I’ve reported and blocked that bot/troll fuckery. And here’s another picture because I’m still excited with my buzzcut!
@rerutled

Also, you know how much Sekhmet means to me. She’s that tattoo on my right forearm.

Learn about Hatshepsut: “Hatshepsut was the first woman to exercise long-term rule over Egypt as a king,” The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise To Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney.

For more than 20 years, #Hatshepsut was the most powerful person in the ancient world. Why do so few people know her name today?

#Hatshepsut was a god-king, not as king-queen. That’s how it worked. “Her rule was seen as a threat to the men who came after her - the very men she had personally placed into positions of power.”

#Hatshepsut was the only woman to have ever taken power as king in ancient #Egypt during a period of prosperity and expansion and she ruled for more than two decades - the longest tenure of any female leader of ancient Egypt.

“ #Hatshepsut remains today a reference point for debating gender in some communities. For instance, some online trans forums consider whether the pharaoh’s ‘fluid gender expression is one of the earliest accounts of a trans male life experience’.” http://notchesblog.com/2017/04/11/egyptology-sexual-science-and-modern-gender-identity/?platform=hootsuite

“Hirschfeld understands #Hatshepsut as a gender-variant person, an example of one of his ‘intermediate’ types. This turn to Egyptology, within early twentieth-century sexual science,raises issues for thinking about why and how the ancient world matters in the history of sexuality

#Hatshepsut between “male pharaoh,” a non-conforming identity, and “masculine” image as a purely political act.

http://notchesblog.com/2017/04/11/egyptology-sexual-science-and-modern-gender-identity/?platform=hootsuite

The above blogpost was inspired by this event: Gender Identities in the Past and Present: Hatshepsut & Akhenaten – #LGBT History Month Special Event at the Petrie Museum of #iEgyptian Archaeology

http://rethinkingsexology.exeter.ac.uk/2016/02/gender-identities-in-the-past-and-present-hatshepsut-akhenaten-lgbt-history-month-special-event/

“For the event we took part in, members of a local group of people who identity as trans and non-binary were invited to attend and discuss the relevance of #Hatshepsut for their lives and experiences.”

Me and #Sekhmet at the Temple of #Hatshepsut, #Luxor, Feb 2016 taken by @rerutled #Egypt

“As popular, political, medical, and legal discussions about gender identity have increased...so has the call for histories of diversity to go further than discussions of gay men.” #Hatshepsut

http://notchesblog.com/2017/04/11/egyptology-sexual-science-and-modern-gender-identity/

Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity http://notchesblog.com/2017/04/11/egyptology-sexual-science-and-modern-gender-identity/ #Hatshepsut