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Everyone here is trying to make Baby Desi Jr., smile. This was taken on the day of his baptism.

Like poetry, camp, and desperate housewives? The you might enjoy CHERRY: A DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES CHAPBOOK out on Yes Molly Press today!

In this debut chapbook for Yes Molly Press, poets Taylor Liljegren (Slapstick: The Lucy Poems) and Zofia Provizer (Lose Site of Heaven) team up to retell the story of "an unsaved street. Of girls gone/ made and moving/forward". Drawing inspiration from the world created within the quintessentially campy early 2000s television show, the authors explore gender, sexuality, grief and friendship in this moving concept piece. The chapbook contains new poems from Liljegren & Provizer, as well as original art prints.

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African American female portraits ca.1909

Historical fashion detail in photography.

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Mister Rogers with Margaret Hamilton, the actress who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, 1975.

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“Cleopatra moreover came of age in a country that entertained a singular definition of women’s roles. Well before her and centuries before the arrival of the Ptolemies, Egyptian women enjoyed the right to make their own marriages. Over time their liberties had increased, to levels unprecedented in the ancient world. They inherited equally and held property independently. Married women did not submit to their husbands’ control. They enjoyed the right to divorce and to be supported after a divorce. Until the time an ex-wife’s dowry was returned, she was entitled to be lodged in the house of her choice. Her property remained hers; it was not to be squandered by a wastrel husband. The law sided with the wife and children if a husband acted against their interests. Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter. Egyptian women married later than did their neighbors as well, only about half of them by Cleopatra’s age. They loaned money and operated barges. They served as priests in the native temples. They initiated lawsuits and hired flute players. As wives, widows, or divorcées, they owned vineyards, wineries, papyrus marshes, ships, perfume businesses, milling equipment, slaves, homes, camels. As much as one third of Ptolemaic Egypt may have been in female hands.”

— Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff