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rejectedprincesses:thequantumqueer:rejectedprincesses:vmthecoyote:rejectedprincesses:Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695): the Phoenix of MexicoThere is SO MUCH MORE INFORMATION at the main site entry - 28 footnotes worth! Before you start going off about “why doesn’t she have a movie” (she does), or “this detail isn’t right!” please go there and read up.Art notes and shout-outs behind the cut.(and here’s a shortcut if you want to pre-order the book!) Keep readingALSO SHE WAS A LESBIANPossibly. The tl;dr version, which I mentioned in the footnotes: “She might have been a lesbian, there’s not enough evidence.”Longer version behind the cut. Keep readingi can’t read what she wrote in blood?It reads:Juana Ines de La CruzThe Worst of All(which is how she actually signed things, albeit in Spanish. that’s even a copy of her real signature.) -- source link
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