Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

I’m currently editing our next podcast episode, which is about women during World War II that worked to help defeat Nazis and fascism. 🤔 Why might we be doing a podcast about fascism? Huh! What a mystery. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But we hope that you’ll find inspiration in this for… Whatever you might need inspiration for here in the year 2025. 🟠🚮💀 For this episode, we’ve only picked a handful of women, but there are countless women that we’ve never heard of THE did some of the most remarkable things during World War II. So no doubt will be covering more of these women in another episode. It seems that one of our favorite topics is women who were spies and a lot of these women did spy work, but many of them did a variety of other kinds of work from office work to complex mathematical stuff to code breaking to hand hand combat.  During World War II, women across Europe and beyond played vital roles in the fight against Nazi tyranny. They worked as couriers, spies, saboteurs, nurses, codebreake...

The podcast episode is out now!  WOMEN WATER WARRIORS I’m continuing our series on water equality with this final article   There’s much more that could be said here.   But I’d really like you to make note of these organization names.  Access to clean water isn’t just about pipes, pumps, and infrastructure—it’s about justice. It’s about who shoulders the burden when governments profit off natural resources while communities are left behind. And more often than not, it’s women who stand at the center of that fight, turning scarcity into solidarity and survival into leadership. Around the world, women and organizations are pushing back against inequity and demanding a future where water and sustainability aren’t luxuries but rights. But first, let’s finish up spotlighting a few women leading the charge -  Sarina Prabasi: Clean Water as Community Power Sarina Prabasi, a Nepali-American leader and co-founder of Dobleng Café in New York, has always understood t...

As mentioned last week, in the fight for clean water, women are not just advocates — they are the backbone of the struggle. The podcast episode is out now! WOMEN WATER WARRIORS  Across cultures and continents, women are disproportionately affected by water scarcity and contamination. This “gendered burden” is not just a talking point — it’s daily reality: from walking miles to fetch water, to caring for sick family members when that water is unsafe, to being excluded from decision-making in the very systems that control it. But there are women who are challenging this imbalance at its roots. Among them: Wanjira Mathai, Maude Barlow, and María Teresa Fernández de la Vega. Wanjira Mathai: Carrying a Legacy, Building a Future   Kenyan environmentalist Wanjira Mathai knows  that water is never “just water” — it’s health, education, and opportunity. As the daughter of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, Wanjira grew up seeing firsthand how environmental degradati...

I am currently in the process of editing a new episode. We took a short break because my husband was home and also because I was sick… Yay me (The husband part not the sick part). The new episode should be up this week. In the meantime, I would like to introduce you to the subject of our newest episode – water equality. When Lisa brought this topic up, I immediately was struck with “why have I never even considered this before“  Well, the reason is because I have water privilege of course. I walk into a room and turn on a faucet and voila! there’s water. But that is not the case around the globe. I’m sure most of us are aware that there are water shortages in many parts of the world, including the extremely plugged and decimated Gaza, which is on everyone’s minds right now, but what we don’t often consider is that sourcing water tends to be not just a gendered problem, but a political - one so let’s dive in. Water is life. It’s one of the few things every single person on this pla...