In this episode Jess recovers from illness while Grace interviews honorary Corkonian, Hasti Yavari (She/Her).  Hasti is an Kurdish-Iranian feminist and human rights activist.  She is a PhD candidate in Physicsat University College Cork as well as a yoga teacher.  She has been actively advocating for Iranian women and human’s rights in Ireland the past weeks amid the death of Mahsa Amini.

In this episode Jess tells Grace the story of two women in a committed life-long Polyamorous Triad from the 1930s.  As if that wasn't enough, they have been immortalised by their shared male partner as the inspiration for the character of Wonder Woman.  A true Queer and Divergent Fairy Tale far before its time!

Margaret Leeson, also known as Peg Plunkett was a Sex Worker and Madame to the elite in 18th-century Ireland.  Companion to Modern Ireland's founding fathers *cough - Colonisers, she was renowned for her wit, intelligence, and charm.  When down on her luck, she published her autobiography in three volumes - giving unreliable customers the option to clear their debts with her, or be named and shamed!  Sources:

Book - Peg Plunkett: Memoires of a Whore by Julie Peakman

https://dublin.ie/live/life-in-dublin/history-society/ 

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/prostitution-ireland 

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/the-liberty-and-ormond-boys-gangs-and-rioting-in-historic-dublin 

https://comeheretome.com/2012/11/13/the-pinking-dindies/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynings%27_Law_(on_certification_of_acts)

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliamentandireland/overview/poynings-law/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

You like to talk dino?  You should definitely know about Mary Anning (1799 – 1847).  She was an English fossil collector and paleontologist before the word was even invented.  Her scientific thinking was greatly underappreciated in her time due to gender and socio-economic class.  She is played by Kate Winslet in the film Ammonite, which we discuss in detail.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning

https://www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/mary-anning-a-lightning-strike-a-tongue-twister-and-a-dinosaur 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosaur

https://lovelymeregis.co.uk/gallery/images/gallery/mary-anning-painting 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-61520324 

https://www.maryanningrocks.co.uk/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/19/mary-anning-biopic-kate-winslet-fossil-hunter-film 

https://www.biography.com/news/mary-anning-charlotte-murchison-relationship-facts 

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/ammonite-film-movie-mary-anning-real-history-historical-accuracy-lesbian-relationship-charlotte-murchison/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/19/mary-anning-biopic-kate-winslet-fossil-hunter-film

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/mary-anning-lesbian-palaeontologist-women-film

https://janeaustensworld.com/2014/02/01/scenes-of-everyday-life-and-people-in-1790/

Jess tells Grace the story Katherine Johnson 1918-2020, an American Mathematician who worked for NASA and helped put the first man on the moon against a background of racial segregation and the civil rights movement.  She is one of the women celebrated in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures."

Sources:

United States Civil Rights Trail - West Virginia https://civilrightstrail.com/state/west-virginia/West Virginia – US Civil Rights Trail

www.notevenpast.org

2017 page IHS Roundtable – Loving v. Virginia After 50 Years

Migration of African Americans to West Virginia: Hinton Depot; Hinton, WV https://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/migration-of-african-americans-to-west-virginia-hinton-depot-hinton-wv.htm

The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom

The Segregation Era (1900–1939) https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/segregation-era.html

David Guttman, West Virginia has a complicated history with race and civil rights (2014, updated 2017) - West Virginia Gazette https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/west-virginia-has-a-complicated-history-with-race-and-civil-rights/article_4805cb60-d947-5946-ab37-8f2e7f410fb3.html

American Association of University Women https://www.aauw.org/about/history/

Today we interview Activist-Artist Emma Campbell (she/her) about life growing up in Northern Ireland, the ongoing campaign for pro-choice services and the intersection between photography and performance as a sexy, magical tool for activism.  

 

Check out Emma's website and links in her amazing bio here:

Emma Campbell is an activist-artist in the completion stages of her PhD on utilising photography and performance, as a sexy, magical tool for abortion rights along with Alliance for Choice of whom she is a co-convenor. Emma is on the Board of Directors for Outburst Queer Arts, HereNI and The343 Queer Feminist space. Emma has exhibited solo shows in Belfast, Dublin & Berlin and in group shows in London, Liverpool, Donegal, Dublin, Belfast, Stockholm, and Bangkok as well as street art and online. Emma gained her Documentary Photography BA (Hons) at U.W.C.N Newport in 2001, an MFA in Photography at Ulster University in 2012 and worked as a professional photographer and picture editor in London for 10 years for the BBC, The Times London and Network Photographers. As a member of Array, Emma Campbell was 1/11th winner of the 2021 Turner Prize, for ‘The Druiithaib’s Ball’

Don't listen to the tabloids... also don't eat peach ice cream because it's time to learn the true story of Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary.  Grace chose this Irish Immigrant as an example of a complex, nuanced tale of a woman who was both a victim and a villain.  It's not as simple as washing your hands but do wash out your feckin' ears so you can hear us!

Sources are three of Grace's Favourite Podcasts:

My Favourite Murder Podcast - E105 - Proclensity

Lore Podcast - E86 - Under Siege

The History Chicks Podcast - E149 - "Typhoid" Mary Mallon

In this episode, Jess tells Grace the story of Louisa Gould. Louisa defied the Nazi occupation in Jersey by harbouring a Russian prisoner of war, saving his life. Her story is honoured in the 2017 film Another Mother's Son and she was named a British Hero of the Holocaust in 2010.

In this week's episode, Grace tells Jess the story of Helen Keller. Helen, who is best remembered as a disability rights advocate, was also an author, speaker, teacher, and political activist.

Inspired by the hit musical Hamilton, which tells the life story of Alexander Hamilton, this week we're talking about Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler Hamilton. Eliza is mostly remembered as Alexander's wife but she did some amazing things in her own right in her 97 years of life.