Infinite Women

Dr. Carrie Gibson, who studies the history of the Caribbean and is the author of two books, Empire’s Crossroads: a history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day, and El Norte: the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America. She joins us to talk about the women involved in slave revolts in the Caribbean - who were they, what do we know about them, why don’t we know more and, as always, what are the biases that shaped the way their stories are, or are not, told.

More about Carrie's work and books: carriegibson.co.uk

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Carrie-Gibson-on-women-of-Caribbean-slave-revolts-transcript.pdf

Serene Bennett Williams, high school civics teacher and co-founder of Women's History in High School, tells us about Catholic nuns as activists.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Serene-Bennett-Williams-on-activist-nuns-transcript.pdf

Read more from Serene about Marjorie Tuite and Margaret Traxler on the Infinite Women site.

Simeran Maxwell, Associate Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about Australian designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, and the French modern artist who inspired them, Sonia Delaunay.

The three women’s work is on display now at the NGA in an eponymous exhibition that will be on into 2026: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/know-my-name-kee-jackson-delaunay/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Simeran-Maxwell-on-Linda-Jackson-Jenny-Kee-and-Sonia-Delaunay-transcript.pdf

Dr Beth Linker, author of Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, joins us to talk about the “strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America.”

Get the book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691235493/slouch

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Beth-Linker-on-posture-panic-transcript.pdf

Dr Robyn Spencer-Antoine, a historian and author of The Revolution has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party, to discuss radical leftist Black activist Patricia Murphy Robinson and the intersections of nurturing and radicalism.

Get the book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-has-come

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Robyn-Spencer-Antoine-on-Patricia-Murphy-Robinson-transcript-3.pdf

Dr. Elizabeth Mahony, a research scientist at CSIRO, joins us to talk about Australian pioneering radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott, and the gendered barriers that ended her career.

Read more about Payne-Scott on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/ruby-payne-scott/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Elizabeth-Mahony-on-Ruby-Payne-Scott-transcript.pdf

Dr. Beth Hubble, Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at The University of Montana, joins us to talk about the complexities of transgender histories, including gender fluid, two-spirit and other non-binary identities.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Beth-Hubble-on-trans-history-transcript.pdf

Find more trans stories on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/tag/queer-trans/

Dr Caroline Sequin, Assistant Professor of History at Lafayette College, joins us to discuss the intersection of racial politics and sex. Dr Sequin is the author of new book, Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848–1950.

More about the book: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777035/desiring-whiteness/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Caroline-Sequin-on-racial-politics-and-commercial-sex-in-colonial-Senegal-transcripts.pdf

Dr Ellie Woodacre, Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester and author of Queens and Queenship, joins us to discuss the impact and shaping of queens' image.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellie-Woodacre-on-queenly-image-transcript.pdf

Dr Jennifer deWinter and Dr Carly Kocurek from the Illinois Institute of Technology tell us about some of the pioneering women in the video game industry.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jennifer-deWinter-and-Dr-Carly-Kocurek-on-women-and-the-evolution-of-video-games-transcript.pdf