Our Dirty Laundry

Send us Fan Mail This is our first Local Laundry minisode and we're starting in Atlanta. With heavy and very angry hearts, we discuss the latest act of white-male-supremacist-terrorism and murder in Atlanta last week and why we need to educate ourselves and watch our reactions to the news coming out of this latest incident of AAPI hate crimes. Then Katy teaches us about the Atlanta Race Riot...

Send us Fan Mail The 19th Amendment passed in 1920, but, as one of the few things we probably do remember from history class, that definitely wasn’t the end of the fight for voting rights. And although we learned the names of the prominent women of the suffrage movement (leaving out their racism and classism, of course), we didn’t hear much about the actions of white women in the years after suffr...

Send us Fan Mail The whole world is talking about it, so you better bet we have something to say! We break down the royal racism Dirty Britches style.  We discuss how you can't win in a system built on your oppression no matter how well you seem to do, why Kate can and should speak up (even though we know she won't), and how Sharon Osbourne pulled out all of the white lady tropes for her...

Send us Fan Mail In our last episode, we discussed Carrie Chapman Catt and her (blatantly racist) leadership in finally passing the 19th amendment. Today, we interview a current and former student at Iowa State University, involved in activism to rename a building on ISU campus named after Catt. The conversation, however, reaches far beyond Iowa and Catt herself. Wesley Harris and Allan Nosworthy...

Send us Fan Mail It's Women's History month and in this minisode we are honoring and learning about the first female Chief of the Cherokee nation, Wilma Mankiller. Shout out to Myisha T. Hill and her awesome group, Check Your Privilege, for putting her on our radar. We highly encourage you to follow @ckyourprivilege on Instagram and sign up for Myisha's amazing courses to advance yo...

Send us Fan Mail We cross the virtual finish line to the 19th Amendment...but, in an ending that will surprise no one by this point, the women we all learned about in history class got to the end of this race by tripping their fellow runners and erasing the contributions of those who paved the way for this eventual, partial victory. We learn you can't trust anniversaries penned by white women...

Send us Fan Mail Taking a deeper dive into the dirty laundry basket of Jane Swisshelm. Often venerated in history as a feminist and abolitionist, Jane was also a down and dirty racist. Her anti-Native American writings and beliefs are frankly nauseating. Katy teaches us about the US-Dakota war in 1862 and Swisshelm's response and her continued demonization of Native people even as she worked...

Send us Fan Mail We take our discussion of suffrage to the end of the 19th century! It might take us as long to discuss this topic as it took to actually get the 19th amendment passed.  Main takeaway from this episode: whyte women really don't get intersectionality. (Listen, I had to google it when I first heard the term - I suggest you do the same). But basically, we took our one-issue conce...

Send us Fan Mail Alright Chris Harrison, we know what you're going to say, "Do the woke police have to ruin everything?" Well, yep, sorry, Goldilocks sucks and we're here to tell you why. The stories we tell matter and we need to be better at taking a critical lens to the values they impart - implicitly or explicitly. They stick in the subconscious part of your brain, and the n...

Send us Fan Mail We are honored to talk to Sally Roesch Wagner: author, professor and activist. A renowned historian of the suffrage movement,  at first glance she looks like your sweet, soft-spoken grandma - but only if your grandma also has an FBI file and drops f-bombs! Come gather some wisdom and gain a friend. SRW is a fierce delight!

Send us Fan Mail We’re talking about Rachael Kirkconnell and The Bachelor. From the ugliness of Antebellum glorification to how we are failing in educating our white kids about race - there’s a lot of dirt!

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of ??? Listen, it's gonna take however long it takes! This week we're talking about the roots of suffrage and its connection to the anti-slavery movement. There were a couple of brief, fleeting moments when things could have gone oh-so-beautifully better, but alas...we f*cked it up again. Blog post and references at www.ourdirtylaundrypodcast.com! 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Dirty Britches - a minisode series where we dish the dirt on today's white woman defenders of white supremacy and general obnoxious political fuckery. Our first offender is Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia's newly elected House Representative, Trump-enthusiast, QAnon adherent, school shooting-denier, whack-a-doodle. A political newbie, but already thoroughly so...

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Send us Fan Mail We're back for the second half of our anti-suffrage chapter. This episode wraps up all the reasons your female genitals disqualify you from the ballot box, and then we take a peek into the women of anti-suffrage themselves. After we travel back in time to wag our fingers at our misguided progenitors, we process the lessons we take away from this part of our white woman histor...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a lot of dirt when we start looking into the history of women and voting in the United States. Before we look at the problems with the pro-women’s suffrage community and how they excluded minority groups, we’re going back to the women who were against getting the vote even for themselves. Embedded in their logic are deep connections to whiteness and the exclusion of anyone...

Send us Fan Mail An intro to our new podcast! We are two old friends who have spent the past four years lamenting to each other about current politics and how in the hell we got to this place as a country. Then, one day, Katy had the brilliant idea of doing a podcast to discuss one of our favorite topics to bitch about: white women! Caveat: we are white women. But we are also horrified by how many...