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The poster for Benedetta with two nuns leaning in to kiss each other in an image shaped like a cross.

Updates

Getting Medieval with Benedetta Carlini

ByBaylee Woodley April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

Trigger warning: Violent sexual assault, homophobia, torture, disgusting abuses of history, lesbian wrath When the medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw named her book Getting Medieval she was referencing the famous line from the film Pulp Fiction (1994). Specifically, this line is spoken by Marsellus Wallace in a scene with overt homophobic implications. After being raped by a…

A miniature showing Queen Eufeme sitting on a throne in her private chambers with Silence beside her. the private apartments are represented through a distinctive architectural frame, which here manifests as two arches. The two are seated with Eupheme on the viewer’s right and Silence on the left. This miniature, consistent with the illustrative program, emphasizes Eupheme’s position in court through hierarchical scale and a golden crown.

Roman de Silence

Introducing Female Satan

ByBaylee Woodley July 6, 2020April 27, 2022

In heeding the wisdom of Hannah Gatsby, I am going to give you a little road map before I start: I will begin by talking about burlesque and nipple-loving deities, and then miraculously come back around so that I am talking about my case studies and premodern sodomites. Pop a pastie, love! Often at burlesque…