Following Aphra Behn’s death in 1689, Delarivier Manley collected her inheritance and brought forward the discourse around the sexual identity of women and the legitimation of female same-sex attraction. She’s one of the “fair triumvirate of wit” with Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood, a term coined by Irish critic James Sterling. Pathetic Behn, or Manley’s greater Name; […]
«Five winters ago, the Sultan proclaimed the Pestilence was over. As it turns out, it takes more than an Imperial Decree for it to go away.» Ḳosṭanṭīnīye, 1572 The first snippet of my WIP Gothic novel gets published today on @Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/crshelidon/ TW: pandemic talk — Chiara C. Rizzarda (@CrShelidon) June 15, 2022
As we have seen with Aphra Behn, the Restauration period started challenging some of the concepts around women’s desire in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, with delicate examples of transgender and what we now know to call non-binary relationships taken into account. Anne Finch’s late production let us enjoy a production celebrating what Harriette Andreadis […]
Undervalued as an author till the 1970s, Aphra Behn is not only a feminist icon but her works around women’s sexuality are an exquisite example of sapphic poetry. 240 years after her death, Virginia Woolf will remember Aphra in her independence manifesto A Room of One’s Own: All women together ought to let flowers fall upon […]
It’s the plain black Venetian mask, the one that’s creepy as fuck. It’s also called “servetta muta”, mute handmaiden. Do you know why? Hint, it’s not because it doesn’t have a hole for the mouth: it’s much creepier than that.
In 1964, Egyptologist Ahmed Moussa made an astonishing discovery: a tomb, in the necropolis at Saqqara, nearby the paved, raised road leading to the pyramid of King Unas. The tomb was a mastaba, a flat-roofed structure rising with sloped external walls from a rectangular footprint that had been typical during the Early Dynastic Period and […]
Well, I said I was going to share some notes for Pride Month, didn’t I? Here they are. I’d like to start with an amazing author and intellectual: Christine de Pizan, an Italian poet who worked in France at the beginning of the XV Century, is considered one of the first female professional writers and […]
Well, I’ve been silent, I know. I’m in a good enough place to know that, just because no one asked, it doesn’t mean no one noticed. I know you did. ’cause you did, didn’t you? It would be easy enough to say I’ve been busy with work, but that would be just a part of […]
Una delle attività necessarie per l’inizio di un progetto e per garantire una corretta pianificazione, che sia davvero orientata alle caratteristiche dei collaboratori che saranno coinvolti, è l’attività di assessment. Come abbiamo già visto in alcune delle pillole dell’anno scorso, si tratta di un’attività richiesta dai framework BIM sin da quando tutti seguivamo i British […]
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