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Meet Julie d'Aubigny: The French Gender-bending Opera Diva Your History Teacher Didn't Want You To Know About
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(Feminism)
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IT’S NOT EVERY day you discover a 17th-century, cross-dressing, duelling, bisexual opera singer. But it happens every few weeks on social media. Someone will post, “Wow! Has anybody heard of Julie d’Aubigny? ...
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Created on 29 April 2020
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In Honor Of Hulu's “The Great,” Here Are Some Other Women In History We'd Love To See Onscreen
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(TV)
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... s in the 100 Years War. At the end of her life, she was captured by the Duke of Burgundy, charged for heresy, cross-dressing, and witchcraft, and burned at the stake. There is so much to explore from th ...
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Created on 25 March 2020
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3.
How Overzealous Research Landed A Cross-Dressing Victorian Writer In Jail ...
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(Feminism)
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... the cross-dressing gentleman purporting to be Limner stated that a fifth edition of his most popular book would soon be released. Was this a fifth edition of Madre Natura? And, if so, did Leighton/Limner ...
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Created on 09 October 2019
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Learn About Stonewall Hero Stormé DeLarverie
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(Feminism)
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... rted forcefully dragging patrons outside. The police molested and beat up the patrons, many of whom resisted arrest and refused to show identification (cross-dressing was illegal then).
Stormé saw o ...
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Created on 13 July 2018
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Why Won't Medieval Times Let Women Be Knights?
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(Living)
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... Squire or Knight.
In fact, dressing as a man was precisely how Joan of Arc navigated the battlefield. Although the English burned her at the stake for her cross-dressing, the French did not and still ...
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Created on 09 February 2017
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This Is What A Drag Ball Was Like In The 1880s
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(Living)
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Cross-dressing in the Victorian era was an ongoing basis for arrest and prosecution. In 1870, for example, the trial of famous cross-dressers Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park made headlines ...
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Created on 31 August 2016
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4 Brilliant Women Whose Husbands Got All the Credit
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(Feminism)
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... "She prioritized subverting social constructs and taboos, writing films that treated gender conventions as a social structure and then deconstructed them. While playwrights had employed cross-dressing sin ...
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Created on 15 March 2016
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When I Found Out My Ex Is Trans, It Changed Me Too
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(Living)
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... g woman back then,” he said, pleased. Then he back-pedaled. “I mean, it was the ’80s, lots of rock stars looked like women anyway.” “True,” I said. “David Bowie. Mick Jagger.” More pictures of his cross-dressi ...
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Created on 26 February 2016
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Man Wins The Best Father Award For His Son's Queen Elsa Costume
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(Living)
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... mortification.
What is so perfectly fabulous about Henson’s comments is that this is an area where sexism hurts men, particularly young boys; girls generally get more wiggle room in terms of “cross-dressing” ...
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Created on 08 October 2015
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Oct/Nov 2014
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(Magazine)
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... that’s sure to turn some heads. By Eliza C. Thompson
UNDERCOVER SISTER
Inside Afghanistan’s secret world of cross-dressing girls. By Jenny Nordberg
GOING PLACES
Fab fall fashions modeled by N.Y.C.’s ...
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Created on 28 September 2015
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The Secret World of Afghanistan's Cross-Dressing Girls ...
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(Feminism)
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In Afghanistan, where having a son is vital for any respectable family, little girls are sometimes disguised and raised as boys. Here, journalist Jenny Nordberg investigates this complicated cultural game ...
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Created on 30 September 2014
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12.
Interview With a Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay
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(Feminism)
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... in their gender by cross-dressing—who specifically get off on the idea of women being objects of desire?
ROXANE: I think that speaks to how pervasive the objectification of women is. They succumb, ...
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Created on 20 August 2014
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13.
Jenny Lewis Will Take You on a Musical Voyage
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(Music)
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Jenny Lewis’ new album The Voyager dropped yesterday. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. We reported on the amazing moustache-filled cross-dressing wonderment that was her music video for “One of the Guys,” starring ...
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Created on 30 July 2014
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14.
Flappers: Were They the Riot Grrrls of Their Time?
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(General)
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... publishing photos of its readers and their boyfriends cross-dressing and asking rhetorically “whether all the blame for extremes in behavior deserves to be centered on the flapper, or whether it can be ...
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Created on 16 June 2014
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15.
Men and Women Switch Clothes and Make Us Confused and Happy
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(Arts)
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In my world, wearing someone's flannels and ripped jeans is usually the before or after of getting laid. Standard fair, to be honest. I never had any of my love interests to do the same and commit to ...
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Created on 09 July 2013
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Flappers: Were They the Original Riot Grrrls?
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(Feminism)
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... The Flapper challenged traditional gender roles, publishing photos of its readers and their boyfriends cross-dressing and asking rhetorically “whether all the blame for extremes in behavior deserves ...
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Created on 19 June 2013
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Kurdish Men Wear Women's Clothing for Equality
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(Feminism)
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Here’s a Facebook page that’s worth liking: The Kurd Men for Equality campaign. Kurdish men in Iran started the campaign in response to what they believed to be misogyny in a local court case.
A man ...
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Created on 25 April 2013
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18.
Tribeca Film Festival Review: Adult World
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(Movies)
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... At the store, she meets manager Alex (Evan Peters), cute in the college-y way, and the cross-dressing diva Rubia (Armando Riesco). The threesome sparkle up a chemical jizz-storm with their friendship, ...
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Created on 23 April 2013
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Grandpa's Got Legs, and He Knows How to Use 'Em
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(General)
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China’s next supermodel may just be 72-year-old Liu Xianping. He’s got the bod for the latest in miniskirts and the legs to pull them off. His cross-dressing photos have gone viral and as a result, ...
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Created on 27 November 2012
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20.
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women
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(Books)
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... and/or lust. (My favorite juicy anecdote was the true story of Mary Read and Anne Bonny, two swashbucklingly fabulous, cross-dressing 18th-century pirates who couldn't resist each other's booty.) Rupp convincin ...
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Created on 31 January 2010
