The Dead Ladies Show
… is a series of entertaining and inspiring presentations on women who achieved amazing things against all odds. Every two months, the show hosts three passionate cheerleaders of too-oft forgotten women, inviting its loyal audience into a sexy séance (of sorts) celebrating these impressive icons, turbulent lives, and deathless legacies.
https://deadladiesshow.com
Podcasts
#1 Hypatia: the ancient Greek mathematician
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#2 Fanny Blankers-Koen: the multiple-medal-winning athlete
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#3 May Ayim: the Afro-German poet and activist
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#4 Dorothy Parker
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#5 Leonora Carrington: the surrealist artist
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#6 Constance Markievicz: the Irish revolutionary
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#7 Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the American abolitionist sisters
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#8 Theda Bara: the original Hollywood vamp
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#9 Kaethe Paulus: Germany’s first lady balloonist and parachutist
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#10 Mary Kingsley: intrepid Victorian explorer and ichthyologist
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#11 Lotte Reiniger: true pioneer of animation (and psaligraphy!)
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#12 Anne Lister: the low-down on the early-19th-century lesbian diarist and traveller
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#13 Marie Curie
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#14 Aphra Behn: the first woman author who lived off her writing
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