Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

You know the perfume. You don’t know the woman. By the end of our most recent episode you’re going to be furious that the only thing most people associate with her name is a bottle on a department store counter. We don’t usually think about fashion and war crimes at the same time. Today’s episode forces us to. This story is about 2 MAJOR fashion houses and the very different roles they played in Nazi occupation in Europe.  Did you happen to see any of the Met Gala hoopla recently? Most people find fashion to be shallow, overly naked, and inconsequential to their lives.  But if The Devil Wears Prada taught us anything, it’s that the cerulean sweater you grabbed off the clearance rack at Ross has an origin story far more glamorous and complex than you realize.  Fashion is a reflection of society in a given moment, and war time is no exception!   Fashion (and I mean FAMOUS fashion) and Nazi activity during WWII are intertwined in ways you have no idea about .  But ...

Every day lately I’ve seen another astrology post declaring that we’re entering a portal, crossing a threshold, beginning a destined new era. Usually, I roll my eyes a little. Not because I don’t believe astrology marks meaningful transitions… obviously I do. But because a lot of modern astrology content skips over the messy human part. The nervous system part. The body part. The “this absolutely wrecked me before it rebuilt me” part. But this Taurus New Moon on May 16 does feel significant to me. Not in a glittery “everything changes overnight” kind of way. But in a quieter, deeper way. Like standing in front of a doorway you didn’t even realize you’d been walking toward for years. Astrologically, it makes sense. Since 2018, Uranus has been moving through Taurus, shaking up everything connected to Taurus themes: stability, security, money, survival, the body, comfort, values, the physical reality of our lives. Uranus disrupts whatever has become stagnant, unsustainable, or falsel...

There’s a particular kind of erasure that happens to women who get too close to the truth. Sometimes it looks like an overdose. Sometimes it looks like a car accident. Sometimes it looks like a suicide. And sometimes — if you’re lucky enough to be a famous columnist in 1965 — it just looks like a quiet death in your own home, ruled inconclusive, while your private notes on the biggest murder case in American history quietly disappear. Listen to the latest episode here:  Bitchstory Dorothy Kilgallen wasn’t just a TV personality or a gossip columnist. She was one of the most tenacious investigative journalists of her era. And she was *this close* to something. We just don’t know exactly what. Dorothy Kilgallen: The Woman Who Wouldn’t Let It Go By the time Dorothy Kilgallen died on November 8, 1965, she had already accomplished what virtually no other journalist had managed: a private interview with Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live television. She’d attended Ruby...