History


[Image description: woman with brown hair and a dark lipstick looking at the camera against a concrete wall.] Via Joana Nix on Pexels.

I am Hispanic- but not Latinx- and it can be confusing

Beatriz Valero de Urquia
Painting titled 'Death Comes to the Banquet Table (Memento Mori)', showing 'Death', a skeleton, threatening people at a banquet table

This woman’s side hustle killed over 600 abusive husbands in 17th century Italy

Shannon Zheng

Meet the 23 most badass goddesses ever

Cecilia Nowell
[Image Description: Leonardo Dicaprio As Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan As Daisy Buchanan, Tobey Maguire As Nick Carraway And Joel Edgerton As Tom Buchanan In The “The Great Gatsby".] Via The Atlantic

I adore ’20s aesthetic, but its depiction in pop culture is deeply troubling

Amal Als
[Image description: painting of a young woman with bonnet writing a with a quill. ] 'Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid' by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1670 (via National Gallery of Ireland).

Meet María de Zayas, the first author to publish under her own name in Spain

Beatriz Valero de Urquia
Audrey Hepburn wears a silk scarf around her head while holding sunglasses.

A progression of the timeless silk scarf throughout history

Claire Cheek
An image of a mountain joined by four images of a woman in Armenian clothing.

Meet Armen Ohanian, the belly dancer who defied every stereotype of a Middle Eastern woman

Camilla Selian Meeker
(A grayscale image of young Beat poet Hettie Jones) Via hettiejones.com

You probably don’t know about Hettie Jones, a crusading Beat poet

Vanessa Montalbano
A group South African women political prisoners

How Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba stood for the liberation of South Africa

Lilly Quin
[Image Description: A couple getting just married kissing in front of a restored plantation house.] via Nottoway Plantation

Why are couples still choosing to get married on plantations?

Danai Nesta Kupemba
An image of a stone engraved statue of Enheduanna. The image is set on a reddish, brown textured background

The world’s first author was a cool priestess with an even cooler backstory

Sahar Arshad
[Image Description: Mount Rushmore, the background is a bright day] Via Unsplash

This Independence Day we must remember the harrowing history behind Mount Rushmore

Aafiyah Shaikh