Author: fairyprincessjace

alyesque:

A quick note: We often talk about the problem of TERF ideology as like excluding trans women from spaces for cis women and thats true and good, but I think the framing often has an underlying current of “poor trans women being deprived of solidarity from cis women"  and for a variety of political reasons I also want to be able to say that TERF ideology hurts feminism by denying cis women with solidarity from trans women. We have something to offer, we have unique experiences which bring to bare unique perspectives in the fight against patriarchy. Our exclusion doesn’t just hurt us as if we are helpless without cis women, but rather it hurts cis women too whose lives are less rich and whose perspectives are less diversified because of our absence. We have value to bring to the feminist movement, our lives have something to contribute to the struggle, our inclusion is necessary not simply because we are hurt by its absence, but because feminism is worse off without us.  

girlfriendluvr:

shoutout to butch lesbians!! trans butch lesbians, butch lesbians of color, butch lesbians who use he/him pronouns, autistic butch lesbians, butch lesbians who can’t present the way they want to because it could threaten their safety (especially including trans butch lesbians who can’t present as butch without being denied hormones), you’re all wonderful and lovely!!

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generalbriefing:

So….I totally never thought about this. I’m sure very few of you have. I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit disturbed…

Wow. Food for thought. I’m sure there’s an answer though.

Their names were translated/Anglicized after going from Greek to English.

The names of the Apostles are of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew origins. The Hebrew, Aramaic and “Greek” named Apostles were:

Shim’on = Simon (Hebrew origin).

Y’hochanan = John (Hebrew origin).

Mattithyahu = Matthew (Hebrew origin).

Ya’aqov = James (Hebrew origin meaning Jacob).

Bar-Tôlmay = Bartholomew (Aramaic, which is related to Hebrew).

Judah = Jude / Saint Jude (not to be confused with Judas Iscariot, Hebrew origin).

Yehuda = Judas Iscariot (Hebrew origin, Betrayed Yeshua/Yehosua the Messiah).

Cephas / Kephas = Peter (Hebrew / Aramaic origin meaning “Rock”).

Tau’ma = Thomas (Aramaic origin).

Andrew = Andrew (Greek origin. Is the brother of Cephas / Kephas).

Phillip = Phillip (Greek origin).

You will note that there are only 11 names, that is because there were 2 Apostles named Ya’aqov (James), which brings the total to 12 apostles.

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To expand on this, Jesus’s name is Anglicized in this way as well. We get Jesus from the Latin form of the Greek “Ἰησοῦς”(Iēsous), which is derived from the Herbrew “ישוע”(Yeshu’a, which meant “YHWH is Salvaion”, YHWH, or Yahweh being the name of God). When another form of that name, ” יְהוֹשֻׁעַ”(Yeoshu’a) was allowed to Anglicize through a different set of corruptions, it entered the English Language through Reformist Protestants as the name “Joshua”.

Yes. Jesus’s actual name is Joshua.

joshua christ this is fascinating

oily josh

Huh

Translation, they were white washed.