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Spoiler alert: there are.
In fact, in my upcoming book The Power of Magical Women (coming this fall), I prove it.
Fabulous female magicians exist in every genre of magic. They’re not rare unicorns—though my Irish colleague Nikola Arkane loves joking about that—they are real, talented, successful artists.
The only reason you don’t know their names is that for centuries, men wrote the history books. They wrote about their friends and the men they admired and they overlooked or forgot to mention the women who existed and were successful. Read more.
The Great “Male Magician” Myth
For as long as I can remember, the word magician automatically came with a masculine shadow. Wrong. It wasn’t reality; it was narrative.
I learned that firsthand in the ’90s when I created my own “Victor/Victoria” act (yes, I’m dating myself). Like the film’s character, I dressed as a man to play the role society expected. After two years of perfecting it, I walked on stage in tails, produced doves, and no one guessed the magician was a woman.
When I revealed myself, the audience gasped—the purest kind of magic gasp. It fooled everyone before Penn & Teller ever made a show about that FOOLER word.
Would you be surprised to learn that an Australian woman holds the record for the most (six) Penn & Teller: Fool Us trophies? Yes, you guessed it, that’s in the book as well.
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