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Hot Girl Histories
by Hot Girl Histories
Join Claire Elizabeth Taylor, an aspiring academic girlboss on her journey to bring to life the unspoken histories of girls, gays and non-binary slays. A podcast made by and for the aforementioned parties. Let’s get hip, hot, and hilarious loves!!For all things HGH, including works discussed in episodes: https://beacons.ai/hotgirlhistoriesInstagram: @hotgirlhistoriesEmail: [email protected] with episode ideas or to come on!
Episodes
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The History of Sabrina Pasterski
The history of Sabrina Pasterski may be the most recent history covered so far, but it is no less jampacked. From building a plane at nine years old to offering Jeff Bezos that she can send him Mars, and being the first woman to graduate with a perfect GPA from MIT in two decades (in addition to...
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Interviewing Gloria Steinem, Becoming Miss U.S.A, and Beginning Again ft. Kathleen O'Malley Taylor
Grab your favorite mug, some tea, and a cozy blanket for this chilllll episode <3 besides chatting about Gloria Steinem and entering a 1980 beauty pageant to get into college, my mother and I speak mostly about dreams: being a young woman with big writing dreams, then transitioning into being a...
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Womenheimer: Men Will Take You Only So Far... ft. Theoretical Physicist Tomasz Taylor
Theory will take you only so far? MEN will take you only so far! Joined by my particle physicist father, we dissect Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and some of the many women involved in the Manhattan Project that the movie fails to mention including Mary Frankel, Elizabeth Riddle Graves, Naomi...
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A History of Female Hysteria: Neurosis, Witches, and Humours Oh My! ft. Mayu
Hot Girl Historian Mayu returns to speak on the first mental disorder attributed to women: hysteria, aka the daughter's disease, aka the madness of love! We start in 2000 BC with Hippocrates' idea of hysteron, move to Galen and Soranus' thoughts on how to deal with venomous humours coming from...
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Slay thy Manor House Down! Medieval Queers, Sex Work, and Disabilities ft. Naoki Matsumoto
Joined by medievalist Naoki Matsumoto, Hot Girl Histories says HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! by diving into trans studies in medieval history. We examine cases of "transvestites," "sodomites," and lesbians, then digress into sex work and physical disability histories in the medieval period. Starting in 1394...
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Second-Wave Feminism: Germany, Chornobyl, & the Wave Metaphor ft. Charlotte Oakes
Hot Girl Historian Charlotte Oakes joins Claire to discuss second-wave feminist movements in East and West Germany, Chornobyl's impact on the evolution of eco-feminism, real-existing socialism for women, mummy politics, and the double burden of women in East Germany during Soviet times. We also...
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The Edinburgh Seven ft. Janey Jones
I'm honored to have Janey Jones, the author of The Edinburgh Seven, on the podcast to discuss the incredible stories of Sophia Jex Blake, Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Helen Evans, Matilda Chaplin, Emily Bovell, and Mary Anderson. In 1869, they fought to be the first women to study medicine in...
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Esperanto Wor(l)ds and Girls: The Early Days of a Constructed Language ft. Dr. Bernhard Struck and Dr. Guilherme Fians
Esperant...huh? Who's Zamenhof? What's Esperanto? You're telling me people in Dundee, Scotland were speaking this constructed language in 1910? Yes, and that's what Esperanto Wor(l)ds: Scotland, Postcards, and the Creation of an International Language, on display at the Wardlaw Museum until 29…
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Women in CERN: Lise Meitner (1878-1968) & Meet My Theoretical Physicist Father, Professor Tomasz Taylor
In this first episode of our Women in CERN series on Hot Girl Histories, we are joined by HGH dad who happens to be a theoretical physicist (meaning he has studied really tiny things called particles for over 40 years now)! In the ethereal town of Fraserburg with seagulls squawking in the...
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Decolonizing Spaces of Knowledge ft. Emil Eleftheriotis-Pratt
Joined by half-Scottish half-Greek spatial historian Emil Eleftheriotis-Pratt, this excruciatingly long episode tackles the question: How can decolonization be more than a buzzword that Claire embarrassingly wears on an overpriced t-shirt? We discuss Boris Johnson's not very hot takes on the...
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Gaslight, Gatekeep, Guerilla: The Story of Algerian Women's Fight for Independence ft. Mayu Sadler
Joined by a fellow hot girl historian and survivor of honours Modern History modules, Mayu Sadler and Claire unpack the various roles Algerian women played in the 1954-62 Algerian War of Independence (only recognized as a war by the French in 1999... yikes!) and the shapeshifting identities of...
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An Alternative History of House ft. GetEduK8ed PART 2
With radio show host and BEHAVE extraordinaire on the hot girl pod again, Claire and GetEduk8ed leave Frankie Knuckles at The Power Plant in 1982 to explore the transnational house scene that bursts in the 90s! From London to Johannesburg, we discuss women DJs, and highlight some influential…
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Welcome to Hot Girl Histories - An Introduction
Acquaint yourself with the hot girl mastermind behind this up-and-coming, not-your-average hot history podcast EXTRAVAGANZA made by, for, and about the girls and the gays!! xx Follow the Instagram: @hotgirlhistories Tik tok: hottt.girl.histories personal insta: @cclairetaylor
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join Claire Elizabeth Taylor, an aspiring academic girlboss on her journey to bring to life the unspoken histories of girls, gays and non-binary slays. A podcast made by and for the aforementioned parties. Let’s get hip, hot, and hilarious loves!!For all things HGH, including works discussed in episodes: https://beacons.ai/hotgirlhistoriesInstagram: @hotgirlhistoriesEmail: [email protected] with episode ideas or to come on!
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