The Bizarre Story of the Girl Who Claimed to be Sappho Reincarnated

[@KazRowe]

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[@helenamirian908]

How is June supposed to concentrate on fighting crime when she has just lost her sister?!?!

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[@ClarissaMaeDme]

@@ninabetz5969yyy Ty lf😊yy

[@jungtothehuimang]

This feels exactly like those fake twitter & FB posts where some mom is like "my 8 year old just came to me and said *insert complex topic here*" it's good to know in like 100,000 year of humans existing we really have always been the same and that times change but we really don't.

[@ericme4767]

Also loved how the poem in the end was like Sappho of lesbos meets Emily Dickinson.

[@SadieMage]

Or the gorilla using sign language to warn humanity abt recycling (it was a marketing ploy) 😂

[@RealNormHall]

@@SadieMageyou just ruined smth fundamental to my happiness, I hope you’re happy with yourself smh

[@hannahprose]

I don't see the hoax as entirely "harmless" I mean, her parents forcing her to live this sham life from such a young age, not able to be herself, must've seriously messed her up.

[@saragarofano6471]

That's abuse.

[@im19ice3]

sounds like her parents would've fucked her up regardless, not that its ok, i'm just saying it sounds like the cherry on top of a banana split of trauma to me

[@Prizzlesticks]

The OG Disney child star. :O

[@Rae-oj3fm]

Ehh maybe not I’m sure everyone was messed up back then lol

[@SombreroPharoah]

I'm sure she was given laudenum and probably didn't care too much. They had a better day didn't they... :(

[@maristiller4033]

Kaz: A woman claimed to be the reincarnation of Sappho Me: Hm yes makes sense… Kaz: She said Sappho killed herself for the love of a man. Me: Ok now ya lost me.

[@leahdavis9434]

Sappho was bisexual but yeah seems sus

[@maristiller4033]

@@leahdavis9434 Oh was she really? I didn't know that

[@nycdyke2867]

@@leahdavis9434 great now I’m in love with whoever she is

[@DKF_oli]

@@maristiller4033 I totally thought she was lesbian not bi- but I’m admittedly not particularly knowledgeable on the topic

[@maristiller4033]

@@DKF_oli yeah I mean it's nearly impossible to know the exact sexuality of people who lived a century ago much less thousands of years ago. It'd be cool either way, though, just having a wlw poet in history ya know, out there lovin' women

[@TheBaron75]

I'm the current reincarnation of Sapho. Unfortunately I'm a 45 year old dude who doesn't really like poetry so it's bad news for everybody. Maybe next time round.

[@LynnAgain83]

Hahaha 😁

[@TrueFork]

When I was still a young vampire in Alexandria I liked Sappho's poems so I wrote them all down from memory after they were lost. I did this twice, but you mortals burned them again each time so I don't bother anymore

[@MelissaThompson432]

I wrote them. Sappho copied them off me. Plagiarist. 😠

[@chapablo]

Hey, they all can’t be winners.

[@greenland_shark_2009]

I write shitty poetry for girls I like but y'know I'm lesbian so it's a given

[@ruliak]

This has the same energy as those facebook mom stories where the kid is like 2 and says "Mother, I am quite chilly...but I will be even colder when the polar ice caps melt and consume us all." Little Kaiyleighanne is so smart!! 😭😭

[@fp8688]

It would be hot if ice caps were melting

[@ruliak]

@@fp8688 not when the ice age hits baby!!

[@AntediluvianRomance]

@@fp8688 Ice caps would be hot, but the dead bodies would stay the same temperature as the water around. *tragic sounds*

[@GothelGrigore]

My child just told me that she thinks technology is very bad and corrupting her fellow youth. Totally wasn’t my boomer self pretending that she said that

[@LynnAgain83]

@@AntediluvianRomance Le gasp! 😯

[@RaphaelleLD]

that indictment is giving very much "trying to hit the word count on an essay" 💀

[@Error_4x5]

Or they made it so long in order to get lunch.

[@LynnAgain83]

Yes!! 🤣🤣 🧐📝

[@eazy8579]

Why, good sir, you must tell me more about this, what it’s about, and where I can find it, that way I can avoid it at all costs!

