Un homme mûr ne devait pas « recevoir » et il n’était pas bien vu pour lui d’avoir des relations sexuelles avec un homme de son âge et de son niveau social.
— Thoukudidès 𒈗𒃲 (@Thoukudids1) December 11, 2022
(extrait de l'introduction du Banquet de Platon par Luc Brisson) pic.twitter.com/SH5DisvkGV
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Des lieux importants de l’homosexualité sont les temples d’Ištar. Ishtar est une déesse ambivalente. Elle est la déesse du sexe et de la guerre. De ce fait elle possède des attributs à la fois féminin et masculin (ce n’est pas la seule divinité dans ce cas). pic.twitter.com/1p1ZYPO29H
— Thoukudidès 𒈗𒃲 (@Thoukudids1) December 11, 2022
Cette notion de l’importance du statut social et du rôle actif dans le rapport sexuel n’est donc pas sans rappeler l’homosexualité mésopotamienne, sauf que dans le cas mésopotamien cela semble plus libre ne serait-ce qu’au niveau de l’âge.
— Thoukudidès 𒈗𒃲 (@Thoukudids1) December 11, 2022
Government collapsed, my beloved grandmother died, I finished at Stanford, and I published The Haunting of Hajji Hotak. It was a hectic time and we lost touch. But then, last night, after my reading, Ms. Lung's husband, Allen, rushed up to me, introduced himself, and brought
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
me over to Ms. Lung, and seven year old me finally got to hug my 2nd grade teacher again. We chatted and smiled and cried a litte. I signed her book and tried to write on the page what I couldn't express with my voice. I took down their numbers and invited them for dinner.
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
My father always used to say in Pashto that every child is a rocket filled with fuel and all they need is a single spark to lift off into the sky. Ms. Lung, he said, was my spark. Throughout my life, I've been blessed to encounter a series of remarkable teachers that have
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
given me their time and consideration and knowledge, but everything really began with Ms. Lung. And I thought it was important that people hear her story, and that they know how much one teacher, in one year, can change a child's entire life.
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
Let me tell you a story. This is Susan Lung. She taught me to read and write in a single year when I was 7 years old. I've been looking for Susan, hoping to thank her in person, for almost twenty years. And then she surprised me at my reading last night. pic.twitter.com/7YW2EPx1CO
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
I came to the US at 1 and a half years old, but I grew up in a household that only spoke Pashto & Farsi, so when I started kindergarten, I didn't know a word of English. I don't think my teacher knew how to handle an ESL student. He used to punish me for not understanding his
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
directions. We moved a lot in those days as my father searched for work and I went to three diffrent schools in 1 year. I continued to struggled with English. Then, after first grade ended, my family went back to Afghanistan for the summer. I fell in love with Logar, but…
— Jamil Jan Kochai (@JamilJanKochai) August 14, 2022
