Queen Bilqis hears that the Ethiopian maid-servant stabbed a Deccani Sultan to death in self-defense. Despite numerous documented atrocities, the highbrow privileged male powers gaslight those who accuse this particular sultan of homicidal maniacal ways. Bilqis leaves the security and confines of the women-run and operated zanāna/harem in her City of Joy. She mounts her horse, equipped with her superior spear, to join in the maidservant’s defense to fight against the elitist nobility, for she knows the machinations of misogynist men. Sisters join her...

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