[@basementdwellercosplay]

She lost me when she tried to call Sappho was straight

[@jungtothehuimang]

Same that's where the delusion ended for me I knew she was making things up then

[@saganc.4090]

you've never read the source text, have you?

[@livvlife]

@@saganc.4090 well Sappho is part of the origin of the words “ sapphic” and “lesbain”, because she lived on the island of lesbos and wrote stuff that implied she had romantic interests with woman. People tried to hide that in her writing, and she could have also been into men. I bet she was bi at the very least.

[@lamb2004]

@@saganc.4090 why do you think her work was most destroyed after christianity came along? even the fragments of her remaining poems are pretty obvious showing her attraction and affection towards them. there’s no denying that she’s not straight.

[@Hecateofcrossroads]

@@livvlife there is a poem like her one that says Aphrodite struck her with love for a woman but it says boy not sure if she changed it to please her audience or if she felt love for a man

[@samantha.redacted]

It’s hilarious for her mom, knowing that Juanita was not actually Sappho, telling Juanita that it was the “flapper spirit” making her love Ernst

[@babbybobabs8701]

maybe your daughter is just making a hasty choice because she's young and it happens to most everyone lmao. did you think of that?

[@q1s2e3w]

@@babbybobabs8701 i know this is an old post but that’s actually exactly what the “flapper spirit” comment means! i didn’t catch what year this is set in but if it was before the mid 1920s “flapper” essentially just meant “a young/teenage girl trying to act older and more sophisticated than she actually is” (like a baby bird flapping its wings and trying but failing to fly).

[@Αλεξία-ψ1ε]

the statement for the play issued by the court seems so hilarious over a century later, it's crazy to think the public may have actually taken it seriously

[@LynnAgain83]

It really is comical! 😅 *Pictured frenzied writing*

[@LonelyDistance]

"the flapper spirit" Ah yes, gin.

[@MasochistiKitty]

✨and all that jazz✨

[@SombreroPharoah]

Both yours and the reply comment are by *far* the best in here! 😂

[@Otra_Chica_de_Internet]

Girl: "I loved Phaon but he did not love me back" Me: a mAN?

[@sammyvictors2603]

She could have been bi But that Phaon story sounds purely mythical.

[@skjensk5683]

@@sammyvictors2603 yeah Sappho was actually bi

[@sammyvictors2603]

@@skjensk5683 Bisexuality was pretty much a common thing in ancient Greece, even most of the Greek pantheon were bi. Though Phaon story sounds mythical (the story went that Aphrodite sailed in his ferry), he might have been based on a real dude, and I theorize that Sappho may have had a fling with him but wasn't crazy about him, and that he got upset that he probably made up the story to get back at her for bruising his ego. Funny thing though, in the story, he got so promiscuous that he was killed by jealous husbands/boyfriends.

[@GothelGrigore]

Are you tryna say that men aren’t capable of not liking some women? 😂

[@Otra_Chica_de_Internet]

@@GothelGrigore no it's because it's commonly believed that Shappho was a lesbian

[@lucapill48]

what the jury says : lewd, indecent, obscene, filthy, scandalous and disgusting. what i hear: Talented, Brilliant, Incredible, Amazing, Showstopping, Spectacular, Never The Same, Totally Unique, Completely Not Ever Been Done Before,

[@LynnAgain83]

Indeed!!

[@eazy8579]

Why, good sir, you must tell me more about this, what it’s about, and where I can find it, that way I can avoid it at all costs!

[@tirsden]

Considering how many times they repeated those words, it's almost obsessive... like, they were getting off on it. Hmmm.

[@tompatterson1548]

lewd, indecent, obscene, filthy, scandalous and disgusting, also repeating itself so many times it is funny.

[@timothymclean]

"Ma'am, you can just say you're a lesbian." "No I can't, it's the 1920's." "Fair point. Have a good day, Sappho."

[@carolinekopack3872]

Girl: [claims to be Sappho’s modern reincarnation] Me: Good for her!

