History Becomes Her Podcast
1) Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on the Harvey Weinstein investigation that ignited #MeToo
Season 1 kicks off with two very special guests: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times reporters behind the Harvey Weinstein investigation. Within days of the story's publication, the #MeTo...Show More
2) Caroline Criado Perez and Tracy King on the gender data gap that's putting lives at risk
Caroline Criado Perez is an author and feminist campaigner. Tracy King is a writer and campaigner. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez exposes the erasure of women in a world that’s been designed...Show More
3) Jess Phillips MP on remembering Jo Cox and speaking truth to power
Jess Phillips is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley and the author of Truth to Power and Everywoman. When she’s not standing up in the House of Commons, calling out the prime minister for...Show More
4) Vicky Spratt and Diane Munday on the 1967 Abortion Act and their campaign to decriminalise abortion
Diane Munday campaigned to legalise abortion in Britain in the 1960s. Her activism has not only changed women’s lives in this country — but saved them. Along with journalist Vicky Spratt, Munday is no...Show More
5) Sofie Hagen on fat activism and taking up space in a fatphobic world
Sofie Hagen is a Danish comedian who co-created the Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Frances White. Hagen is non-binary and uses pronouns she/they/he. Hagen is a fat acceptance campaigner and plus...Show More
6) Akilah Hughes on Constance Baker Motley and self-care for the extremely online
Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, YouTuber, and podcaster. Hughes is the co-host of Crooked Media's What A Day podcast and one of the few black women hosting a daily news podcast. Podcasting has a ...Show More
Akilah Hughes on Constance Baker Motley and self-care for the extremely online
31:49 | Jun 4th, 2020
7) Ruth Hunt on Virginia Woolf, LGBTQ history, and Section 28
Ruth Hunt is one of Britain’s leading LGBTQ campaigners. She has played a central role in campaigning for same sex marriage in England and Wales and access to fertility treatment for lesbians. After b...Show More
8) Zing Tsjeng on pirate queens, resistance heroines, and history's forgotten women
Zing Tsjeng is a journalist and the author of the Forgotten Women book series. These four books provide fascinating biographies of the leaders, scientists, artists, and writers who are notably ab...Show More
Zing Tsjeng on pirate queens, resistance heroines, and history's forgotten women
37:25 | May 21st, 2020
9) Lisa Taddeo on 'Three Women,' sexual desire, and how we judge other women
Lisa Taddeo spent eight years writing Three Women — a bestselling book that has been hailed “the deepest nonfiction portrait of desire” ever written. Taddeo drove across America six times to spen...Show More
10) Poorna Bell on powerlifting, grief, and finding inner strength
Poorna Bell is an author and journalist who is actively challenging our ingrained beliefs about mental health, loss, and strength. Bell is also a powerlifter and writes about the stereotypes and cultu...Show More