Sistory Untold

On this episode we speak to Kerry Chaput, the author of the historical fiction novel Daughter of the King. Kerry has done tons of research about the late 17th-century practice of young French girls moving to French Canada as “daughters of the king” (filles du roi) to marry settlers. Over 800 girls and women moved to the French colony between 1663-1673, with King Louis XIV as their official sponsor. These girls came from all walks of life and faced both unique privileges and challenges by enlisting as daughters of the king. Kerry talks about their lives as well as the lives of the indigenous people the settlers encountered. She also gives us a glimpse into the world of her novel, which revolves around a young Protestant girl who converts to Catholicism and moves to Canada in order to survive. We hope you find this story as fascinating and exciting as we did! Stay tuned at the end for a sneak peak of her upcoming novel, Chasing Eleanor, about First Lady, civil rights activist, and all-around baddie Eleanor Roosevelt!

We are so excited to welcome back author and historian Gemma Hollman to the show in our first episode of season 3! Gemma joined us to talk about her new book The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III and the women whose story it tells- Philippa of Hainault and Alice Perrers. If you like this ep check out Gemma's book sold at all major retailers in the U.S and U.K as well as Amazon. You can find out more about Gemma and her work by following her blog @justhistoryposts on twitter. You can keep up to date with Sistory Untold by following us on Instagram and twitter @sistoryuntold and check out our website sistoryuntold.com

This weeks episode we are meeting Byzantine besties Theodora and Antonina. Actresses that climbed up to social ladder in 6th century Byzantine empire. This is not an easy feat but it makes it easier to have your best gal pal by your side! This is part 1 of 2 where we meet our sisters and understand what its like to be a Byzantine woman in the early empire. This the beginning of a story you won't want to miss! For more information on Sistory Untold or this episode check out our intstagram and twitter @sistoryuntold and our website sistoryuntold.com where you can also find our sources for this episode!

Welcome back to our two-part series on "Snow Widows: Scott'S Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind."  On this episode, we continue our conversation with biographer Katherine MacInnes and dive deeper into the lives of the five women in her book: Kathleen Scott, Oriana Wilson, Caroline Oates, Emily Bowers, and Lois Evans. For more information on Snow Widows and the author Katherine MacInnes, check out her website snowwidows.co.uk and follow Katherine on Instagram @macinnes.katherine. To learn more about Sistory Untold, follow us on Instagram and Twitter @sistoryuntold or visit our website sistoryuntold.com.

You may have heard of Captain Robert Scott and his tragic trip to the Antartic but do you know the stories of the women left behind? This week we have author Katherine MacInnes with us to tell us the stories of Kathleen Scott, Oriana Wilson, Caroline Oates, Emily Bowers, and Lois Evans the wives and mothers who were left behind and the shared tragedy that brought them together. This is part one of two- this week we learn about the expedition to the south pole, what was feminism at the turn of the 20th century and an intro to the women. Join us two weeks from now for part two! For more information on Snow Widows and the author Katherine MacInnes check out her website snowwidows.co.uk and visit Katherine on instagram @katherinemacinnes For more info on Sistory Untold follow us on instagram and twitter @sistoryuntold or visit our website sistoryuntold.com where we post all of our sources for the episodes!

On this episode, we give a quick rundown of the who, what, when, and why of the French Revolution before returning to our sistory about eighteenth-century painters Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun and Adelaide Labille Guiard. These women, now both successful painters and members of the Royal Academy, find themselves on opposite sides of the revolution. While Adelaide fights for women's rights and contributes to the revolution in France, Adelaide flees the conflict and goes on to make her mark on the rest of the European continent, traveling around Italy, Austria, Prussia, and Russia painting the portraits of everyone who's anyone. Once the dust of war has settled, Elisabeth and Adelaide find themselves at a dinner party in a new century, in a new France, as new women. What have their vastly different lives taught them, and what does putting their life stories in the context of one another teach us about them as individuals? Find out in this episode of Sistory Untold! Remember that this is part two, so if you haven't listened to part one yet, go back and listen to that!

On the eve of the French Revolution, two women gained access to France's most elite and exclusive community of artists: The Royal Academy. Elisabeth and Adelaide were admitted to the Academy on the same day, during a period when the Academy allowed a maximum of four female members at any given time, and when the minister of fine arts was a raging misogynist. What made these painters so special to deserve this honor? How did they get noticed by famous neoclassical painters and gain the patronage of several members of the royal family? And what was the relationship like between two young, up-and-coming female painters in the man's world of eighteenth-century Parisian art? Find out in this episode of Sistory Untold!

We're so excited to be back with our first episode of 2022! We are jam-packing this season with amazing, inspiring, sometimes intimidating women from history.  In this episode we are going way way back to the 6th century to talk about two queens whose rivalry spanned 4 decades. This story really shows that sometimes truth really is just stranger than fiction!  For more Sistory Untold check out our website sistoryuntold.com and follow us on instagram and twitter @sistoryuntold. All sources for todays episode will be listed on our blog at sistoryuntold.com. 

Warning: this episode contains violent content.  After growing up during the bloodiest period in the history of the Americas under the rule of a dictator, three girls decided to become the face of a resistance movement. The Mirabal Sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa started out with small but significant acts of defiance, which grew into a movement with hundreds of members. Today, they are remembered today as symbols of Dominican pride, feminine strength and resolve, and the cruelty of violence against women. Listen to this episode to find out who the girls were before they became symbols. For more information follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sistoryuntold,  email us at sistoryuntold@gmail.com or find our episode sources on our  website sistoryuntold.com

Warning! If you didn't guess by the title this episode contains violent themes.  This week we are learning all about three teenage girls who took bravery and the fight for justice to the next level. Hannie, Truus, and Freddie worked with the Dutch resistance in WWII to fight the Nazi invasion. Hear about their lives and how they used their sisterhood to fight evil. Come for the amazing story- stay for the horrendous Dutch pronunciation.  Sources for this episode can be found in our blog at sistoryuntold.com. For pictures and more information about this episode follow us on instagram and twitter @sistoryuntold

Last week, you learned about the individual lives of the playwright Aphra Behn and the actress Nell Gwyn. On today's episode, present day writer and actor Claire Louise Amias joins us to talk about these women's sisterhood and shares some fun anecdotes about each of them. Claire trained as an actor at trained at RADA and Bretton Hall and has appeared both on screen and on stage. After becoming obsessed with the writer/spy Aphra Behn, Claire  wrote and performed in her one-woman play "The Masks of Aphra Behn" at the Women and War festival in 2016. Three years later, she released "Oranges & Ink," a play about our two sisters in today's episode. "Oranges & Ink" recently won an Off West End ‘OnComm' Award! You can watch both of Claire's plays in a double bill on scenesaver.co.uk for free—we highly recommend that you do! We hope you enjoy this conversation with Claire and learn as much as we did!

In this episode, we talk about Aphra Behn and Nell Gwyn as individuals, so that next time we can talk about their sisterhood. But even alone, these women led interesting and impressive lives! Aphra was a novelist, poet, and and dramatist who was the first professional female writer in English. Nell started off as an actress, but amassed her wealth and property by being mistress to King Charles II. Listen to this episode of Sistory Untold to learn even more about these fascinating women!

Our first episode of season 2.5! Thanks for sticking with us! This weeks episode is all about Edna Goodrich and Evelyn Nesbit! For pictures and more info on the episode check us out on instagram or twitter @sistoryuntold and see all of our sources on our blog at sistoryuntold.com. 

In the mid-eighteenth century, everyone who's anyone would attend salons at aristocrats' houses to drink, play cards, and gossip. But the Bluestocking philosophers had something else in mind. This group of women bonded over tea, enlightened conversation, and literary discussion. As an informal club made up of Britain's best and brightest ladies, the Bluestockings Society gives us a glimpse into the lives of women of Georgian aristocracy. Writers, actors, singers, artists, and housewives all came together to encourage and support one another's professional endeavors and build lasting friendships.  P.S. a few corrections from the episode: Erasmus Darwin IS Charles Darwin's grandfather (no greats needed). Jane Austen did subscribe to Frances Burney's novel “Camilla.”

The first celebrities of their kind, the Gabors were considered famous for just being famous. With 19 husbands among the three of them and their fair share of very public affairs, they became notorious. But there was so much more to them than that. They were a tight-knit family of Hungarian immigrants who fought and escaped encroaching Nazi forces (all in their own unique way). They were successful businesswomen and talented performers who excelled together as well as apart. And, most importantly to us, they were sisters! Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor represent the best side of sisterhood: they were there for each other during their highs and lows, helped each other's careers, and stood by each other's sides until the end of their lives. Tune in to hear the whole story of the glamorous Gabor sisters! Follow us @sistoryuntold to stay up to date on all things Sistory! Head to our website sistoryuntold.com to see our sources and ask us any questions you have.

This is Part 2 of the “Samurai Sisters” episodes. Today, we will finish telling the story of Sutematsu and Ume, two girls and who studied abroad in America in the 19th century, then returned to Japan and transformed their education system. Sutematsu played a huge role in bringing philanthropy to Japan while also being a major supporter of all of Ume's work. Ume traveled to America and England multiple times throughout her life to research women's education and ended up founding one of the first women's colleges in Japan, which still exists today. Ume and Sutematsu's personal and professional lives constantly overlapped. They were close friends whose unique experience kept them close from childhood until the end of their lives. We hope you enjoy this sistory! A huge shout out to For the Love of History Podcast for giving amazing insights into this story. Some other incredible sources for this episode are the books “Daughters of Samurai” by Janice P. Nimura and “The White Plum” by Yoshiko Furuki. For all of our sources, check out our blog on sistoryuntold.com. For more information, follow us on Instagram @sistoryuntold!

In December of 1871, five young girls from samurai families embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. They sailed from Yokohama, Japan to San Francisco, California then traveled the country on a brand new railroad, finally arriving in Washington DC. While the men they were with went on to complete the political component of their mission, the five girls remained to start on the cultural one: living among Americans for 10 years and receiving an education. Public education for girls did not exist in Japan at the time, and private education was limited and very gendered. These girls were expected to take the best of the American education system while maintaining a strong Japanese identity, then return to reform Japan. Two of these girls, Ume and Sutematsu, are the subject of this episode of Sistory Untold. They became fast friends and sisters and their lives would remain intertwined for the years to come. Part 1 covers a bit of Japanese history and the early childhoods of Sutematsu and Ume. Come back next week to learn about their lives as adults! Trigger Warning: this episode mentions suicide and sexual assault

With the advent of the “New Woman” in the late 19th century, England and America saw a resurgence of empowered women. They smoked, rode bikes, went to college, and said no to marriage proposals. And so, a new type of sisterhood emerged: bachelor girls. Bachelor girls were eligible, career-focused women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who chose not to marry, and refused to be called spinsters or old maids. They might change their minds if the right man came around, but they would rather focus on their careers and their friendships with one another than wait around for their prince to come. On this minisode, we look at a history of the spinster stereotype and how that evolved into bachelor girls. We also read clips from newspapers in the 1890s and early 1900s to paint a picture of what bachelor girls were and get a sense of how their contemporary society viewed them. To learn more about bachelor girls, make sure to follow us @sistoryuntold on Instagram and Twitter. Check out our blog for sources on sistoryuntold.com

Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had a lot more in common than having a record book full of firsts— the first English feminist, the founder of the first school with an all female board of governors, the first English female travel writer, the first woman published in the Spectator. They were also connected by a passion for politics, a commitment to justice, and a strong friendship. Throughout their more than fifteen-year friendship, the women certainly influenced each other, and even the ends of their lives mirrored each other. Find out all about them in this episode of Sistory Untold! For more information follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sistoryuntold, email us at sistoryuntold@gmail.com or find our episode sources on our website sistoryuntold.com

This week we are crossing the Irish sea to talk about the dark side of sisterhood through the magdalene laundries and the nuns who ran them. You will definitely be questioning who exactly are the sinners and who are the sisters. In classic Marva fashion this is not a light story to take in. Can sisterhood also be a source of evil? We hope to answer these questions in this weeks episode of Sistory Untold. For more information follow us on twitter and Instagram @sistoryuntold, email us at sistoryuntold@gmail.com or find our episode sources on our website sistoryuntold.com

It's rare to come across a dynasty that was ruled entirely by women, but we were lucky enough to find one for this episode!  Asma Bint Shihab al-Sulayhi and Arwa al-Sulayhi ruled Yemen alongside and often in place of their husbands, the king. Asma was Arwa's cousin, mentor, teacher, mother-in-law and guardian. In other words, she was the best big sister a queen-to-be could ask for.  We hope you enjoy our first episode of season two as we learn about the Fatimid caliphate of the medieval Middle East and North Africa, discuss the role of women in medieval Arab culture, and, as always, explore history through the eyes of sisterhood! For more information about this episode and to stay up to date about the podcast, follow us at @sistoryuntold on Instagram and Twitter. Make sure to also check out our blog on sistoryuntold.com for our sources and pictures to go along with the episode!