[@anaisnintuition]

💖💖💖

[@madihen]

“Using heterosexuality to further punish her” 🤯 ugh tragically such a good analysis

[@aj3811]

For anyone confused about sapphos sexuality: Sappho being in love with phaon was likely a joke made by other poets/writers of the era, representing the story of Aphrodite chasing the sun god on his chariot into the sea. Since sappho wrote a lot about Aphrodite, this makes sense. Also, sappho used gender neutral or feminine terms to describe the people she was in love with in her poems. The gender neutral terms could have been to disguise her love for women, or to describe men. No one really knows since translators who don't want her to be gay have changed the wording in English. So she could be bi, but there is no solid proof she liked men. Regardless, she loved women and the labels don't really matter that much.

[@georgeharrisonfricklas7927]

She was married to "guy" from "penis island" i love her

[@andeverytimewekiss]

She also wouldn’t have had the same concept of sexuality we have today, so trying to pin a modern identity on her is almost counterproductive. But it is safe to say she was interested in women romantically (not just gal pals with a bunch of women)

[@eneyavorodecky]

Well, I agree and don't. "labels don't matter that much", to whom is that they don't matter? People who never knew the words and never knew they existed, so others like them existed and they were not alone or weird or something wrong with them? Or to those who want to deny the existence of things they dislike? Mentioning her being bi is interesting considering how strong biphobia is. This is not an argument with you that much but more of a reminder that in fact labels do matter and they can be very needed and useful sometimes.

[@femboy__bunny]

Greek people didn’t have the same notions of sexuality we do. A sex act was something you *did* not something that you identified with and clung to. Sexuality seems more fluid in Ancient Greece. I’m a gay dude, and I’ve studied Ancient Greece since I was very young.

[@catcheek7761]

Thank you because I was so confused for a moment. Because all I’d ever heard of is Sappho having romantic feelings towards women talking about people with very feminine terms.

[@auggieb2681]

As a Buddhist who kinda believes in reincarnation I was so ready to believe this but when she said Sappho was straight, she lost me.

[@milascave2]

Agreed. But, technically, Buddhists believe in rebirth, not reincarnation. A lifelong Teravaden monk put it this way "We Buddhists do not believe in reincarnation, because we do not believe in incarnation in the first place. Incaracrnation, related to the word carne, meaning meat, refers to the soul entering flesh. But since we do not believe in a fixed eternal soul, we do not believe that". Yea, it's complicated, not to mention off topic, so I won't go on.

[@amelieclaire706]

@@milascave2 you’re literally trying to correct someone on their own religion 😑

[@gothicavictoria1341]

@@milascave2 You do know that Buddhism isn't just one giant umbrella of religion, right? There are different sects, traditions, etc. You can't really point out what one particular monk had to say on the subject and pat yourself on the back for trying to correct somebody else's religion. Why?

[@cyrilmarasigan7108]

@@milascave2 Actually in Japan there is another type of buddhism or another branch of it

[@dylantennant6594]

I’m pagan, and I believe in reincarnation, and I honestly think that Hades and Persephone would give her a second go at life. But I would be shocked if they call her straight in any life.

[@_malroth]

the original kinnie

[@belleyelena7720]

can't believe she was born with kin memories 🤔

[@ninia4316]

LMAO

[@im19ice3]

lmao

[@celery8059]

She was basically writing sapho fanfics too

[@sweetestaphrodite]

wait, who’s that?

[@sardine1324]

bro why is every video such a banger, you're such a good storyteller

[@isabelr3467]

the story about baby juanita telling her parents she's the reincarnation of sappho sounds like those tweets where parents claim their five year old made some deep speech to them

[@takumidoutou4412]

They lost me when they talked about Sappho liking men

[@theodore2487]

I mean she was bi but c’mon, why are they tryna frame her as heterosexual, I WANT TO SEE SOME GOOD WLW SHIT FROM A SAPPHO PRETENDER!

[@RedRosemary]

@@theodore2487 she was lesbain because there's no trusted proof that she liked men.

[@theodore2487]

@@RedRosemary Ok, thanks for clearing up my confusion ^^!

