Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

 WE ARE BACK! I took a little break while my husband was home for a visit.  And we are back with what might be one of my favorite episodes to date… Listen to the latest episode here:  Bitchstory Join Patreon and get weekly  Bitchscopes  & more!    Dorothy Kilgallen was, by any measure, one of the most powerful women in twentieth-century American media. By her early twenties she was already racing around the world — literally — competing against male reporters on commercial routes, finishing second, and coming home to a song written in her honor. Her daily column, Voice of Broadway, ran in 146 newspapers and covered everything from Hollywood gossip to organized crime to the inner workings of the Supreme Court. The New York Post called her “the most powerful female voice in America.” For good reason. She was also a television personality before television knew what to do with women — a regular panelist on What’s My Line? for seventeen years, beloved ...

Let’s revisit my Goddess Justice Arc Calendar and check in -  April- The Walls of Silencing Fail.  April was never going to be quiet. The theme was clear: Not collapse. Not resolution… Failure. of. containment. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing. What April actually did April didn’t solve anything; It exposed pressure points…across systems - political, corporate, cultural - the pattern has been the same: information surfacing that wasn’t meant to  documents, testimony, and internal processes becoming visible  institutions struggling to control timing and narrative  “private” matters becoming public  voices emerging that were previously contained or dismissed  Not always clean. Not always confirmed immediately… But movement. That’s the point. April in real time: escalation, exposure, and instability If April is about failure of containment, then we’re not looking for one defining event; We’re looking for multiple systems showing strain at the same tim...

The $11 level on my Patreon gets you BitchScopes plus moon rituals, plus goddess rituals.  This Wednesday, April 1st is a full moon in Libra.  Libra isn’t just about relationships and art; it’s about balance and justice and reflections.  What of ourselves do we see in our closest relationships? And how do we feel about what’s reflected back to us?  What do you do with that information is the whole point.  So here’s a release ceremony for your Full Moon.  Soft Body, Hard Standards April isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about telling the truth… and then living like you meant it. 🌕 Full Moon in Libra — April 1 The Balance Reset You already know what’s off. This moon doesn’t reveal something new… it makes what you’ve been managing impossible to ignore. Ritual: Write two lists: • What I give • What I receive No editing. No explaining. Ask yourself: Where am I abandoning myself to keep this balanced? Keep the truth. Release the performance. Invocation: I r...

Hi!! I’ve been busy writing and creating.  I really want to help my clients and readers deepen their relationship with the Divine Feminine and the goddesses.  When you are flapping in the breeze just trying to get through life, it’s hard to know where to start.  So I’ve tried to make it less intimidating. So here’s what we have:  My Patreon - Patreon.com/bitchscopes -  you can join for free and get the weekly astrological goddess summary as well as a fair amount of extras I drop  A list of goddesses that correlate to each zodiac sign.  This week’s summary  A free goddess guide to surviving life crap  (you have to be a Patreon member but free members can access it)  An extended list of issues   (like the one above)  the goddesses can help you with (this one is $7 if you just use the URL, $10 if you use the Patreon app.  It’s stupid, sorry!) That’s good for now.  If you have questions, comments, suggestions, etc. f...

  Listen to the latest episode here:  Bitchstory Join Patreon and get weekly  Bitchscopes  & more!    There’s a version of history most of us were taught… neat, clean, predictable… a handful of (mostly white, mostly male) inventors lined up like a greatest hits album. Light bulb. Telephone. Cotton gin. Repeat until graduation. Meanwhile… actual life? Way messier. Way more interesting. And, inconveniently for the textbook industry, built by a lot more people than they bothered to mention. Including Black women… who were out here solving real, everyday problems while being ignored, dismissed, underpaid, or straight-up shut out. And somehow… we all just collectively learned nothing about that. Cool cool cool. So let’s fix it. The Women Who Made Everyday Life Work What I love about these women is that they weren’t sitting around trying to invent something flashy or impress a room full of men in suits… they were solving actual problems. Laundry. Per...

  There are certain women history quietly tried to keep in a filing cabinet labeled “miscellaneous.” We’re not doing that. This week on Bitchstory, we’re riding straight into the hills of Kentucky during the Great Depression to talk about the women of the Pack Horse Library Project — a New Deal program under the umbrella of the Works Progress Administration. Translation: the federal government paid women to strap books onto mules and ride through the Appalachian mountains delivering literacy door to door. Yes. That happened. And it is exactly as badass as it sounds Context: Poverty, Mountains, and Zero Infrastructure In the 1930s, parts of Appalachian Kentucky had some of the lowest literacy rates in the country. Roads were barely roads. Schools were scattered and underfunded. Libraries? Mostly nonexistent. So the WPA did something radical: They hired local women — many of them poor themselves — and paid them about $28 a month to deliver books across rugged terrain. These...