To whom do we owe our talents? Today's episode takes a brief look to the life of Dolly Wilde, a woman who lived in the shadow of her famous uncle and supposedly "squandered" her talents.

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Hurrem Sultan or Roxelana One of the most badass of the already quite badass women of the Ottoman Empire.

Also, introducing my latest project: HOW TO PARADOX - instructions for navigating a nonsensic…

ZENOBIA!

We're back in Palmyra for an episode about a queen who stood up to the Roman Empire.

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Season 2, because we're in 2022! That's how this works, right?

Today I have a very special episode created specially for my friend Sally: an historical true crime edition of she existed. set in Victo…

Stolen barbarian princesses, vengeful queens destroying their ex-husbands, the origin of not one, but TWO rivers in Britain... what more could you ask for in a season finale?

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Silphium! Not a woman of history and/or legend, sorry, but rather a now extinct plant often used by women.

Warning: this episode discusses abortion and women's health rights.

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GENEPIL, the last Mongolian Queen Consort. A little later in the historical record than usually catches my fancy, her fascinating tale has sparked an interest in Mongolian history for me that I am su…

ARAWELO

Another badass African queen.

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"The Power of Women" were common tales used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to reinforce the notion that women in power was a scary, bad thing for society. Let's hear about a couple of the most po…

RIP sweet Casanova.

Today, in honor of our gorgeous fluffy boy, I'm talking about cats. We're looking at an ancient Egyptian goddess (not the one you think!) and I share the worries of an ancient Egy…

GIUSTINA ROSSI History is made up of dumb little incidences.

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ADELAIDE OF TURIN!

In honor of our new home, Adelaide of Turin, a progenitor of the noble house of Savoy. Sometimes, even with the challenge of dry, dusty letters and soulless history books, an histo…

CLEOPATRA THEA

Warning: this episode contains like... a dozen characters who share two names between them. Try to keep up.

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Regina, Freedwoman: a Celtic woman. Her husband, Barates, an Arab man from Palmyra. Despite their disparate origins and backgrounds, they found each other and lived together in a Roman city in northe…

AMINA! Super fierce Hausa ruler from the area we now know as northern Nigeria.

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Today I'm sharing Enheduanna, the FIRST KNOWN AUTHOR IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY. All of it!

Full disclosure, though, in this episode I'm mooooostly using Enheduanna as an excuse to let my my feminist flag …

Kubaba

Ancient Sumerian King (yes, King!), the only woman on the Sumerian King List! Ignore that one time I call her a Queen in the podcast, we all make mistakes.

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ISOBEL GUNN was a total fur-trapping badass and the first European woman to make it to the wild west of Canada in the early 19th century... not that anyone knew it at the time.

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Awwww snap, ANOTHER LAMIA! But a most def real one for probably sure.

Tune in to learn about maybe the world's first cougar! Maybe the world's earliest variant of the yo mama joke! And certainly the …

Join me for the THIRTEENTH EPISODE of she existed. and learn all about Lamia, Queen and inspiration for a whole sub class of blood-suckin', child-killin' demonesses!

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