[@voidify3]

@@RedRosemary the “Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl” quote actually used a gender neutral word for a youth

[@Bazoogabooks]

@@voidify3 This was the same rhetoric that was used by conservative translators . By your logic,she was most likely straight . The majority of women happen to be such. It's misogyny to claim any lesbian historical figure as bisexual just because she "resonates "with you.

[@nobodyofimprotance7615]

Hey, I live in New York so I have some important information: Greenwich is currently one of the main gay centers of the city.

[@anniel6479]

Sappho would be proud!

[@victoriadiesattheend.8478]

I too live in NYC. Can vouch

[@basicallyno1722]

Too bad there aren’t many lesbian bars anymore. Where’s a girl to get a drink around there?

[@seraphjohanson3402]

I’ve never heard of “Theon” (no idea if that’s the correct spelling) and it’s just… INSANE to me that anyone ever thought Sappho went straight. Just. No.

[@SpoodyFlopp]

"Going straight" is a comforting idea to the closeted lesbians and gays.

[@beep3242]

I mean, she could have been bi, so the two ideas (her liking women and liking Pheon) aren't inherently contradictory. But I understand what you mean.

[@EmissaryofWind]

I keep seeing "Sappho was actually bi!" posts and the only two pieces of evidence are... Phaon who was made up centuries after her death, and the apparent claim that she married a Kerkylas of Andros aka "Dick Allcocks from Man Island". Real compelling stuff here.

[@ayajade6683]

@@EmissaryofWind I've seen a scholar who specialized in ancient literature suggest it might be a pseudonym, a mistranslation of a cultural idiom, a phrase that was slang but translates weird when literal,or a combo of them.

[@KazzieBB]

Dude.."Phaon" is shown onscreen multiple times. AND its in the captions

[@cowboymice]

I love your content, the reasons so is because: •you seem like a genuine person •you’re funny •i love history :) also i really want to be smart like you when i grow up

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[@mallarieanderson6439]

On board from the moment of the Bear’s Big Blue House reference

[@jh5401]

YESS

[@LynnAgain83]

Awe I miss that show! My kiddo who's now an adult watched that

[@sardine1324]

babe wake up new kaz video dropped

[@utuisuus]

i’m just like sappho but instead of being a historical figure and a great poet i’m gay

[@thebrutusmars]

Nice! I’m also just like Sappho but instead of being a historical figure, a great poet, gay, or a woman…I’m often portrayed as having dark hair.

[@teslaemployee4446]

Oh I'm like Sappho because I like poetry but I'm not a lesbian and I'm just a shy kid with like 2 friends

[@greenland_shark_2009]

oh I'm just like sappho but instead of being a historical figure I write shitty poetry on my notes app when I'm in yearning and I'm gay!

[@iseetheendisnear2416]

Imagine coming out as a reincarnation of Sappho

[@odetocalliope3290]

You should definitely check out Renée Vivien!! She was a british poet who wrote in French, and also claimed to be a reincarnation of Sappho! Her really old lesbian portraits are really famous but people often forget she’s the one behind them. She visited Lesbos once and wrote a lot about it, said she was able to walk through the path of her old self and pay homage to her own old soul. A very brilliant mind and poet! If I remember correctly she also helped repopularise the use of the violet as modern lesbian coding!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

✨Tutter from Bear in the Big Blue House supremacy ✨

[@universe514]

15:30 that’s it, i’ll be the new hero for gay love of women. i have so much gay love for women therefore i am the perfect candidate. now flock to me, ladies!

[@lumatears4533]

the yves pic rly tops it off

[@universe514]

@@lumatears4533 She Understand

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[@Jumawi1999]

I really appreciate how well the subtitles are done. Not many long videos have complete subtitles this soon!

[@Mavisdundundunnnmanston]

History: everything and everyone was super cis. Super super cis.

[@alexayanavich5209]

super sus

[@teslaemployee4446]

Straight as this line ~~~~~~~~~~

[@soyjoyy]

Didn't you know that gays and trans were invented in 1960s by communist Jews to further push leftist-feminist propaganda in order to oppress heterosexual white males and strip them off their masculinity? Silly you, of course before that everyone in history was cis and straight. Sarcasm by the way (just in case anyone gets confused)

[@joz-]

These parents would family vloggers today

[@sweetpeabee4983]

This was a very cool watch, thank you! Since we're sharing reincarnation stories, I had a dream once that I was a man who wore suspenders and played fiddle at barn dances in a past life.

