Have You Met Her?

We're talking about witchy women, magic and spooky stuff this month... Marie Laveau made my list because I feel like the mysticism around this Voodoo Queen more than qualified her. I scratched the surface and shared with you what I found... but there is so much more to find out about and admire in this woman who was a loved and respected leader, a successful businesswoman, and a caretaker of her community.

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We're going into Spooky-Season this month and talking about women who were Witches. Join me (if you dare!) to hear about Isobel Gowdie this week.... instead of exclaiming her innocence and begging for mercy, Isobel proudly admitted to her witchiness by weaving elaborate confessions and beautifully lyrical incantations.

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Join me this week to learn about Elizabeth Fry. She was a Quaker, a reformer, and someone who used her own voice to challenge cruelty, confront injustice, and to demand that society look at its most forgotten people not as criminals, but as human beings first.

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Today we're celebrating the POWERFUL VOICE of Flo Kennedy, a woman who called herself "the loudest mouth on the block." She was one of the original "rage baiters" who knew that in order to get people to listen, sometimes you had to make them uncomfortable.

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Join me this week to hear about a woman whose voice was calm, persuasive, and was so deeply powerful that it helped reshape the course of Australia's history. Faith was quoted as saying "If you can't change the world, change your street."

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We're talking about women who had POWERFUL VOICES this month... and Lucy Parsons starts us off. Lucy was a labor organizer, a writer and a gifted orator who poured everything she had into her beliefs. MANY have downplayed her contributions to the labor movement by referring to her as "Albert Parsons' wife"... but she was so much more than that.

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Imagine being a child in 1920s New York City and walking into a library only to find someone speaking your language AND telling stories your own abuela told you. That was the magic of Pura Belpre. She was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City, a storyteller, and a trailblazer who planted "story seeds" that continue to bloom.

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If there was imminent danger headed your way, what would you try to save? Obviously your loved ones, important documents, irreplaceable pictures. When our amazing woman this week heard the winds of war begin to howl, she ALSO hustled to save the things that were most important to her.

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Join me this week to learn about Suzanne Briet's innovative view on ideas, knowledge, data and documents. What do an antelope, a librarian, and the internet have in common? You'll know at the end of the episode.

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Join me this week to learn about the first certified children's librarian in Canada. Lillian Smith developed and pioneered children's library services that set standards worldwide. She loved and understood children and knew that her most important calling was getting the right book into the right hands at the right time.

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