kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

personally I think the MONA thing is hilarious, especially in the context of the Discourse.

for non-Australians, the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania had an area called the Ladies Lounge, where men were not allowed. They hung several fake Picassos, an antique mink rug that was actually polyester, and a bunch of fake tribal spears. The idea was that it was a criticism of the general idea of the patriarchy where men typically have a lot more opportunities for... pick a thing. Even when women were allowed in, what was actually inside were cheap replicas devoid of any amount of authenticity. It's ripping on token inclusion.

In an eye-watering display of self-awareness deficiency, a man then sued MONA for not being allowed in, claiming discrimination due to being a man. He claimed that as he had paid admission to the whole of MONA but was not permitted to this specific exhibit due to his gender, he was being discriminated against.

The Tasmanian Civil Tribunal agreed, and MONA was directed to admit men into a women's-only area. The irony is thick enough that you could cut it with a knife.

MONA, in response, dismantled the exhibit except for the fake Picassos. All the bathrooms at MONA are single-occupancy all-gender, but it turns out having a women's bathroom from which men are excluded *isn't* discriminatory, so they converted one into a women's bathroom and hung the fake Picassos in there, an exhibit of itself.

The art exhibit was basically a criticism of "turns out the only safe space for women away from men is a bathroom, and people will still claim that you're getting special rights because you get to see something nobody else can. Even if what you're seeing is a cheap replica, someone somewhere will claim that you have it good because you're getting something they don't."

Picasso's estate, however, took a rather dim view of unauthorised replicas being displayed in an art gallery in Tasmania, even though it was literally years between putting up the artwork and someone noticing. They've since been taken down with no further action.

MONA has declared that the Ladies Lounge will return as something where S26 of the Sex Discrimination Act doesn't apply, such as a church or boutique glamping experience.

They've also expressly stated that the Ladies Lounge includes ALL women, not just cis ones.

I love everything about this story. Fucking classic stuff coming out of the art world.

Wow - check out the hairdo on Princess Peach...

Love cataloguing these old Japanese Mario books 📚

Here's a really cool rain-filled skull from a gravestone. #graveyard #gothic #art #architecture #churches #skull

#mentalhealth #mentalillness

Time travel is ruining archaeology.

Six months in a mosquito filled jungle excavating the giant stone heads of the Olmec.

Another six months at the museum laboriously documenting the inscriptions found, the first examples of pre-BCE writing in mesoamerica.

A team of grad students cracking the script, proving the suspected links between proto Mixe-Zoquean, classical Olmec, and later Mayan dialects.

First translation: THE GREAT FEATHERED SERPENT IS NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP. THE GREAT FEATHERED SERPENT IS NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN.

When we get the dates for these inscriptions, we will find you, and we will make you cry.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Seven Seas have just announced three more
#danmei
novel licences: Legend of Exorcism, Dinghai Fusheng Records and Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory all by Fei Tian Ye Xiang.

https://twitter.com/gomanga/status/1811149751921865143

They had previously announced a couple of weeks ago that they'd licenced the manhua for Dinghai Fushen Records.

This announced now is for them licencing the novel too.

Let’s fucking go furries!

TFW your laptop/phone is low on battery so you plug it in to the power cable and then you keep using it and 20 minutes later you realize it is even lower on battery and then you realize the *other end* of the power cable is just sitting on the floor, not plugged in to anything

Dear young people:
Facebook started the practice of people using their real names on social media.

This is why you don't know that the Internet was generally like this before the age of social media. The Internet has returned to normal in this one regard.

Looking to trade some stocks on your #Famicom? 📈

Then you're gonna need this book 👇

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/introduction-to-famicom-home-trading

It was great seeing Wonder Woman in Washington! Thank you to Lynda Carter for your support for making a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum a reality. One day it won’t require superpowers to properly celebrate women’s history.