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Today we're talking about Megillus, a trans-masculine character in the 2nd-century text Dialogues of the Courtesans. Tune in for three separate queer characters, the complexities of discussing transne...
In 1654, Sweden’s monarch Christina abdicated the throne, cut their hair, donned trousers, and left the country to pursue a life of arts and scholarship in Rome... (1/3)
Throughout their life they continued to reject aspects femininity, often wearing a mix of masculine and feminine clothing, and at times experimenting with male names. Christina wrote coded love letters to a cardinal, and also had a relationship with one of their ladies-in-waiting. (2/3)
"Don't make a woman out of me. My name is Megillus ... I was born a woman like the rest of you, and I have the mind and the desires and everything else of a man." Megillus in Lucian's 'Dialogues of the Courtesans', 2nd century CE
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