Anne Fausto-Sterling

01Cixous published 'The Laugh of the Medusa' in Signs in 1976; it introduced 'écriture féminine' — writing that flows from the female body — to Anglophone feminism.
02She argued that the Western philosophical tradition had mapped 'activity/passivity, sun/moon, man/woman' as a death sentence built into language itself.
03The essay ends with a direct imperative: 'Write yourself. Your body must be heard.' — an instruction, not an analysis.

Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall National Memorial , with its statue of George Washington , is seen on the right.

The Kwakwaka'wakw continue the practice of potlatch. Illustrated here is Wawadit'la in Thunderbird Park , Victoria, B.C. , a big house built by Chief Mungo Martin in 1953. Wealthy, prominent hosts would have a Big House specifically for…

Sir Geoffrey Luttrell , mounted, being assisted by his wife and daughter-in-law. Folio 202v.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling proposed in 1993 that there are five biological sexes — herms, merms, ferms, males, females — and that medicine had collapsed them into two by surgical force on intersex infants.

The Laugh of the Medusa

Hélène Cixous's 1975 essay reclaimed Medusa — not as the severed head on Perseus's shield, but as laughing, alive, and beautiful. She argued women must write their bodies into language or remain defined by a mythology that demands their decapitation.

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

The Tokyo Tribunal prosecuted 28 men for war crimes and heard 419 witnesses — but not one piece of biological warfare evidence was admitted. The omission was deliberate, directed from Washington.

Endless Ocean: Blue World

In Endless Ocean: Blue World, a player could hover beside a great white shark and hum softly through the controller's microphone until the shark slowed, turned, and drifted away peaceful. Kindness as the only mechanic.

George Soros

On September 16, 1992 — 'Black Wednesday' — George Soros shorted $10 billion in British pounds and pocketed $1 billion before London's close. The Bank of England spent $27 billion defending sterling and lost.

Panic of 1907

In October 1907, J.P. Morgan physically locked the nation's top bankers inside his Manhattan library at midnight and refused to open the doors until they signed a $25 million rescue pledge at 4:45 a.m.

Potlatch

Pacific Northwest chiefs burned blankets, smashed canoes, and gave away slaves to humiliate rivals — the more you destroyed, the higher your rank. Canada banned the ceremony in 1885.

Luttrell Psalter

Commissioned around 1320 for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Lincolnshire, the Luttrell Psalter fills its psalm margins with plowing serfs, acrobats, hybrid monsters, and a armored snail attacking a knight — 309 pages where medieval England's daily life sits beside its absurdist imagination.

Elfego Baca

Elfego Baca, a nineteen-year-old self-appointed lawman, barricaded himself in a one-room jacal in New Mexico in 1884 and held off eighty armed Texans for thirty-six hours. They fired over four thousand rounds. He had nine bullets in his door.