Smart Chicks Commune

I think it’s time to consider the fact that Isabelle Eberhardt, writer and explorer, lived life as a male and that by consistently referring to him as “she” and a “cross-dressing explorer” we are missing out on a very important part of history. Isabelle Eberhardt changed his name to Si Mahmoud Saadi, and yes- dressed as a man, but also lived as a man, wrote as a man, and was accepted by his community as a man.  His whole life, no matter where he lived, he lived as a man.  When asked why he did this he said “It is impossible for me to do otherwise.” (Abel-Jaouad, Isabelle Eberhardt: Portrait of the Artsist as a Young Nomad”). Let’s respect who this brave, brilliant, and intrepid explorer was.

Multicolor Teacup Clock by Carlos Silva 

Loganberry Books, in Ohio turned every book in their fiction room authored by a male backwards on the shelves to illustrate the fiction gender gap.