Forbidden fruit Adam and Eve upon expelling them from the Garden. "By that with which they were made low were they rectified." Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance. The most famous depiction of the fig as the forbidden fruit was painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti in his masterpiece fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is now known as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was
Strange Fruit: A Dutch Queer Collective of being both queer and coloured (Tayeb: 134). Strange Fruit focused on a non-hierarchical and self-help approach (Tayeb: 131). They aimed to not conform to the ideals of the COC and instead took on their own structure and their own approach. Everyone within the group was considered an equal and there was not a specified head director or member that had more control than any other given member. It was its own independent foundation (Tayeb: 132). Strange Fruit really emphasized self-help and empowerment and finding your strength. They advocated for looking at what makes you fit and what makes them