The podcast about amazing and noteworthy women from history! A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules; Broads You Should Know shares the stories of those Broads who have helped shape our world.
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Simone Biles - GOAT Gymnast and All-Around Human Being
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Simone Biles has made history once more with an incredible performance at the Olympics, breaking records left and right, wowing us (and the judges) with stunning combinations and flawless execution. The past 8 years, though, her work has gone beyond the gymnastics floor and Simone has become a beacon of hope for abuse survivors and an advocate for …
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Věra Čáslavská — Czechoslovakian Olympic Superstar Whose Anti-Government Protest Got Her Erased from History [Michael Slefinger]
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Special guest Michael Slefinger tells us about gymnast Věra Čáslavská. Her meteoric rise to fame surprised the world, her talent was unmatched, and her charisma charmed the entire world, so why has nobody today even heard of her? Find out why in this week's episode of Broads You Should Know! — A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads Y…
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Broad Opinions: VP Kamala Harris for President
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WELL WELL WELL...looks like Sara was wrong in her last Broad Opinion hot take, but in the the BEST WAY! Chloe Skye joins Sara for a NEW hot take, this time - on VP Kamala Harris being the new Democratic nominee and NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! The excitement is palpable across so many demographics - the hope, and the belief that change is c…
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Victoria C. Woodhull - First Woman to Run for U.S. President
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Victoria C. Woodhull might be one of the most interesting women we've covered on the pod so far! Her story includes not one, but THREE rags-to-riches climbs, a flourishing career as a medium & clairvoyant, and she was the first woman to not only run for President of the United States, but she also the first woman to own a Wall Street Firm AND the f…
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Shirley Chisholm — First Black Woman to Run for President of the United States
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This week, Sara revisits the story of Shirley Chisholm, a civil rights leader, politician, and the first Black woman to run for President of the United States of America and first woman to run on the Democratic ticket! Learn more about this incredible woman who ran her campaign "Unbought and Unbossed" also displayed a truly remarkable response, par…
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Broad Opinions - "Disastrous Debate" Hot Take
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In her new segment BROAD OPINIONS, Sara brings us her hot take on what the news media is calling "Biden's Disastrous Debate Performance", how we should feel about it, and what we should do about it with t-minus 4 months until the election. HINT: It's not the take you might think it'll be. PLUS! Sara brings compelling real-time data on the impact tr…
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Dervla Murphy - Irish Travel Writer Who Bicycled Across the World
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Since the age of 10, when she receives her first bicycle, Dervla Murphy dreams of pedaling all the way to India, but her travel plans are put on hold when she becomes caretaker of her mother at just 14 years old. This doesn't stop Dervla from dreaming, though, and when she is released from her caretaker duties 16 years later, her trip to India beco…
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The Invisible Battalion — The Female Soldiers of the Ukrainian Army
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This week, Sara sheds some light on The Invisible Battalion! While Ukrainian women have been defending their country on the front lines for decades, it wasn't until 2018 that they were actually allowed to serve in combat ranks, thanks, in large part, to a massive campaign known as "The Invisible Battalion," led by the NGO Institute of Gender Progra…
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Cornelia Sorabji - First Woman to Study Law at Oxford & Advocate in India
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Cornelia Sorabji dreamt long and hard about becoming a lawyer, even though in India in the late 1800's women were just barely allowed to go to University at all, and were NOT permitted to law school or the court system as a whole. Born into a progressive, education-minded family, though, Cornelia was not deterred by these archaic laws - instead she…
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Verity Lambert — 1st Female TV Producer in the UK Who Brought Doctor Who to Life!
