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Cassandra Fedele
Cassandra Fedele, was the most renowned woman scholar in Italy during the last decades of the Quattrocento. She was born in Venice in 1465 to Barbara Leoni and Angelo Fedele. While we know nothing of her mother (Fedele does not mention her mother in her writings), nor do we know what her father's position was in Venetian society, we have evidence that her father was respected among the aristocracy and took a great interest in his daughter's learning, perhaps seeking to advance his own reputation. When Fedele reached fluency in Greek and Latin at the age of tw elve, she was sent by her father to Gasparino Borro, a Servite monk, who tutored her in classical literature, philosophy, the sciences, and dialectics. In 1487, at twenty-two years of age, she achieved instant success in Italy and abroad when she delivered a Latin speech in praise of the arts and sciences at her cousin's graduation at Padua. Her speech, Oratio pro Bertucio Lamberto, was published in Modena (1487), Venice (1488), and Nuremberg (1489). From 1487 to 1497, she exchanged letters with prominent humanists and nobility throughout Italy and Spain. One such correspondent, Isabella di Castiglia, urged Fedele to join her court in Spain. Fedele declined the invitation, writing that she could not go while Italy was at war with France. There may have been more to her stated reason for not going, however. Fedele's early biographers believed that the doge Agostino Barbarigo would not allow this fine "ornament" to leave his country, although there is no evidence of such a decree.
Fedele achieved fame through her writing, oratorical abilities, and simple elegance. In addition to her letters and orations (a volume of 123 letters and 3 orations was published in Padua in 1636), it is believed that she also wrote Latin poetry, although none has been found. She participated with influential humanists in public debates on philosophical and theological issues and was asked to speak in front of the doge Agostino Barbarigo and the Venetian Senate on the subject of higher education for women. In a letter to Lorenzo de' Medici, Angelo Poliziano praised her for her excellence in both Latin and Italian, as well as for her beauty.
Fedele's success, however, was shortlived. The high points of her scholarly activities occurred between the ages of twenty-two and thirty-three, just prior to her marriage at age thirty-four (1499). After she married, and for almost sixty years, she wrote few letters and was invited only once, in 1556, to deliver a public address in honor of the Queen of Poland, Bona Sforza, who came to Venice. When she was about eighty years old, she may have written a book entitled Ordo scientiarum, as the biographical tradition indicates, but this work is no longer extant. Some historians argue that Fedele abandoned her intellectual pursuits when she got married, as was the case for most learned women of her day who married and assumed full-time management of an entire household. Fedele may have also been discouraged by strong social forces that opposed the scholarly participation of married women. While we do not know for certain why Fedele stopped writing, a statement she made implies that she believed a woman could not be married and pursue rigorous studies at the same time. In a letter to Alessandra Scala, who wrote Fedele asking whether she should get married or devote her life to study, Fedele encouraged her to "choose the path for which nature has suited you" (translation in Robin 31).
There are other possible reasons for sixty years of intellectual inactivity. In 1520, on Fedele's return from Crete with her physician husband, Giammaria Mapelli, she lost all her belongings in a shipwreck. Her husband died later that year, leaving her a widow, childless, and in financial straits. Fedele wrote to Leone X asking for help in 1521, but he did not reply to her letter. She tried again in 1547, writing to Paolo III, who responded by giving her a position as the prioress of an orphanage at the church of San Domenico di Castello in Venice where she resided until her death. Fedele may have also struggled with health problems. Before her marriage she complained of an illness that was depleting her strength and making it difficult to concentrate on reading and writing for any length of time.
While we have no proof of her persistence in study, it is likely that Fedele did continue to read and write in private after her marriage and during her years of widowhood, not for praise and honor, but for the enjoyment and solace that intellectual pursuits can provide. In her speech before the doge and the Venetian Senate, she made this suggestion on how she and other women of her day could benefit from the new humanist learning made available to them, since they could not use their knowledge for professional purposes:
[W]hen I meditate on the idea of marching forth in life with the lowly and execrable weapons of the little woman -- the needle and the distaff -- even if the study of literature offers women no rewards or honors, I believe women must nonetheless pursue and embrace such studies alone for the pleasure and enjoyment they contain. . . . (translated in Robin 162)
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Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday 8th December 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 4th December 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
"Slave eats 20 loads of cum"
This lucky slave's Mistress has been acquiring and saving condoms full of cum for him to guzzle down for his audience's entertainment!
