Grab yourself a glass of wine and listen while we regale you with nsfw tales of seriously bad bitches and good witches, from here and there, then and now.
Sources:https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eleanor-anderson/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-marian-anderson-became-iconic-symbol-equality-180972898/ - Alicia Aulthttps://www.npr.org/2014/04/09/298760473/denied-a-stage-she-sang-for-a-nation - Susan StambergWikipediaAve Maria - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8&t=98sMy Country Tis of Thee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pkHe's Got the Whole World in His Hands - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRGZrv0Hl6khttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.htmlhttps://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-todayhttps://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again
Sources:https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639299/octavia-butler-author-factshttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.htmlhttps://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-todayhttps://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again
Sources:https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/when-leprosy-made-her-the-most-reliable-spy-of-world-war-ii-4b3043b95199 - Jhemmylrut Tenghttps://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/philippines-spy-joey-guerrero - Lea Schram von Haupthttp://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,798844,00.htmlA lot of this info also comes from the book Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II by Ben Montgomery: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781613734308
Sources:https://www.salon.com/2018/10/06/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner/https://www.thedailybeast.com/time-to-expose-the-women-still-celebrating-the-confederacyhttps://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooksWikipediaLinks: American Hysteria - Televangelists: https://open.spotify.com/episode/772vY8mSMPZz6ml4jnTHew?si=bOfoMaPNTnKExvOI7A3TGQDixie's Daughters by Karen L. Cox: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813064130
Sources:The Woman Who Invented the Hollywood Screenwriter By Pamela Hutchinson: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6948-the-woman-who-invented-the-hollywood-screenwriterLinks: Without Lying Down by Cari Beauchamp: https://bookshop.org/books/without-lying-down-frances-marion-and-the-powerful-women-of-early-hollywood/9780520214927Donate to Reverend Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoffDonate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoffDonate to Fair Fight: https://fairfight.com/Volunteer to help Fair Fight wherever you are: https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/
Sources:https://philipmould.com/news/13-who-was-sarah-biffin-the-woman-behind-the-record-breaking-self-portrait.-by-emma/ - Emma Rutherfordhttp://numberonelondon.net/2018/05/the-amazing-sarah-biffen-artist-extraordinaire/ - Victoria Hinshawhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Biffenhttps://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/sarah-biffin-mrs-em-wrighthttps://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/sarah-biffin"Curious Epitaphs" - Collected and edited by William AndrewsDonate to Reverend Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoffDonate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoffDonate to Fair Fight: https://fairfight.com/Volunteer to help Fair Fight wherever you are: https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/
Links: Sacheen's Oscar Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU&t=42sMarlon Brando's full speech: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/godfather-ar3.htmlThe Alcatraz Proclamation: https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=ALCATRAZ_ProclamationInterview with Sacheen Littlefeather re #OscarsSoWhite: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-sacheen-littlefeather-oscars-20160204-htmlstory.htmlKQED interview: https://www.kqed.org/news/11818318/sacheen-littlefeather-on-life-and-activism-after-her-stand-at-the-1973-oscarsThe Wrap: https://www.thewrap.com/marlon-brando-sacheen-littlefeather-alcatraz-oscar-godfather/Native Times interview: https://nativetimes.com/current-news/49-life/people/4479-what-would-sacheen-littlefeather-sayDonate to Reverend Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoffDonate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoffDonate to Fair Fight: https://fairfight.com/Volunteer to help Fair Fight wherever you are: https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/
Links: FINISH THE FIGHT edited by Veronica Chambers: https://bookshop.org/books/finish-the-fight-the-brave-and-revolutionary-women-who-fought-for-the-right-to-vote-9780358460282/9780358408307CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson: https://bookshop.org/books/caste-oprah-s-book-club-the-origins-of-our-discontents-9780593230251/9780593230251Donate to Reverend Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoffDonate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoffDonate to Fair Fight: https://fairfight.com/Volunteer to help Fair Fight wherever you are: https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/
Links: FINISH THE FIGHT edited by Veronica Chambers: https://bookshop.org/books/finish-the-fight-the-brave-and-revolutionary-women-who-fought-for-the-right-to-vote-9780358460282/9780358408307CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson: https://bookshop.org/books/caste-oprah-s-book-club-the-origins-of-our-discontents-9780593230251/9780593230251Donate to Reverend Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoffDonate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoffDonate to Fair Fight: https://fairfight.com/Volunteer to help Fair Fight wherever you are: https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/
Links: Fight for democracy in Georgia: https://fairfight.com/How Victorian Men Taught Us To Hate Corsets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNwTqanp0AwSources:https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mitchell-alice.htmhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3174907?seq=1https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704437?seq=1https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Freda-Forever-Murder-Memphis/dp/1936976609/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BUEE70LJXZK3&dchild=1&keywords=alice+freda+forever&qid=1605475901&sprefix=alice+freda%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1Aaaaaannd Bardcore version of Enya's Orinoco Flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9eSnSBP1Po
INTRO - 23:00 | A Halloween Themed Intro, Deanna revisits Scream Queens, reading an article about a recent interview with Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell.24:00 - 51:30 | Hannah ventures down to the big easy to dig up the bones of her person of the week, Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson.51:30 - 52:30 | Some Music from F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu”52:30 - END | Deanna crosses the pond in her ghost ship to find the origins of the “Bloody Mary” ritual and discovers her person of the week, Queen Mary the First.Links:Intro article: https://variety.com/video/horror-icons-jamie-lee-curtis-and-neve-campbell-compare-notes-on-their-reigns-as-scream-queens/A Monstress Comes Of Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUbP2KVVl8&feature=emb_logoSources:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bloody-mary-story/ - David Mikkelsonhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/bloody-mary - Krissy Howardhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myth-bloody-mary-180974221/ - Meilan SollyWikipedia.org
INTRO - 46:05 : Hannah reveals the awesomeness of out person of the week, Rose Mackenberg.
INTRO - 23:38 : Hannah regales the lyrical tale of our person of the week, Chavela Vargas.
INTRO - 35:38 : Deanna enlightens us with the story of our person of the week, Maria Andreu
INTRO - 14:30 : A short intro about what our lovely hosts, Hannah and Deanna, have been up to and the strange and sad week leading into a hopeful and uplifting episode that will help empower and encourage us to keep on keepin’ on in these hard times.15:25 - 47:45 : Hannah presents our person of the week, Shirley Chisholm.
INTRO - 30:00 : Deanna presents our badass person of the week, Edith Garrud.
INTRO - 40:15 : Hannah recounts the mythic Western tale of our person of the week, Lady Moon.
INTRO - 32:52 : Deanna introduces the history of Miss America to set the stage for this week’s story.33:45-01:01:55 : Deanna tells the story of our person of the week, Norma Smallwood.LINKS:
INTRO - 50:51 : Hannah recounts the life and legacy of LGBTQIA+ icon, and our person of the weekLINKS:Trans Organizations to Donate to: https://www.bustle.com/p/32-black-led-queer-trans-organizations-to-support-22959025http://transhousingatlanta.org/https://marshap.org/about-mpji/Piece about Trans people in media:https://theblackbutterflyblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/so-youre-black-how-does-that-feel/?fbclid=IwAR0oqz9AiTfmdQNIz7apFNDTCb-BLxNYoDa-3VhAYYYkG8LICwiLT3cKNoE
INTRO - 08:12 : Hannah and Deanna have a laugh at the recent failed Trump rally in Tulsa.09:15 - 45:30: Deanna, inspired by last weeks episode on the Combahee River Collective, recounts the intersectional story of our person of the week, Gladys Bentley.LINKS:Hear Gladys sing: https://youtu.be/pIVgbyLfJhk
INTRO - 08:20 : Deanna and Hannah have a conversation that leads into this week’s subject.09:20 - END : Hannah shares the history of the activist group, the Combahee River Collective as well as the history behind Juneteenth.LINKS:HOW WE GET FREE by Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor https://bookshop.org/books/how-we-get-free-black-feminism-and-the-combahee-river-collective/9781608468553The Combahee River Collective Statement: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdfHistory of Juneteenth: https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htmRacial Wage Gap on Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqrhn8khGLM1619 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1619/id1476928106
INTRO - 40:50 : Deanna tells the amazing story of our person of the week, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur!