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Today, Colin A. Borden brings us the tale of Verity Lambert - the founding producer of Doctor Who! As an aspiring young writer and director, Verity kept running into the glass ceiling, being told time and time again that there wasn't any more room for another woman. Verity kept at it, though, and when an accident on set means someone has to step in…
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Joan of Arc — French Warrior, Blessed ”Maid” and Betrayed Martyr
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The Broad, the Myth, the LEGEND! We all know her name, but do you actually know her story? To start with, did you know that wasn't really her name?! Joan was born into a war-torn France at a time when French hope was greatly diminished. How on earth does a thirteen-year-old farm girl travel across dangerous, disputed territory, win an audience with…
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bell hooks — Profound Writer, Theorist, Scholar and Architect of Modern Feminism
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This week Sara brings us one of her personal heroes and feminist icons, the incomparable and prolific - bell hooks! Growing up a segregated Kentucky, Gloria Jean Watkins witnessed firsthand the wake of destruction wreaked by what she would later dub the Imperialist-White-Supremacist-Capitalist-Patriarchy. She spent the rest of her life in a fight a…
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Chrysame of Thessaly - The Priestess Who Took Down an Army
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When Cnopus goes to invade Erythrae he calls on an oracle to provide some wartime guidance. This oracle advises he put a Priestess of Hecate from Thessaly in charge of his army. Chrysame is sent forth from Thessaly and she immediately sets to work devising one of the most epic strategies of 11th Century BCE using none other than her Hecate-given kn…
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Mary "La Belle" Moloney - Irish Suffragist Who Silenced Winston Churchill
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In 1908, when Winston Churchill shoots his mouth off about women during an election cycle the suffragists in town are not having it, and Mary Moloney puts on her boots, grabs her dinner bell and becomes Churchill's greatest nightmare: A silencer of his voice. Mary rings her bell for a whole week during by elections in Dundee Scotland, following Chu…
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Broadly Speaking About Bears vs Men & Other Dangers
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Chloe joins Sara this week to talk about the laugh of the century: Why men can't figure out why a woman thinks bears are less dangerous than them and how deeply upset they are about it. They cover this latest viral TikTok, as well as the latest in women's rights in the US, the temptation of protest voting, Nikki Glaser's brilliant roast of Tom Brad…
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Beate Gordon — Jewish Feminist Who Wrote Women’s Rights into the Japanese Constitution [Chloe Skye]
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This week, Chloe Skye returns to bring us the story of Beate Gordon! When Beate's Ukrainian-born Jewish parents fled Russia in the 1920's, eventually landing in Japan, Beate fell in love with the Japanese people and culture, but WWII leaves Beate in the US, separated from her parents and unable to contact them. Beate uses her incredible ployglot sk…
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Kadambini Ganguly — First Female Medical Doctor in India
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This week, Sara brings us the story of Kadambini Ganguly, the first woman to graduate college, first woman admitted to an Indian medical school and the first female medical doctor in India! Her work wasn't limited to medicine, either. A champion for women's and worker's rights, Kadambini's socio-political impact on India was undeniably incredible. …
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Mary Baker Eddy - Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (aka - Christian Scientists!)
