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Māmala hoe
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Teacher. Museum volunteer. ʻŌlelo Hawai’i learner. PhD, ethnobotany (U of HI, Mānoa). Folk horror researcher.

In other words, another chronically under-employed academic who loves what they do.

They/them; ‘o ia

Hilo, HI 🌺
And Maggie! Don’t get me started. Absolutely every facet and aspect of her identity would have made infinitely more sense and poignancy if she had been allowed to exist in the queer spectrum rather than written into banal loveplots with unattainable men.
The utterly ludicrous plot twist to Chris’s Catholic monastery visit - (spoiler) his paramour is a cis woman who yentld her way into monk hood through a vow of silence! Real plot line: Chris acknowledges his own homoerotic capacity and that his admiration for Whitman’s queerness isn’t an abstraction
I really do appreciate and enjoy “Northern Exposure” except for the contrived heterosexual dalliances of certain characters in order to override any obvious queerness in their presentation. Gutless writers tbph avoiding plots for both Chris and Maggie (example) as variously coded lgbt orientations.
March 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
The utterly ludicrous plot twist to Chris’s Catholic monastery visit - (spoiler) his paramour is a cis woman who yentld her way into monk hood through a vow of silence! Real plot line: Chris acknowledges his own homoerotic capacity and that his admiration for Whitman’s queerness isn’t an abstraction
I really do appreciate and enjoy “Northern Exposure” except for the contrived heterosexual dalliances of certain characters in order to override any obvious queerness in their presentation. Gutless writers tbph avoiding plots for both Chris and Maggie (example) as variously coded lgbt orientations.
March 17, 2024 at 3:13 AM
I really do appreciate and enjoy “Northern Exposure” except for the contrived heterosexual dalliances of certain characters in order to override any obvious queerness in their presentation. Gutless writers tbph avoiding plots for both Chris and Maggie (example) as variously coded lgbt orientations.
March 17, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Reposted by Māmala hoe
May she rest in peace and may Johns Hopkins one day be the place she was trying to make it.
Shani Mott, esteemed Black Studies scholar and champion for social justice, dies at 47
Mott, a lecturer in the Center for Africana Studies and Department of History, joined JHU's faculty in 2008
hub.jhu.edu
March 16, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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It's the DEA that has scheduling authority, already given by Congress. This is about scheduling.

It's an executive branch decision, albeit nominally via the AG. That's how it got to be Schedule 1 in the first place.
The Science behind the DEA's Long War on Marijuana
Experts say listing cannabis among the world’s deadliest drugs ignores decades of scientific and medical data. But attempts to delist it have met with decades of bureaucratic inertia and political dis...
www.scientificamerican.com
March 17, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Actually, I do want to say something about my current name, “Māmala hoe”.

This refers to a historically landmark ruling in indigenous Hawai’ian law under Kamehameha I (officially, Kānāwai Māmalahoe).

This law explicitly forbade the harming of children and the elderly during times of war 1/2
March 16, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Overcast day in Hilo town. Ukulele strings purchased.
March 16, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I want to like this place but just looking around first. 😀
March 16, 2024 at 5:47 PM