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The Bitchery of History
Bitches Get Stuff Done!
Cut Nyak Dhien
A legendary figure in Indonesia, successfully lead a resistance that fought the Dutch for more than 25 years.
Ep. 3.13: The Guerrilla and The Student
Coco Chanel
Famous the world over, and a spy for the Germans in WWII, she was born into poverty and made her name and fortune through grit, determination, and a killer fashion sense.
Ep. 3.11: The Legend and The Exhibitionist
Ruth Bryan Owen
The daughter of a two-time Presidential candidate, she became the first female member of Congress from the south, representing Florida.
Ep. 3.9: The Representative and The Conservationist
Maria Leopoldina
Queen consort of Spain and Empress Consort of Brazil, she played an active and pivotal role in her husband's reign.
Ep. 3.7: The Empress and The Crusader
Nana Asma'u
A Nigerian legend, she helped define the role of women in her time.
Ep. 3.5: The Actor and The Princess
Gloria Steinem
Noted feminist and journalist, she became the face of the movement in the 60’s and 70’s at the height of women’s liberation.
Ep. 3.3: The Feminist and The Feminist
Belle Gunness
An infamous black widow and serial killer, she lured more than 40 victims into her home for the insurance money.
Ep. 3.2: The Killer and The Interpreter
Anne Bonny
As a notorious pirate in the 18th century, she earned a reputation for being ruthless, vengeful, and tireless in her reign.
Ep. 2.27: The Terrorist and The Pirate
Sutematsu Oyama
Sent to Vassar college against her will by her family and government, she became the most educated Japanese woman of her time.
Ep. 2.25: The Teacher and The Founder
Khutulun
An accomplished warrior in her own right, she was the most famous daughter of Kaidu, a cousin of Kublai Khan.
Ep 2.23: The Warrior Princess and The Madame
Ada Lovelace
A revolutionary mathematician, she wrote the very first computer program. 100 years before the first computer.
Ep. 2.18: The Author and The Programmer
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
A practicing suffragist and Irish nationalist, she is also one of the co-founders of the Irish Women’s Franchise League in 1908.
Ep. 2.16: The Novelist and The Nationalist
Ng Mui and Yim Wing Chun
Legendary figures who are said to have established the Wing Chun system of Martial Arts.
Ep. 2.13: The Assassin and The Masters
Vera Rubin
She was an American astronomer whose pioneering work on “dark matter” changed our fundamental understanding of how the universe operates and what it’s made out of.
Ep. 2.11: The Physicist and the Pioneer
Neerja Bhanot
She was a purser for the airline Pan American World Airways, based in Mumbai, India. She lost her life trying to save passengers on Pan Am Flight 73, which was hijacked by terrorists during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 September 1986.
Ep. 2.9: The Purser and The Shaman Queen
Sophie Scholl
As a student at the University of Munich, helped start the first visible internal resistance to the Nazi regime.
Ep. 3.13: The Guerrilla and The Student
Annie Oakley
She was an American legend and folk hero who became the sharpest shooter in the west
Ep. 3.11: The Legend and The Exhibitionist
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
A lifelong activist, she almost single handedly saved the Everglades.
Ep. 3.9: The Representative and The Conservationist
Phyllis Schlafly
Successful housewife, mother of six, and voluntary handmaiden, she left a legacy Americans are still grappling with to this day.
Ep. 3.7: The Empress and The Crusader
Izumu No Okuni
Born in the late 16th century, she was the originator of Kabuki theater; one of the oldest styles of theater in the world.
Ep. 3.5: The Actor and The Princess
Qui Jin
An active revolutionary and eventual martyr to the cause, she is widely known as China's first feminist.
Ep. 3.3: The Feminist and The Feminist
“Malinali” Malinche
(Painting by Diego Rivera)
A consequential figure in Mexican history, she helped the Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes on his campaigns in the region.
Ep. 3.2: The Killer and The Interpreter
Vera Finger
An active revolutionary in 19th century Russia, She was instrumental in the successful assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
Ep. 2.27: The Terrorist and The Pirate
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of Girls Scouts of the USA, an organization that continues to empower young girls around the globe to this day.
Ep. 2.25: The Teacher and The Founder
Madame Lou Graham
A fabulously successful brothel owner, she bankrolled most of Seattle, Washington during its founding years.
