But before the Nobel Prize, before relativity, before the myth of the solitary genius, there was Mileva Marić: a physicist, collaborator, wife, and mother who believed they were building one life. They called it “our work.” History recorded one name. #milevamaric open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

He drafted it. Numbered it. Revised it for clarity. A list of conditions for his wife, a physicist, to remain in the marriage. His editors call it “brutal.” We call it Doc. 22. Tuesday, we read the receipts. #womeninstem #herstory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

One man wrote a wife specification. Another ran a sexual performance test after 2 dates. Both confused early compliance with long-term compatibility. New essay. Link in bio. #relationships #tradwife #technology open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

Where were all the women? They were there. The better question is: who was legally, institutionally, and professionally allowed to sign the record? Tuesday Drop is live. #womeninstem #womeninhistory #womenshistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

For centuries, women were told science had no room for them. Funny thing, though. They were already doing the work. Sunday Teaser is up now. #womeninstem #womeninhistory #herstory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

What happens when the referee owns part of the team? My new essay on OpenAI, Intel, corporatism, and the quiet shift from regulation to ownership. #ai #OpenAI #regulation open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

What happens when belonging requires performance? The Load We Carry is now up on SoulCode. #emotionallabor #belonging #becoming open.substack.com/pub/joinsoul...

A 9,000-year-old hunter was buried in the Andes. The first assumption? Male. Dental protein analysis said otherwise. The hunter was a teenage girl. #womeninhistory #ancienthistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Archaeologists found a 9,000-year-old burial in the Andes. A teenager. A hunting kit. Projectile points. Hide-processing tools. Big-game gear. The stereotype said: must be male. The teeth said: try again, babe. Tuesday we talk about Wilamaya. #womeninhistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The dentist appointment doesn’t read the news. The school pickup doesn’t care about your net worth. New essay on Thiel’s Dialog network, the envy myth, and why surveillance is just insecurity with a budget. Link in bio. 🥪 #tech #ai #power open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

Grief doesn’t go silent. It goes still. New SoulCode essay on trauma, scars, and the difference between carrying a wound and becoming one. #grief #trauma #soulcode open.substack.com/pub/joinsoul...

She figured out what stars are made of. They told her she was wrong. She wasn’t. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin — full story on Substack. Support the research through the link in my bio. #womeninhistory #womeninscience #astronomy

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin figured out what stars are made of. Her answer was right. The men around her said it was impossible. Full story on Substack. #womeninstem #astronomer open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin figured out what stars are made of. Her supervisor told her it was “clearly impossible.” So she softened her own discovery. Tuesday we talk about the woman who read the stars correctly and was talked into doubting herself. #astronomer open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

AI companies are hiring philosophers. I laughed. Not because philosophy doesn’t matter — it does — but because of the sequence. Build the thing. Scale the thing. Watch it break. Then go looking for wisdom. #ai #artificialintelligence #techethics open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

For Juneteenth: Josephine Silone Yates. Teacher. Writer. Organizer. Because freedom has to be taught, defended, and remembered. #juneteenth #blackhistory #womeninstem substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

The Reading Room is open 💛 I just posted a welcome note for subscribers/supporters — early peeks, research notes, polls, shop perks, and the behind-the-scenes chaos before the videos and essays go public. Come be nosy with us. ☕✨ #womeninhistory #reading #herstory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

What if patriarchy was not the default setting? Full story is on Substack. Link in bio. #womenshistory #womeninhistory #womenwholead

The most famous thing about Çatalhöyük was a clay goddess on a throne. Archaeologists filed it under “fertility cult” and moved on. That wasn’t a cult. That was the architecture. Full essay → link in bio. #womeninhistory #womenshistory #ancienthistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

They called Lady Six Sky a regent. But the monuments at Naranjo suggest something far more powerful. #ladysixsky #womeninhistory #womenshistory

9,000 years ago in Turkey, DNA just rewrote history. This is the oldest female-centered society DNA has ever confirmed. Tuesday we go to Çatalhöyük. 🔗 Link in bio for the full essay when it drops. #womeninhistory #ancienthistory #herstory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Friday. 5:21 PM. A letter arrived. Three days after launch, the most capable AI model Anthropic had ever built was gone. This essay isn’t really about Anthropic. It’s about precedent. #aipolicy #technology #politics open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

When tech executives look at prisoners and think “pilot program,” we should probably stop calling it innovation and start asking who gets experimented on first. This is not just about microchips. It is about what happens when bodies become infrastructure. #tech open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

Not saying anyone is copying anyone. I just keep noticing that the “obscure” stories we cover here have a funny habit of showing up in major media a few days later. Maybe these stories aren’t obscure at all. Maybe they’re finally having their moment. 💛 @npr.org #historynerd #womeninhistory

Somewhere between insomnia and insight, most people become their own audience. They explain. They defend. They apologize. They prepare. Nobody hears those conversations. But they shape a life. #insomnia #overthinking #selfawareness open.substack.com/pub/joinsoul...

