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Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank is a Chicago-based writer and photographer. She has also written for Atlas Obscura, Bitch Media, In These Times and Paper Magazine.
Education & Society
Lesbianism (!) at the Convent
Mother Superior Benedetta Carlini, a visionary nun of Renaissance Italy, was accused of heresy and “female sodomy.”