Medusa’s story does not end with her death. In this final episode of the Medusa arc, we trace how a woman punished for being seen becomes a symbol of protection—and what that reveals about power, trauma, and visibility today. This is a reckoning, a reclamation, and a bridge forward.

Listener Note:
This episode includes discussion of sexual violence, trauma, and the ways systems respond to survivors. Please listen in a way that honors your nervous system.

Medusa: The Hero Who Never Looked at Her Shattered But Unbreakable — the TAKE IT BACK series

Episode One | Part 3 of 4

This episode is part of the TAKE IT BACK series—
a reclamation of voice, truth, and power that was never lost, only buried.

This is not a mythology podcast.
This is a reckoning.

In Medusa: The Hero Who Never Looked at Her, we examine how systems eliminate what they refuse to face—through distance, intermediaries, and sanctioned silence. We explore the coordinated act behind Medusa’s death, the preservation of her power after her erasure, and what it reveals about how women are still removed while their labor, ideas, and strength are retained and reassigned.

This episode also names what emerges after trauma: not one outcome, but many strategies for survival. Through Pegasus and Chrysaor, we explore flight and embodiment, dissociation and boundaries, transcendence and grounded power—and why healing is not choosing one, but learning when to land and when to stand.

This is where the myth stops being a story.
And starts becoming a mirror.

Closing music: Warrior
Performed by Alita Langford
Used with permission.

In this episode of the TAKE IT BACK series, we explore what happens after a woman survives harm.

Medusa is not killed immediately.
She is transformed.

Her humanity is stripped away and replaced with fear — not as mercy, but as containment.

This episode examines:

• How systems avoid accountability by transforming survivors instead of protecting them

• Why visibility after trauma is treated as a threat

• How labeling replaces listening

• Why women who stop accommodating are reframed as dangerous

Medusa’s gaze was never about destruction.
It was about interruption.

This episode is not ancient history.
It’s a pattern still operating today.

Theme music includes “Warrior” by Alita Langford.
Used with permission.

⚠️ Content Note: This episode discusses trauma, victim-blaming, institutional betrayal, and emotional harm. Please listen with care and pause as needed.