Strapped down to the bondage chair, the slave is presented with a silver tray of 19 used condoms full of cum. One by one the condoms are opened and poured down his throat as he gags and heaves and struggles to swallow the filth. For a surprise ending, the slave is made to get down on his knees and service another slave's cock who has been locked in chastity for 2 months - finalising his cum count at 20 swallowed loads! After this, I shove the remnants of the filthy condoms he's sucked clean into his underpants and order him to drive home with them on.
"Goddess Invasion" 1080p
This slut is about to be totally invaded by two beautiful Goddess´, Goddess Serena and Miss Leopard Gem. They are about to put him through his paces with their cocks, using both his holes for their pleasure. Unfortunately for him they are both incorrigible and there is no stopping their fun!
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Hrotsvitha
Hrosvitha is the earliest-known woman poet in Germany, and some scholars even consider her the first dramatist, or playwright, since ancient times. The various spellings of her name include Hroswitha, Hrosvit, Hroswitha, and Roswitha, but recent research indicates the spelling she used was Hrotsvit, derived from the Saxon words that translated to Clamor Validus in Latin (“For ceful Testimony” in English), a reference to her authorship of stories about Christianity and its saints. During her lifetime, Hrosvitha divided her own works into three manuscripts: Book of Legends, Book of Drama, and Epics (dates uncertain). The legends and plays still exist, but the two works included in Epics are lost.
Very few details are known about Hrosvitha’s life and those that are known are often disputed. We do know that she was a nun, or canoness, at the Benedictine monastery of Gandersheim in Saxony (modern-day Germany). Gandersheim was founded in 852 as a monastery for the nobility, and so it is assumed that Hrosvitha was of noble Saxon birth. In the introduction to her works, Hrosvitha identified Princess Gerberga II, the Abbess, or superior nun at Gandersheim, as one of her teachers. She probably entered the monastery at a relatively you ng age although some scholars believe she spent a good portion of her childhood at the Ottonian court, based on similarities between her work and the work of writers who frequented the Ottonian court during the early part of her lifetime.
Most of Hrosvitha’s writings recount the lives of martyrs, praising those who lead ascetic lives, forgoing sumptuous meals, material possessions, and sexual pleasure in the pursuit of spiritual goals. The lost Epics comprised a history on the life of Otto I, the King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor who lived from 912 to 973, and a history of Gandersheim Abbey as it existed between the years of 846 and 919. Hrosvitha’s works are impressive in their expository scope, referencing the works of Virgil, Ovid, and other ancient poets. A woman ahead of her time, Hrosvitha’s last work was completed in 973, and not until two hundred years after her death was medieval drama again composed.
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Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday 1st December 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 27th November 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
Filthy sub was made to guzzle down 19 prepared condoms full of cum and 1 fresh load. Then I shoved all the empty condoms in his pants and made him drive home.
Clip coming soon!
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (14 December 1640– 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, Behn declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.
She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Her grave is not included in the Poets' Corner but lies in the East Cloister near the steps to the church.
Her best-known works are Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, sometimes described as an early novel, and the play The Rover.
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Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday 24th November 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 20th November 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
Hey guys!
Just a little note to apologise for the lack of regular content lately.
Things are returning to normal and content will be back to normal too.
