Hot Girl Histories

The history of Sabrina Pasterski may be the most recent history covered so far, but it is no less jampacked. From building a plane at nine years old to offering Jeff Bezos that she can send him Mars, and being the first woman to graduate with a perfect GPA from MIT in two decades (in addition to being cited by Stephen Hawking), Sabrina has lots to brag about but hates hype. Five years after Sabrin...

Grab your favorite mug, some tea, and a cozy blanket for this chilllll episode <3 besides chatting about Gloria Steinem and entering a 1980 beauty pageant to get into college, my mother and I speak mostly about dreams: being a young woman with big writing dreams, then transitioning into being a single mom with big dreams. Holding onto dreams, putting them down, picking them back up. Silences, p...

Theory will take you only so far? MEN will take you only so far! Joined by my particle physicist father, we dissect Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and some of the many women involved in the Manhattan Project that the movie fails to mention including Mary Frankel, Elizabeth Riddle Graves, Naomi Livesay, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and C.S Wu. But before that, we break down all the men on the screen...

Hot Girl Historian Mayu returns to speak on the first mental disorder attributed to women: hysteria, aka the daughter's disease, aka the madness of love! We start in 2000 BC with Hippocrates' idea of hysteron, move to Galen and Soranus' thoughts on how to deal with venomous humours coming from "bad" uteruses, then entertain the feminization of madness at the beginning of the...

Joined by medievalist Naoki Matsumoto, Hot Girl Histories says HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! by diving into trans studies in medieval history. We examine cases of "transvestites," "sodomites," and lesbians, then digress into sex work and physical disability histories in the medieval period. Starting in 1394 with the case against Eleanor Rykener in London, we debate historiography about de...

Hot Girl Historian Charlotte Oakes joins Claire to discuss second-wave feminist movements in East and West Germany, Chornobyl's impact on the evolution of eco-feminism, real-existing socialism for women, mummy politics, and the double burden of women in East Germany during Soviet times. We also discuss the complications of the wave metaphor being used to refer to feminist movements, universal...

I'm honored to have Janey Jones, the author of The Edinburgh Seven , on the podcast to discuss the incredible stories of Sophia Jex Blake, Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Helen Evans, Matilda Chaplin, Emily Bovell, and Mary Anderson. In 1869, they fought to be the first women to study medicine in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh. We discuss the seven pillars of the book including the Hope...

Esperant...huh? Who's Zamenhof? What's Esperanto? You're telling me people in Dundee, Scotland were speaking this constructed language in 1910? Yes, and that's what Esperanto Wor(l)ds: Scotland, Postcards, and the Creation of an International Language, on display at the Wardlaw Museum until 29 May 2023, is all about! Joined by the Founding Director of the St Andrews Institute for T...

In this first episode of our Women in CERN series on Hot Girl Histories, we are joined by HGH dad who happens to be a theoretical physicist (meaning he has studied really tiny things called particles for over 40 years now)! In the ethereal town of Fraserburg with seagulls squawking in the background, we dive into extremely important physicists who happen to be women! The first is Meitner, most fam...

Joined by half-Scottish half-Greek spatial historian Emil Eleftheriotis-Pratt, this excruciatingly long episode tackles the question: How can decolonization be more than a buzzword that Claire embarrassingly wears on an overpriced t-shirt? We discuss Boris Johnson's not very hot takes on the Parthenon belonging in the British Museum, The Past Is Now exhibition (2017) in Birmingham, Curators of...

Joined by a fellow hot girl historian and survivor of honours Modern History modules, Mayu Sadler and Claire unpack the various roles Algerian women played in the 1954-62 Algerian War of Independence (only recognized as a war by the French in 1999... yikes!) and the shapeshifting identities of Algerian women related to veiling, unveiling, and guerilla warfare, Frantz Fanon, and the struggle for th...

With radio show host and BEHAVE extraordinaire on the hot girl pod again, Claire and GetEduk8ed leave Frankie Knuckles at The Power Plant in 1982 to explore the transnational house scene that bursts in the 90s! From London to Johannesburg, we discuss women DJs, and highlight some influential women in the early house scene such as Stacy Hotwaxx, DJ Sharon White, and Ultra Naté, and conclude with co...

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