Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess

Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess: Traipsing Through a World Gone Weird romps through sexual ambiguity and other weirdness of the 1990s.

Book Spotlight – Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess: Traipsing Through a World Gone Weird

Written by Kathy Biehl

At the end of the 20th century, while mainstream media popularized an expensively dressed version of modern adult life, a rawer reality was playing out off-screen. Columnist and pioneering zinester Kathy Biehl chronicled that from a singular and heavily trafficked intersection – collision point, some might say – of young professionals, performing and outsider artists, Unitarians, gays and lesbians, metaphysicians, traveling statues, and people who defied categorizing.

With eyebrows firmly arched, this essay collection snapshots their sexual tension, ambivalence, and confusion, along with:

perils of fan mail, professional caroling, and Renfest soothsaying
divine manifestations
celebrities (real and impersonators)
ludicrous journeys
backstage dramas
driveway parties
close-ups with a strange, frightening disease
the author’s accidental attainment of goddesshood
and other mystery-marvels of life on the bridge to the millennium.

All of it really happened. Nobody could make this stuff up.

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About the Author

Since childhood, Kathy Biehl has scribbled down observations of human behavior and attempted to make sense of it. She gave up writing fiction long ago. A decades-long contributor to mainstream periodicals, Kathy gained national underground renown in the 1990s as the publisher, Editrix, and main voice of the social commentary zine Ladies’ Fetish & Taboo Society Compendium of Urban Anthropology.

Her writing has also focused on off-beat travel and translating the technicalities of law and astrology for the mainstream. She has co-authored or contributed to guides on legal Internet research, dining, and personal empowerment, including Your Guide to Self-Discovery: Twenty Ways to Find the True You (Llewellyn, 2023). Her anthology Eat, Drink & Be Wary: Cautionary Tales was shortlisted for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize. Her work has also won awards from the Association of Food Journalists, Houston Press Club, and Texas Bar Journal.

Kathy Biehl is a professional astrologer with more than 30 years of experience. She has been translating astrology for the mainstream since high school and has a knack for combining humor and pop culture with her guidance. Visit EmpowermentUnlimited.net to sign up for her mailing list, listen to her forecasts, and book a session for her. Find her on Facebook at Empowerment Unlimited and the Astro-Insight Lounge and on YouTube at the Professional Aquarian Channel. Listen to her radio show Celestial Compass on OM Times Radio.