Am struggling with rad libs in gender history. Today I read an academic say that women weren't passive victims of the expanding Aztec empire which demanded cloth (made by women) as tribute because they *checks notes* started making stew so they could make other stuff like cloth whilst it cooked.

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Have been reading lots of prehistory and learned that prior to the emergence of agriculture 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers invented ceramics, sewing/weaving, and sea-worthy boats. Don't think they get enough credit for amazing innovations that still impact our lives today.

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The more I read about the division of labour in hunter-gatherer societies the more I want to hit anyone who says that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather eg til that among the Yamana women regularly hunted birds and sometimes used dogs to hunt guanaco, the largest prey in the area.

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The reason Streeting doesn’t want doctors and nurses to have salaries that reflect their skills and qualifications is that it makes it much harder to privatise the NHS.

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#OtD 1 Sep 1920 a mass occupation movement started in which almost all the metalworking factories in Italy were occupied by their workers. It was a high point of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years) of near-revolutionary upheaval stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8156...

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