After arranging Antony’s funeral, Cleopatra, who had long decided that she would not do the Roman Walk of Shame wearing Chains, in silver or any other color, was ready to take herself out in style. Unlike Antony, she wasn’t going to bungle it. She had laid in a supply of poisonous snakes – or poisoned figs, some historians believe – and managed to sneak them past Octavian’s clueless guards.
Category: Feminism
Goodbye, Protest Signs
I hate that while there are still so many good reasons to be outraged and march in the streets, those days are behind me.
Rita Moreno: Great Sluts of History
“This idea lasts through my whole life: I always play a part. For so many years, I have to be a ‘smoldering sexy spitfire.’ Rita Moreno – funny and bold and golden as all her statuettes. The Hispanic heroine with all four gleaming prizes – Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy – big money, hot lovers, ‘perfect’…
Jezebel: Great Sluts of History
Jezebel’s name has come to represent the symbol of an uppity, slutty woman. But who was she, really?
Got Girl Boner?
Have you ever met someone you’ve known, via the wonder of the Interwebs, for a while, and you’re a total fangirl of their work and you worry, when you do finally get to meet them, that you will either babble like a brook or be totally tongue-tied? Welp. I met August McLaughlin, for an interview…