Juana Inés de la Cruz The Woman Who Wrote Her Way into History

Celebrating Women's History Month with a badass a day.

There’s a story that feels like a spark in the dark, one of a woman who looked at a world that wanted to silence her and said, “No.” Her name was Juana Inés de la Cruz, and she wasn’t just a poet. She was a revolutionary.

Juana was born in 1648 in a small village near Mexico City, in what was then New Spain. From the start, she was different. She taught …