The Samurai Warrior Who Refused to Fade Away Women have always been expected to remain silent, to submit, to stay in the shadows of history.But some refuse.Some ride into battle. Tomoe Gozen was one such woman—a samurai in her own right, not the wife of a warrior, but the warrior herself. She rode alongside men, wielding… Continue reading 016 Tomoe Gozen: The Warrior Who Refused to Fade Away
The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans After centuries of turning powerful women into monsters, villains, or vanishing acts, what happens when we find a woman who wasn’t rewritten at all? What if her legacy survived intact, not in spite of her power, but because of it? As we step outside the familiar framework of Western… Continue reading 014 Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen
The Blood Countess—Monster or Myth? Throughout this series, we’ve seen how women were rewritten—turned into seductresses, sorceresses, rebels, and villains. Their power was dangerous. Their defiance, unforgivable. But what happens when even that isn’t enough? What happens when the story doesn’t just punish a woman...It monstrifies her? Before we turn toward the women who managed… Continue reading 013 Erzsébet Báthory: Monster or Myth
