From a recent piece I wrote outlining how our ideas of beauty were hijacked and how to reclaim them.
This episode dives into my recent post THE GOSPEL OF JEZEBEL and how dangerous beauty has been demonized throughout history in many mythologies and religious texts. Jezebel was not a harlot, an idolater, a cautionary tale—but a sovereign queen whose power threatened the patriarchal order. We explore how her story was weaponized to silence true beauty and how reclaiming her and many others is part of restoring our sacred right to sovereignty, desire, and voice.
Themes We Explore
Referenced Works & Readings
Mary Magdalene Revealed by Megan Watterson
Reading Jezebel: Portraits of a Queen in the Bible and Beyond (various scholarly articles)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
The Woman’s Book of Myth and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker
The Odyssey Homer
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Medusa by Nikita Gil
Scriptural texts: 1 Kings 16–21, 2 Kings 9 – the passages where Jezebel appears, with attention to how her defiance is framed.
Articles :
The Sun on Boy Sober
The Guardian on Gen Z Sexual Recession Dynamics
WIRED and The New Yorker on Carter Sherman
Study on Porn and Extremist Website Use and Religiosity
The Guardian on confused consent culture
New York Post on maleffects of porn usage in men
Sexual Script Theory Wikipedia
Why This Matters
Reclaiming Jezebel, Aïcha, Medusa and The Sirens is not about sanitizing their story but about cutting through centuries of distortion. In doing so, we name the truth: that the sovereign, beautiful, and sensual have always been outlawed—and that to embrace them today is a heretical act of liberation.