She was very careful to assert that she absolutely supported the right of people to think as they like and for the political and social rights of everyone, including men who assert that they are women or women who assert that they are really men. But! But she doesn’t believe that men and women can through assertion, surgery, hormone treatment or all of these, change their gender. Their permanent exhibition and other occasional displays are among the most respectable, reviewed and revered in Britain.Īpart from excellence in her floral patterns, Ms de Wahl declares a devoted, thematic commitment to feminist principles and to feminist radical activism through art. The RA is probably the premier institution run by artists of all sorts. Ms de Wahl is an embroidery artist, and her work is famous enough and deemed good enough to be adopted by and sold in the gallery shop of the Royal Academy of Arts. I don’t suppose one can quite call her the Galileo of our times but, gentle reader, here follows the story of an artist called Jess de Wahl who this week hit the headlines through a controversy which she had sparked. This column is yours as a way of promoting the exchange and dissemination of useful innovations that might otherwise be overlooked.
He hadn’t even called for the banning of all documents or teaching materials which asserted that the earth was flat or that it didn’t move. If this pioneer of truth had any supporters at the time, they might have pointed out to the court, and indeed to the world, that Galileo had not called for the castration or execution of those who believed that the sun went round the earth. The outcry led the leaders of the Church to arrest poor Galileo and subject him to a trial. The bigots of Catholicism accused him of blasphemy! The earth doesn’t move, they insisted. A dynamic, curated anthology of selections from texts in the public domain, compiled and catalogued for your enjoyment and. He proceeded to assert, from his observations, that the sun didn’t circle the earth but, contrary to the firmly held doctrines and teachings of the Church, that our planet revolved and rotated, circling the sun, giving rise to day and night and to the seasons.Īll hell broke loose on Twitter and Instagram. He looked through telescopes and observed the movement of the planets and the sun. Think, gentle reader, as you skim this column, of Galileo, one of the fathers of science and hence of freedom from assertive superstition.
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