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.”
Category: Sex Positivity
Cleopatra: Great Sluts of History
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.
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.
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…
Sappho of Lesbos: Great Sluts of History
Without warning/As a whirlwind swoops on an oak/Love shakes my heart