In this bonus episode, we speak with A'Lelia Bundles, the great-great-granddaughter of Madame C.J. Walker and author of “On Her Own Ground,” the basis for Netflix's limited series “Self-Made.” We talk with her about Madame C.J. Walker's relationships with other women, and the line between fiction and reality. We hope you enjoy! To learn more about Madame C.J. Walker and about how A'Lelia is preserving her legacy, go to aleliabundles.com. For more information on Sistory Untold and this episode check out our Instagram and twitter @sistoryuntold or visit our website sistoryuntold.com!

There's a lot to cover this week as we talk about the four Romanov daughters. You may think you know the story from (one of the best all time movies) Anastasia but here we are focusing on all of the sisters- their loves, their sometimes bad attitudes, and their lives which were tragically cut short. Come for the stories of Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia and stay for the questionable Russian pronunciations. For more information on Sistory Untold and this episode check out our Instagram and twitter @sistoryuntold or visit our website sistoryuntold.com!

This episode is a Sistory Untold first! We are talking about three fictional women: Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia in William Shakespeare's beloved tragedy, King Lear. The older sisters in this play are often portrayed as pure evil, but is that the case? We talk about that and so much more in this episode! We also talk about the legend that inspired Shakespeare's play, and compare the way these women were represented in each version of the story. And, because this is a history podcast after all, we bombard you with a bunch of random (but interesting!) facts about women in Elizabethan England.  For more information and our sources please check out our website sistoryuntold.com. Connect with us on twitter and instagram @sistoryuntold to see pictures and further information for each episode. 

In this episode we are covering the tragic lives of the two women who are often considered the "last Tasmanians". They survived torture and genocide and also managed to live really interesting and remarkable lives. From out law gangs to music and theatre these two women have seen and done it all. We hope you will enjoy this episode as we take a peak in to an ancient indigenous culture that with out the strength of these women and several others would be lost to us today.  For more information and our sources please check out our website sistoryuntold.com Connect with us on twitter and instagram @sistoryuntold to see pics and further information for each episode. 

In this episode, we are talking about Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, two American-based anarchafeminists who stood up to women's rights and really stuck it to the man in the late 19th and early 20th century. Although they didn't always see eye to eye, they often supported and praised each other and for a while wrote for the same publication. Chronic illness, imprisonment, poverty, and even assassination attempts couldn't hold these women back. We hope you love this episode as much as we loved recording it! Trigger warning: this episode contains themes of sexual assault and suicide. To find out more about Sistory Untold and see our sorces head over to our website sistoryuntold.com Find out more about each episode including pictures of the women we talk about, connect with us on twitter or instagram @sistoryuntold.

Here's part two of our interview with Gemma Hollman, the author of Royal Witches. Today we are talking about Eleanor Cobham and Joan of Navarre. We hope you enjoy, and wish you a happy Halloween!

In part one of this two-part Halloween special, we speak with author Gemma Hollman about her book “Royal Witches.” We'll revisit some familiar women— Jacquetta and Elizabeth Woodville— who you can learn more about in our Medieval Queens series that came out earlier this season! We'll specifically talk about their accusations of witchcraft and how being a powerful woman can sometimes be a woman's greatest weakness.

This is the conclusion to last weeks episode about the German WWII pilots Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch. In this rollercoaster of emotions episode we find out how the war ends for Melitta and Hanna and discuss how the choices they made impacted their legacy. If you haven't already listened to part one we highly recommend you start there and then join us for the dramatic conclusion.  To find out more about Sistory Untold and see our sorces head over to our website Sistoryuntold.com Find out more about each episode including pictures of the women we talk about connect with us on twitter or instagram @sistoryuntold.