Ep 2.23: The Warrior Princess and The Madame
May Edward Chinn
A strong advocate for early cancer screening, broke down barriers as an African American woman studying medicine in New York City in the 1920s and ‘30s.
Ep. 2.21: The Titan and The Physician
Adeline Yen Mah
Surviving abuse after abuse at the hands of her family, she grew up to become a New York Times best-selling author.
Ep. 2.18: The Author and The Programmer
Madame de La Fayette
She was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France’s first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
Ep. 2.16: The Novelist and The Nationalist
Judith
A biblical heroine and leader who seduced and then beheaded an Assyrian general, causing his army to disperse.
Ep. 2.13: The Assassin and The Masters
Alice Guy Blaché
She was the second person and the first woman to be a film director and writer of narrative fiction films.
Ep. 2.11: The Physicist and the Pioneer
Malala Yousafzai
She is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. At 15 she survived an attempted assassination by the Taliban.
Ep. 2.7: The Beacon and The Icon
Edith Nourse Rogers
She was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who was the sixth woman to serve in the United States Congress. She served 18 terms.
Ep. 2.6: The Queen and The Congresswoman
Himiko
She was a shaman queen of Yamataikoku in Wa. Early Chinese dynastic histories record that the Yayoi period people chose her as ruler following decades of warfare among the kings of Wa.
Ep. 2.9: The Purser and The Shaman Queen
Mitzi Shore
She is an American comedy club owner. She founded the legendary Los Angeles comedy club, The Comedy Store in 1972. Through the store, she became hugely influential in the comedy business.
Ep. 2.7: The Beacon and The Icon
Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt was a writer and adventurer who was born in Switzerland but lived the majority of life in Algeria. Her writings about North Africa were some of the first descriptions Europeans had about the area.
2.1: The Explorer and The Queen
Queen Suriyothai
She was a royal Queen consort during the 16th century Ayutthaya period of Siam (now Thailand). She is famous for having given up her life in the defense of her husband, King Maha Chakkraphat.
Ep. 2.6: The Queen and The Congresswoman
Naziq al-Abid
Nicknamed “The Sword of Damascus” and “The Joan of Arc of Arabs,” Naziq al-Abid was a Syrian feminist activist and an honorary Syrian general due to her participation in the Battle of Mayaslun against the French. She started the first women organization in Syria and was exiled four times in her lifetime.
Ep. 2.4: The Editor and The Sword
Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin was from Missoula, Montana and became the first women elected to the U.S. congress. She served two terms and was a pacifist, voting against the U.S. entering World War II, the only serving congressperson to do so.
Ep. 2.3 - The Congresswoman and The Martyrs
Wang Cong'er
She was a female Chinese leader of anti-Manchu White Lotus Rebellion during the reign of the Qing dynasty. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.36: The Songbird and The Master
The Mirabal Sisters
The Mirabal Sisters were three women from the Dominican Republic who defied the dictator of the country, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, and were murdered for their efforts.
Ep. 2.3 - The Congresswoman and The Martyrs
Edith Cavell
She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War, for which she was arrested. She was accused of treason, found guilty by a court-martial and sentenced to death. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.34: The Candidate and The Nurse
Gouyen
She was a 19th-century Apache woman noted for her heroism. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.32: The Doctor and The Widow
Annie Jump Cannon
She was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification… She was nearly deaf throughout her career. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.30: The Soldier and The Scientist
Philippa of Hainault
She was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III… Philippa acted as regent in 1346 when her husband was away. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.28: The Spy and The Queen
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
She was a Sri Lankan stateswoman and politician and the modern world’s first female head of government. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.26: The Mythic Queen and The Prime Minister
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
She is a [Nobel Prize winning] K'iche’ political activist from Guatemala. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala’s indigenous feminists during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.24: The Sniper and The Rebel
Marsha P. Johnson
She was an American drag queen, sex worker, and gay liberation activist. A veteran of the Stonewall riots, Johnson was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and was a popular figure in New York City’s gay and art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.22: The Politician and The Queen (A Queer Episode)
Miriam
According to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, was the daughter of Amram and Yocheved, and the sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophet and first appears in the Book of Exodus. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.20: The Pitcher and The Sister
Lozen
She was a female warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache. According to legends, [she was] able to use her powers in battle to learn the movements of the enemy. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.18: The Ancient Queen and The Medicine Woman
Wu Zetian
She was a Chinese sovereign who ruled unofficially as empress consort and empress dowager and later, officially as empress regnant (皇帝) during the brief Zhou dynasty (周, 684-705),which interrupted the Tang dynasty (618–690 & 705–907). Wu was the only Empress regnant of China in more than four millennia. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.16: The Suffragist and The Empress
Joan of Arc (Artist: John Everett Millais)
Is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years’ War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.14: The Philosopher and The Martyr
Tomyris
She was a Massagetean ruler who reigned over the Massagetae. Tomyris led her armies to defend against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, and defeated and killed him in 530 BC. (Wikipedia).
