I’ve been sharing with you my writing journey for a while now, either here, on the Blog or on my social platforms (mostly The App Formerly Known as Twitter), and one of the most recent developments is that I’ve closed deals with different readers to get a look at my most developed draft. Specifically, one […]
Let me start with one simple but fundamental assumption: I hate Rodin. Not artistically, of course, but I think he was a sick piece of shit and a bastard through and through, who used women, abused Camille Claudel both emotionally and artistically, stole her stuff, and up to these days we still say she “died […]
I’ve been following Ioanna Papadopoulou on Twitter for quite some time now, and I know how passionate she is about mythology, folklore and her Greek heritage. I also knew she was working on what she called “a dark retelling” of the myth of Demeter, and I knew I was going to buy the book because […]
Suzanne Jackson is an African-American visual artist, dancer, educator, and set designer. Born in 1944 in St. Louis, she spent her early childhood in San Francisco and her youth in what she defines as “the remote natural environment of pre-statehood Alaska.” Upon returning to San Francisco, she studied painting, theatre and dance, and she never gave […]
Atargatis, also known as Ataratheh and redubbed Derceto by Pliny the Elder, was a chief goddess in northern Syria, with evidence of her cult being discovered at Palmyria. She was a fertility goddess but also presided over her city at Aleppo, called Hierapolis by the Greek, where she was the baalat (the “mistress”) and presided […]
On Friday I wrote a piece concerning an exhibition you can see at Milan’s Archeological Museum and, in passing, I mentioned the museum’s collection amouns to… well, next to nothing. Since the internet is a beautiful place, people got upset and I thought I should rectify my statement: the very small archaeological museum in Milan […]
If you ask anyone to name an iconic symbol connected with Ancient Egypt, some will say the scarab, but many will say the eye. The Egyptian seemed to be positively obsessed with that body part and it’s not very difficult to guess why: it looks like a jewel, and yet it’s soft and vulnerable; it can […]
As my followers know, especially those on Instagram, I’m partial to water bodies: give me a river, a lake, a channel or the sea, and I’m a happy girl. As such, I couldn’t turn down to go and see the recent exhibition on Milan and its Waterways, closing next March and curated by a bunch […]
Sokar was the ancient god of the cemeteries in Memphis and became god of a death seen as a transformative process, the middle ring of a cycle that started with Ptah and ended with reborn Osiris. Alongside Apophis, Anubis, and other Egyptian-inspired characters, Sokar is also a character in Stargate and comes from the Goa’uld, […]
I haven’t done a movie review in ages, but… what is wrong with you people? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? The Marvels is a perfectly regular piece of superhero fiction: it’s a light-hearted story with cosmic fights, a villain that could have been better, good sidekicks and a good dose of both […]