INTRO - 08:40 : Deanna presents our first quarantine-time intro of an article she discovered about a dominatrix keeping their clientele satisfied virtually in Animal Crossing.09:40 - 57:10 : Hannah shares the mind-stretching story of our person of the week, Chien-Shiung Wu.LINKS:https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/13/animal-crossing-new-horizons-non-binary-dominatrix-bdsm-sex-work-nintendo-switch/
INTRO - 39:06 : Deanna perseveres to bring us the lost episode of our badass person of the week (for the third time due to technical difficulties in past recordings), Tura Satana!
INTRO - 20:40 : Hannah presents our 100th person of the week, Vicki Manalo Draves!
INTRO - 37:45 Deanna shares the story of our lovely person of the week, Anne Sullivan.LINKS: RIVAL MAGIC by Deva Fagan: https://bookshop.org/books/rival-magic-9781534439054/9781534439054
INTRO - 44:30 : Hannah presents the tasty story of our person of the week, Julia Child.LINKS:Funny Julia Child moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0rOJmBx8rESNL Sketch with Dan Akroyd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxv6IGBgFQ
INTRO - 26:16 : Deanna tells us about our person of the week, Leota Toombs
INTRO - 07:15: Why do we have April Fool’s Day? Deanna looked it up and shares her findings.08:08 - 30:54: Hannah lightens the quarantine mood with our person of the week, Khutulun.
INTRO - 34:19: Deanna shares the story of our person of the week, Susan La Flesche.
INTRO - 12:00: Hannah and Deanna talk about what it’s like to be in New York right now during the COVID-19 quarantine scenario that has become our lives.13:00 - 37:00: Hannah tells the timely (and terrifying) tale of our person of the week, Typhoid Mary.
INTRO -10:47: Deanna introduces the show with the story of Sally Meinke, renowned Hollywood editor who is best known for her work with director Quentin Tarantino.11:48 - 48:52: Lights. Camera. Action! Hannah shares the story of our person of the week, Hollywood director, Dorothy Arzner.LINKS:Judith Mayne, both her book Directed by Dorothy Arzner and her article https://filmquarterly.org/2017/07/12/scandale-dorothy-arzner-in-paris/)Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dorothy-arzner-hidden-star-maker-of-hollywood-s-golden-age) Wikipediahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1920s-dorothy-arzner-paved-way-female-directors-today-180955904/https://www.tiff.net/the-review/dorothy-arzners-working-girls https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-dorothy-arzner/ (women film pioneers project)
LINKS:https://lwlies.com/articles/how-mae-west-took-on-the-hollywood-studio-system-and-won/ - Lynsey Fordhttps://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/21/greatinterviews - Charlotte Chandlerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_WestINTRO - 57:29: Deanna shares her massive undertaking of research on our person of the week, Mae West, and all of her various conquests.
LINKS:Public Medievalist series: https://www.publicmedievalist.com/race-racism-middle-ages-tearing-whites-medieval-world/INTRO - 8:30: Hannah shares the story behind her person of the week. Check out the link above which she discovered after one of her tweets got a lot of love and inspired the research she did for this episode.9:25 - 35:38: Hannah presents the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, our person of the week and the last featured episode of 2020 Black History Month.
3:57 - 43:25: Deanna brings an amazing story of one of our contemporaries, and a very cool person of the week, prolific filmmaker, Ava Duvernay.
INTRO - 5:10: Deanna tells us the history behind why African American Heritage Month, Black History Month, happens in February.6:05 - 36:19: Hannah, currently on her own hair journey, tells us about this week’s awesome person, Madam C.J. Walker.
INTRO - 7:35: Hannah shares a fascinating story from Relationship Reddit.8:30 - 30:20: Deanna introduces us to Gladys West, our first person of the week this African-American Heritage Month, and someone whose life work makes your every single day easier.
INTRO - 41:30: Hannah tells the stories of the women who shaped the prohibition movement of 1920’s America.
INTRO - 13:37: Hannah and Deanna reflect on the past decade and talk about what they are looking forward to in 2020 and the decade to come.14:30 - 53:30: Hannah shares the life story of our person of the week, Louisa May Alcott and what inspired some of her most famous works, including “Little Women.”
