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While we're all feeling like dumpy ragamuffins, we thought it would be a good idea to cover Beauty Queens. Shelby discusses former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado while Amy tells us about drop dead gorgeous beauty Laura Zuniga. Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast    

The Covid-19 separation continues! Thank you for your patience while we figure out tech. Since we recorded on Easter Sunday, we decided to cover Women of the Bible. Amy tells us about the story of Delilah and Sampson while Shelby discusses the controversial Mary Magdalene. He is risen! Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast  

Honestly, we just wish were in Mexico, so we went! Shelby covers Mexican movie star and DIVA, Maria Felix (thank you Colu Diaz). Amy tells us about feminist activist, Elvia Carrillo Puerto. Viva Mexico! Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast

It's our first remote episode, and it's not perfect. The sound quality is meh, but we're figuring it out. Shelby talks about fair-skinned beauty, Stoya. Amy discusses old school badass, Marilyn Chambers.  Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast

Are you ready to hear an interview with a badass? Then you're in luck. Shelby went to Mexico City and had the pleasure of sitting down with model, feminist, break-out star of Netflix's Made in Mexico, and all around cool gal, Columba "Colu" Diaz. Shelby fangirl-ed HARD on this one, so feel free to make fun of her! Follow Columba on IG: @coludiaz Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like...

We had to do it. Pandemics and the women connected to them... Amy covers Typhoid Mary. Shelby explains how the 1918 flu pandemic helped propel women's rights. Put on your Hazmat suit and enjoy! Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast  

It's not Socialites - it's Heiresses. Shelby discusses shipping heiress, Nancy Cunard, while Amy covers the original poor little rich girl, Barbara Woolworth Hutton. Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast  

Welcome to Women's History Month! It was a happy accident that we recorded our Librarians episode on National Stay in Bed and Read Day. Amy is sick, so be patient with her while she delivers the story of the Pack Horse Library Project. Shelby discusses our current Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. 

It's the one we've been avoiding - Comics. Shelby learned about "The Funniest Woman in the World" Moms Mabley. Amy educates us on Southern sensation Brett Butler. Don't forget to tip your servers.  Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast    

One day we'll do presidents, but for now, it's all about the First Ladies. Amy covers cool lady Betty Ford while Shelby discusses Dolley Madison - NOT Holly Madison.  Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast    

Don't mess with our sisters! To commemorate Shelby's sister Lesley, coming to town, we decided to honor badass sisters. Amy covers tennis sensations Margaret and Roumania Peters. Shelby discusses Vietnamese revolutionaries Trung Trac and Trung Nhi. Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast  

Don't tell these ladies what to do! Shelby talks about all around BADASS, feminist, musician, 90s icon Kathleen Hanna. Amy educates us on rule-breaker and bandit Phoolan Devi. Go break something! Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast

Gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday. (Shelby didn't know it was this weekend.) Amy discusses Katie Sowers, the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl (this Sunday, apparently). Shelby talks about the 1976 Yale Women's Crew team. It's a wide range of competitive sports over here, folks.  Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast  

Happy Martin Luther King Day! We're celebrating activists. Amy covers American educator, Nanny Helen Burroughs while Shelby discusses Egyptian feminist, Huda Sha'arawi. Let's make some change!

It's a long one, so buckle in. Today is all about the ladies who refuse to marry. Shelby covers French couturier Coco Chanel. Amy tells us about silent movie actress Lillian Gish. Here's to refusing the archaic practice of marriage. (But if you're married, that's cool to.)

Sometimes you have to send in a woman to do a man's job, but if ladies aren't permitted, what's a gal to do? Just dress like a man, man! Amy tells us about Dr. James Barry who performed the first successful Caesarean section. Shelby discusses jazz musician Billy Tipton.

It's the last episode of 2019. To kick off the new year right, we're covering lady reinventors! Amy discusses Shondale Atkinson-Dorise - founder of Mustard Seed Foundation. Shelby talks about Bumble Founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Both ladies have 3 names! Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast

Tess Rafferty is a comedy writer (Martha and Snoop's Potluck Party Challenge, @Midnight, Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne, The Soup) & political activist. She created 2017's Take Back the Workplace March Against Sexual Harassment, she's a featured blogger for Dame & Ms. Magazine, & writes the blog Recipes for Resistance. Her video Aftermath received over 50 million hits on Occupy Democrats. Twitte...

We're really trying to give you a themed December. Welcome to Women of the North Pole! Amy covers Ann Bancroft, the first woman to reach the North Pole. Shelby talks about the first all-women relay expedition to the North Pole. We're getting super niche here, people. Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast  

Today, we celebrate the brave girls out there that help change the world for the better. Shelby tells the story of Jazz Jennings - one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as transgender. Amy covers Ruby Bridges - the first black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.  Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagr...

Everybody put on their black eyeliner and shoulder pads. The gals are covering 80s Icons! Amy discusses lady drummer sensation Shelia E while Shelby dips into the androgynous perfection that is Grace Jones.  Intro Song: What I Do by Kristy Krüger © ℗ Just Like Freddy Music ASCAP Instagram: herstorythepodcast

Gobble, gobble Herstorians. It's our Thanksgiving episode, and we're dedicating it to lady Native Americans. Shelby discusses Dr Susan LaFlesche. That's right. She's a doctor. Amy tells us about civil right's activist Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich. She strings words together beautifully. Grab a piece of pie, and take a listen.

It's our YAAASSS QUEEN episode. Amy starts off with sweet Queen Carlota of Mexico. Shelby follows with intense Queen Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. Enjoy a lot of fancy names and titles!

It's Shelby's birthday episode, so she picked a rage inducing theme: Women who rally against their own rights. Amy discuss the Antis - a group of anti-suffragist women. Shelby tells the tale of Phyllis Schlafly - the woman responsible for the takedown of the ERA. Try not to break anything while listening. 

Let's go way way back...to the Days of Yore! Although Shelby and Amy had almost zero boundaries, their stories are eerily similar. Shelby covers Hurrem Sultan - the woman who went from slave to Sultana. Coincidentally, Amy tells us about Razia Sultana - empress regent of the Delhi Sultanate. You read that correctly. TWO SULTANAS!