meet hystorias

Everyone sees old shit. I see systems. And stories.

Welcome to Hystorias, a sarcastic, slightly scorched-earth look at the objects women lived with, labored over, loved and hated. I’m Steph: B2B marketer by day, feminist history nerd by compulsion, and collector of forgotten shit that turns out to have very loud opinions about gender.

Here, we take the vintage and dismantle the values baked into it. Every artifact tells a story, and most weren’t written by the women who used them. I’m here to change that.

Hystorias is a curated cabinet of curiosity/critique: part archive, part feminist take, part roast of the patriarchy’s favorite goods.

If you love old things, hate old gender roles and suspect that your grandma’s Tupperware was part of a multigenerational gaslight, well, you’re in the right place.

Pull up a seat and let’s unpack some vintage baggage.

A quick note on AI

I love history, but I also love technology. And in my day job at Conveyor Marketing Group, we lean into the (ethical and responsible) use of AI.

On this blog, I use AI (specifically ChatGPT) as a collaborator. I use it to brainstorm ideas, do research, optimize content, create meta tags, rework older content that I wrote years ago and generate first drafts for me to iterate on.

No content on this site has been spit out by AI and blindly published. Everything that ChatGPT has helped me create has been refined, molded and expanded from my own experience, preferences and opinions.

In a twist I once would have never expected, genAI has become my creative partner. It helps me move faster and keep this going while also working full time, raising a child and being a functional human. And I want to be upfront that it does have a role here.