Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

  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...

  Listen to the latest episode here:  Bitchstory Join Patreon and get weekly  Bitchscopes  & more!    If you have ever used your phone to get somewhere… If you have ever dropped a pin… If you have ever trusted that calm robot lady voice telling you to turn left… You owe part of that moment to a woman you were probably never taught about. This week on Bitchstory, we’re talking about Dr. Gladys West — mathematician, programmer, data pioneer, and one of the foundational minds behind the technology that became GPS. And like so many women in science — especially Black women — she spent decades doing world-changing work quietly, precisely, and without fanfare… while history mostly talked about the men. Let’s fix that. Gladys West was born in rural Virginia in 1930. Her parents worked in tobacco fields. Education wasn’t just encouraged — it was the exit strategy. She graduated as valedictorian of her high school class, earned a scholarship, and studied...

Pluto Return: The Underworld Court Has Spoken What we’re living through Pluto — the planet of power, death, rebirth, secrets, shadow, and irreversible change — returned to the degree it occupied at the founding of the United States (circa Declaration of Independence). Astrologers note this happened in 2022 with exact hits and intensification through 2024, and then Pluto moved into Aquarius, beginning a long new era of transformation. It’s important to understand why this matters astrologically: A planetary return is a rare cycle where a planet comes back to the same zodiac position it held at birth or foundation — like completing its own generational chapter. Pluto takes roughly 248 years to orbit, so a nation only experiences this once. Pluto transits unfold over decades, not days, and the deepest effects tend to emerge after the exact hit — changing not just structures, but worldviews and power logics. So the Pluto return wasn’t an event — it’s a process. If the return phase was the ...

Catch up on podcast episodes!  Bitchstory Join Patreon and get weekly  Bitchscopes  & more!    This week on the podcast we are talking about a woman I’m certain you’ve never heard of.  She was a philosopher.  Philosophy is such a fascinating study.  My brain doesn’t work quite that way but I love how philosophical people force me to consider things I’d never considered (and I generally consider a lot!).  Hannah made people a bit uncomfortable. And I feel like that’s actually a good thing sometimes…something we need a little more of today.   Hannah Arendt did not believe that evil always looks like a monster… Sometimes, she said, it looks like a man doing his job. “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” That idea alone should qualify her as required reading in modern America. Arendt was a German-Jewish political theorist who fled the Nazis, landed in the United State...