[@rd6203]

That sounds awesome!!

[@SonjaPond]

Aw I was hoping this story would be gayer... but it was still very entertaining! 😄🌈

[@LynnAgain83]

Haha "gayer" 😄

[@jumalAnni]

Running a girls' school thing was also an educated guess, actually a 19th-century theory to whitewash Sappho as a non-lesbian. According to that, her songs about missing girls were about missing the graduates in whom she had mostly pedagogical interest and she had a habit of writing epithalamions (wedding songs) as parting gifts because the school was supposed to prepare girls for marital life. "Like what kind of parent would send their child to such a shady person?" However, I kinda remember speculations that the school was supposed to teach how to please men in bed too or that there were songs to wake up the students' sensuality or sth. Of course, as she was a creative person, the speculation that she had a few students/protegées is not far-fetched at all. The most fun fake fact of ancient origin is that Sappho was married to a man called Kerlylas of Andros (basically Dick from the Isle of Man). I personally think she was bisexual in practice because that was the nature of the ancient world and she was a noblewoman (because she was educated and into arete in her songs).

[@delphinea.2848]

I'm 8 seconds into the video and I just have to comment that your eye makeup looks absolutely stunning!

[@anaisf718]

It’s always “I’m Sappho the fabulous and tragically romantic poet” and never “I’m a nobody peasant that died at 26 of dysentery”

[@makdm2405]

What I first imagined was "You see, I don't waaaaant to be a lesbian, I am forced by the spirit of Sappho, oh well, too late to be born yet again"

[@jessicathorp9332]

This was a WILD ride of a story. Thanks for creating such well-researched and thorough videos. I'm a theatre historian and really appreciate what you do!

[@catbarfus4251]

The Phaon thing made me pull out my copy of Sappho and the most I could find about men in general were a handful of poems about the trojan war and male gods there were 2 poems I found that mention attraction towards men both of which were from her earlier work and the latest of the poems (that she herself wrote) I could find was about the beauty of the sun. I also found Ovids little mistake in the section labeled "wrongly attributed to Sappho". "May you sleep on your tender girlfriend's breasts"- Sappho

[@alexisc1474]

Loved this topic. On a different note: i thought i was listening to one of my ASMRists bc you look vaguely similar to her but i couldn't fall asleep to this bc it was so fasinating.

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So glad i found you on here your a breath of fresh air ty!

[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

Juanita was a very talented writer. Juanita's mother claimed that Juanita was the reincarnation of the Greek goddess to make money on Juanita as a circus attraction.

[@drugbuddy665]

i honestly saw the thumbnail and thought "jesus, are we still going nuts at every troll post on tumble?" lmfao. it really is eternal

[@countnu4166]

when you said "it was a way for them to feel at home in a world that wanted to deny them their existence", i LITERALLY got choked up. That line slapped me in the face.

[@holocoffin]

If I had a past life I was probably a bunch of mushrooms just chilling in the forest. I hope I can return to that when I leave this life.

[@euansmith3699]

Who was I in my past life? I'm not even sure who I am in this life. 🤔 Thank you for another snappy, informative and entertaining video.

[@MrsZwusel]

First of all, this is a really Great video. Just marvellous! But the icing on the cake for me is the apperance of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Just Last year I wrote my thesis about Cahuns work and I‘m thrilled you mentioned her since she‘s so greatly unknown and underrated.

[@katthatsmilesback]

Love all of your videos, and always awaiting for more :)). I’m glad I could make it early today! Thanks for always making thoughtful, thorough, and engaging historical content ❤️

[@WhaleManMan]

Getting engaged on the spot? Come on. If the real Sappho saw a boy she loved from afar, she would have wrote a whole poem about how she was about to die.

