Pride Month 2022 – Aphra Behn

June 11, 2022

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 the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

She’s today’s profile on my Patreon.

books and literature

Weird Sisters

Well, this was a fairly unusual read for me in this period, I’m more in my sci-fi era, but good things come from good friends who gift you books you wouldn’t have bought: they usually help you discover something cool you didn’t know. What I

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books and literature

SciFi Friday — In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne (1889)

[Redactor’s note: In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889; p. 662. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of

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comics and illustration

What the fuck did I just watch?

Yoshitaka Amano‘s Angel’s Egg, it’s the simple answer: a 1985 animated movie directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell). Following Amano’s exhibition here in Italy and the movie’s anniversary, it had been re-released in theatres but I had missed, I was curious, so I

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