurodivergent openly queer kid everyone sees as weird. you need to select a partner for this group pr- what do you mean everyone partnered up already? what do you mean youre the only one left without a partner? well i guess i have no choice but to force you to walk up to a random set of friends and join their group while they ignore you for the entire class again
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