As the seasons turn, we turn back to dial and head into the ancient past! This month we uncover the fascinating story of Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All The Rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott. Behold the destruction of the Roman Republic with Victoria and Katherine as they meditate on how Draycott fills in the lacunae of women’s history, discuss Fulvia’s place in the past, and fail to correctly recall the first triumvirate.

Cry Havoc: https://rustyquill.com/show/cry-havoc/ 

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

This August we trek across the veld with Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa by Cato Pedder. Walk with Victoria and Katherine as they speedrun 400 years of South African history, admire Pedder’s instinct to sit with uncomfortable truths, and realize some uncomfortable truths closer to home.

Other great African history reads:

When We Ruled by Paula Akpan: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-We-Ruled/Paula-Akpan/9781639368877

The World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein: https://persephonebooks.co.uk/products/the-world-that-was-ours-classic-187

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

This July, the trains are running on time in Fascist Italy while we explore the life of Edda Mussolini/Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Women in Europe by Caroline Moorehead. Join Victoria and Katherine as they consider Edda’s agency in her father’s regime, grapple with unreliable narrators, and give a shout out to the WWII dads out there.

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

From the feminist bookstore to the lesbian cruise, this June we’re hanging out in the hippest spots! For Pride Month, we’ve read A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture by June Thomas. Join Victoria and Katherine as they grapple with the fight between community and capitalism, commiserate with Land Lesbians who refuse to do dishes, and admire Thomas’ approach to tricky topics.

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

Grab your sword and grab your shield; it’s time for Vikings! This month we read Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir. Join Victoria and Katherine as they wrestle with 10th C revenants, debate the limits of literary sources, and compare women to tadpoles.

Join the virtual discussion at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988750844311

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

This month we’ve trudged into the heart of the world’s largest country with Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russian, From Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe. Grab a bottle of vodka and hold back your tears with Victoria and Katherine as they follow the arc of modern Russian history, consider parallels to America’s “masculinity crisis,” and remind themselves that you never NEED to marry a future autocrat. 

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

From Bombay (Mumbai) to Calcutta (Kolkata), this month we went on a journey with She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600-1900 by Katie Hickman. Fit your 26 pairs of travelling boots, and set sail with Victoria and Katherine as they unpack the changing mores of British India, grapple with sexist arguments about the memsahibs, and consider how we address the role of white women in colonization. 

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

Set your sights on the Golden Gate Bridge in this month’s read, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler. Get stuck in the fight while Victoria and Katherine discuss the impacts of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, consider the conflation of saving souls and saving women, and meditate on how sources constrict the P.O.V. of immigrant histories.

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

Put down your vacuum and take to the streets with our first book of the year, Wages of Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise by Emily Callaci! Kick back and enjoy a little leisure while Victoria and Katherine tally up their unpaid working hours, see welfare in a new light, and consider the political ramifications of the invisible work of women.

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Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

Holiday air travel getting you down? Join us for our December read, The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart. Jump into the cockpit with Victoria and Katherine as they buckle up for some labor history, unpack the unexpected queer story of flight attendants, and learn about the indignities that inspired stewardesses to fight back.

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Donate to the Remedial Herstory Project: https://www.remedialherstory.com/giving

And learn more about the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com

Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook