in happy academic news: I’ve just come across a literary article which is an asexual reading of Galahad in le Morte d’Arthur. Someone married medieval studies to asexuality. I’M SO HAPPY.
I read it! And I LOVED it. Not that that’s hard … medieval studies happens to be my field and I’m a total medieval romance nerd. So asexual knighthood is now officially my new favorite subject. The author had some really interesting things to say on how to approach “asexuality” in the past. The way they applied it might not be useful for other fields of medieval studies, but it’s food for thought!
And an asexual reading of Galahad works so well! I have to reread Malory now. I’m also wondering how universal this ace!galahad representation is? How is he portrayed in other Arthurian romances and in other traditions like the French or German ones? Questions, questions. I will have to make a trip to the library. Luckily my to-read list now includes delightful titles like “menacing virgins”.
So what can you take away if you’re not a huge Middle Ages nerd like me? That ace!Galahad is totally a thing. Because asexuality is a very likely explanation of Galahad’s deal. Go forth and write Galahad-fiction, people.
Some thoughts on the definition of asexuality that was used
Burger King just released one of the best anti-bullying PSAs I’ve ever seen
This really got to me. Like how can y’all just sit there and not do shit but quick to get up over a burger
Not to mention that the only people they showed who did something was a black man and a girl who appears gay/bi (not that it’s okay to assume but y’know) and most of the people who complained about the burgers were white males. Kinda tells you a lot.
Fawzia Mirza is a lesbian, for sure (she was there on location by coincidence). She was on Her Story and, and was in another lesbian movie this year called Signature Move (it’s got lesbians and wrestling)
this is the very original version of what would become do you hear the people sing from the french concept album of les mis from 1980, 5 years before it would make its debut in london
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