#peace #freedom

#cats #memes #memestr

#memestr

#art #artstr Der Baum des Lebens 1909 Gustav Klimt. Österreich

#art Something in the air (Budapest forever) 50 x 50 cm oil on wood 2026. Peter Molnar

#art #artstr Art by Debra Hall

#literature #history #philosophy #women #woman WOW 🤩 For centuries, people thought they were reading Homer. They weren’t. In 2017, Emily Wilson published the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman. That was the barrier. Four hundred years of translations shaped by male perspectives, smoothing, softening, and rewriting parts of the text without readers realizing it. The risk was distortion. Not of language alone, but of meaning, especially around women, power, and violence. She made a different decision. She translated directly, consistently, without adjusting the text to fit expectations. The struggle wasn’t technical. It was cultural, challenging centuries of accepted interpretation and exposing how translation is never neutral. Then came the breakthrough. Words changed. Enslaved women were no longer called “maids.” Odysseus became “complicated,” not just heroic. Violence was shown as brutal, not noble. The story shifted. Not because it was rewritten, but because it was finally read as it was. That’s the legacy. A reminder that history, literature, and truth are often filtered, and that who tells the story shapes what survives. And it leaves a sharper question. If meaning can be reshaped for centuries without notice, what else are we still reading through someone else’s lens?

#memestr

#art Art by Lucy Pierce

#art #artstr Palestinian artist: Fedaa Boqaileh

#1984

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