Join Lexi and Tiffany to discuss what 'hyperconnected museums' are and how you can foster greater well-being in museums and your life! A celebration for International Museums Day 2018.

In celebration of our Heroines Quilt V: From Dark to Light exhibition, Tiffany explores the lives and works of female troubadours - known as trobairitz - during the 11th and 12th centuries. These incredible female poets and singers explored themes that resonate with us today, and provided one of the few examples of true female power and advocacy during the Medieval period.

Our podcast features "A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria", a 12th century Occitan language song by Comtessa de Dia. It is the only surviving music by a woman troubadour.

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It's the 100th anniversary of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"! Join us to discover her story and the stories of other young women who became science fiction legends, including Madeleine L'Engle, Octavia E. Butler, and Margaret Atwood.

Researched and written by Junior Girl Tracy Phillips.Recorded by Tiffany Rhoades.

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At Girl Museum, we have made a commitment to celebrating young girls - in both the past and the present. This means that we usually celebrate historical and social topics, but today we'd like to turn to something that museums are traditionally known for: art. There are so many young girls and women who are using art to make an impact on the world. With the advent of social media, many of these girls have taken to platforms like Instagram and Tumblr to share, celebrate, and utilize their work for social change. In this episode, we explore the works of five incredible girl artists, and take a look at our latest exhibition, Breathing Lessons by darlene anita scott.

Join us to discover the works of Kathrin Honesta (@kathrinhonestaa), Pranita Kochareka (@pranitart), Desiree De Leon (@dcossyle), Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (@tlynnfaz), and Aprill Hogue (@littlemsaprill) and get a sneak peek into one of our favorites works from Breathing Lessons.

This year marks 100 years since the Russian Revolution of 1917. A lot has happened since the years leading up to the Russian Revolution, and girls have been there through every change along the way.  Join our Educator Advisor, Hillary Hanel, to explore the girlhood experiences of Zoya Smirnova, Nelly Ptashkina, and Regina Pachter.

Happy belated International Day of the Girl Child! This holiday, celebrated every year on October 11, focuses on galvanizing worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls’ lives, providing an opportunity for girls to show leadership and reach their full potential. Around the world, groups came together to highlight, discuss, and take action to advance the rights and opportunities for girls everywhere.

Here at Girl Museum headquarters, we have long used International Day of the Girl to highlight an issue that many of us find integral to advancing girls’ rights: how girls are represented in museums. Throughout the years, we’ve found that some museums get it right - and others get it painfully wrong. For too long, girls have been the silent subjects of artworks - shown throughout museums yet never present in their own right. Their stories have been sidelined by technical art history or discussions of how the artists portraying them impacted history. Including girls’ voices - not just as subjects of museum displays, but as active agents and storytellers - is integral to ensuring that this key part of our history is represented, understood, and used to advocate for a better world.

So, today, our podcast will feature many of our Junior Girls and staff, who have visited museums around the world in order to take an in-depth look at how girls are represented in museums. In so doing, we hope to encourage museums - and their audiences - to reexamine the girls in their collections, so that girls and their stories - the good and the bad, the triumphant and the tragic - can finally take their rightful place in our heritage.

Museums we review include:National Museum of African American History and CultureSeneca Falls Women's Rights National Historic ParkKentucky Museum at WKUAbbey House MuseumVictoria and Albert Museum of Childhood

Presented by Devon Allen, Sage Daughtery, Ashley Remer, Tiffany Rhoades, and Chloe Turner.

 

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How did the Classical world view the female body? Join Lucy Bickley to explore the philosophical and real world examples of how girls and women could - or could not - control their bodies, and how this led to their status in Classical society.

Researched, written, and recorded by Lucy Bickley. Featured in our exhibition, Classical Girls, launching September 2017.

Do you know the tale of the "stolen girls" of the Civil Rights Movement? Join Emily Chandler to explore the story of the Leesburg Stockade, an event in the history of the African-American civil rights movement in which a group of girls, aged eleven to fifteen, were abducted by the police and unlawfully imprisoned in a condemned stockade for taking part in a peaceful protest. The girls were subjected to inhumane conditions and unable to contact their families for rescue. Yet their courage and tenacity helped them to navigate this life-changing experience. Many of the stolen girls, still alive today, are dedicated to making the world a better and fairer place for African-American people.

Researched, written, and recorded by Emily Chandler.

Think Anne Bonny, Mary Reed, Grace O'Malley were awesome? Wait until you hear about Ching Shih, the female Chinese pirate who rose from the lowliest class to become the fiercest (and most successful) pirate ever. This is her story.

Researched, written, and recorded by Emily Chandler.

What was life like for a girl in Ancient China? Join Devon Allen to explore girls' lives during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which reigned from 1675 to 256 BCE.