In the back of our minds, we know we're going to die. But what does it look like just before it happens? These death photos reveal how mundane the end can look.Somewhere in the back of our minds, we all know we’re going to die. Even further back in our minds, we have a vague understanding that death can happen to us at any moment, though the millions of moments that have already passed without incident may give us false optimism. Read More...
In the late 1970s, up to 3 million people died in the Killing Fields of the Cambodian genocide. This is what it looked like. A distraught woman cries over the body of her husband, killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers. Phnom Penh. 1975.
Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images A group of women huddle together, 1975.Romano Cagnoni/Hulton Archive/Getty Images A terrified prisoner is photographed inside the Tuol Sleng prison. Of the nearly 20,000 people locked in Tuol Sleng, only seven survived. Read More...
Plains Native Americans, and the “Third Gender” A “third-gender” individual named We-Wa is shown weaving in this photograph from around 1897. Source: National Archives
During the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mississippi Valley, a third gender is known to have been recognized among Native Americans. The French deemed them “Berdaches,” a derogatory term that can mean male-prostitute or catamite. Today, educators and commentators use terms such as “two-spirit” or “third gender” to describe these individuals, as they better indicate the appearance of both genders in one person. Read More...