2.1: The Explorer and The Queen
Yma Sumac
[She] became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be “well over five octaves” at the peak of her singing career. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.36: The Songbird and The Master
Victoria Woodhull
She was an American leader of the woman’s suffrage movement. [Who] ran for President of the United States [in 1872]. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.34: The Candidate and The Nurse
Elizabeth Blackwell
She was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.32: The Doctor and The Widow
Flora Sandes
She was a British woman who served as an officer of the Royal Serbian Army in World War I. She was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in WWI. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.30: The Soldier and The Scientist
Nancy Wake
She served as a British Special Operations Executive agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen of the war. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.28: The Spy and The Queen
Queen Calafia
She is a fictional warrior queen who ruled over a kingdom of Black women living on the mythical Island of California. The character of Queen Calafia was created by Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo who first introduced her in his popular novel entitled Las sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), written around 1500. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.26: The Mythic Queen and The Prime Minister
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
She was a Red Army Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II. Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.24: The Sniper and The Rebel
Anwen Muston
She is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected to Wolverhampton City Council at the 2016 elections, and represents the city’s East Park ward.
Ep. 1.22: The Politician and The Queen (A Queer Episode)
Jackie Mitchell
She was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. Pitching for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.20: The Pitcher and The Sister
Queen Tiye
She became the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. She was the mother of Akhenaten and grandmother of Tutankhamun. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.18: The Ancient Queen and The Medicine Woman
Kate Sheppard
She was the most prominent member of New Zealand’s women’s suffrage movement and was the country’s most famous suffragette. She also appears on the New Zealand ten-dollar note. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.16: The Suffragist and The Empress
Simone Weil
She was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist.
Ep. 1.14: The Philosopher and The Martyr
Empress Matilda
Also known as the Empress Maude, she was the claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. (Wikipedia).
Ep 1.12: The Immortal Woman and The Lady of the English
Lilith (Artist: John Collier)
She is a figure in Jewish mythology, developed earliest in the Babylonian Talmud (3rd to 5th centuries CE). The character is generally thought to derive in part from a historically far earlier class of female demons (lilītu) in Mesopotamian religion, found in cuneiform texts of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.10: The Empress and The Demon
Henrietta Lacks
She was an African American woman who was the progenitor of the HeLa cell line, one of the most important cell lines in medical research ever discovered. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.12: The Immortal Woman and The Lady of the English
The Empress Theodora
She was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. She was one of the most influential and powerful of the Byzantine empresses. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.10: The Empress and The Demon
The Empress Dowager Cixi
She was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.8: The Writer of Legend and The Empress Dowager
Tamar of Georgia
She reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. (Wikipedia).
Ep 1.6: The Fighting Girlfriend and The Queen of Kings
Ching Shih
She was a prominent pirate in middle Qing China, who terrorized the China Sea in the early 19th century. She is considered to be the most successful female pirate and one of the world’s most powerful pirates in history.
Ep. 1.2: The Songbird and The Pirate Lord
Rose Marie McCoy
She was an African American songwriter, influential and prolific during the 1950s and 1960s. Her songs, co-written with others, were successfully recorded by Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Big Maybelle, and many others. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.2: The Songbird and The Pirate Lord
Murasaki Shikibu
She was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.8: The Writer of Legend and The Empress Dowager
Mariya Oktyabrskaya
She was a Soviet tank driver during World War II. She was the first of the few female tank drivers to be awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award; the Soviet Union’s highest award for bravery during combat. (Wikipedia).
Ep 1.6: The Fighting Girlfriend and The Queen of Kings
Claudette Colvin
She was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, nine months prior to Rosa Parks. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.4: The Candidate and The Activist
Sylvia Rivera
A drag queen who helped shape the modern queer movement, she lived most of her life hand-to-mouth on the streets. (Photo: Harvey Wang)
Ep. 3.14: The Drag Queen and The “Saint”
Virginia Hall
An American spy during WWII, she was considered “the most dangerous of all allied spies” by Hitler’s own Gestapo.
