Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
Andrea Kaston Tange
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Leave a comment if you have thoughts about this project (you can be sure I did, and it was scathing)
fascinating little thread here
Inclusion matters. Pride month matters. Libraries matter. And a shout-out to every librarian who quietly stands up to the book-ban bullies.
more of this plz
Andrea Kaston Tange
Andrea Kaston Tange
Look, even I know that NO ONE ON THE STREET HAS A TRAIN TICKET. I live in Minnesota, fer cryin' out loud, and even I understand how to enter a subway and buy a ticket inside the station.
Re "so successful at eradicating it that people forgot what it's like to deal with it," see also: measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, tetanus, scarlet fever, etc etc
There's a reason that it is considered a marker of moral character in Victorian novels when a dairy woman keeps her establishment "scrupulously clean," scoured and scalded and spotless to the nth degree.
Also note that you only have to put in your city state and zip, and the fine print warns they can use your other identifying info if you put that in
