Every age has its prophets – those Visionaries and Revolutionaries whose ideas and actions inform us of where we are and anticipate where we’re heading. Aaron Swartz was a prophet of the Info...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/11-january-2013-the-prophetic-life-and-tragic-death-of-aaron-swartz/
It was in the 4th century immediately after the Roman Empire became a de facto Christian state that the first anti-homosexual laws appeared. Thereafter, for the next 1500 years, the criminalisati...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/29-august-1867-the-first-gay-rights-activist-speaks-out/
Born on this day in 1830, at the dawn of an extraordinary revolutionary age, Louise Michel was the Transcendent Revolutionary – an extraordinary French woman whose ideals and displays of genero...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/9-january-1905-the-divine-life-of-louise-michel/
“If somebody kills themselves, they have the last word.” – Deborah Curtis Thirty-eight years ago today, Ian Curtis killed himself. Tragic rock’n’roll deaths, and suicides especially, ...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/18th-may-1980-the-death-of-ian-curtis/
On this day in 1976, power was seized in a coup d’etat by a military junta that would rule Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Throughout those seven grueling years, Argentines endured a repressiv...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/24th-march-1976-argentinas-dirty-war/
Despite the best efforts of fundamentalists of all kinds to have it otherwise, most of us are products of a generally secular society. This makes it almost impossible for us to conceive of a time...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/31st-october-1517-martin-luther-posts-the-ninety-five-theses/
On this day in 1949, following twenty years of bitter and bloody civil war, Mao Zedong stood victorious at Beijing’s Gate of Heavenly Peace and solemnly proclaimed the founding of the People’...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/1st-october-1949-mao-zedong-declares-the-peoples-republic-of-china/
“…first lady of the skies, she had no guy holding her down, no one could clip her wings, she was no bird in the hand, she is no living thing now…” from the poem ‘Amelia Earhart’ by...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/2nd-july-1937-amelia-earhart-disappears/
This date is reserved for German humanitarian hero Armin T. Wegner, whose courageous actions on penalty of death bore undeniable photographic evidence of the systematic genocide of over one milli...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/17th-may-1978-%E2%80%93-the-death-of-armin-t-wegner/
On this day in 1638, Anne Hutchinson – religious radical and “first feminist of the New World” – was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A recollection of this momentous event wil...
http://www.onthisdeity.com/22nd-march-1638-%E2%80%93-anne-hutchinson-banished/