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Mary Baker Eddy did not have things easy. As a young girl, she was plagued with fits and ill health and then later much family tragedy made life even harder to bear. Mary found much comfort, though, in the scriptures and her study of them and this love of the the Bible would lead to her becoming one of the only women in modern history to have forme…
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Anna Dostoyevskava - Stenographer, Publisher and Writer (Married to Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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When Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina showed up on the doorstep of Fyodor Dostoyevsky to serve as his stenographer, helping him complete his next deadline, she had no idea that that life was about to change big time. What follows is an unusual courtship and unexpected happiness for both of them, despite Dostovesky's significant challenges, physical, famil…
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Sophia Tolstaya - Groundbreaking Photographer, Publisher & Businesswoman (Married to Leo Tolstoy)
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Sophia Tolstaya never got a lot of fame or credit for all her accomplishments, in fact, she is generally reviled as famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's b*tchy wife, but she was a brilliant talent and bright businesswoman herself. In fact, without her, Leo's work likely would never have been circulated so widely and successfully, nor would Leo hav…
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Mary Shelley - The Mother of American Gothic Horror
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Before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, even before Edgar Allen Poe wrote his Tell-Tale Heart, the genre of gothic horror was brought forth out of the incredible mind of a 21-year-old woman name MARY SHELLEY. Mary had already suffered quite a bit of loss in her first 21 years and her connection to death, grief, and the existential human story created not…
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Alexya Salvador — ”First Transgender Shepherd of Latin America"
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This week, Sara brings us the story of Alexya Salvador, the first transgender pastor in Brazil and all of Latin America, and the first transgender person to adopt a child in Brazil. As a young child, Alexya found great solace and belonging in the Catholic Church, so much so, that she entered seminary to begin a path to priesthood. But as her studie…
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Sarah Winchester — Millionaire Heiress, Builder of the Winchester Mystery House & Supernatural Legend
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This week, Sara brings us Sarah Winchester! When Sarah Winchester inherits the vast fortune of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company she decides to spend her fortune warding off the vengeful spirits of the victims of the Winchester rifle and builds the Winchester Mystery House - known widely as one of the most famous supernatural/haunted places in …
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Khutulun Khan (aka Turandot) — The Mongolian Warrior Princess & Wrestling Champion
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This week, Sara brings us the Mongolian Warrior Princess, Khutulun Khan! Her remarkable battlefield prowess was only eclipsed by her mad skills in the wrestling arena. This Princess-who-would-be-Khan (Great-great Granddaughter of Genghis Khan and cousin of Kublai Khan) wrestled & defeated hundreds of men to avoid arranged marriage. She helped her f…
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Carrie Johnson - 17 Year Old Who Faced a Capital Murder Trial
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We're wrapping up Black History Month with the story of Carrie Johnson! During the 1919 race riots of Washington D.C., Carrie and her dad were holed up at home trying to stay out of trouble, but when white policemen barge into their home and their .38 rifle hits and kills one of the detectives, Carrie and her dad are carted off to jail and put on t…
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Harriet Tubman - Mastermind Behind the Underground Railroad
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Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, guest Amelia Hammel brings us one of the most iconic Black Broads in American History - Harriet Tubman! Born into enslavement, Harriet Tubman suffered great at the hands of her "owners" including, one night as a six-year-old, taking at hit to the head by a metal tub. This skull cracking moment woul…
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Alice H. Parker - Inventor of the Natural Gas Heater
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We don't know much about the life of Alice H. Parker, except that the cold New Jersey winter annoyed her enough that she invented the first natural gas heater and "zoned heating" - the foundational technology for modern HVAC systems! Listen now to hear more about her groundbreaking invention, and what we know about this woman who created perhaps th…
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Constance Baker Motley — Lawyer, Judge, and ”Civil Rights Queen”
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This week, Sara brings us Constance Baker Motley - The first black woman to try a case before the Supreme Court, to serve in the NY Senate, to be elected Manhattan Borough President, to be appointed to a Federal Judgeship and to be promoted to Chief Judge. This powerhouse Broad was the role model for many of today's most prominent women of color in…
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Yu Gwan-sun — Korean Teenage Activist Who Fought for Independence
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This week we revisit the story of Yu Gwan-sun! Raised in a Japan-occupied Korea, Gwan-sun only knew life where her Korean culture was being oppressed and destroyed, but when she turned sixteen, armed with her education and mad love for her country she stands up for Korean Independence. Her story is one you won't want to miss! Special guest Earl T. …
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Broadly Speaking #18 - Why Oscar Snubbed Barbie
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Chloe Skye join us once more for a (sadly) expected rant against the Academy. Yes, we did this not so long ago after Ms. Viola Davis was snubbed for her stunning performance in The Woman King but we find ourselves here yet again. PLUS, since we spent a month in our own "Barbenheimer" series here it seems only right to give the world our own think p…
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Dr. Jessica Wade - Our #1 Champion of Women in S.T.E.M.