This isn't a sexy post, but I want to be honest as I have always tried to be real with you all. You don't have to read on if you're not interested, but if you are, here it is:
This year has been very difficult for me. I went through a traumatic breakup with my ex partner of 6 years. I have been struggling with my mental health - this has always been a problem in my life but I have recently been diagnosed with BPD and ADHD. Many of you may already know that I suffer with other chronic illnesses including myalgic encephalomyelitis and fibromyalgia and those have been flaring up recently too. I'm currently going through titration for new medications and although things are improving, I'm not entirely back to myself yet. On top of all this, I'm also dealing with my mother's divorce which is extremely stressful and upsetting. As she is highly dyslexic, I am taking care of proceedings for her which essentially means I am doing her divorce for her. There are also business complications in this which will come to light at a later date.
I'm doing my best to get back to me, and I am getting back to me, it's just taking time and the progress isn't linear. I'm not going anywhere and my intention is to be back on top form as soon as I can, I've just had to focus my energy into healing and into my family recently.
Hope this helps any of you who have felt my absence lately. I have felt my absence too. But I'm stronger than an ox and as stubborn as a mule. I've been through far worse and I always emerge victorious.
I'd like to sincerely add that there's no need to worry about me and I'd prefer not to talk about any of the above for now. I have a great support system - an amazing family, great friends and the love of the best man I've ever met. I just need time and patience from my loyal fans and subs.
Love
Serena
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Jefimija
Jefimija (1349–1405), secular name Jelena Mrnjavčević daughter of Vojihna and widow of Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević, is considered the first female Serbian poet. Her Lament for a Dead Son and Encomium of Prince Lazar are famous in the canon of medieval Serbian literature.
Her works are embroidered texts which follow in a rich tradition of embroidery among Serbian noblewomen, thus making the beginning of Serbian women’s writing closely connected to textural practices. Born as Jelena Mrnjavčević around 1349, she was taught to read and write in Serbian and Greek and learned fine embroidery. She married Emperor Dušan the Great’s son Uglješa, then a ‘despot’ (ruler, emperor) in 1365. Sadly, Uglješa was killed during the battle on river Marica in 1371, a crucial stage in Ottoman’s conquest of the Balkan. Jelena, only 22 when her husband died, had already lost her only son before that.
Jelena went to Milica and Lazar’s royal court in Kruševac, a city soon to become a mythical place of Serbian culture because of the approaching Battle of Kosovo. This battle would become yet another blow in her unhappy life, because Lazar, whose hospitality she relied on, was killed during the battle. Jelena and her distant cousin duchess Milica became nuns, taking on the names Jefimija and Jevgenija. Jefimija’s first known work is engraved on a gilt plaque on a little diptych (6,5 x 7,7 cm) of a small icon, which was supposed to be a gift to her son on his christening by the metropolitan of Serres. The text is dated sometime between 1369-1371 and can be seen as the beginning of Serbian women’s literature. Basically, the text expresses her grief for her dead son.
Her next known work is an embroidered text for the Hilandar Monastery at the Holy Mount Athos. Her most significant literary work is the embroidery for the cover of the reliquary containing Duke Lazar’s remnants in the Ravanica Monastery. The cloth measures 99 x 69 cm and is embroidered with gold plated silver thread. The text of the Appraisal of duke Lazar is translated into English by Celia Hawkesworth and can be found in Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia (Hawkesworth, 2000, 83). Nowadays, the embroidered cover of Duke Lazar’s reliquary is kept in the Museum of Serbian Church.
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Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Friday 17th November 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊
Good morning! Here is your slave task for Monday 13th November 2023.
These tasks are designed to be interactive. They are an open invitation to send me a direct message to discuss the task and to send voice notes, photos or videos (whatever is best suited to the task) as proof of completion.
I am aware that not all slaves have the same interests, experience and/or threshold, so I have designed these tasks to be as mixed as possible. There should be something to appeal to everyone regardless of where you stand on the scale!
💋💋💋
Your Goddess,
Serena
"Let's Play" 1080p HD
"As strict as Goddess Serena is she does also like the odd game or two. Today she has her slaves out of their chastity cages and proudly standing beside her, no doubt hoping for a rare chance to cum! However, that’s not going to happen, although one slave will get a little pleasure from Goddess’s loving touch and a little moisturiser. The second slave will also experience Goddess’s loving touch but unluckily for him deep heat is on his menu! "
