Bitchy History
ProfessorMeredithBitchy History is feminist history with teeth: exposing the women erased from the story, the systems built to contain them, and the myths still pretending all of this was natural.
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New Thing Alert: Apparently I Needed Another Project
The “Well, The Patriarchy Isn’t Going To Fuck Itself” Hour.
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The premise is simple. For centuries, patriarchy has shaped our politics, workplaces, relationships, religions, media, and cultural expectations while insisting i...
TDWS: Fine Feminist Hour with ProfessorMeredith & Letters From a Feminist
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History’s Greatest Magic Trick: Making Women’s Work Disappear
Every so often, someone wanders into my comment section and accidentally demonstrates why historians drink.
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Recently, a man arrived to explain women’s history to me with the confidence of someone who had e...
1960 – Mr. Leggs Slacks Ad: “It’s nice to have a girl around the house.”
Artifacts from the Patriarchy
This advertisement feels almost too on-the-nose to be real. A man in “Mr. Leggs” slacks literally standing on a woman’s head beside the slogan: “It’s nice to have a girl around the house.” The copy underneath...
Lolita Complex in Space
Adapted from a paper I presented at the Pop Culture Association Conference in 2025
Star Trek: Voyager occupies a strange place in television history.
Depending on who you ask, it is either one of the most feminist shows of the 1990...
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