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Funny Ladies part 2 - A true survivor - Moms Mabley

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Listen to the Podcast on Spotify Listen on Apple Listen on the web  (via Podcast Addict - NO APP NEEDED)  Email me:   kelly@thebitchwhisperer.me In last week's blog, I left you with a cliffhanger about who was the other woman in the funny ladies episode. Ha. I kid! My teasers are not very teasy...like at all. It's Moms Mabley. Never heard of her? Yeah I hadn't either.  As I have mentioned a thousand times, comedy is important to me.  Musing about it once, someone asked me where I thought comedy comes from in a person's experiences. Without hesitation I said "Pain". Many famous comics make this point clear, and Moms was no exception. She was one of the very first female stand up comedians. She navigated a world that was dominated by white men as a black woman who had been through ...well just SO much...particularly as a child. So who was the super woman of comedy? If you watched the TV series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel  on Amazon, you were introduced to her in

Comedy is group therapy - Wanda Sykes

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  Listen to the Podcast on Spotify Listen on Apple Listen on the web  (via Podcast Addict - NO APP NEEDED)  Email me:   kelly@thebitchwhisperer.me This week on episode 64, we cover two ladies who have helped shape the comedy industry. I believe comedy is group therapy for society. It forces us to laugh at how stupid we are sometimes. Comedians take pain, often their own, and turn it into laughter.  Many of the famous comedians we know and love came from very difficult circumstances and pull from that pain to create their comedy.  That is  some kind of alchemical fuckin' magic, that's what that is! Good comedy punches UP at systems and power and patriarchy and assholes.  Good comedy never punches down at the disenfranchised, marginalized, or suffering. Good comedy encourages us to look at ourselves and check...am I the asshole?  I think comedy serves an important service among the arts in society.  The first woman from this episode is  Wanda Sykes. I’m sure you’re familiar with

Crystal Eastman, co-founder of the ACLU and feminist supreme!

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Last week I told you about Alice Paul and how she was a massive contributor to the success of the 19th amendment and other women's rights battles.  One of her cohorts and co-author of the ERA was Crystal Eastman.  To start, here's a few quotes by Eastman that I really love:  "A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection." (this one really hits me, especially in light of current events in the USA) "If I had my way…we would tell the men of this country we were not going to work any more [sic], we were not going to contribute or to assist them with anything until they gave us a share in the government of the country…If this strike were possible I am willing to wager that women would be given the ballot within several hours." (ADDRESS TO THE NEW YORK EQUAL FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION, DECEMBER 1910) "I believe women have a great deal more mechanical ability than they have been credited with, but naturally when they are allowed to practice with needles an