LET'S GO GIRLS. This week Stauney and Sadie are talking about all things country music and how women have a hard time in that entire genre. They discuss country music radio reigning supreme, how record labels and listening numbers factor into the scene in ways that they don't with other genres, the CMA's complete overlook of women, objectification of women throughout the entire genre, and how they personally believe that the problem of women in country music can be solved. 

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This week Sadie introduces us to the famed Paris singer, Edith Piaf. Most well-known for her famous song "La Vie En Rose," she was a stunning Paris songbird who came from a very tragic past and yet made her mark as one of France's most beloved singers. We talk about her childhood in a brothel, her struggles with motherhood, street performing, her first big performances, and the songs that made her famous, along with her record-breaking Funeral and lasting legacy in the world of music. After listening, you'll fall in love with this "little sparrow" and will probably listen to La Vie En Rose on repeat for the rest of the day. 

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This week, we are talking all about literal queens. We are discussing six prominent female political leaders and the role they have played in pop culture even leading up to today. Society has a habit of changing powerful women into objects of adoration or scorn, and these women, Cleopatra, Theodora, Mary I, Esther, Catherine the Great, and Marie Antoinette are no exception. 

We briefly discuss their lives, their legacies, and the lasting impact the media's opinion of them made on our history. Be prepared to change your mind about a lot of misconceptions and ideas you may have had! 

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This week, Stauney introduces us to the Inuit artist, Kenojuak Ashevak. Although there is little information on her life, it wasn't without struggles. Stauney and Sadie discuss how growing up in a tribe that has long been plagued by colonization, along with the struggles of disease and death, forged her artistic career in fire, and how she came out as the most influential Inuit artist, and a contemporary creator who is still widely praised today. This episode is shorter, but it will give you plenty of time to dive into the Inuit tribe, Ashevak's work, and much more!

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It's time for another bonus book episode! This month we read "The Science of Women in Horror" by Meg Hafdahl & Kelly Florence, the co-hosts of the Horror Rewind Podcast. This book is a great overview of a bunch of horror films and the impact they make on feminism and cinema within the horror genre. We discuss a few of the horror film tropes the book outlines including The Mother, The Final Girl, Sex, Hysteria, The Baby Sitter, Women in a Man's World, and Kick-ass women, and get a chance to dive into some iconic and memorable horror films including "Jennifer's Body," "Ghostbusters," "GingerSnaps," "Prevenge" and much much more.

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This week we dive into one of the most hated and most controversial, and yet also some of the top best-selling and most lucrative series of books and movies We're talking all about Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series! We aren't die-hard fans, but did Twilight deserve all the hate it got in the mid-200's? We talk all about the books, the inspiration, the controversy, and most importantly the cultural impact of this series that changed cinema, media, and young adult fiction for the better. Plus we get to dive into more things like fangirls, female interests, and the misogyny that always seems to surround things that women enjoy. Whether you love or hate Twilight, this episode is for you! 

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This week Stauney introduces us to an strange pairing, a woman and the ghost she claimed was using her to write poetry and novels. Before this incident, Pearl Lenore Curran lived a very normal and ordinary life, with dreams to work in music and be a singer. However, after an "encounter" with an ouija board, she soon begins to claim that she is communicating directly with a ghost named Patience Worth and that Patience is using Pearl as a tool in order to write her poetry and novels from the other side of the grave. This throws Pearl into the limelight, as well as a bunch of controversies around the spirituality movement. We talk about Pearl's early life, what we know about Patience Worth, Ouija board history, and debate whether or not this encounter with Patience was fact or fiction.

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We're One!!! We are officially ONE YEAR OLD as of tomorrow and to celebrate we did a whole episode quizzing each other and ourselves on all of our past episodes. From Artemesia Gentileschi to Shirley Jackson, let's see how well we know all of the artists we've talked about, and reminisce on all of the topics and people we've talked about in this past year!

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This week Sadie introduces us to an author with a class of works perfect for October. Shirley Jackson is well known for her work of fiction "The Haunting of Hill House" recently made into a Netflix adaptation, along with her best-selling story "The Lottery" gaining lots of attention for its controversial publication. However, long before that, her spooky class of works gained her a reputation of being a particularly clever and talented author. Sadly her personal life was about as haunted as the books she wrote with their own class of personal tormentors, her mother, and husband, being harder to vanquish than the ghosts that riddled her novels. We talk about her early childhood, marriage, career, and her famous body of work. 

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It's time for another bonus book episode! This month we read "Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader" by Linda Nochlin, Edited by Maura Reily. To help us digest and discuss this collection of essays by Linda Nochlin, we are joined by Hall W. Rockefeller, founder of Less than Half and art historian. We talk about Linda Nochlin's impact, her commentary on the art world, and the different ways in which women artists have it better or worse than when Nochlin's "Why have there been no great women artists" essay was first released. 

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