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Female Trouble
by AudioStaq
A Baltimore Sun podcast spotlighting Charm City's most captivating and accomplished women. Hosted by Quinn Kelley.
Episodes
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Farewell, Female Trouble (episode 73)
After 72 episodes, Female Trouble is coming to an end. For this final episode, past guests of the podcast sent in voice memos updating listeners on what they’ve been up to since appearing on Female Trouble, and talking about about how they’d like to see the conversation around women change in…
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Tracy Dimond, poet and writer (episode 72)
Tracy Dimond writes about identity, chronic pain and the female body. Her latest work is a chapbook called “To Tracy Like / To Like / Like,” a longform poem about sexism, vulnerability and health, which she reads from in this episode. Tracy also co-curates Ink Press Productions, which specializes...
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Live from Women of the World Festival (episode 71)
We have a special live episode today from the Women of the World Festival. It’s a festival that Notre Dame of Maryland University puts on with a wide range of speakers and events, and last month, Quinn moderated a panel of trailblazing women in Baltimore. The panelists included Deb Tillett, the...
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Melanin Pop: Fashion expert Zoey Washington on all things royal wedding (episode 70)
Today we have a special episode of Female Trouble that's not really an episode of Female Trouble at all. Baltimore Sun reporters Brittany Britto and John-John Williams IV are launching a new podcast called Melanin Pop, which sits at the intersection of race, pop culture and current events. In…
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Heidi Daniel, Enoch Pratt Free Library CEO (episode 69)
In 2016, Enoch Pratt Free Library president Carla Hayden was selected to head the Library of Congress. Heidi Daniel was selected to replace her, stepping in to manage the 22-branch system. Heidi began her career in children's and teen programming in Oklahoma City and Houston before moving into...
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Britt Olsen-Ecker and Melissa Wimbish, Outcalls (episode 68)
In their own words, Outcalls are electronic opera queens. The band is Britt Olsen-Ecker and Melissa Wimbish, who build on their classical training to craft soulful, vocal-forward indie pop. Outcalls was founded in 2015, and Britt and Melissa later split off to form the current iteration of the...
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Karsonya ----Kaye---- Wise Whitehead, radio host, educator and #blackmommyactivist (episode 67)
Dr. Kaye Whitehead is a #blackmommyactivist and an associate professor in Loyola University Maryland’s department of communication. Her research and teaching examine race, class and gender. Kaye hosts a daily radio show on WEAA called “Today with Dr. Kaye,” and before working in academia, she was…
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Sarah Walker, Vent Coffee Roasters founder (episode 66)
For Sarah Walker, coffee has always been about more than just coffee. She founded Vent Coffee Roasters in 2013, with the goal of letting out the bad and taking in the good. Sarah has been the in-house coffee roaster at Argosy Cafe downtown since 2015, and in the spring she’ll be opening her first...
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Michelle Mendez, immigration attorney (episode 65)
Michelle Mendez is a senior attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network and manages the Defending Vulnerable Populations Project. In those roles, she trains lawyers across the country on how best to fight deportations and represents clients pro bono. Michelle’s work in the past has had a...
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Lor Choc, rapper and singer (episode 64)
Lor Choc brings together rapping and melodies to create her unique brand of autobiographical R----B. The Baltimore native came out with a mixtape called ----Worth the Wait---- in 2016, and is set to release her sophomore effort next month. Last year, Choc broke through to a wider audience with…
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Robbyn Lewis, Maryland state delegate (episode 63)
Robbyn Lewis has always been a public servant, but it wasn’t until last year that she held elected office. Robbyn represents Southeast Baltimore in Annapolis as a state delegate for Maryland’s 46th district. Before joining the General Assembly, Robbyn spent her time as a health care professional...
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Jessica 'Trillnatured' Hyman, DJ (episode 62)
Jessica Hyman came to DJing somewhat accidentally. Known as Trillnatured, Jessica now brings her eclectic style across the East Coast and DJs a monthly queer dance party at the Crown. She’s also a member of Balti Gurls, an artist collective for women of color. Jessica talked about conflict,...
