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.
Theodora - Acrobat, Whore, Empress, Saint: Great Sluts of History
Tag: women’s history
Josephine Baker: Great Sluts in History
At age thirteen, she was living on the streets, sleeping in card boxes and scavenging for food from trash cans. Sometime around then she made her first of four marriages; this one very short-lived.
At age 15, Josephine would join the St. Louis Chorus vaudeville show, and from there, her talent springboarded her to New York City.
Malala Yousefzai: Great Sluts in History
As an American, it is sometimes impossible (and other times, all too easy), to imagine what we would do – what I would do – if my beloved country was taken over by religious extremists. Malala Yousefzai doesn’t have to imagine; she’s living it. And she has the bullet wounds to prove it. A SWAT…
Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Great Sluts of History
“… given a choice between hearing my daughter say ‘I’m pregnant’ or ‘I used a condom,’ most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.”
Great Sluts in History: Boudicca
Boudicca did not take the rape of her daughter nor her own flogging as a reason to curl up and become a meek little subservient woman, grateful for whatever crumbs fell from Rome’s table.