INTRO - 14:45: Hannah tells us about Christmas’ pagan traditional origins.14:40 - 42:42: Deanna shares the story of our person of the week, Fredricka “Marm” Mandelbaum.
INTRO - 42:20: Hannah kicks off our Halloween Special by diving deep into the true terror of the Satanic Panic events of the 1980’s and 90’s.43:10 - END: Deanna doubles down on our already double stuffed episode and brings the spooky icons, and our people of the week, Vampira and Elvira, out of the shadows and into the light.
INTRO - 12:15: Deanna kicks off this spooky episode with some awesome short ghost stories she found in a Buzzfeed article.13:10 - 56:00: Hannah takes us on a dark and stormy journey through the life our person of the week, and gothic legend, Mary Shelley.LINKSMixtape Massacre Game: https://mixtapemassacre.com/Last Night on Earth zombie survival game: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Night-Earth-Zombie-Game/dp/0979658500
INTRO - Basically the whole episode is dedicated to our bad ass person of the week, Jamie Lee Curtis Deanna for compiled and curated this week’s episode, and we are so excited to share it with you.LINKSThe Halloween Unmasked (now renamed Quentin Tarantino's Feature Presentation) Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quentin-tarantinos-feature-presentation/id1435524582?fbclid=IwAR04s0v_Iz8FOjM9jTmcupoaMBnecy6wdWBI1MQ-XFCPAxgCepGRtQILa08Jamie Lee Curtis Picture Books: https://www.amazon.com/Jamie-Lee-Curtis/e/B001IGNQF6
INTRO - 09:48: Deanna shares the latest listacle from Buzzfeed about Americans strange drinking habits.10:50 - 42:30: Hannah tells us about our person of the week, Leona Vicario.
INTRO - 14:00: Hannah shares an article highlighting the young women leading the movement to combat climate change individually and alongside Greta Thornburg.14:50 - 42:50: Deanna tells the story of our revolutionary person of the week from Peru, María Jesús Alvarado Rivera.
INTRO - 13:50 Hannah asks Deanna how it was to meet Democratic Candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, at last weeks rally in Washington Square Park and how inspiring it was to be at the historical event.14:50 - 31:50: Hannah shares our first Hispanic Heritage Month story (sorry we missed a week) about our awesome person of the week, Carmen Contreras-Bozak.LINKS:Elizabeth Warren leads in Iowa:https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2019/09/22/iowa-poll-election-2020-iowa-caucus-elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-democrat-candidates/2370015001/
INTRO - 7:40: Deanna shares an article about Peggy Oki, the radical woman who was a member of the renowned pioneers of skateboarding, the Z-Boys of Dogtown.8:35 - 41:25: Hannah brings a story relevant to the release date of this episode, 9/11, sharing the trials and triumphs of our heroic person of the week, Brenda Berkman.LINKS:Brenda Berkman artworks: https://www.brendaberkmanartworks.com/
INTRO - 10:30: Hannah shares a wonderful meet-cute she found on a reddit relationships thread about a man who hadn’t previously questioned his sexuality, who genuinely falls in love with another man over a game of darts. It’s frickin’ adorable.11:30 - 38:30: Strap in. Are you strapped in? You ready? You’re not ready… Deanna brings us a swift tale of revenge about our person of the week, Jeanne De Clisson, The Lioness of Brittany.
INTRO - 6:40 | Hannah shares some listener submitted stories. Thank you to Jessi for telling us about Juliette Hampton Morgan who was a forthright supporter of the Alabama Bus Boycotts who used her position to call out and opposing officials. And thank you to Nina for sharing the wonderful story of Tove Jansson who was the writer and illustrator of the iconic Finnish cartoons, comics, and fantastic world of the Moomins.7:35 - 29:55 | Hannah recounts the epic tale of our person of the week, Stagecoach Mary Fields.
INTRO - 36:20 | Deanna shares the marvelous story of our person of the week, Sana Amanat.
INTRO - 6:30 | Hannah shares poems written by a doggo.7:30 - 37:36 | Hannah shares the endearing and fascinating story of our person of the week, Margaret Cavendish.Links:The link to the #borkbook hasthag on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23borkbook&src=typed_query&f=liveAphra Behn: https://gwbbpodcast.com/episodes/s02e44-aphra-behn
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