Whether she is calling to you from the waves or staring you down from the shadows, the 'monster' is always just a woman who refuses to be your victim. You know her. The snake-haired monster. The woman whose gaze could kill. A horror, a villain, a punishment waiting to happen. But what if Medusa isn’t… Continue reading 002 Medusa: The Woman Who Looked Back
They sing. You sink. Pop culture turned her into a glossy, fish-tailed mermaid brushing her hair on a rock. But the original Sirens of The Odyssey didn't have scales; they had feathers. They were massive, sharp-taloned bird-women living on an island white with the sun-bleached bones of shipwrecked men. They weren't hiding their bodies; they… Continue reading 001 The Siren: The Voice That Men Feared
History loves a villain. But what if the villain was never the real story? There’s a certain kind of woman in myth, folklore, and history who seems to unsettle people across time. The ones who are too powerful, too magnetic, too independent, too aware of their own influence. The women who refuse to stay inside… Continue reading 000 Bad Girls: Femmes Fatales from Myth Legend, and History
Where My Love of Bad Girls Began When you grow up always getting in trouble for being too loud, too stubborn, too much, you start to identify with the women labeled as the bad girl. And when those women are always cast as villains—always on the losing side—you start to feel like your only option is to… Continue reading The Bad Girls Teaser