Ep. 3.12: The Good Spy and The Bad Spy
Sidonie-Grabrielle Colette
She was a riot inciting, breast exposing, best selling author and nobel prize nominee.
Ep. 1.5: Le Scandale et La Maupin
Harriet Tubman
A legendary American figure, her list of accomplishments is so much more than you ever knew.
Ep. 3.8: The Conductor and The Nurse
Rachel Carson
Scientist and author, she wrote the book Silent Spring and changed the course of American History.
Ep. 3.6: The Biologist and The Warrior
Delores Huerta
An American civil rights activist and labor leader, she was the co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association
Ep. 3.4: The Farm Worker and The Queen
Jacqueline Cochran
A legendary test pilot and businesswoman, she broke many barriers in women’s aviation; almost being chosen for the first manned trips to outer space.
Ep. 3.1: The Test Pilot and The Icon
The Virgin Mary
Credited with giving birth to the world’s most influential religion, she is the most famous woman the world has ever known.
Ep. 3.0: The Mother of God
Delphine LaLaurie
An infamous figure in 19th century New Orleans, she is said to have built a torture chamber in her attic.
Ep. 2.26: The Killer and The Congresswoman
Georgina Beyer
The world’s first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world’s first openly transsexual member of parliament.
Ep. 2.24: The Eclectic and The First
Benedetta Carlini
A 16th century nun, she shot to fame through her visions and piety only to fall just as quickly after declaring herself an Empress.
Ep. 3.14: The Drag Queen and The “Saint”
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
A Confederate spy during the Civil War, she was so dangerous that Abraham Lincoln personally ordered her arrest.
Ep. 3.12: The Good Spy and The Bad Spy
Julie D'Aubigny
She was a cross dressing, gender bending, master fencer, and acclaimed opera singer.
Ep. 1.5: Le Scandale et La Maupin
Vera Brittain
An accomplished writer and pacifist, she exposed the world to the pain of her lost love and the sacrifice of her generation.
Ep. 3.8: The Conductor and The Nurse
Triệu Thị Trinh
Revolutionary commander in 3rd century China, she successfully gave china a run for its money
Ep. 3.6: The Biologist and The Warrior
Elanor of Aquitaine
Queen in two countries and a duchess in her own right, she was the most influential woman of her time.
Ep. 3.4: The Farm Worker and The Queen
Policarpa Salavarrieta
A Colombian heroine, she participated in the secret ground campaign against Spanish rule in her homeland.
Ep. 3.1: The Test Pilot and The Icon
Patsy Takemoto Mink
A legendary figure in Hawaiian politics, she became the first woman of color elected to the US House of Representatives.
Ep. 2.26: The Killer and The Congresswoman
Marthe Richard
A woman of many professions, started as a prostitute and spy before getting herself elected to her city council.
Ep. 2.24: The Eclectic and The First
Octavia E. Butler
Award winning science fiction author became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur “genius” award.
Ep. 2.22: The Activist and The Author
Esther Afua Ocloo
A Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending, she was one of the founders of Women’s World Banking in 1976.
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Mata Hari
She found global fame by redefining the art of exotic dancing before finding herself on the wrong side of World War one.
Ep. 2.19: The Spy and The Architect
Kate Bornstein
An American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist. She identifies herself as gender non-comforming.
Ep. 2.17: The Activist and The Journalist
To Youyou
A world renowned pharmaceutical chemist, she won a Nobel Prize in 2015 for her research in discovering a cure to Malaria. Her research has, almost singlehandedly, saved millions of lives.
Ep. 2.15: The Chemist and The Drug Lord
Nwanyeruwa
Became one of the leaders of the Aba Women’s Riots of 1929. She played a major role in keeping the protests non-violent.
Ep. 2.14: The Elder and The Actor
Eowyn
She is a fictional character in J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings. She is a noblewoman of Rohan who is described as a shieldmaiden.
Ep. 2.12: The Lady and the White Witch
Nina Simone
She was a legendary American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
Ep. 2.10: The Queen and The Legend
Dr. James Barry
Dr. Barry was an accomplished military surgeon in the British Army. Although Barry’s entire adult life was lived as a man, Barry was born anatomically female, under the name Margaret Ann Bulkley.
