BAW 22 | The Girl Who Edited Her Way Into An Empire💄💋👸🏻🤳🏼👑
Reinvention When Nothing Feels Like You -- this one's sponsored by FaceApp & about the OG gal who took the phrase "enhance, don't transform" and applied it to her entire life 💗
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here to build up a community of brilliantly unruly women — because the well-behaved ones seldom make history 🎀.
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BAW 21 | Meet The Queen Of Bugtok👩🏻🔬🔍🐛🪳🐜
welcome to our first member spotlight! today's BAW post is written by Anto! 🐜🦟🐜🦟🐜🦟 (<- dancing in bug)
BAW 20 | A New BAW-mbshell Enters The Villa✨💖👩🏽🏛️📲
And she DEFINITELY doesn't need to take 10. AKA, meet the woman who ran the brains of athens, while athens proceeded to pretend she didn't exist👀
BAW 19 | TIL (Today I Learned) The Hidden History of Hildegard💒🥼🎶📖🧎♀️
meet the 12th-century woman who lowkey built a multimedia universe before the internet existed — and the modern BAW who's doing it all over again👀 #sponsored
BAW 18 | The OG Eldest Daughter (Of A Nation) 👩🏾🎓✏️📚🥈📔🔥
Meet the OG eldest daughter of a nation + go watch Great Performances: Suffs on PBS (TONIGHT at 9 for FREE!) to see her story come to life when you're done reading! #sponsored
BAW 17 | The OG Morally Grey Queen👑⚔️🐘🪙🕌
The original morally grey queen was actually real, and she ruled an empire... and then was possibly murdered in a field. So, this month's sponsored BOTM picks pair perfectly.
BAW 16 | Meet the OG Tech Bro👩🏻💻🖥️⌨️🎧🤑
We're back with another sponsored BOTM post! Today, meet the OG Silicon Valley gal who'd prooobably have some modern day tech bros shaking in their boots👀.
the full list of archives📜💝🔖
a work-in-progress list of my sources (with commentary where applicable) for paid subscribers 🫶
BAW 15 | Wuthering Heights, But Make it 14th C. Portugal👰🏽♀️⚰️🥀🖤⚔️🤴🏽
We've all seen/heard about it now, right? And, in how the woman is always the catalyst, the un-doer, and the symbol - even when all that's left of her is a GHOST 👻.
BAW 14 | Anniversary Edition: The Original Galentine (2,600 Years Early)💌👩❤️💋👩📜💝
A love letter to Sappho, the original Galentine. Plus, this is our 14th post, published on February 14, 2026 -- which means this Galentine’s Day marks one full year of BAW 💌.
BAW 13 | Was Shakespeare A Girliepop?🎭💝📜🖋️
…He may have been. This post looks at Aemilia Bassano, Shakespeare, and the women history taught us not to credit. (PLUS, we're doing our first giveaway!!!!!!)
BAW 12 | New Year, New Queen Nzinga🪩💁🏾♀️👑🎉
Your New Year’s reading resolution: Queen Nzinga, reinvention, and this sponsored Book of the Month post on power over aesthetics 🎊🕶️🥂.
BAW 11 | Let Them Eat Labubus👸🎀⚜️👹⚔️
It’s the Holidays, the World Is on Fire, and We’re Buying Trinkets About It. Was 2025 giving Marie Antoinette?
BAW 10 | Meet the OG Romantasy Author (1000 AD Edition)🏯✍️🗾📜📚
Basically: this BAW walked so that we — (& this month’s SPONSORED Book of the Month Post picks!!) — could run!
BAW 09 | Before Manifestation TikTok, There Was Victoria Woodhull🔮👻🕯️🙆♀️
Meet the first woman to run for president – a wall street psychic who basically manifested her way into a presidential campaign.
BAW 08 | Ride or Die (Literally): The War Elephant Sisters Who Fought an Empire👯♀️💘🐘🥁
You thought YOUR sister was your ride or die? You might think again, after you meet this pair👀.
BAW 07 | Before AdTech & the Cannes Lions, there was Hypatia of Alexandria📜🔭👩🏽🏫🪐🎓
Before influencer panels and personal brands there was Hypatia -- one of the last great thinkers of 📍Ancient Alexandria & a one-woman keynote who lived looong before the Cannes Lions became a thing.
BAW 06 | think "Running Point's" isla gordon…except we’re in ancient china🙋🏻♀️🏀🐉
Meet Wu Zetian -- history's ultimate plot twist. This BAW is the only gal (in over 3,000 years!) to rule as an Emperor of Ancient China in her own right.
BAW 05 | if JSTOR had a gossip column… this woman would dominate the headlines🤫👩🏽💋📜💬🪨👀
Meet this week's BAW – who was so powerful they literally turned her into a myth. Get ready to dive into a story of political chess with nearly ZERO ancient receipts & and a PR rebrand so wild -- even Hollywood is shaking!