Rough Surrender - Cari Silverwood

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Join Duchess Katie & Lady Sadie as they dive into the world of historical BDSM

1. For those of us that we raised in a school system that doesn’t talk about colonialism… I know it is shocking but in 1910 Great Britain owned Egypt. By 1922 Egypt will be an independent nation.

1. 1910 is a wild time in the world anyways. There is a lot of colonialism in this book - I mean the cast are all expats or colonizers themselves. There is a lot of the energy that will lead to the xenophobia and nationalism that is the cause of the first world war. This doesn’t directly deal with any of that but it is the backdrop.

2. I went down a rabbit hole on salons in Cairo:

1. HIGHPOINTS: A Palestinian immigrant named May Elias Ziade hosted a wildly popular Salon and corresponded with the brilliant poet Kahlil Gibran.