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Sara Autrey, Wing Dam bassist and vocalist (episode 61)
Sara Autrey plays bass, sings and writes songs in the Baltimore band Wing Dam, a ‘90s-influenced guitar rock trio. The band, which includes Austin Tally and Abe Sanders, has put out three full-length albums, most recently 2016’s “Glow Ahead.” Sara talked about leaving her hometown, loving pop…
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Carol Ott, Housing Policy Watch director (episode 60)
In 2009, armed with a camera and research, Carol Ott began outing Baltimore’s slumlords. On her blog, Baltimore Slumlord Watch, she shared information about the owners of vacant and neglected properties, who she saw as contributing to the decay of Baltimore neighborhoods. The project found a wide...
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Jasmine Norton, Urban Oyster chef and owner (episode 59)
For Jasmine Norton, oysters are a family affair. Jasmine is the owner and chef at the Urban Oyster, a mobile oyster bar in Baltimore. Jasmine and her family serve up oysters in a casual, approachable manner, whether char-grilled with buffalo sauce or fried up in a taco, at festivals, farmers...
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Cara Ober, BmoreArt founding editor (episode 58)
When Cara Ober created BmoreArt a decade ago, she was driven by a curiosity about the ways artists build their lives in untraditional ways. Founded by Cara and friends from grad school in 2007, BmoreArt is an online publication of art and culture in the Baltimore area, offering reviews, reporting...
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Jessica Anya Blau, author (episode 57)
Jessica Anya Blau is insatiably curious about people. The author, who splits her time between Baltimore and New York, credits that curiosity with leading her into conversations and situations that sometimes inspire her books. Jessica is the author of four novels: “The Summer of Naked Swim…
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Meagan "Ducky Dynamo" Buster, DJ and organizer (episode 56)
With a passion for music and the environment, Meagan "Ducky Dynamo" Buster defies the notion of doing or being only one thing. At first managing and promoting artists, Meagan eventually started creating music herself as DJ Ducky Dynamo, and can be found bringing the sounds of Baltimore Club music...
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Maria Thompson, Coppin State University president (episode 55)
For Maria Thompson, education is the family business. With a background in textiles, Maria has worked as an administrator at Tennessee State University and served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at SUNY Oneonta. In July 2015, Maria became president of Coppin State University, a...
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Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler, Stoop Storytelling Series (episode 54)
Everyone has a story. What’s yours? That’s the motto of the Stoop, a Baltimore storytelling series created and hosted by Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin. Since its founding in 2006, hundreds of ordinary people have shared their 7-minute personal tales in front of a live audience. Ranging from...
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Saida Agostini and Shanti Flagg, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture (episode 53)
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is an activist collaboration based in Baltimore that uses art actions to inspire difficult and honest conversations about sexual and domestic violence. Two of the people leading those conversations are Saida Agostini, FORCE’s Chief Operating Officer, and Shanti…
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Kate Wagner, McMansion Hell creator (episode 52)
You might hate McMansions -- but do you know why? Kate Wagner does, and in wanting to educate people about the oversized, cheaply made and poorly designed beacons of suburbia, started a blog last year called McMansion Hell. On the blog, Kate translates architectural language into humorous…
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Wendy Osefo, political commentator and professor (episode 51)
Wendy Osefo aims to bring a voice to spaces where it would otherwise go unheard. The professor, media personality and political commentator regularly appears on cable news shows like “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Fox ---- Friends,” where she often goes head-to-head with opposing interviewers and...
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Krystal Mack, Blk // Sugar owner (episode 50)
Krystal Mack has led several lives -- most recently, that of a pastry chef and business owner. Krystal is the owner of Blk // Sugar bakery, which she has described as a food and lifestyle concept from the black feminine perspective. Blk // Sugar serves up treats like macarons, lavender honey pie...
