Beyond Sugar and Spice - Chapter Four: Power, Permission, and the Female Exception A reflective journey through history - from Cleopatra to Elizabeth I - exploring how women in power were celebrated as exceptions and how centuries of male-centred stories still shape who gets to lead

Power isn’t just in governments or boardrooms - it’s in everyday life: who gets heard, who’s believed, who feels entitled to speak.

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Beyond Sugar and Spice - Interlude II: The Erased Egg When Theology Became Biology - How Early Science Reinforced the Myth of Male Creation

Reclaiming equality in creation means seeing that life has never belonged to one side.
Creation is shared — in biology, in art, in thought.
We just need to unpick the old stories that taught us otherwise.
Read: The Erased Egg →
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In religion, God was “He.”
In philosophy, Aristotle called the male form and the female matter.
Even science repeated the myth: man as creator, woman as container.
A misunderstanding became a worldview.
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The mammalian ovum — the female egg — wasn’t discovered until 1827.
For centuries before that, men were believed to hold the seed of life, and women were seen as the soil it grew in.
That one error shaped theology, law, and culture.
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