greek mythology

Achilles is so often portrayed as the most masculine of heroes, but those portrayals generally leave out that he spent a few years of his life passing as a girl. Today, [...Read More...]

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Become a Patron!   This episode wouldn’t have been possible without these sources:   The Iliad – Homer Shipping in Plato’s Symposium by Juliette Grace [...Read More...]

In the first part of our Gender Rebels series, we talked about queer history—queer women, Intersex people, transgender people, and eunuchs. Now, we’re going to begin [...Read More...]

We are SO excited to announce that we have a book coming out in August 2022! Our book, Women of Myth, will be available worldwide from Simon and Schuster. Listen in as we [...Read More...]

What can we learn about the lives of women in the ancient world–both religious and secular–when we delve into mythology? In this episode, we talk to Jennifer [...Read More...]

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Despite inspiring desire in people of all genders, Aphrodite is often depicted as a cisgender woman. But not always. Ancient writers tell us of mystery cults that worshipped [...Read More...]

Become a Patron!   We couldn’t have made this episode without the help of the incredible website Theoi.com. Theoi is a rich souce of collected myths, and online [...Read More...]

Goddess of sex workers, Our Lady of the Castration Foam, the walking embodiment of orgasm herself—Aphrodite was one of the most powerful goddesses in the Olympian pantheon. [...Read More...]