Most of Sappho’s poetry was lost. Yet 2,600 years later, her words still shape literature, language, and how we talk about love. One of history’s most influential poets. One of history’s greatest losses. ☕ Viewer-supported history. Thank you for being here. #sappho #herstory #womenshistory

Sutayta al-Mahamali: She solved the math that held the Baghdad court system together and got a footnote. Full essay live now. Link in bio. #WomensHistory #HiddenHistory #Mathematics open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

When Maria Petraccini asked to practice surgery in 18th-century Florence, she was told a woman did not have the steady hand or the courage for a scalpel. So she took the exam. And proved them wrong with one. #mariapetraccini #womeninmedicine #womenshistory substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

I woke up to this today. #50 Rising in History on Substack. This is because of you. If you’ve been thinking about supporting the research, today feels like a good day to do it. Link in bio. #substackwriters #womeninhistory

Following up on the Lebombo Bone piece, Tuesday’s essay is a deep dive into Sutayta al-Mahamali - the math prodigy who bailed out the scholars of Baghdad, only to be regulated out of history. #womeninstem #womeninmathematics #herstory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Women aren’t behind on AI. They’re reading the room. There’s a difference #womenandai #ai #aiethics open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

The theorem predates the man by a thousand years. The bone predates both by 43,000. Draw your own conclusions. #blackwomen #africanhistory #womeninstem substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

The further back in time. The further from Europe. The louder the pushback. Draw your own conclusions #womeninhistory #mathematics #womeninstem substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

She didn’t get credit. She got 44,000 years of being right. #womeninhistory #blackhistory #womeninstem substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

She didn’t get a theorem named after her. She got something better. She left a receipt. #womeninstem #womenshistory #blackhistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

AI can sound fluent and still miss the point. SoulCode is a stateless clarity tool built to help you think clearly, not keep you talking. #ai #aiethics #soulcode open.substack.com/pub/joinsoul...

44,000 years old. 29 notches. One very good theory about who was keeping track. Tuesday. #africanhistory #womenshistory #math open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Alice Ball: She solved a medical mystery that had baffled scientists for decades. Then she died. And her boss put his name on her work. Full essay only on Substack. #blackhistory #womenshistory substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

In 1915, a 23 year-old black chemist named Alice ball re-engineered a stubborn tree seed to cure leprosy. Then she died. And her boss stole her work. Only on Substack. #aliceball #blackhistory #womenshistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

She solved it first. They erased her. The record has been corrected. Full Story on Tuesday. Link in bio. #aliceball #blackhistory #womeninhistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

You can feel when someone is actually with you and when they’ve quietly switched into handling you. This essay is about the difference. About care, scripts, caution, AI, practitioners, and the quiet harm of being processed instead of understood. #ai #aiethics open.substack.com/pub/joinsoul...

She was 40 when Hitler ordered her death. Her last words were “and I have loved Germany so much.” Full story on Substack. Link in bio. #womenshistory #wwii substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

She refused the ticket home. She stayed. She resisted. And after Hitler ordered her death, the Cold War tried to rewrite her. #WomenInHistory #MildredFishHarnack #HiddenHistory #WWIIHistory #ResistanceHistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Her husband bought her a ticket home. She refused to leave Germany. She kept the ticket in her pocket anyway. Tuesday I’m telling the story of Mildred Fish-Harnack. #womenshistory #resistancehistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The visible building is not the footprint. The wires are the footprint. #datacenters #ai #energypolicy open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...

“The circle gets smaller. It also, finally, gets real.” A piece about misrepresentation, the grief of non-curiosity, and what survives the surrender. New on SoulCode. #grief #familydynamics #truthtelling #healing open.substack.com/pub/joinsoul...

Her name meant Golden Flower. The Spanish made her death public because she was too powerful to ignore. Five centuries later it still made it through the fire. #Anacaona #TaínoHistory #womeninhistory substack.com/@ibgirlwrite...

Anacaona: They called her hanging “honor.” They called forced labor “freedom.” The receipts says otherwise. #anacaona #nativehistory #womenshistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Anacaona was a Taíno poet, composer, and cacica of Jaragua. In 1503, she arrived for diplomacy and walked into a trap. Tuesday, I’m bringing the receipts #Anacaona #TainoHistory #IndigenousHistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...