Witches, Bitches, and Sluts

About Witches, Bitches, and Sluts

Witch. Bitch. Slut. These are just a sample of the many names women have been called throughout history through today. Witches, Bitches, and Sluts is a twice-weekly show about how women get discredited through these labels, and why the false version so often outlives the real one. Every week, Xtina Rose digs into how women get reduced to one word. Some episodes tell one woman's story — the accusation, the truth, and why the myth stuck. Others go deeper into the research behind the pattern. Rigorously researched, casually told — this isn't a lecture, it's the conversation you'd have with a friend who did way too much reading before showing up.

Publisher

Xtina Rose

Category

history · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episode

2 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Nov 2026

   Putting the Witch Label on Trial Part 2: Permission to Burn

   "Some were prostitutes, but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not." That's how a prosecutor talked about the women murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper, and it's exactly what this episode is about: not what a label says about a woman, but what it gives other people permission to do to her. Content Note: This episode discusses torture, murder, a massacre of civilians, and sexual violence. Please take care of yourself while you listen In Part 2, host Xtina Rose asks three quest...

2. 

   31 Oct 2026

   Bathsheba Sherman: The Conjuring of a Witch

   In The Conjuring, Bathsheba Sherman is a Satanist who sacrificed her baby and cursed the land before hanging herself. The real Bathsheba was a Rhode Island farm wife who died of a stroke at 73, and nobody said a bad word about her until 88 years after her death. Host Xtina Rose goes back to the records: the census, the will, the gravestones, and the three young children Bathsheba actually lost. We trace how a frightened family, two famous paranormal investigators, and a Hollywood blockbuster ...

3. 

   26 Oct 2026

   Putting the Witch Label on Trial - Part 1: Making of a Witch

   "All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable." A Dominican inquisitor wrote that in 1486, and over the next three centuries, tens of thousands of people, most of them women, were executed as witches. After three episodes in Salem, host Xtina Rose zooms all the way out to find out how the witch was made. We start with an Old English word that had a male and a female form, then go through five hundred years when the church officially called witchcraft a delusion and a Ch...

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5.0 / 5

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5.0 / 5

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