Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

Listen to the podcast episode for this article now! WHISTLE WHILE YOU RAGE Whistleblowers are supposed to be the heroes of the story — the ones who risk everything to expose corruption, abuse, or cover-ups. But when the whistleblower is a woman, the plot twist is depressingly predictable: she’s less likely to be treated as a hero and far more likely to be dismissed, discredited, or outright vilified. Society still has a problem with women who refuse to “play nice.” And nothing is less nice than pulling the fire alarm on powerful men, billion-dollar corporations, or entire institutions. Whistleblowing is risky for anyone. Careers collapse, reputations get shredded, and lives can be upended. But for women, the fallout comes with an extra layer of stigma: the whisper campaigns, the “crazy” labels, the assumption that she’s bitter, vengeful, or out for attention. In other words, women don’t just blow the whistle — they get branded with it. Think of Karen Silkwood , who dared to expos...

Listen to the podcast episode for this article now!  ANTI FASCIST HEROINES “In Ravensbrück I saw women prove that solidarity, friendship, and compassion can survive even in the kingdom of death.” -  Margarete Buber-Neumann (German political prisoner, survivor) The Women of Ravensbrück: When we talk about Nazi concentration camps, most people immediately think of Auschwitz, Dachau, or Buchenwald. But far fewer have heard of Ravensbrück — the largest concentration camp built for women. Between 1939 and 1945, over 130,000 women were imprisoned there. They weren’t just prisoners of war or political opponents — they were teachers, mothers, nurses, students, communists, Jews, Roma, lesbians, sex workers, resistance fighters. In other words: anyone the Nazis considered expendable. And yet, even inside a place designed to strip away humanity, the women of Ravensbrück found ways to resist. Resistance in the Shadows Some resistance looked like sabotage. Women forced to sew uni...

I’m currently editing our next podcast episode, which is about women during World War II that worked to help defeat Nazis and fascism. 🤔 Why might we be doing a podcast about fascism? Huh! What a mystery. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But we hope that you’ll find inspiration in this for… Whatever you might need inspiration for here in the year 2025. 🟠🚮💀 For this episode, we’ve only picked a handful of women, but there are countless women that we’ve never heard of THE did some of the most remarkable things during World War II. So no doubt will be covering more of these women in another episode. It seems that one of our favorite topics is women who were spies and a lot of these women did spy work, but many of them did a variety of other kinds of work from office work to complex mathematical stuff to code breaking to hand hand combat.  During World War II, women across Europe and beyond played vital roles in the fight against Nazi tyranny. They worked as couriers, spies, saboteurs, nurses, codebreake...

The podcast episode is out now!  WOMEN WATER WARRIORS I’m continuing our series on water equality with this final article   There’s much more that could be said here.   But I’d really like you to make note of these organization names.  Access to clean water isn’t just about pipes, pumps, and infrastructure—it’s about justice. It’s about who shoulders the burden when governments profit off natural resources while communities are left behind. And more often than not, it’s women who stand at the center of that fight, turning scarcity into solidarity and survival into leadership. Around the world, women and organizations are pushing back against inequity and demanding a future where water and sustainability aren’t luxuries but rights. But first, let’s finish up spotlighting a few women leading the charge -  Sarina Prabasi: Clean Water as Community Power Sarina Prabasi, a Nepali-American leader and co-founder of Dobleng Café in New York, has always understood t...