This Is Us

Not That Kind of Virgo

We aren’t all the Excel-loving, clean-freaks you think we are

anna dorn
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readAug 26, 2020

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Screenshot of Beyonce during the 2020 BET Awards.
Beyoncé is seen during the 2020 BET Awards. Photo: BET Awards 2020/Getty Images

I’ve always been annoyed by popular conceptions of the Virgo sun sign (which generally belongs to those born between August 23 and September 22). Most distill it to the following attributes: clean, logical, persnickety, and — worst of all — Virginal. I never saw myself this way…

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anna dorn
Human Parts

vagablonde (unnamed press, may 2020); bad lawyer (hachette books, spring 2021)