HERstory: Southeast Asia

19:04 | Feb 20th, 2020

In this episode, we’re going to meet the beautiful and ruthless Queen Supayalat. She has long been credited for the massacre of a hundred of the King's relatives to ensure her claim to the throne. But...Show More

22:33 | Feb 23rd

In this episode, we’re taking a deep dive into the Cham, a matriarchal and matrilineal society descended from the refugees of the Kingdom of Champa, whose members now mostly reside in Vietnam and Camb...Show More

19:46 | Jan 22nd

In this episode, we’ll meet Cik Siti Wan Kembang, who according to some sources was the ruler of the state of Kelantan from 1610 to 1677. Like the previous episode on Prinsesa Urduja of Tawalisi, fact...Show More

25:56 | Dec 21st, 2020

This December, we are joined by Tiffanie Ang, a University of the Philippines Film Institute graduate, Creative Director of VISH Media, and director of the short film Princess Urduja. In the second pa...Show More

24:56 | Dec 20th, 2020

This December, we are joined by Tiffanie Ang, a University of the Philippines Film Institute graduate, Creative Director of VISH Media, and director of the short film Princess Urduja. In the first par...Show More

26:16 | Nov 18th, 2020

In this special two-part episode, we’ll uncover the story of Prinsesa Urduja of Tawalisi, a legendary warrior princess who led her own army. While she was recorded in the travel accounts of Ibn Battut...Show More

23:10 | Oct 21st, 2020

In this episode, we’ll meet Queen Indradevi of the Khmer Civilization, one of Cambodia's first known women poets and the author of the Sanskrit poem inscribed on the stele at the temple of Phimeanakas...Show More

20:27 | Sep 20th, 2020

In this episode, we’ll talk about Hajjah Fatimah, the Sultana of Gowa, a tradeswoman and philanthropist from Malacca who built the Hajjah Fatimah Mosque, a rare example of a mosque named after a woman...Show More