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Donna Woodruff, Loyola University Maryland athletic director (episode 49)
Donna Woodruff is the new athletic director at Loyola University Maryland, and the first woman ever to hold that job. Loyola, located in Baltimore, is a NCAA Division I school, and at that level, about one in ten athletic directors is a woman. Before coming to Loyola, Donna spent 13 years at…
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Ramona S. Diaz, filmmaker (episode 48)
Ramona Diaz has always been an observer. Inspired by her upbringing, the Baltimore-based filmmaker tells character-driven stories that often highlight the diversity of the Filipino experience. Ramona’s documentary credits include “Imelda,” about the former First Lady of the Philippines; “The...
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April Ryan, White House correspondent (episode 47)
April Ryan has covered the news for decades, but it wasn’t until recently that she became part of it. April has been White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks for 20 years, covering the Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Trump administrations, and she contributes to CNN as a political...
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Jill P. Carter, Baltimore City Office of Civil Rights director (episode 46)
Ingrained in her since she was a child, justice and equality matter most to Jill P. Carter. Jill is the daughter of prominent civil rights activist Walter P. Carter, and she now serves as director of the Office of Civil Rights and Wage Enforcement. Before joining Mayor Catherine Pugh’s...
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Colette Shade, writer (episode 45)
Writer Colette Shade is probably best known for a nonfiction piece she wrote for Gawker in 2015 about the Maryland Hunt Cup. Centering around the Baltimore County horse race that took place almost a week after Freddie Gray’s death, the piece highlighted the disparities inherent to Baltimore’s...
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Ateira Griffin, Building Our Nation's Daughters founder (episode 44)
When Ateira Griffin was working at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, it broke her heart to hear about the challenging relationships between many of the students and their single moms. That, along with her strong relationship with her mother, inspired Ateira to start Building Our...
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Corynne Ostermann and Kim Te, Natural Velvet (episode 43)
On Natural Velvet’s new album, “Mirror to Make You,” the band puts forth female fury. Today on the podcast, Natural Velvet bassist and vocalist Corynne Ostermann and guitarist Kim Te come in to talk about their aggressively feminine music. Corynne and Kim make up half of the alternative post-punk...
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Bobbi Rush, musician (episode 42)
Bobbi Rush loves music she can cry to -- and the singer/songwriter strives to make work her listeners will feel deeply. Bobbi was born and raised in Baltimore, and in February she released “Miles,” produced by Micah E. Wood, which marked a departure from her gospel roots. The daughter of writers...
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Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, American Visionary Art Museum founder (episode 41)
Located at the base of Federal Hill, the American Visionary Art Museum showcases works by self-taught artists that empower the singular voice of the individual. At the museum, which features a mosaic exterior crafted by youth at risk, visitors will find pieces like the outdoor Giant WhirliGig, a...
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Caryn York, bail reform and workforce advocate (episode 40)
Caryn York, director of policy and strategic partnerships at the Job Opportunities Task Force, calls herself a workforce advocate. Most recently, that has taken the form of bail reform efforts. As reported by the Baltimore Sun’s Michael Dresser, in Maryland’s General Assembly session this year,...
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Amie Ward, R. Bar co-beverage director (episode 39)
Amie Ward will make you a vodka soda -- just be sure to tell her how you’re doing first. Hospitality is key for Amie, a bartender who worked at Baltimore’s Bad Decisions and Wit ---- Wisdom before taking over the Aggio bar program. Now Amie is the co-beverage director at R. Bar, which is inside...
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Spencer Hall and Annie Hollis, Baltimore Abortion Fund (episode 38)
Founded in February 2014, the Baltimore Abortion Fund offers small grants to residents in most of Maryland who can’t afford the full cost of their abortion care. Spencer Hall, the current board president, founded the all-volunteer organization when she was looking to get involved with…
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Michele Tsucalas, Michele's Granola founder (episode 37)
Michele Tsucalas didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur. What started out as a baking hobby became a company, Michele’s Granola, which is made from scratch in Timonium and distributed in stores like Whole Foods and Wegmans throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Though the company grew organically…
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Annie Milli, Live Baltimore marketing director (episode 36)
This week on Female Trouble we’re doing something a little bit different. If you haven’t listened before, this is usually a longform conversation podcast with one guest that spans their life and career, and though this conversation generally fits that format, we centered it around a Baltimore Sun...
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Jenn\u233\u Afiya, Balti Gurls founder (episode 35)
When multimedia artist and writer Jenn\u233\u Afiya started involving herself with Baltimore’s community of young artists, something clicked: the scene was often very white, very male and not always very local. What started out as a Facebook message to a handful of people just to vent turned into...
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Molly Tierney, Baltimore City Department of Social Services director (episode 34)
In 2014, Molly Tierney gave a popular and provocative TEDxBaltimore Talk titled “Rethinking Foster Care,” which examined an unchecked loyalty to the idea of foster care and the flaws of intervention. As the director of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, Molly manages the city’s…
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Wanda Draper, Reginald F. Lewis Museum executive director (episode 33)
Storytelling has been a constant in Wanda Draper’s life. The executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture got her start in journalism and has since held various positions in communications. After graduating from the University of Maryland,...
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Joy Postell, singer, rapper and songwriter (episode 32)
Joy Postell's sensitivity is her superpower. The singer, rapper and songwriter is an up-and-comer in the Baltimore music scene, who most recently released a single called "Consciousness" and an accompanying video, in which she plays the roles of icons including Angela Davis, Billie Holiday, Nina...
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Ava Pipitone, Baltimore Transgender Alliance executive director (episode 31)
Unify, reclaim, empower. Those are the goals of the Baltimore Transgender Alliance, which, in its own words, “works to uplift the voices of transgender and gender non-conforming people in Baltimore City.” Ava Pipitone serves as executive director of the alliance, and she talked about the meaning…
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Diane Bell-McKoy, Associated Black Charities president (episode 30)
Diane Bell-McKoy is the president and CEO of Associated Black Charities, which is not, as the name would lead you to believe, an association of black charities. Rather, it’s a public foundation that focuses on addressing racial disparities in Baltimore and across Maryland with an emphasis on...
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Liz Cornish, Bikemore executive director (episode 29)
Liz Cornish’s relationship to biking started out of convenience, but now it’s at the center of her work. Liz is the executive director of Bikemore, an advocacy organization that works to improve bicycle infrastructure, policies and awareness in Baltimore. Before coming to Baltimore, Liz was...
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Josephine Olivia, Blacksage singer (episode 28)
By combining haunting vocals, bass-heavy beats and elements of synth pop, Josephine Olivia and Drew Scott create the experimental dreamscape that is Blacksage. Josephine, an Annapolis native, sings and writes in Blacksage, which released their second full-length album, “Shivers,” last year....
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Zainab Chaudry, activist and CAIR spokeswoman (episode 27)
Zainab Chaudry loves to subvert expectations. She oversees all Maryland operations and acts as spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, but there’s a lot more to her identity than that. Zainab was the first Muslim member of...
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Kathy Westcoat, Behavioral Health System Baltimore president (episode 26)
In a recent Baltimore Sun story, Erin Cox and Michael Dresser reported that 41 percent of Maryland residents said the escalating opioid epidemic has directly affected them or someone they know over the past five years. That number comes from a Gonzales poll, and among Baltimore city residents…
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Kay Sera, burlesque performer (episode 25)
"The stigmatization of a woman taking power and revealing herself on her own terms, I think, can frighten people and make them feel uncomfortable," said Kay Sera, a Baltimore-based burlesque performer. Taking her name from Doris Day's "Que Sera, Sera," Kay, who specializes in neo-burlesque, is...
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Kim Schatzel, Towson University president (episode 24)
Kim Schatzel is used to being the first woman to fill a role. She was happily surprised to learn that wouldn’t be the case when she became president of Towson University, the second-largest public university in Maryland. Schatzel, who has served as president since January and was inaugurated in...
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