[@L3onking]

I'm a Vedic shaman, and there's common trends to reincarnation that doesn't support this claim but they might have used the wrong term. I suspect that Juanita could possibly be a medium who channeled the Sappho escort and not the poet. In her mother's "Flapper" rant, she may have been commenting on Juanita channeling the wrong Sappho, hence the exorcism comment. As channeling is akin to puppetry, promoting Juanita as a medium when the parents were already a dynamic duo wouldn't turn as many heads compared to the steady income as a writer. More importantly, from what I've experienced Spirits tends to reincarnate within the same bloodline they once came from (if they really like their family). Also picking the same bloodline is like autofill when putting in the address. Most spirits will be drawn to those they resonate with, so friends can become family in one life. There's a case of twins who passed tragically and the mother giving birth to a second set of twins who behaved like their passed sisters. Shanti Devi is the most well known studied case of reincarnation. The whole point of reincarnation is to give solace that we can choose to spin the wheel again. (And hopefully the gods can fix this late stage capitalism shenaniganery)

[@thefoxandthehound81]

Interesting

[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

I believe in Spirituality. Your explanation is very interesting.

[@L3onking]

@@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685 The biggest breadcrumb that the mother knew her daughter was channeling a spirit is the "flapper" comment as she essentially was demanding her daughter channel the correct Sappho however if the household was homophobic the true spirit of Sappho couldn't even be invited into that house by most mediums. I just feel so bad for this girl who was abused like most child entertainers and forced to lose her childhood for the financial well-being of the family. Medium or not, it's a shitty thing to do to a child.

[@SpoodyFlopp]

It doesn't make sense that spirits would reincarnate into the same bloodline. Maybe if the soul is trapped in a cycle of karma that requires them to confront personal bias and a system of oppression, then I could see that. I believe our souls chose lives that will benefit their spiritual development the best. Often times that means expanding far beyond what the previous life knew. Reincarnation into the same bloodline seems kind of classist, as many families get stuck at the same economic class for centuries even. To make things worse people try to justify that these families deserve to stay poor because of some nonsense excuse or another. To say spirits return to the same bloodline implies that one's spirit is trapped in the same economic class, which just doesn't make sense. Putting rules on reincarnation is really silly. Who are we to decide how our spirits reincarnate? This seems like a human construct like gender or class, as we likely can't understand the majority of the spiritual realm from the limits of human experience. Wouldn't it make more sense for our souls to roam and see all aspects of humanity instead of being more or less bound to the same bloodline? And who is to say that we must always reincarnate as humans, or even life on this planet? That just doesn't add up. This isn't even to mention all of the bloodlines that ended due to the decimation of populations, be it colonization or otherwise. It doesn't account for people who decide to not have or cannot have children. That would be many millions, if not billions, of spirits displaced.

[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

@@L3onking I agreed with you.

[@Lady_Chalk]

Well, then. I’ve learned more of Sappho than what I’ve been told. Good job 👍

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[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

A very imaginative family.

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[@thepandoricaoffandomsbacku7349]

This feels like one of those bots on ig who write you a dm saying they are some long dead celebrity waiting to come back, except you need to pay huge money to help them

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I'm patiently waiting for when you blow up. You deserve it so much!! This video is amazing and so well-made, you're such a great story teller. Keep doing these videos, you're amazing!!

[@cowboymice]

I agree

[@hotchocohoe3439]

that whole story feels like a fan fiction

[@rscull210]

The image at 10:34 has me DYING, my exact face the whole time you were reading that crazy ass quote

[@congruentcrib]

The thing I never got about reincarnation is why do people identify as the most famous ‘past life’? Why does she identify as Sappho and not Juanita, or Mary the store Klerk in some supermarket. Along with that, how does time work; is it instant or is there a potential limbo where you wait, is time linear and only goes one way. Where did all the souls come from? Is there a long line like the DMV for people awaiting access to the physical world?

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

For the attention.

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You are such a good narrator i love your voice!:

[@sophieinspired]

tbh I had no idea who sappho was in first place *g* I love your storytelling and the interesting choices of topics

[@alanchristensen5735]

Thank you for enlightening me. I genuinely enjoy learning more about these often forgotten historical figures.

