In this week's "Recapisode", Laura & Stefania revisit the extraordinary story subject's from Season 1! From sharing audience feedback to recounting their own intimate and personal connections to the personalities of Season 1, to corrections and a few extras, come join us on a walk down memory lane, before we blast off into Season 2!

In this week's Inbetweenisode, Laura & Stefania delve deeper into the life of Episode 10's Bella Abzug with guest, LEANDRA ZARNOW, an Associate Professor in the Department of History, and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Jewish Studies at University of Houston. She is a specialist in U.S. women’s political, legal, and intellectual history, with an additional interest in media and archival studies and global gender history. An esteemed public historian, Zarnow is also the author of Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug.

Zarnow seeks to bridge academic, activist, and community spaces in her work on and off university campuses and she is “committed to making history accessible and useful to a public audience.”

Books by Leandra Zarnow: 

"Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug" 

"Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920" (Co-authored with Stacie Taranto)

Find Leandra at: 

www.leandrazarnow.com

Or on Twitter: 

@LZarnow

Laura delves into a "Dash of Context" in telling the story of Reconstruction & Jim Crow. 

Episode Sources

YouTube

The US Reconstruction Plans by “Vision Chasers”

Johnson v. The Radical Republicans by “Vision Chasers”

Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History #22 by “CrashCourse”

What were the Jim Crow Laws? by “Vision Chasers”

Jim Crow and America's Racism Explained by Hip Hughes

Websites

Reconstruction by History.com

Reconstruction, United States History by Eric Foner

Reconstruction era Wikipedia

Isaac Woodard Wikipedia

Sharecropping by History.com

Sharecropping Wikipedia

Watch List:

When They See Us - TV Mini-Series - Available on Netflix 

The 13th - Available on Netflix  

Dear White People - Available on Netflix 

Fruitvale Station - Amazon Prime Film

Just Mercy - Film - Available on Crave

The Hate You Give - Film  

Amend - Available on Netflix 

Good Trouble - Documentary - Available on Netflix 

 

Book Recommendations:

The Myth of Race by Robert Sussman

The Colour of the Law by Richard Rothstein 

 

Additional Sources:

1. Brownstein, Michael, "Implicit Bias", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/implicit-bias/

 

2. Hilaire, Jourdan, “A Call to Action”, Inside Higher Ed, June 10, 2020

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/06/10/recommendations-how-white-allies-can-truly-support-black-people-and-their

 

3. Capatides, Christina, “The Difference Between Being not Racist and Being Antiracist”, CBS News,  June 25, 2020, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/antiracist-not-racist-difference/

 

4. Jane Elliot: Blue Eyes - Brown Eyes Experiment Antiracism, YouTube Video, Posted June 18, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brown+eyes+blue+eyes+experiment+video

 

5. Colucci, Candice, ESQ, host. “Episode 3: Civil Rights with Jane Elliot”. Legal Gangster. 8 June 2020. Apple Podcasts.

In this week's Inbetweenisode, Laura (@lauramcneiceart) and Stefania (@stefaniaindelicato) sit down with award-winning journalist and best-selling author, Don Lattin (@lattindon) to discuss Ram Dass, biographies, psychedelics, spirituality and the parallels between the 1960/70s and today.

Book Recommendations:

Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium by Richard Cimino and Don Lattin (1998)

Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today by Don Lattin (2003)

Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge by Don Lattin (2007)

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin (2010)

Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk by Don Lattin (2012)

Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy by Don Lattin (2017)

Running from Religion: What the actual lives of our ancestors teach us about "traditional family values" by Don Lattin 

How to Change Your Mind What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollen

The Acid Test by Tom Schroder

Youtube Watch List:

Psychedelic Pioneers with Don Lattin

Don Lattin - Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy

Don Lattin: The Harvard Psychedelic Club

In this episode Laura & Stefania share a little of their "behind the scenes" journey as they reflect on the making of Season One! Mistakes were made, lessons were learned, belly laughs were had, and gratitude abounds! 

No Sources Necessary.

Stefania tells the story of BELLA ABZUG, a lawyer, politician, feminist and civil rights activist who championed human rights for all, as one of the first members of congress to fight for gay rights. She galvanized a new generation of women to enter politics, and was the founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus, and the Women’s Strike for Peace. Born: July 24, 1920, The Bronx, New York, U.S.A.; Died: March 31, 1998, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, U.S.A.

