Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

EPISODE LINK:  “Awesome Asian Women” We had an absolute blast talking to Karen Wang Diggs, author of the book “Awesome Asian Women”! Karen was a freakin’ delight! She’s the real deal-a true intersectional feminist and a gifted storyteller with a passion for lifting women up. Her book contains inspiring stories of over 120 women, from Empress Wu Zetian to Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (who was just on Stephen Colbert and we love!)  It is going to be a fixture on the Bitchstory bookshelf!  Karen joined the zoom call and said “Hey bitches!” And we immediately knew she was our people! So many people are still triggered by the word “bitch”, so her greeting  and made me cackle and instantly love her.  It was such a great way to start an interview. Karen is very humble.  She wrote this impressive book in a very short period of time, so I think she’s both driven and probably very intuitive.   One of the main inspirations for Karen to write this impressive coll...

  EPISODE LINK:  “I’m Not Your Muse” Lisa and I had the pleasure of speaking to two very cool women recently.  The author and illustrator of “I’m Not Your Muse” and companion deck (so cool!) “More Than Muses”, Lori Zimmer & Maria Krasinski!   We discussed at length where this vision and inspiration came from and how they brought it to life.  (This book feels like it was made for our podcast, and you can bet your ass we’ll be using it often!) This book highlights women from all walks of life who created all kinds of art and in the process broke out of society’s boxes.   “Muse” has historically been a passive role, a box that art/society has frequently put women into and told them they were pretty or inspirational.   But women and the art they create themselves can be unpretty, controversial, political, and a plethora of other things.  The women in this book are those women.  They blurred lines and defied constructs and broke out of boxes. ...

EPISODE LINK: Rosalind Franklin and the DNA discovery that was stolen from her So Bitchstory just did our first collab! Ash from @fthat_pod joined us to enlighten us about yet another woman who was robbed by the patriarchy.  Rosalind Franklin made one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century and yet, if you google it, it is still credited to the dicks who stole her discovery!  Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was crucial in understanding the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. In the 1950s, It she captured the famous “Photograph 51,” an X-ray image that provided key evidence of the helical structure of DNA. Her data was shared—without her direct permission—with James Watson and Francis Crick, who used it to build their model of DNA in 1953 (which they initially got wrong!) While Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in 1962, Franklin had died of ovarian cancer ...