#SwearyHistory

written version or audio version if you follow the link

“On May 31, 1921, what is considered the single worst incident of racial violence in American history took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Time for another euphemism-o-rama so as not to offend the fragile-ass #AllLivesMatter Casper Americans.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesfell/p/on-this-day-in-history-may-31-c48?r=1g2w5q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#SwearyHistory #Nigeria #Biafra

“Few know much about the Nigerian Civil War; even many Nigerians prefer to forget it. While the world was focused on Vietnam, Biafra seceded from Nigeria, launching a war that lasted almost three years and led to millions of deaths, most of which were children.

--On This Day in History, Shit Went Down: May 30, 1967--“

this link goes to an article that includes an audio version link

https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesfell/p/on-this-day-in-history-may-30-7c6?r=1g2w5q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#SwearyHistory

“May 22, 1947, marks the unofficial beginning of the Cold War, when President Truman signed the Truman Doctrine into law. The gist? Commies bad. Contain that shit.”

link to article includes link to an audio version

https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/on-this-day-in-history-may-22-05b?utm_medium=email

Gordon Lightfoot has signed off, so #SwearyHistory brings us the story today of one of his well-known songs

https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/sht-went-down-the-wreck-of-the-edmund?utm_medium=email

#SwearyHistory
#MuhammadAli rejected the draft on this day in 1967

https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/on-this-day-in-history-april-28-c70?utm_medium=email

#Reading

The latest #SwearyHistory :
#RosalindFranklin and the sequencing of DNA -
reminded me instantly of two books that were quite eye-opening (for me, cos, y’know, it was a very long time ago that I was MUCH younger…)

#WomenOfIdeasAndWhatMenHaveDoneToThem (From Aphra Behn To Adrienne Rich) by Dale Spender 1982 - it only SEEMS like white males are the greatest achievers cos they “own” the credit for a lot of stuff others have done… and who knew e.g. English Suffragettes had to fight for the vote cos women’s right to vote had been deliberately taken away 🤔 - a bit like Roe v Wade and shit happening in the U.S. now and coming soon to a country near you … Women if Ideas has a cast of mostly white people, but at least of the female variety

and #WomenRaceAndClass by #AngelaDavis 1981 - it only SEEMS like “some” white people have helped People of Colour cos they “own” the credit for stuff a lot of People Of Colour did for themselves (and in spite of white people like Susan B Anthony) - a discussion of how class and race are mutually interdependent (before Kimberlé Crenshaw’s term “intersectionality” challenged reductionist thinking, and before I learned Indigenous peoples have been thinking holistically since forever)

anyway, if this Sweary History was printed on paper like in the olden days i would cut it out and slip it into my copy of Women of Ideas, but it isn’t, and I can’t, so guess I’ll just Toot about it

https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/on-this-day-in-history-april-16?utm_medium=email

#SwearyHistory with James Fell

https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/on-this-day-in-history-april-7-01c?utm_medium=email

Another (VERY) #SwearyHistory episode - biological weapons

can a single word be an oxymoron? like “humanity” 🤔 ?

https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/on-this-day-in-history-april-2-a70?utm_medium=email