Episode Sources

Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug

Book written by Leandra Zarnow

US National Archives

Streamed Dec. 12, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hU7XGoRuwY&t=436s

 

History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “ABZUG, Bella Savitzky,” https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/A/ABZUG,-Bella-Savitzky-(A000018)/ (March 08, 2021)

https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/8276

 

Bella Abzug in Her Own Words 

Video Reasoner102

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3lq_u39q8&t=2s

Produced by Progressive Source Communications 

 

Center for American Women and Politics

“How Bella Abzug changed credit laws.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjIuhY12tY&t=1s

In a mock American Express ad created at a 1983 Center for American Women and Politics (http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu​) conference, Congresswoman Bella Abzug tells how she helped secure equal credit for women.

 

Excerpt Working Class Women Changing their World- Bella Abzug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh1tAVvEOak

Neighborhood Women Williamsburg-Greenpoint

Working Class Women Changing Their World is a film from the National Congress of Neighborhood Women's first conference in Washington, DC., directed by Christine Noschese and produced by Jan Peterson and Christine Noschese, 1977.

 

Hillary Clinton honors Bella Abzug at memorial in her honor following her passing in 1998.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brkElVzRGsI

 

Harvey Fierstein is Bella Abzug 

Metro Focus 

 “Bella Bella” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57JpBpiQ0co

 

Title IX - Wikipedia 

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

Laura tells the story of WANGARI MAATHAI, a Kenyan political activist and doctor of veterinary anatomy whose environmental and political activism led to the establishment of The Greenbelt Movement and the planting of 50 million trees. She became the first African Woman to receive the Nobel Prize. Born: April 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya; Died: September 25, 2011, Nairobi, Kenya.

Sources

Documentary: Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011) KTN News Kenya

Faces of Africa - Wangari Maathai: The Eco-Warrior with a Smile CGTN Africa

Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed : a memoir. William Heinemann, 2007

The Noble Prize; Wangari Maathai Biographical 

The Greenbelt Movement, Biography, Wangari Maathai

Wikepedia, Wangari Maathai

Stefania tells the story of GA’AXSTA’LAS aka JANE CONSTANCE COOK, an Indigenous woman who was a nurse, healer, activist, interpreter, and translator who regularly took on the role of mediator between the Indigenous peoples - within and outside of her community of Alert Bay - and the Canadian Government. Born: 1870 Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound, Puyallup, Washington, Died: October 16, 1951, Alert Bay, BC.

 

Episode Sources

Ga’axsta’las - Jane Constance Cook 

 

Robertson, Leslie A. Standing Up With Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom. Vancouver, British Columbia, UBC Press, 2012.

 

Healey, Haley. On Their Own Terms: True Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island. Victoria, BC, Heritage House Publishing Company, 2020.

Laura tells the story of VIKTOR FRANKL, a psychiatrist and holocaust survivor, whose work centered around the school of logotherapy: the study of one’s motivation, and how it relates to their existential purpose or meaning in life. His autobiography, Man’s Search for Meaning is a first hand account of much of his study of finding meaning in suffering. Born: March 26, 1905, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria; Died: Sept. 2, 1997, Vienna, Austria.

Sources

The Viktor Frankl Institute, Viktor Emil Frankl timeline

The Independent, Obituary: Viktor Frankl, By: Morton Schatzman, 2011.10.23 

Man's Search for Meaning, By: Viktor Frankl 1946

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, Book by Malcolm Gladwell 2019.09.01

The prime minister with a man crush for Hitler: The day MacKenzie King met the Fuhrer, By: Tristin Hopper 2017.05.15 

Viktor Frankl Wikipedia

Stefania tells the story of Dr. WILDER PENFIELD, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute, and one of Canada’s first Neurosurgeons whose work on mapping the human brain led to new methods and techniques in brain surgery, and further developed the surgical treatment of Epilepsy. Born: January 26, 1891, Spokane, Washington; Died: April 5, 1976, Montreal, QC.

 

Episode Sources:

1. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder_Penfield

2. From the Mcgill - Neuro Page on Wilder Graves Penfield. https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/about/history/notable-figures/wilder-graves-penfield

3. New York Times: "W.G. Penfield, Neurologist, Dies". April 6, 1976. https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/06/archives/wg-penfield-neurologistdies-refined-techniques-to-treat-epilepsy.html

4. The Legacy of Patient H.M. for Neuroscience. Larry R. Squire. NCBI. PMC. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2649674/

5. Why Wilder Penfield is the Greatest McGillian, by Brenda Milner . June 18, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgzokHDD2k

6. Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder_Penfield

7. Penfield, Epilepsy and the Functional Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EDPLccSoO8

8. Neurosurgery, Groundhog day, and Dr Penfield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iePt8ZioO6c&feature=emb_title

9. Maclean's Magazine. "Interview with Dr. Wilder Penfield". April 19, 1976. https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1976/4/19/interview

10. Geni. www.geni.com. Wilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, FRS. https://www.geni.com/people/Wilder-Graves-Penfield-OM-CC-CMG-FRS/6000000024062642437