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Dr. Jessica Wade came from a family of brilliant scientific brains, so it's no wonder she dove head first into science, too. The further she got into her studies, though, the more she realized how alone she was - there were hardly any other women with her in Grad school! In fact, statistically the UK's numbers of women in S.T.E.M. are some of the l…
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Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke - New Zealand’s Youngest Māori MP
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The last election in New Zealand was accompanied by a huge wave of anti-indigenous & anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is NOT having it. Despite her youth (she's only 21!) and lack of political experience, she has donned the mantle of her political and activist ancestors and ran for Parliament - beating her incumbent who had held th…
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Wahoo! We made it through 2023!! The year wouldn't be complete without a Broads recap, though. Sara brings you a snapshot of some of the most incredible Broads we lost this year and all of their accomplishments, both for women specifically and all of humankind. Then we take a dive into the United Nations’ Progress on the Sustainable Development Goa…
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Betsy Ross — Designer of the First American Flag
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We've got a fabulous 2023 recap episode brewing, but it's not ready yet, so today we revisit our (one and only) New Year's Broad: Betsy Ross! That's right - Betsy Ross was born on January 1st. You may already know that Betsy Ross designed the first American Flag. But did you know that she increased sewing efficiency by switching from a 6-pointed st…
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Santa Broads - The Women Who Saved Christmas
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When America ran out of Santas during World War II what happened? Was Christmas cancelled while the men were overseas fighting? NOPE! The Rosie the Riveter spirit persisted, and WOMEN stepped up to the plate! But not everybody was happy about it. Learn how these Santa Broads came to be, who loved them, who hated them, and most importantly - DID THE…
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Jeanne Villepreux-Power - ”Mother of Aquariophily” & Inventor of the Aquarium
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Jeanne Villepreux-Power has to be one of the most interesting STEM broads from the 19th Century! The daughter of a shoemaker and a seamstress, Jeanne follows her mother's line of work and slays it, making dresses for the top royalty and high society Europeans. After marrying a well-to-do merchant, though, she doesn't have to work for a living anymo…
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Broadly Speaking #17: The Marvels, Greta Thunberg’s Accuracy, and Toasts to Sandra Day O’Connor & Rosalynn Carter
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Chloe Skye joins Sara for a long overdue check-in on all the exciting girl power moments of the moment including the fun-loving and *actually highly successful* film THE MARVELS. Despite what the box office magazine reports are saying, this movie is kicking the butts (in box office returns AND hearts) of other movies released around the same time I…
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Walpurga Hausmännin - The Infamous German Babykiller
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Germany in the 1500's was a pretty risky time to be a midwife - even a really good one. And so it was with poor Walpurga Hausmännin when 20 years of brilliant midwifery and healing was snatched away by a stupid rumor and some very unfortunate circumstances, leading to her arrest and subsequent witch trial. However, her story turns bizarre at her tr…
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Anacaona - Haitian Queen Who Led with Peace & the BYSK THANKSGIVING CHALLENGE!
