(Filipp Romanovski / Pexels.com) One of my fav things about June is how much queerness comes out of the woodwork. Another fav thing is seeing certain quarters of society try to push back on it. And one of my fav arguments is that queerness is a modern invention. While that’s true to some degree, the historical record shows us queer people have existed since time immemorial. They maybe didn’t call...
Rewriting History: How the Cowboy Came to Be White
One of the reasons I wanted to make Ferr a Black-presenting character in The Bull by His Horns was to address the cultural myth that all cowboys were white. Over time, the history of people of color working as cowboys in America’s Wild West has been lost, erased. It was replaced with the myth of a white cowboy. Why and how did this happen? At the root, we know exactly why it occurred: racism...
Historical Accuracy: People of Color Existed in Medieval Europe
Think of medieval Europe. Did you imagine a bunch of white people tooling around in the dirt, nary a Black or brown person in sight? You've had the wool pulled over your eyes. People of color definitely existed in medieval Europe.
A Brief History of Dragons
If there’s one mythological creature that seems to exist across almost every culture, it’s dragons.