How to Use herstory in a Sentence

herstory

noun

• The queens of the House of Light are challenged by their rivals of House of Di’abolique — and the rest is herstory.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• And some critics pointed that out back in the 1970s, saying that the invention of herstory showed ignorance about where the word comes from.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 23 June 2017
• No queen has ever been eliminated, returned to the same contest, and won Drag Race in the show's 12-year herstory.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• How many other drag queens in herstory have had their own major cable TV shows?
  — Elyssa Goodman, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2017
• These tales lurking under the surface are finally springing to the fore, jumping from the footnotes to the main text, making herstory.
  — Judy Batalion, Time, 8 Apr. 2021
• But thankfully, the photographer was able to wrangle down a number of these fabulous queens for a shoot that's sure to go down in herstory.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
• Throughout the varied herstory of the show, queens have been disqualified, queens have returned, rules have been re-written and audiences have been left speechless.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
• This past season has been no exception, with Season 9 being more jam-packed with herstory than Trinity Taylor's face is with botox.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
• The show is a look at America's messy history, or maybe in this case herstory, that has continued to have a major effect on current politics.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• Farrah Moan's as some of the most adorably off-beat dancing in the show's herstory), Jan further etched her name into the Drag Race legacy by exiting the show under unprecedented circumstances.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 29 July 2021
• And the liberty to tell one’s story, one’s history, herstory, their story, and be heard, is profoundly American.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• But what's really got pulses racing is a little bit of herstory repeating.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Proud and excited to be witnessing #herstory alongside these leading ladies as more women have won seats in the US House of Representatives than ever before.
  — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 23 Nov. 2018
• The influential drag competition series is back in the United Kingdom, with 12 new queens vying to make herstory — including the franchise’s first-ever cisgender woman contestant.
  — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2021
• New Zealand made history — or herstory — this week as female lawmakers became the majority, narrowly outnumbering their male counterparts in Parliament for the first time.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024