This chapter is concerned with scrutinising the boundaries between fiction and history, as a way to tackle, and subvert, the silencing of historical women as well as gender and sexual minorities in historical sources and historiography. If this problem is widespread in mainstream historiography, it is more so in the scholarship on Spanish colonialism in Africa, the Maghrib and northern Morocco, which is overwhelmingly male-centred. I combine different kinds and degrees of ‘proof’ available in an array of primary and secondary sources with educated and historical knowledge, deductive, inductive, and speculative reasoning, and what I call “fictionalised herstory.” The chapter puts forth the idea that historians need to think through what counts as ‘empirically correct’ in view of the systematical erasure of different kinds of historical subjects. As such, the chapter is an invitation to move away from the dominant forms of knowledge production—and the biases, and the fictions, they carry with them. Ultimately, I argue that the speculative and fictionalised herstories grounded on historical and educated knowledge take us closer to the complexity of the Hispano-Moroccan re-encounter than accounts which erase women, female heterogeneity, gender and sexual minorities, and the repertoire of their agency.