Ep. 2.8: The Doctor and The Physicist
Bessie Stringfield
During World War II she served as one of the few motorcycle despatch riders for the United States military.
Ep 2.5: The Punk and The Biker
Margaret Booth
Margaret Booth was a pioneer in film editing and worked as a film editor and film supervisor throughout most of the 20th century.
Ep. 2.4: The Editor and The Sword
Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy - “Coccinelle”
She was a French actress and entertainer. She was transsexual, and was the first widely publicized sexual reassignment case in Europe, where she was a national celebrity and a renowned club singer. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 2.2: The Murderess and The Trailblazer
Irena Sendler
She was a Polish nurse, humanitarian, and social worker who served in the Polish Underground in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II, and was head of the children’s section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.37: The Poet and The Hero
Caroline Matilda
She was queen consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian VII. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.35: The Queen and The Queen
Princess Pingyang
She was the daughter of Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan), the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. She helped him to seize power and eventually take over the throne from Sui Dynasty by organizing an army of women. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.33: The Last Queen and The First Princess
Rita Levi-Montalcini
She was an Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.31: The Revolutionary and The Neurobiologist
Shajar al-Durr
She was the second Muslim woman to become a monarch in Islamic history. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.29: The Mathematician and The Monarch
Queen Zenobia
She was a third-century queen of the Syria-based Palmyrene Empire. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.27: The She-Wolf and The East-Queen
Nettie Stevens
She was an early American geneticist. In 1906, she discovered that male beetles produce two kinds of sperm, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome… This pattern was observed in other animals, including humans, and became known as the XY sex-determination system. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.25: The Nun and The Geneticist
Marie Marvingt
She was a French athlete, mountaineer, aviator and journalist. She won numerous prizes for her sporting achievements including those of swimming, cycling, mountain climbing, winter sports, ballooning, flying, riding, gymnastics, athletics, rifle shooting and fencing. She was the first woman to climb many of the peaks in the French and Swiss Alps. She was a record-breaking balloonist, an aviator and during World War I became the first woman to fly missions during conflict as a pilot. She was also a qualified surgical nurse, was the first trained and certified Flight Nurse in the world, and worked for the establishment of air ambulance services throughout the world. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.23: The Sculptor and The Athlete
Lotte Reiniger
She was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) – the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, preceding Walt Disney’s feature-length Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) by over ten years – and Papageno (1935), featuring music by Mozart. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.21: The Pioneer and The Puppeteer
Sybil Ludington
[She is] celebrated as a heroine of the American Revolutionary War who, mounted on her horse, Star, became famous for her night ride on April 26, 1777, to alert militia forces to the approach of the British regular forces. She rode more than twice the distance of [Paul] Revere and was only 16 years old at the time of her action. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.19: The Climber and The Rider
Madam C. J. Walker
She was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.17: The Saint and The Saleswoman
Boudica
She was a queen of the British CelticIceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.15: The Capitalist and The Warrior Queen
Phoolan Devi
Popularly known as “Bandit Queen”, she was an Indian bandit and later a Member of Parliament. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.13: The Mathematician and The Bandit Queen
Yaa Asantewaa
She was appointed queen mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire. In 1900, she led the Ashanti rebellion known as the War of the Golden Stool, also known as the Yaa Asantewaa war, against British colonialism. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.11: The Warrior Queen and The Queen Mother
Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
She was a self-taught scholar, philosopher and poet of the Baroque school, and Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known in her lifetime as “The Tenth Muse…” She is considered today both a Mexican writer and a contributor to the Spanish Golden Age. She stands at the beginning of the history of Mexican literature in the Spanish language. (Wikipedia)
Ep 1.9: The Myth and The Holy Woman
Hatshepsut
She was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh, the first being Sobekneferu. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.7: The Hollywood Inventor and The Pharaoh(ess)
Nellie Bly
She was an American journalist. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne’s fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within.[3] She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.3: The Woman Rebel and The Rebel Journalist
Lillian Ngoyi
A fierce Anti-Apartheid activist, she broke many barriers for women all over Africa.
Ep 2.22: The Activist and The Author
Mary Pickford
A legendary actress and producer, she helped found two studios as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ep. 2.21: The Titan and The Physician
Zaha Hadid
An iconic architect and designer known around the world as “The Queen of the Curve.”
