BitchStory - Stories of badass women that history "forgot"

Lesson 7 pays tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the other women who serve on the Supreme Court. (Hint: they all fit into one episode because there’s only FIVE! Ugh !)

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We know the name Susan B. Anthony (hopefully), but she was not alone in the fight for women's rights and specifically, the right for women to vote.  In this Bitchstory lesson, we discuss some of the badass women who laid it all on the line in the name of equality. We specifically focus on Sojourner Truth, and there is a lot to unpack just in her story.  But we also touch on some other great women and their contributions to women's equality.

"At a time when most Americans thought of slaves as male and women as white, Truth embodied a fact that still bears repeating: Among the blacks are women; among the women, there are blacks." - Nell Irvin Painter, regarding Sojourner Truth

Bonus info in this episode: did you know that Abe Lincoln attended a seance...in the Whitehouse? 

Sources for this episode: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth

https://gettysburgcompiler.org/2015/08/14/antebellum-spiritualism-and-the-civil-war/

https://www.shondaland.com/live/a23652668/legacy-of-spiritualists/

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/seances-in-the-red-room

https://www.nysut.org/resources/special-resources-sites/womens-committee/womens-history-2020/unsung-heroines-of-womens-suffrage

Madame CJ Walker was the first self made millionaire in the US.  Like most all women in business, she had to deal with more than her share of bullshit.  But add the fact that she was a black woman in the newly liberated south, and...let's just say she overcame a lot! In my mind, she was the trail blazing predecessor for other successful women in the beauty industry, like Mary Kay, who also gave a great deal to charity and philanthropic causes. 

Show Research:

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/madame-c-j-walker

Madam CJ Walker - HISTORY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker

https://www.biography.com/inventor/madam-cj-walker

Joan of Arc. Was she sane? Was she a witch? A heretic? She changed the course of European history at the age of 16, and she might be the first Bitchstorically recorded feminist!

SOURCES:

https://www.history.com/news/7-surprising-facts-about-joan-of-arc

https://daily.jstor.org/joan-of-arc-for-fascists-and-feminists/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/joan-arc-burned-stake

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thetravel.com/facts-joan-of-arc-france-travel-destinations/amp/

Bitchstory - badass women in history, is our brand new podcast.  Bitchstory is a spinoff of BitchSplaining (also available on major podcasting platforms) and will highlight the women of history that they didn't teach us about in school!  This first episode is about Sybil Ludington, the 16 year old badass girl version of Paul Revere…only better! 

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