Deviant Women

Towards the close of the 17th century, the opulent hallways of Versailles were swept up with the scandalous 'Affair of t... Read more

It's finally time, Deviants! This fortnight, we journeyed way, way back to visit the figure who started it all, the orig... Read more

This week we teamed up with the wonderful Kendra and Autumn of Reading Women to get spooky and chat all things Shirley J... Read more

Both born bastards, and disguised as boys in their youths, Anne Bonny and Mary Read shared more than just their love for... Read more

From a progressive upbringing in otherwise conservative late-Victorian Melbourne, Agnes Goodsir went on to become one of... Read more

In October 2017, women across the globe came together under the hashtag MeToo. However, social activist and advocate Tar... Read more

Born to only ever be the King's Great Wife, Hatshepsut defied history and, after the death of her Pharaoh husband, procl... Read more

In the melting pot of 19th century New Orleans, one woman emerged as the most powerful and legendary practitioners of Lo... Read more

From the moment eighteen-year-old Charlotte Cushman stepped out on stage as Lady Macbeth she was destined for greatness.... Read more

Known in her lifetime by many names, Malintzin would be recorded in history as the infamous La Malinche. Born into nobil... Read more

Jennet Device was just nine years old when she found herself at the centre of one of history’s most infamous witch trial... Read more

Famed as the legendary Nun Lieutenant, Catalina de Erauso, fighter, lover and all round adventurer, was perhaps even mor... Read more

By the end of the 1920s, the U.S. was rocked by financial and ecological disasters that saw it spiral into the Great Dep... Read more

In the epic time of Norse mythology, the Völsunga Saga tells of love, betrayal, tragedy and blood feuds. At the heart of... Read more

From humble beginnings as the daughter of a blacksmith, little Emy Lyon could never have known she would end up Lady Emm... Read more

In the dark and seedy cabarets of Weimar Berlin, where sex was a performance and decadence was king, one woman ruled the... Read more

A disguised princess forced into domestic drudgery who meets a prince at an extravagant ball might sound familiar, but t... Read more

In the rowdy wrestling arenas of Mexico City, there is a woman whose iconic status rivals that of the most famous of the... Read more

Josephine Baker broke from a life of poverty in St Louis to take jazz age Paris by storm. Riotous and erotic, Baker was ... Read more

In the humid tropics of 1920s Townsville, Lizzy O’Dea became infamous in the local tabloids for shooting her rival. As t... Read more