With the help of myths and stories, we can begin to reconstruct the past through what the author Toni Morrison calls rememory. {93} This is a process of re-authoring our experiences, taking ownership of those narratives through which we’ve been ventriloquized, by bending or reframing our story to better represent us.

As long as we’ve been recording history, women have been written out of it. Professor Mary Beard of the University of Cambridge, in her book Women & Power, showcases countless examples of sexism from antiquity to modernity.