Ep. 2.19: The Spy and The Architect
Clare Hollingworth
Described as “the scoop of the century,” she was the first war correspondent to report on the outbreak of World War II.
Ep. 2.17: The Activist and The Journalist
Griselda Blanco
An infamous cocaine drug lord, she presided over a nationwide narco-trafficking operation and racked up a body count of over 200 dead.
Ep. 2.15: The Chemist and The Drug Lord
Rita Moreno
A legendary actress of stage and screen whose career has spanned more than 70 years. She is one of only 12 people in the world to have achieved EGOT.
Ep. 2.14: The Elder and The Actor
Queen Jadis (The White Witch)
She is the main antagonist of The Magician’s Nephew and of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in C. S. Lewis’s series, The Chronicles of Narnia.
Ep. 2.12: The Lady and the White Witch
Princess Kaiulani
She was heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii and held the title of Crown Princess.
Ep. 2.10: The Queen and The Legend
Lise Meitner
She was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Otto Hahn and Meitner led the small group of scientists who first discovered nuclear fission.
Ep. 2.8: The Doctor and The Physicist
Viv Albertine
A legendary British singer/songwriter, she’s best known as the guitarist for the English punk group The Slits.
Ep 2.5: The Punk and The Biker
Dorothea Helen Puente
Dorothea Helen Puente was a serial killer based in Sacramento, California. She owned a care home for the elderly and took advantage of them by stealing their social security checks. If any of her residents questioned her, she murdered them and buried them in her front yard. She died in 2011 while serving two life sentences.
Ep. 2.2: The Murderess and The Trailblazer
Sappho
She was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho’s poetry was lyric poetry, and she is best known for her poems about love. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.37: The Poet and The Hero
Madam Tinubu
She was a politically significant figure in Nigerian history because of her role as a powerful female aristocrat and slave trader in pre colonial and colonial Nigeria. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.35: The Queen and The Queen
Queen Liliuokalani
The last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She reigned from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 17, 1893. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.33: The Last Queen and The First Princess
Nellie McClung
She was a Canadian feminist, politician, author, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.31: The Revolutionary and The Neurobiologist
Maryam Mirzakhani
She is an Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University… On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani became both the first woman and the first Iranian honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.29: The Mathematician and The Monarch
Queen Isabella I
She was married to Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their marriage became the basis for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
Ep. 1.27: The She-Wolf and The East-Queen
Mother Noella Marcellino
She is an American Benedictine nun who has earned a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Connecticut. She concentrated on the positive effects of decay and putrefaction as well as the odors and flavors of cheese. (wikipedia).
Ep. 1.25: The Nun and The Geneticist
Marie Tussaud
She was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.23: The Sculptor and The Athlete
Marie Curie
[She] was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.21: The Pioneer and The Puppeteer
Lynn Hill
Widely regarded as one of the leading competitive sport climbers in the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she is famous for making the first free ascent of the difficult sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, and for repeating it the next year in less than 24 hours. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.19: The Climber and The Rider
St. Angela Merici
She founded the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the Church through the education of girls. From this organization later sprang the monastic Order of Ursulines, whose nuns established places of prayer and learning throughout Europe and, later, worldwide, most notably in North America. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.17: The Saint and The Saleswoman
Mary Ellen Pleasant
She was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur widely known as Mistress Pleasant. She identified herself as “a capitalist by profession” in the 1890 United States Census. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.15: The Capitalist and The Warrior Queen
Hypatia
She was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in Egypt, then a part of the Byzantine Empire. She was the head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, where she taught philosophy and astronomy. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.13: The Mathematician and The Bandit Queen
Queen Nzinga
She was a 17th-century queen (muchino a muhatu) of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in Angola. (Wikipedia).
Ep. 1.11: The Warrior Queen and The Queen Mother
Atalanta
She is a character in Greek mythology, a virgin huntress, unwilling to marry, and loved by the hero Meleager.
Ep. 1.9: The Myth and The Holy Woman
Hedy Lamarr
She was a prolific Austrian and American film actress and inventor.
Ep. 1.7: The Hollywood Inventor and The Pharaoh(ess)
Margaret Sanger
She was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term “birth control”, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (Wikipedia)
Ep. 1.3: The Woman Rebel and The Rebel Journalist
