Catalina de Erauso

Thanks to my friend Soraya Field Fiorio, I came to be acquainted with Catalina de Erauso, or the Lieutenant Nun, the swashbuckling, cross-dressing pirate. Ms. Erauso was born in 1585. At the age of 15 she escaped from the nunnery to which she had been sent, revamped her habit into men’s clothing, and boarded a [...]

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Too much?

Probably. Ok, totally. I am not one for “Bread and Puppet” let alone “Bread and Vulva.” Although I am pro-positive feminine sexualities, a better awareness of our lady bits and I support whoever came up with this. It’s just…I just…uh… It is great to publicize how our bodies work and to do so without alarming [...]

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This is my skeleton, this is the skin it’s in

“…though they of different sexes be, Yet on the whole they are the same as we, For those that have the strictest searchers been, Find women are but men turned outside in” -quoted by Thomas Laqueur (1) Ok. So we’ve laughed at  Va-jay-jays. We are post-the-Eve Ensler of the Vagina Monologues (passé no matter what [...]

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…are in my Mother’s house…

Lost somewhere.

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