Gals Guide

The Gal Pals are celebrating Asian Heritage Month! Katie continues by discussing what she learned about the first woman of color to the U.S. House of Representatives, Patsy Takemoto Mink! 

The Gal Pals are celebrating Asian Heritage Month! Barb starts us out with  Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei. Junko is the first woman to summit Mt. Everest.  

Season 5’s Poetry Gals continues with the Gal Pals honoring National Poetry Month. with guest Barb Conlin. Leah’s choice? Sappho, The Poetess, or The Tenth Muse.

Season 5’s Poetry Gals continues with the Gal Pals honoring National Poetry Month. with guest Barb Conlin. Barb’s choice? Anne Sexton, who wrote confessional poetry.

Season 5’s Poetry Gals continues with the Gal Pals honoring National Poetry Month. with guest Barb Conlin. Katie’s choice? Dorothy Parker, one of the founders of The New Yorker..

Season 5’s Poetry Gals kicks off with the Gal Pals in honor of National Poetry Month. with guest Barb Conlin. Bonnie’s choice? Phillis Wheatley, who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.

Season 5’s Library Gals concludes with the Gal Pals talking about real life unicorns, librarians. with guest Amy Dalton. Leah’s choice? Her ancestor, Gratia Countryman, who was called the Jane Addams of libraries.

Season 5’s Library Gals continues with the Gal Pals talking about real life unicorns, librarians. with guest Amy Dalton. Amy’s second choice? Elizabeth Gray Vining, who tutored the Japanese royal family post-World War II.

Season 5’s Library Gals continues with the Gal Pals talking about real life unicorns, librarians. with guest Amy Dalton. Amy’s choice? Anne Carroll Moore, who was at the forefront of developing children’s centers in libraries.

Season 5’s Library Gals begins with the Gal Pals talking about real-life unicorns, librarians. with guest Amy Dalton. Bonnie’s choice? Maria Mitchell, who found Miss Mitchell’s Comet

Season 5’s Culinary Gals wraps up with the Gal Pals talking about women with big impacts on the culinary world with guest Barb Conlin. Leah’s choice? Ella Brennan, who gave us the Jazz  Brunch.

Season 5’s Culinary Gals continues with the Gal Pals talking about women with big impacts on the culinary world with guest Barb Conlin. Bonnie’s choice? Fanny Farmer, sometimes called Modern Cookery’s Pioneer.

Season 5’s Culinary Gals continues with the Gal Pals talking about women with big impacts on the culinary world with guest Barb Conlin. Barb’s choice? Ruth Fertel, founder of Ruth’s Chris Steak House.

Season 5’s Culinary Gals starts with the Gal Pals talking about women with big impacts on the culinary world with guest Barb Conlin. Katie’s choice? Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa.

Season 5’s Inspirational Gals continues with the Gal Pals talking about women who are inspiring to them. Leah’s choice? Marilyn Monroe, who inspired her style of research!

Inspirational Gal Month continues! Katie talks about the little lawyer from Brooklyn who becomes the notorious RBG. Goodness do we still miss this gal! Learn about the amazing Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

Flashback to Season 3 of Rebel month - Did you know the reason the U.S. has a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr is because of the work of Coretta Scott King? Learn about this active participant of peace who was active in the Civil Right Movement before meeting MLK.

Season 5 begins with the Gal Pals talking about women who are inspiring to them. Bonnie kicks off the month by talking about the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace! 

In the last episode of season 4, the Gal Pals talk about the writer/director duo The Wachowskis. Leah slightly holds back her geekiness for the Matrix films in this episode but only because we have Film Club on December 1 to talk about it all the more!

The Gal Pals learn their Star Wars name before diving into the amazing second career for Sheri S. Tepper. Author of Gate to Women's Country, Grass and 57 more books! 

Bonnie starts off Sci-Fi Gals Month with a Captain who is very close to our hearts, Captain Janeway! Learn about the incredible adventures of Kate Mulgrew. 

The Gal Pals talk about the journey to 200 episodes. They also unveil the topics for 2023! What will they talk about next?! You get a sneak peek! 

Leah finishes up witches month by talking about the Ale Wives of Europe through the middle ages. Did you know that when the Ale Wives would sell their goods in the marketplace they would wear pointy hats so people could spot them in a crowd? They would be busy stirring their large cauldrons of beer. Is this starting to sound familiar? Listen in to this week's spellbinding episode. 

Katie gets gruesome with the tale of Catherine "La Vosin" Monvoisin. This French black magic sorcerer was the head of a powerful network that provided poisons, love potions, and abortions. She might have killed over 1,000 people but she also might have got King Louis XIV to fall for Madame de Montespan. Listen, if you dare! 

Bonnie tells the tale of not just one witch from Greek Mythology but two! Dive into the weirdness of Greek myths and learn about Circe and Medea. We also ask "If you could have any witch's power, what would it be?"