This week we are talking about a different kind of sistory. In our most modern episode yet we talk about the female World War II German pilots Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch. Although these women could not be more different from each other their life paths would take them in similar directions and the would face the decision to do what they thought was right for Germany or to do what was right for humanity. Based off of the book The Women Who Flew for Hitler, we look in to the lives and life choices of these two remarkable women.  Thank you to Clare Mulley who wrote the fascinating book that lead us to this research and to our fellow podcasters at Hashtag History for guiding up on our technical podcast journey.  If you want to connect with us more find us on twitter and instagram @sistoryuntold or our website Sistoryuntold.com

On this episode, we are breaking one of our own rules: we are talking about two sisters who never met. In fact, they lived in different centuries on different continents. And yet, they're Sisters. That's right— capital S Sisters. Santa Teresa de Ávila and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz were both nuns in the same order for part of their lives. And that's not where the resemblance stops. They both were important writers and avid readers, and they both sought somewhat unconventional lifestyles. Learn all about the reasons why we think they count as sistory in this episode of Sistory Untold! Check out our website sistoryuntold.com for more resources and sources from this episode. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @sistoryuntold to keep up with all things sistory!

You may have seen their stories on the show "The White Queen" but you have to know their full stories to really understand them. This is the episode we've all (well Marva) has been waiting for. The conclusion to our Medieval Queens series, at leat for now. Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville would spend the majority of the Wars of the Roses on opposing sides, but in the end they would unite to create Englands most famous dynasty-  the Tudors. Learn all about their plots, conspiracies, and rise to power in this episode of Sistory Untold.  Ps. the year I could not remember was 1485! Find out more info and sources for all of our episodes on our website: Sistoryuntold.com Follow us on instagram and twitter @Sistoryuntold.  

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a secret society of painters in the mid 19th century that formed as a rebellion against the "dark and unimaginative" mainstream artists of the time. But we don't care about them. In this episode, we will talk about the women who truly made this artistic movement possible, The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. These "stunners" (aka models) rose from low social classes into something like stardoms through their work with the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Some started their own businesses or launched painting careers of their own. They were friends, colleagues, and competitors to one another, and all were fascinating women in their own right. P.S. the really long named painting that Sabrina botched should be “A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids. Find all of our sources, along with pictures on our blog on sistoryuntold.com. Connect with us on Twitter or Instagram @sistoryuntold to make sure you never miss an update.

This is a Sistory Untold first! We are talking about not two but four sisters! These sisters also just so happen to be goddesses and some of the coolest stories we have ever told. So tune in this ep to find out about these amazing legendary sisters. Buckle up because these sisters have even more tension in their relationships than Marva and Sabrina.  Disclaimer: though I did try my absolute best with pronunciation, if something is wrong I do apologise. Find all of our sources, along with pictures on our blog on sistoryuntold.com. Connect with us on Twitter or Instagram @sistoryuntold to make sure you never miss an update.  

This is part two of our guest episode on Jane and Casandra Austen. We are hearing from historian and Jane Austen enthusiast Lizzie Rogers all about the Austen sisters. You will Find out about their very deep personal connection as well as a few things that might surprise you about the sisters we have come to think of representing the ideal of prim and proper. Pictures and further information can be found on our blog Sistoryuntold.com or our Instagram @sistoryuntold

In this episode, we speak with Jackie Herring, the director of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. Every year, thousands of Jane Austen lovers from around the world come together to learn, dance, promenade, and build community. In addition to talking about the festival, Jackie tells us about Jane Austen's life, from infancy until death, and all of the fascinating twist and turns her life took in between! P.S. We encountered some technical difficulties during this episode, so please forgive the moments where you can't hear Jackie clearly. We trust you can use context clues to fill in the blanks!

Medieval women and war might seem like two opposites but in Margaret of Anjou you find a woman who is never going to back down from a fight. Jacquetta of Luxembourg may not be as blood thirsty but she was never one to sit on the sidelines. Find out about two women who quite literally made history in this weeks episode of Sistory Untold. Has history treated them fairly claiming they are she-wolves and witches? (If you haven't listened to parts one and two of the medieval queens series we highly recommend you start there.) 

