Going back through old class notes, and I found this story in my notes from a history class about European women in the early modern age.

This is from the confessions of the Chelmsford Witches in England in 1566:
"Elizabeth Francis testified that her grandmother, whose name was Mother Eve, counselled her to renounce God and his word and to give of ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about how all of the fic I read lately is about boys.  I'm feeling pretty glum about it.

(These fandoms I've been following, guys, they are killing me with the woman-hate.  SPN and Merlin and Sherlock and their shiny, sexy boys and their dead or evil or broken (or what's maybe worse - uninteresting) women.  It becomes so easy to ( Read more... )

Right now, I'm writing about Audre Lorde.  Or at least, I was writing about Audre Lorde.  Then I decided I needed an Audre Lorde icon.  Then I couldn't find one. .  All the feminist icons I can find seem to feature white women.  Maybe I'll have to *make* an Audre Lorde icon.  Don't know how to do that, but seems like a good project.  Made an icon ( Read more... )