Queer Viking religious historian / fighting white supremacy / General Editor @kyngervi / Host of @VikingsAreGay! / they/them / Patreon & Ko-fi: queertyyr
My first peer-reviewed article is here! 'Valfǫðr, vǫlur, and valkyrjur: Óðinn as a Queer Deity Mediating the Warrior Halls of Viking Age Scandinavia' is the final version of my MA thesis. The article is here: periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php…
A summary thread:
The murderer neo N*zi (VV) has been snitch-tagged into my mentions multiple times overnight. I have him blocked so he can’t see/respond, but my god I’m feeling the weight of it.
In Jamaica they would dip their whips in honey and then into broken glass before whipping enslaved people. I can't even fathom the pain. Alternatively they would also dip the whips into lemon juice to make it sting even more. Just depraved and sickening
Academic twitter: I'm fiddling with an article on Viking medievalism and white supremacy. It feels pertinent to write about the twitter backlashes I've received, inc having photos of me and my partner on the N*rdic R*sistance M*vement websites. Is this totally inappropriate?
This settling undoubtedly came with harms, whether that was the sudden violence of raiding, or the ongoing violence of settling on the land of people of colour & acting through white supremacy.