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Mythos is an online magazine that publishes long-form, ideologically rigorous, and unconventionally glamorous conversations about womanhood.

We aim to create and archive women's history in their own words, without telling them to buy more lipstick —or anything else, for that matter.

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mythos, n. A body of interconnected myths or stories, esp. those belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition. More generally: an ideology, a set of beliefs (personal or collective)

Latest Interviews

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Featured
34: Martha Wilson<br><small>visual and performance artist</small>
right-brain, politics, bodies Nicole Blackwood
right-brain, politics, bodies Nicole Blackwood
34: Martha Wilson
visual and performance artist
right-brain, politics, bodies Nicole Blackwood
right-brain, politics, bodies Nicole Blackwood

“I thought, 'Fuck you, buddy,' and I walked across the street and bought a roll of color film."

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right-brain, politics, bodies Nicole Blackwood
right-brain, politics, bodies Nicole Blackwood
33: Hala Alyan<br><small>writer and clinical psychologist</small>
race, religion, family Sophia Richards
race, religion, family Sophia Richards
33: Hala Alyan
writer and clinical psychologist
race, religion, family Sophia Richards
race, religion, family Sophia Richards

"I've seen women create homes in cardboard boxes and domestic shelters."

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race, religion, family Sophia Richards
race, religion, family Sophia Richards
32: Tchaiko Omawale<br><small>filmmaker</small>
bodies, race, sexuality Sophia Richards
bodies, race, sexuality Sophia Richards
32: Tchaiko Omawale
filmmaker
bodies, race, sexuality Sophia Richards
bodies, race, sexuality Sophia Richards

"The challenge of making the film that I’m making is that it cannot easily assuage white guilt."

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bodies, race, sexuality Sophia Richards
bodies, race, sexuality Sophia Richards

Latest Essays

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Featured
Good Hair (an endorsement of vanity)
Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss
Good Hair (an endorsement of vanity)
Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss

I quickly learned my hair was privilege; set me apart. Everything about me was different. Even my name. I was welcomed in places my mother, the little black one, wasn't.

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Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss

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