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Sacheen Littlefeather, Activist, Actor, Native Health Pioneer | Episode 116
Sacheen Littlefeather, Activist, Actor, Native Health Pioneer | Episode 116

Sacheen Littlefeather is an Indigenous activist who is most famous for delivering the speech on Marlon Brando's behalf, turning down the Oscar he won for the Godfather. But Sacheen's accomplishments are many and varied - she studied Native health and was responsible for assisting hospitals with accommodating Native health practices. She has worked on many documentaries regarding Native American cultures and even helped found an organization whose aim was amplifying the presence of Indigenous actors in Hollywood. To this day she brings awareness to Native issues and is an elder in her community.

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Wilma Mankiller: Chief, Activist, Visionary | Episode 115
Wilma Mankiller: Chief, Activist, Visionary | Episode 115

Wilma Mankiller was an activist and tribal politician, the first woman to be elected to the position of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She faced several health crises and through it all worked tirelessly for the betterment of the Nation, published several books, and even received the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama. This woman was a powerhouse and an absolute legend.

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Mary Church Terrell, Civil Rights Wunderkind | Episode 114
Mary Church Terrell, Civil Rights Wunderkind | Episode 114

Mary Church Terrell was the child of former slaves and an activist all her life. She was one of the first Black women to earn a college degree in the U.S, she traveled the world, she was at one time the president of the NACW (National Association of Colored Women), and, in her 80's, inspired the supreme court case that would make Brown V. The Board of Education possible. She was always looking for opportunities to inspire Black and white people to action for civil rights, and was an important figure in the movement up until the moment of her death in 1953. Mary Church Terrell was a good witch and bad bitch whose work in her era made a lot of other activism possible today.

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Edith Garrud, Sufragette, Martial Artist, Body Guard | Episode 108
Edith Garrud, Sufragette, Martial Artist, Body Guard | Episode 108

Society has been perpetuating the myth that women are weak and incapable since the birth of the patriarchy. Edith Garrud said "fuck that shit" and taught martial arts to a bunch of seriously brave suffragettes, creating the elite group of thirty fighters cheekily dubbed The Bodyguard. These women went toe to toe with cops at rallies (literally brawling with them) to protect prominent suffragettes from arrest, used disguises to evade detection, and lots of other CIA-style tricks to protect fellow activists - and it was all thanks to the badass Edith Garrud.

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Marsha P. Johnson, The Saint of Gay Life | Episode 105
Marsha P. Johnson, The Saint of Gay Life | Episode 105

Marsha P. Johnson is a name we likely all know as the woman who threw the first shot glass at Stonewall, launching the Stonewall Riots and thus the Gay Liberation movement. But Marsha was much more: she was an activist, a performer, a Christian, a transgender woman, and so much more. Her history is as bold and vibrant as she was, and was ended too soon. We owe it to her to keep her whole, vibrant legacy alive.

CONTENT WARNING for violence against transgender people starting after 25 minutes.

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The Combahee River Collective and the Birth of Intersectional Feminism | Episode 103
The Combahee River Collective and the Birth of Intersectional Feminism | Episode 103

The Combahee River Collective revolutionized feminism as we know it - even though you've probably never heard of them. The concept behind intersectional feminism isn't new - Black activists and writers have been writing about compounded oppressions since the 19th century. But the Combahee River Collective was a coalition of Black feminists, many of whom were also lesbians, who fought hard to bring to light not only the idea that oppressions were interlocking, but also to elevate Black women and teach self-love to a generation that had been taught through systemic racism that they were not worth the same as their white peers.

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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, The Activist Princess of India | Episode 102
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, The Activist Princess of India | Episode 102

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was an Indian Activist who worked alongside Mahatma Gandhi and used her privileged status and upbringing as a princess to shine a light on the atrocities of British colonial rule and helped usher India into a new era of government independent from Britain, revolutionizing the country's health as India's first Minister of Health. She was tireless, ambitious, and utterly invested in making life better for everyone, not just the upper class. She was a true Good Witch.

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The Legacy of Women and Prohibition | Episode 87
The Legacy of Women and Prohibition | Episode 87

Did you know that, for a long time, women have been viewed as the over-zealous architects of the failed Prohibition movement? Associated primarily with the Women's Christian Temperance Union, anti-Prohibition politicians and historians long put the onus of Prohibition on pissed-off women looking for any way to control men they could find. The realities are far more complicated - and today we're talking about the who, the why, and the how! From temperance activist Carrie A. Nation to the Assistant Attorney General, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, and socialite and anti-Prohibition activist, Pauline Sabin, we're deep-diving into the Prohibition movement and all its good witches and bad bitches!

