If Anne Boleyn were alive today, she’d be celebrating her 524th birthday around now. Or would it be her 518th? We don’t know exactly when Anne’s birthday was, nor even the year, for a certainty. Put together with her mercurial personality, being a Gemini fits her. We do know she was crowned on June 1,…
Category: Feminism
Saartje (Sara) Baartman: Great Sluts of History
Orphan. Widow. Slave. “Hottentot Venus.” The tragic mythology is that Saartje Baartman was a young African woman, ripped from her land and her people, exhibited to staring, pointing and laughing crowds as a freak with a huge derriere, who ended her life as a penniless prostitute, dying alone in Paris, far from home. After her…
Betty White: Great Sluts of History
Question: “When you were growing up, did you always want to be in show business?”
Betty: “As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be either a forest ranger or a zookeeper. The problem was, back then a girl wasn’t allowed to be either one.”
Theodora - Acrobat, Whore, Empress, Saint: Great Sluts of History
How many people do YOU know who’ve gone from being an acrobat/gymnast, to actress/whore, to empress, and later, a saint? Meet Theodora.
“The Unsinkable Molly Brown:” Great Sluts of History
Happy birthday, Maggie! July 18 was the birthday of Margaret Tobin Brown, now historically famous as, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” In her lifetime, however, she was Margaret Tobin or Mrs. J.J. Brown (Maggie to close friends), and never called Molly until after her death in 1932. Your Fake Name Will Go Down in Posterity Broadway…