Picture this: it's the mid 1300s, the Black Death just killed 1/3 of country, every time you turn around there's a new pope, and you're bedridden. This is the position in which Margery and Julian found themselves immediately before their divine encounters. But, as fascinating as their encounters with Christ were, what is perhaps even more interesting is their encounter with one another. As mystics, both women faced doubt and judgement from the world around them, but found encouragement and solidarity in each other. P.S. Correction: Marie du France lived in England. Someone needs to rename her Marie du England.

Bad girls do it well... In 18th century society both Maria Coventry and Kitty Fisher embodied these modern day lyrics. Their rivalry was the talk of the town and their legacies would go on to inspire books, paintings, poems, and now the TV show Harlots (on Hulu and BBC2). Listen to their full stories on this episode of Sistory Untold. 

From their earliest creation stories to the 2017 WEF Global Gender Gap report, women in the Philippines consistently experience more equality with men than in many other nations. But what did that look like when Spanish colonizers arrived and observed that in the Philippines “the best man is a woman?” The answer to that question can be answered through the story of two women: Luysa Balinan and her rival Caquenga. Both women risked their lives for their religious beliefs and fought for a version of the Philippines that they thought was morally right, but they stood on different sides of the argument. Listen to find out whom history has made the victor.

Queen Isabella and Isabella de Beaumont's lives were full of contradictions. They were women but had massive power, they were friends and mortal enemies, they were of Royal bloodlines but had few choices, their reputations were immortalized and yet their true stories were forgotten. Listen to there almost to crazy to be true life stories as we try to work out what is fact and what is fiction in this episode of Sistory Untold.

In this episode, Sabrina interviews Audrey Thorne, the host of the podcast “Lights, Camera, Analysis.” She explains why the type of sisterhood we see in her favorite film, Thelma and Louise, is so radically different from archetypal friendships. From defending each other to driving off a cliff together, these women truly redefine female friendships for Hollywood. Trigger warning for this episode: rape and sexual harassment.

Join us for our first bonus episode! We'll discuss feminism in Hamilton, stories of the Schuyler sisters leaping from second story windows and rescuing babies, and lastly discuss some key female figures from the American Revolution era. We hope you enjoy!

We watched Hamilton on Disney + and we know you did too. But it left us wanting to know more about the real women portrayed in the musical. In this first episode of a two part series, we cover America's founding sisters, Eliza and Angelica Schuyler. Listen in as we discuss all things 18th century and try and work out what exactly is science. Lets dive in to the true story of the sister act behind your new favourite musical. 

Tune in to hear a story about volcanic eruptions, babies of questionable origins, drowned lovers, and, of course, sisterhood. You've probably heard of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, but did you know she had a step-sister and close companion, Claire Clairmont? Claire was also a writer and obsessed with all things Romantic, but her sister's legacy far outshines her own. Join us to learn more about each of these women's lives, careers, and relationships.

Empress Matilda (Maud) was the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry, or so it goes on her epitaph. To us at Sistory Untold however, Matilda was much more than a relation to the powerful men in her life. She was a woman who would do almost anything to protect what was hers by birth right. Eleanor of Aquitaine shared Matilda's spirit in protecting what was rightfully hers and made sure the world knew that she, and her family were a force to be reckoned with. Join us as we dive in to history and get to know Matilda, Eleanor, and the desire for power that connected them. 

In this first minisode, Marva and Sabrina define sisterhood and only occasionally go on tangents about whether or not Sabrina is a fair match for a tiger.

Mentorship, rivalry, or mere cheap imitation? Madame C.J. Walker and Annie Turnbo Malone had a complicated relationship. Join us as we take sides, invent words like “histronomics,” and blame both Netflix and our 2nd grade teachers for painting an incomplete picture of history. We hope you enjoy this episode fo Sistory Untold. This is Sistory. Warning: Spoilers for the show Self Made Correction: Sabrina meant to say “the deaths OF hundreds of black men in the East St. Louis Riots,”not “by black men. It's our first episode! Please have mercy.

Welcome to our podcast, Sistory Untold, where we explore history through the eyes of sisterhood. Much like sisterhood, this podcast can be a bit messy, but is a labor of love. We hope you'll join us on June 23 as we dive into Sistory.