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Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warrior | Episode 65
Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warrior | Episode 65

Leslie Feinberg brought the complicated conversation about gender to the public when she published Stone Butch Blues in 1993. In addition to her communist beliefs and writings, Leslie dedicated her life to the protection of gender nonconforming and transgender people.

Producer’s Note: This episode contains a lot of text referenced from the research and article written by Jeffry Lovannone and his piece on Leslie Feinberg: https://medium.com/queer-history-for-the-people/leslie-feinberg-transgender-warrior-fcb1bcaf15b2

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas Protected The River Of Grass | Episode 57
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Protected The River Of Grass | Episode 57

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a writer, activist, and accidental conservationist. She was already heading toward middle age, having worked as a journalist and for the Navy and the Red Cross, by the time she discovered the Florida Everglades. Once it became clear to her that Florida was on the verge of destroying the unique and incredible ecosystem that only existed in the Sunshine State, she spent the rest of her long life writing about and working toward utter preservation of the Florida Everglades. She lived to see the Everglades become completely protected thanks in large part to her work, and advocated for them until her death at 108. Good witch? We think so!

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Georgia Gilmore, The Backbone Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Episode 49
Georgia Gilmore, The Backbone Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Episode 49

Georgia Gilmore was a good witch with a bad bitch's heart. She was a badass cook who sued a bus driver who kicked her off the bus and, as a result, was fired from the white restaurant who employed her. At the urging of Dr. Martin Luther King, she opened a restaurant in her own home. Her restaurant became a meeting place for Dr. King and many other figures in the civil rights movement. She also was responsible for creating The Club from Nowhere, a network of women who sold meals they had cooked at local institutions, games and rallies, in order to raise money for the Montgomery Bus Boycott carpool. The Club From Nowhere raised a rough equivalent of 1200 bucks a week in today's currency, which helped keep the carpool alive for the 381 days the boycott was in effect. Warning! This episode WILL make you hungry.

INTRO - 11:44 | Deanna talks about the Malleus Maleficarum and dick tre

12:41 - 26:46 | Hannah shares the story of our person of the week, Georgia Gilmore.

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Jameela Jamil, Body-Positivity Warrior | Episode 42
Jameela Jamil, Body-Positivity Warrior | Episode 42

Jameela Jamil is a comedic actress currently on NBC's THE GOOD PLACE. That's not why we love her, though - we're obsessed with her body positivity which inspired a movement on instagram called i_weigh, where women talk about their weight in terms of awesome accomplishments and personality. She is vocal and strong-minded, but most of all, she's here to learn, and we were stoked to learn more about her. She's a seriously good witch (with a bad bitch way of doing things).

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Call Me Bond. Ellen Bond. | Episode 41
Call Me Bond. Ellen Bond. | Episode 41

Elizabeth Van Lew was a Union-sympathizing Quaker living in Virginia during the Civil War. Mary Bowser was a free woman posing as a slave in order to spy on the Confederates and, most notably, Jefferson Davis himself. These bad bitches got up to all sorts of crazy shit - ultimately earning Mary a posthumous place in the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame!

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The Defiance Of The Dann Sisters | Episode 38
The Defiance Of The Dann Sisters | Episode 38

November is Native American Heritage Month! As a result, we're talking about some amazing Native American women from then and now.

The Dann Sisters were and are spiritual leaders of the Western Shoshone tribes in Nevada, Utah, and California. They have claimed ownership of their land since it was passed to them by their family in the seventies - right around the time the US Government decided they no longer had a right to it. These women have fought for their right to their ancestral home for decades, and like the serious bad bitches they were and are, continue the fight to this day.

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La Grande Diva Magnifique | Episode 20
La Grande Diva Magnifique | Episode 20

Josephine Baker displayed resistance in multiple movements and multiple decades – despite being American born, she fell in love with and moved to France, where she became a war hero for her work as a French spy during World War 2. Later, she was a huge part of the civil rights movement in America, despite the many challenges she faced there. In addition, she was a raging bisexual. In short, she was one bad bitch.

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Tall, Dark, Handsome... Androgynous, and Legally Armed | Episode 15
Tall, Dark, Handsome... Androgynous, and Legally Armed | Episode 15

Storme Delarverie was a dashing, androgynous lesbian famously photographed by Diane Arbus, a drag king in New York in the era of Stonewall who is sometimes credited with helping incite the Stonewall Riot, and a gay club bouncer until her death. She was involved in her community until her death and fiercely protective of everyone who identified as LGBTQIA+ .

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