Latest / Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity Podcast
International Non-Binary People's Day
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!
Today we have a very special episode interpreting Artemis as a demi-woman non-binary person.
Artemis is the wild deity associated with forests, mountains, and other wild spaces. Yet as a hunter, Artemis is as at home engaging in men's hunts like stags, boars, or lions as they are engaging in women's hunts like doe, fauns, hares, and small cats like lynxes. The very fact that Artemis hunts with a bow at all could be seen as a facet of gender nonconformity.
Artemis is the Moon. In antiquity as today, Pagans viewed the Moon as an androgynous being…
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