Hello and welcome! For our final episode of Oh Yes She Did, we cover the life of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Join us as we talk about what makes her a true BAB.

This week's recommendations: 

• Persepolis (movie and/or graphic novels)

Friday Favorites:

• Body Talk Comic-Con Panel
• Taylor Swift's Folklore

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• Amanda @ladymacdeath213
• Dani @dannyelllow

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Hello and welcome! This week we're talking about Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress AND first African-American to receive a major party's nomination for President of the United States. Join us as we jump into the life of this incredible politician.

This week's recommendations: 

• Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change by Barbara Winslow
• Shirley Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed (doc)
• Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
• Mrs America (miniseries)

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Hello and welcome! This week we're talking about queen Marsha P Johnson, a Black transgender woman who was a revolutionary LGBTQ rights activist and instigator at the Stonewall riots. Join us as we jump into her life and her heart.

This week's recommendations: 

• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (doc on Netflix)
• Making Gay History podcast (Season 2, ep 1)
• Happy Birthday, Marsha! (film)
• The Stonewall Reader
• We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer

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Hello and welcome! This month we're participating in the #AmplifyMelanatedVoices movement and will be covering exclusively Black women for the remainder of the month. To kick it off, we're discussing a true BAB, Audre Lorde. Join us as we dive into her work, her words, her life, and her lasting legacy.

This week's recommendations: 

• A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (doc)
• Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984–1992 (doc)
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

We also shared several resources you can use to educate yourself. These are resources we've used and will be using to educate ourselves as well. We'll include them below for you to reference.

Please don't stay silent. Please don't stay immobile. Please do something now to educate yourself and be an active participant in this movement. We love you, please join us. Be a part of this community.

Donate:

• Justice For Breonna
• George Floyd Memorial Fund
• Run with Maud
• Minnesota Freedom Fund
• Reclaim The Block
• National Bail Out
• Black Lives Matter
• Bail Project
• Black Visions Collective
• Campaign Zero
• The Innocent Project

Read:

• How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
• The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• White Fragility, Robin Diangelo
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

Watch:

• When they see us
• 13th
• American Son
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• I am not your Negro
• Queen & Slim
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• Whose streets?
• Just Mercy

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Hello and welcome! This week we jump into the life of Shirley Jackson,  one the greatest American novelist of the 20th century known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Join us as we look at how her reality shaped her work!

This week's recommendations: 

• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
• Shirley (bio-pic with Elizabeth Moss as Shirley)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle (book or movie)
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Hangsaman

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Hello and welcome! This week we travel way back in time to 350 CE to talk about one of the first known female mathematicians and scholars. Join us to discover why Hypatia of Alexandria was considered one of the greatest minds of her time!

This week's recommendations: 

• Agora (film)
• Hypatia of Alexandria (The Legendary Women of World History Book 8) by Laurel A. Rockefeller
• Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael A. B. Deakin

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Welcome back to another quarantine episode! This week we get to jump into the sultry life of Eartha Kitt, a woman who has done practically everything in show business. Join us to hear how she not only broke gender and class barriers, but she also caught the attention of the CIA!

This week's recommendations: 

• Confessions of a Sex Kitten by Eartha Kitt
• America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times by John L. Williams
• All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
• any of her discography

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And we're back! Quarantine may have knocked us down for a couple weeks, but we're back and talking about Temple Grandin, autism awareness advocate and pioneer in ethical livestock handling facilities. She's literally changed the game in more than one field. Join us as we talk about her talents!

This week's recommendations: 

• Temple's Ted Talk
• The Girls in the PictureThinking in Pictures - (My Life with Autism)
• Temple Grandin - on HBO

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Coming to you yet again with another quarantine episode. This week we go into the life of Mary Pickford, THE mother of Hollywood. She was a savy business woman and helped shape the Hollywood we know today. Join us as we take a trip back to Golden Age.

This week's recommendations: 

• Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
• The Girls in the Picture
• You Must Remember This podcast - Hollywood Babylon series

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Join us as we talk about the first modern novelist, Murasaki Shikibu. Murasaki grew up in 10th century Japan & is the godmother of what we would consider the modern novel. Come discover what that really means.

This week's recommendations: 

• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• The Diary of Lady Murasaki
• The Tale of Genji (1987) - Anime

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