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Good Witches, Bad Bitches
by Moonbounce
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.
Episodes
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Marian Anderson, A Musical Icon | Episode 122
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 Ault https://www.npr.org/2014/04/09/298760473/denied-a-stage-she-sang-for-a-nation - Susan...
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Octavia Butler, Visionary Science Fiction Writer | Episode 121
Sources: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639299/octavia-butler-author-facts https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html...
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Josefina Guerrero, the Outcast Spy | Episode 120
Sources: https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/when-leprosy-made-her-the-most-reliable-spy-of-world-war-ii-4b3043b95199 - Jhemmylrut Teng https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/philippines-spy-joey-guerrero - Lea Schram von Haupt...
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Daughters of the Confederacy, the Southern Women's Cult to White Supremacy | Episode 119
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-confederacy...
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Frances Marion, the Original Screenwriter | Episode 118
Sources: The Woman Who Invented the Hollywood Screenwriter By Pamela Hutchinson: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6948-the-woman-who-invented-the-hollywood-screenwriter Links: Without Lying Down by Cari Beauchamp:...
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Sarah Biffin, the Extraordinary Miniaturist | Episode 117
Sources: https://philipmould.com/news/13-who-was-sarah-biffin-the-woman-behind-the-record-breaking-self-portrait.-by-emma/ - Emma Rutherford http://numberonelondon.net/2018/05/the-amazing-sarah-biffen-artist-extraordinaire/ - Victoria Hinshaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Biffen...
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Sacheen Littlefeather, Activist, Actor, Native Health Pioneer | Episode 116
Links: Sacheen's Oscar Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU&t=42s Marlon Brando's full speech: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/godfather-ar3.html The Alcatraz Proclamation: https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=ALCATRAZ_Proclamation...
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Wilma Mankiller: Chief, Activist, Visionary | Episode 115
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-9780358460282/9780358408307 CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson:...
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Mary Church Terrell, Civil Rights Wunderkind | Episode 114
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-9780358460282/9780358408307 CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson:...
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Alice Mitchell, An American Murderer | Episode 113
Links: Fight for democracy in Georgia: https://fairfight.com/ How Victorian Men Taught Us To Hate Corsets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNwTqanp0Aw Sources: https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mitchell-alice.htm https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174907?seq=1…
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An Extra Bloody GWBB Halloween | Episode 112
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 -...
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Rose Mackenberg, Ghost Buster | Episode 84
INTRO - 46:05 : Hannah reveals the awesomeness of out person of the week, Rose Mackenberg.
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Maria Andreu, First Hispanic Woman to Serve in the U.S. Coast Guard | Episode 110
INTRO - 35:38 : Deanna enlightens us with the story of our person of the week, Maria Andreu
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Fighting Shirley Chisholm | Episode 109
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...
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Edith Garrud, Sufragette, Martial Artist, Body Guard | Episode 108
INTRO - 30:00 : Deanna presents our badass person of the week, Edith Garrud.
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Lady Catherine Moon | Episode 107
INTRO - 40:15 : Hannah recounts the mythic Western tale of our person of the week, Lady Moon.
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Norma Smallwood, the First Native Woman to Win Miss America | Episode 106
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:
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Marsha P. Johnson, The Saint of Gay Life | Episode 105
INTRO - 50:51 : Hannah recounts the life and legacy of LGBTQIA+ icon, and our person of the week LINKS: Trans Organizations to Donate to: https://www.bustle.com/p/32-black-led-queer-trans-organizations-to-support-22959025 http://transhousingatlanta.org/ https://marshap.org/about-mpji/ Piece about...
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Gladys Bentley, a Gender Nonconforming American Blues Icon | Episode 104
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:...
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The Combahee River Collective and the Birth of Intersectional Feminism | Episode 103
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...
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, The Activist Princess of India | Episode 102
INTRO - 40:50 : Deanna tells the amazing story of our person of the week, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur!
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Chien-Shiung Wu, First Lady of Physics | Episode 101
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:...
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Legendary Cult Film Star and All Around Badass, Tura Satana | Episode 83
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!
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Vicki Manalo Draves, The First Female Asian American Olympic Champion | Episode 100
INTRO - 20:40 : Hannah presents our 100th person of the week, Vicki Manalo Draves!
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Anne Sullivan, the Miracle Worker | Episode 99
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
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Julia Child, America's Favorite Chef | Episode 98
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=b0rOJmBx8rE SNL Sketch with Dan Akroyd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxv6IGBgFQ
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The Theme Park Legacy of Leota Toombs | Episode 97
INTRO - 26:16 : Deanna tells us about our person of the week, Leota Toombs
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Khutulun, the Wrestler Princess of Mongolia | Episode 96
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.
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Susan La Flesche, First Native American Woman to Earn a Medical Degree | Episode 95
INTRO - 34:19: Deanna shares the story of our person of the week, Susan La Flesche.
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Typhoid Mary, the First Super Spreader | Episode 94
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.
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Dorothy Arzner, The First Female Member of the Director's Guild | Episode 93
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:...
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Mae West, Hollywood's Hottest Sex Symbol of the 1930's | Episode 92
LINKS: https://lwlies.com/articles/how-mae-west-took-on-the-hollywood-studio-system-and-won/ - Lynsey Ford https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/21/greatinterviews - Charlotte Chandler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West INTRO - 57:29: Deanna shares her massive undertaking of…
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Dido Elizabeth Belle, From Slavery to Aristocracy in the 1700's | Episode 91
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...
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Ava Duvernay, Visionary Contemporary Filmmaker | Episode 90
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.
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Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Self-Made Black Millionaire | Episode 89
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.
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Gladys West, the Baddest Mathematician You've Never Heard Of | Episode 88
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.
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The Legacy of Women and Prohibition | Episode 87
INTRO - 41:30: Hannah tells the stories of the women who shaped the prohibition movement of 1920’s America.
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The Not So Little Life of Louisa May Alcott | Episode 86
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...
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Mother's Night and the Mother of Thieves, Fredricka "Marm" Mandelbaum | Episode 85
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.
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Happy Halloween! Double Stuffed Spooky Spooktacular! | Episode 82
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...
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Mary Shelley, OG Goth and Author of Frankenstein | Episode 81
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. LINKS Mixtape Massacre Game:...
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Jamie Lee Curtis, The Original Scream Queen | Episode 80
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. LINKS The Halloween Unmasked (now renamed Quentin Tarantino's Feature Presentation) Podcast:...
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Leona Vicario, the Mother of Mexican Independence | Episode 79
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.
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María Jesús Alvarado Rivera, La Primera Feminista Iberoamericana | Episode 78
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.
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Carmen Contreras-Bozak, First Puerto Rican Woman to Go Overseas in WWII | Episode 77
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)…
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Brenda Berkman Fought Discrimination So She Could Fight Fires and Save Lives | Episode 76
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...
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The "Lioness of Brittany", Jeanne De Clisson, Brought Vengeance in Three Black Ships with Red Sails | Episode 75
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...
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Stagecoach Mary Fields, Badass Postal Worker of the Old West | Episode 74
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…
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Sana Amanat, The Modern Marvel Who is Reshaping Representation in Comics | Episode 73
INTRO - 36:20 | Deanna shares the marvelous story of our person of the week, Sana Amanat.
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Margaret Cavendish, Philosopher, Writer, Creator of Science Fiction | Episode 71
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=live Aphra Behn:...
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