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I always have KZbin playing on shuffle while I’m asleep. I woke up randomly in the middle of the night and your videos were playing. I subscribed so fast 😂💞

[@isabelleoliver1881]

There are a lot of stories all around the world like this. Kids being barely able to talk, but knowing really specific details of their “past lives”. Sometimes leading parents and authorities to their old family members, their murderers, and sometimes dead bodies. Its absolutely insane there’s a lot of books about it

[@isabelleoliver1881]

Despite it being untrue i mean, maybe that’s what the family was inspired by

[@Kate-uq7kx]

LOVE the eyeshadow and wings the ✨look✨ is breath taking ❤️❤️❤️

[@juanitacarrollyoung2979]

I really like this discussion!! Seriously, though, it's kind of cool to hear my name disclaimed over and over again 💋 Perhaps I'm reincarnated from this previous, illustrious Juanita? In fact, my grandma born in the 1920's was "Alma Juanita" and my aunt was "Juanita," whom I am named for. They were working class people from the Ozarks and then St. Louis. My grandma married a bluegrass fiddler and had eleven kids. My Aunt Juanita worked at Woolworths. On second thought, I'm proud to be THEIR personification on this planet ❤👄

[@insulaarachnid]

I need to here more stories about being possessed by a "flappers spirit" . The brief mention of Claude Cahun made me happy, now there was an interesting life!

[@AmnesiacCa3sar]

in my past life i was unknown man who died eating library paste

[@quachkq]

I don't even like history that much, but you somehow make it interesting

[@rd6203]

Same! It's stressing me out!

[@Warriorette12]

That jury indictment is said/written like someone desperately trying to reach a wordcount

[@spookyaliens6286]

I’m a simple gal, I see Kaz I click

[@theiad8078]

Bro... June's journey is freaking lit! I've been playing it for months.

[@veg2489]

I'm a lesbian and this is insane!! I have to watch it later though :)

[@pasqualilebowitz7866]

In a past life, I was that one toad that scared an entire village cuz I was so pissed off that I fell down a well that I screamed and the echo made people think a banshee was in the well lmao

[@drongobones7064]

KZbin’s algorithm is getting better. This channel is perfect.

[@elizavetaromanova9650]

Love your essays, thanks!

[@KTempestBradford]

can I just say how jealous I am of you going to the Bryant Park Library? I don't live in NYC anymore and that's one of the few things I miss. Going there to study or write was a treat.

[@livvlife]

How can she claim Sappho was straight. She’s literally part of the origin of the words “lesbian” and “Sappho”. Maybe she liked multiple genders, but her poetry implies she certainly liked woman.

[@IsaacLouisDV]

Robespierre did actually have his last meal in the basement. I would know, I'm his reincarnation.

[@quinnhope4278]

that court document was CRAZYYY i woulda started laughing in court on accident if i was on trial. excited for the broadway brevities video 🔥🔥

[@deepstonecostco]

I gotta know where you got that Sappho shirt from the intro ad!!

[@KazRowe]

flaroh on RedBubble!

[@deepstonecostco]

@@KazRowe thank you, and thank you for the fascinating video!! 👏

[@NicoleM_radiantbaby]

@@KazRowe Awesome! Was coming to ask the same thing. I think I'll get it for my wife for Christmas. :)

[@Lady_Chalk]

Idk who I could have been in my past life, other than loving nature, and a possible animist.

[@emmakaufman1866]

i remember the flapper spirit from hill house

[@tina.e.]

love the ghost music playing during the ridiculous statement about the play 👻

[@mikehat7652]

I never knew how to pronounce courtesan out loud until today thank you

[@kaamn1829]

17:42 me when someone drops an ice cube and left it on the floor and I step on it in my socks:

[@frejo1931]

Given your whole thing is queer history, esp in the 20s, have you ever considered doing anything about weimar germany? Its such a fascinating period and id love to see you talk about it!

[@foxqueen6214]

I know this is 3 years old but i never get the opportunity to bring this up- I always felt a deep connection with Princess Diana. She died 15 days before I was born and I just always figured if I had a past life it felt like it was her