INTRO - 12:00: Hannah and Deanna talk about what it’s like to be in New York right now during the COVID-19 quarantine scenario that has become our lives.

13:00 - 37:00: Hannah tells the timely (and terrifying) tale of our person of the week, Typhoid Mary.

INTRO -10:47: Deanna introduces the show with the story of Sally Meinke, renowned Hollywood editor who is best known for her work with director Quentin Tarantino.

11:48 - 48:52: Lights. Camera. Action! Hannah shares the story of our person of the week, Hollywood director, Dorothy Arzner.

LINKS:

Judith Mayne, both her book Directed by Dorothy Arzner and her article https://filmquarterly.org/2017/07/12/scandale-dorothy-arzner-in-paris/)

Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dorothy-arzner-hidden-star-maker-of-hollywood-s-golden-age) Wikipedia

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1920s-dorothy-arzner-paved-way-female-directors-today-180955904/

https://www.tiff.net/the-review/dorothy-arzners-working-girls https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-dorothy-arzner/ (women film pioneers project)

LINKS:

https://lwlies.com/articles/how-mae-west-took-on-the-hollywood-studio-system-and-won/ - Lynsey Ford

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/21/greatinterviews - Charlotte Chandler

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

INTRO - 57:29: Deanna shares her massive undertaking of research on our person of the week, Mae West, and all of her various conquests.

LINKS:

Public Medievalist series:
https://www.publicmedievalist.com/race-racism-middle-ages-tearing-whites-medieval-world/

INTRO - 8:30: Hannah shares the story behind her person of the week. Check out the link above which she discovered after one of her tweets got a lot of love and inspired the research she did for this episode.

9:25 - 35:38: Hannah presents the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, our person of the week and the last featured episode of 2020 Black History Month.

3:57 - 43:25: Deanna brings an amazing story of one of our contemporaries, and a very cool person of the week, prolific filmmaker, Ava Duvernay.

INTRO - 5:10: Deanna tells us the history behind why African American Heritage Month, Black History Month, happens in February.

6:05 - 36:19: Hannah, currently on her own hair journey, tells us about this week’s awesome person, Madam C.J. Walker.

INTRO - 7:35: Hannah shares a fascinating story from Relationship Reddit.

8:30 - 30:20: Deanna introduces us to Gladys West, our first person of the week this African-American Heritage Month, and someone whose life work makes your every single day easier.

INTRO - 41:30: Hannah tells the stories of the women who shaped the prohibition movement of 1920’s America.

INTRO - 13:37: Hannah and Deanna reflect on the past decade and talk about what they are looking forward to in 2020 and the decade to come.

14:30 - 53:30: Hannah shares the life story of our person of the week, Louisa May Alcott and what inspired some of her most famous works, including “Little Women.”

INTRO - 14:45: Hannah tells us about Christmas’ pagan traditional origins.

14:40 - 42:42: Deanna shares the story of our person of the week, Fredricka “Marm” Mandelbaum.