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While history marks the first Thanksgiving as being in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621, it turns out that when Christopher Columbus (and his *sshole brother, Bartholomew) first land in modern-day Haiti in 1492, they were warmly welcomed and assisted in a similar fashion by today's Broad, Anacaona! A powerhouse leader of the Taino people, Anacaona l…
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Indestructible Women — Joy Andrew, Margery McCall, & Richmodis von Aducht [Chloe Skye]
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Sara has been busy MOVING this week, and didn't have time wrap up her research on some GERMAN WITCHES (come back next week!!), so today enjoy this throwback episode with Chloe bringing us the story of not one... not two... but THREE broads you should know, and they're together in this episode because they all have one thing in common: they were ind…
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Ana Koldings - ”Mother of the Devil” in Danish Witch Trials
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When King James IV of Scotland (later James I of England) has his grand wedding plans thwarted by bad weather in 1590, an investigation is launched as to the cause. Instead of discovering the gross incompetence of the men in charge of outfitting the royal fleets, they find a much more sinister cause - WITCHES who conspired to send tiny devils in ba…
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The Night Witches — Elite All-Female WWII Russian Air Force Unit
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Taking a break from the heavy-hearted witch trial content for a minute - we revisit one of our favorite BYSK episodes about a different kind of witch - THE NIGHT WITCHES! Dubbed the nachthexen by the german troops who heard nothing but a WHOOSH before their camps went up in flames - The Night Witches were a hastily trained, poorly equipped, all-fem…
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Beatrix Leslie of Dalkeith - 84-Year-Old Victim of the ”Great Scottish Witch Trials of 1661-62”
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Beatrix Leslie is an 84-year-old midwife living just outside Edinburgh, Scotland in 1661, which happened to be a very bad period of time to be a disliked elderly woman in the community because it was smack dab in the middle of the Great Scottish Witch Trials of 1661-1662. During a span of literally 16 MONTHS over 660 people were publicly accused of…
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Hypatia - Ancient Genius & ”Martyr of Philosophy”
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Hypatia is widely (but incorrectly) thought to be the first female mathematician in the world and is considered to be one of the foremost intellectuals and philosophers in the entire Roman empire. So how come we don't list her name when we talk about Plato and Aristotle? Also, why does her name come up when you google search for "witches in history…
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The Broads of the Salem Witch Trials
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This week Sara dives into the most well-known incident of witch hysteria in North America - the Salem Witch Trials! While many of you may be familiar with the story from your history classes and Arthur Miller's popular play-turned-Daniel-Day-Lewis-Winona-Ryder-movie The Crucible, Sara's research turns up some VERY interesting truths about the motiv…
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Half-Hanged Mary — The Woman Who Survived Multiple Witch Accusations and a Puritan Lynching Attempt [Caitlin Parrish]
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This week, special guest Caitlin Parrish tells us the story of "Half-Hanged" Mary Webster. Accused of witchcraft more than once in her lifetime, she does not escape the noose - but you'll have to listen to find out the rest! Her story predates the Salem witch trials by several decades and she is an ancestor of Margaret Atwood's, inspiring her poem …
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Women They Called Witches and ”The Most Important Femicide in the History of Mankind”
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Today Sara brings us a new Series for the fall (to the delight of spooky season lovers everywhere): Women They Called Witches! Throughout the entire world, and pretty much ALL of recorded history through TODAY, women have been accused of being witches and paid the price for it with their lives. One historian notes that the witch trials served as "t…
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Hatshepsut — Pharaoh Who Restored Glory to Egypt and was Erased from History [Zach Livingston]
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Special guest Zach Livingston brings us the story of the 2nd female Pharaoh, who expanded Egyptian trade and built many of the greatest wonders of Egypt throughout her reign, including the Valley of the Kings. Why, then, were her name and robust accomplishments only discovered in the late 19th century? Listen and find out! — A Broad is a woman who …
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Annie ”Londonderry” - The First Woman to Circumnavigate the World on a Bicycle
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Annie Cohen Kopchovsky is already struggling under the weight of patriarchy when two arrogant gentlemen wage a bet that a woman cannot possibly be as physically capable as a man nor able to care for herself as a man can. The wager? $10,000 if Annie can circumnavigate the world in less than 15 months and raise $5,000 in the process. Eager to prove t…
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Lucy Parsons — Anarchist Leader of the Labor Party and Advocate for Workers’ Rights
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This week, Sara researched Lucy Parsons, and enlightens all us Broads as to the history of the Labor Party & Anarchist Movement in the US in the early 20th Century! Lucy Parsons fought her entire life for workers' rights. She was possibly born a slave, but claims not to be Black at all. Still, she is considered by many to be one of the most importa…
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