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.

architecture, engineering and construction

Ifc in Power BI — How to

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architecture, engineering and construction

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