Apple orchard gay slang
You can’t make this stuff up. Here we include a doctoral student in horticulture at Cornell arguing that people’s penchant for cultivated apples as opposed to their sour feral ancestors reflects a bias against historically excluded communities. (He calls the ancestors “wild-type” apples, but I’ve never heard them called that. “Wild type” is a largely outdated phrase in genetics referring to the product of the most common variant of a gene. For example, if you’re dealing with the “vestigial” mutant, which shrinks the fruit soar wing down to a nubbin, the alternative gene form that produces the normal wing is called the “wild-type” allele, producing a “wild-type” phenotype with normal-sized wings. Usually we refer to the feral ancestors of a species as just “wild” apples.)
But I digress: here’s the article from Cornell’s analyze site about how our attitude toward apples reflects bigotry. Click to peruse about the stuff that you couldn’t make up.
First, a note. DNA serve shows that all varieties of eating apples descend from a single species of wild apple, Malus sieversii
By Kym Reinstadler
ANN ARBOR – There's child abuse at the core of Oregon playwright E.M. Lewis's "Apple Season" that's buried so deep it's never spoken. It's through the intimately drawn character portraits of a brother and sister returning for the first time in 20 years to the hometown — and, more specifically, the home life they fled as high school students — that the audience can connect the dots that reveal their trauma.
The event that calls them back to the family farm is the death of their alcoholic father. The older brother, Roger (Matthew Swift), who orchestrated the siblings' break out, has long pretended to be dead to cease the night terrors that his abusive father will hunt him down appreciate an animal and destroy him.
Roger, an itinerant ranch hand, survives without close human attachments. He returns for his father's funeral only for proof that the tyrant is at last dead. Roger is not open to the possibility of healing childhood wounds. He leaves town directly from the service and won't accompany his sister Lissie support to the family farm where there is much work to be done because it's apple season.
Lissie (Alysia Kolascz), who has inherited the homestead, spends the aft
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Violet (Viola sp.)
Do you have a meaningful plant in your life? Perhaps it is the apple tree in the backyard of your childhood home, planted by a grandparent. Or it is the fiddle-leaf fig given to you by a nearby friend.
Plants enrich our lives in many ways and each one tells a story. The red rose is acknowledged to be the symbol of love affair and the four-leaf clover is for good luck.
For the violet, its story and importance to the queer society can be traced back to Ancient Greece and the poet, Sappho (c. 600 BCE). From the island of Lesbos, Sappho was renowned for her romantic and erotic poetry, especially those depicting homoerotic long for for women. From her name originates the terms ‘Sapphic’ and ‘Lesbian’, depicting female homosexuality.
Sappho serene over 10,000 lines of lyrics, once housed in the Library of Alexandria, but much of her work was lost through innate deterioration and needy preservation. It is believed that preservers actively neglected and destroyed her function. In 1711, a translator censored Sappho’s poem, “Ode to Aphrodite” by transforming the subject of her desire to a man. During the Middle Ages, Christian figures condemned Sappho and ord
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