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Today we're diving into the amazing story of Katie Sandwina! She was a strongwoman, suffragette and restarauter in the early 20th century. 

Recommendations: - The White Lotus (on BINGE)

- Christmas

Resources for this ep: 

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

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-great-sandwina

https://icantbelieveitsnonfiction.com/2019/05/07/katie-sandwina/

theescapeactshow.com/blog/past-catharina-katie-sandwina-brumbach-heymann

https://www.wsff.org.uk/resources/girls-and-education/changing-the-game-for-girls/index.html#:~:text=The%20first%20ever%20exercise%20material,figure%20skater%20Madge%20Syers%20(UK)

John D. Fair, “Kati Sandwina: ‘Hercules Can Be a Lady’,” Iron Game History, Vol. 9 No. 2 (Dec. 2005) (quoting Fields, “Hercules Can Be a Lady,” New York Mirror (Dec 1947)).

Welcome back to the Empowered Pod! 

We are back with a bang, in the first episode of our summer series, we are diving into the wild story of Dutch teenage assassin Freddie Oversteegen. 

If you want to hear more about Freddie's story, have a read of this Vice article:https://www.vice.com/en/article/dp5a8y/teenager-nazi-armed-resistance-netherlands-876

You can also read more about Freddie, Truus and Hannie in 'Under Fire: Women in World War II'. 

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References: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-dies-at-92.html

https://crimereads.com/truus-and-freddie-oversteegen-sisters-resistance-fighters/

We're back! To celebrate the return of the Empowered Pod AND International Women's day, we are back with a bang! In this episode we dive into the impressive life and career of the Notorious RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

If you want more RBG: 

- "My Own Words" by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016) 

 "Notorious RBG" by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhik (2015)

- Film "On the Basis of Sex" (2018) 

- Documentary "RBG" (2018) 

- New York Times Article (2015) 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/fashion/ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-gloria-steinem-on-the-unending-fight-for-womens-rights.html

 

Joyful Recommendations:

- Film "Tick Tick Boom" (2021) 

- Podcast "How to Fail: by Elizabeth Day" (S12, Ep6) 

- Spotify Playlist "The Picnic List"

 

Resources: 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg

https://www.oyez.org/justices/ruth_bader_ginsburg

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

In the second episode of Empowered Pod we chat about the incredible NASA mathmetician, Katherine Johnson. 

 

If you want more Katherine Johnson:

- "She was a computer when computer's wore skirts" NASA article 

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_kjohnson.html

 

- Film 'Hidden Figures' (2016)

Resources used:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39003904

 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katherine-Johnson-mathematician

 

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

In the very first episode of the Empowered Pod, we are chatting about the incredible life of Miss Nellie Bly.

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If you want more Nellie:

- Films "10 Days in a Madhouse" (2015) & "Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story" (2019)\

- Drunk History Season Two Ep "New York City" and Season Three Ep "Journalism"

- You can also check out books featuring Nellie including "Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls" & "What are Girls Good For" A Novel of Nellie Bly"

Resources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/28/she-went-undercover-expose-an-insane-asylums-horrors-now-nellie-bly-is-getting-her-due/

https://www.biography.com/activist/nellie-bly

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

https://www.biography.com/news/inside-nelly-bly-10-days-madhouse