A celebration of the first black woman to earn a PhD in physics. Moiya McTier is a New York-based astrophysicist who studies planets outside of our solar system. She's also a folklorist who specializes in using science and logic to build fictional worlds. You can hear all about the worlds she's built on her podcast, Exolore , where she invites experts to help her imagine life on a different alien planet in every episode. Please consider donating to Moiya’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goastr...
Jul 02, 2020•15 min•Season 10Ep. 4
Raising a glass to a “capitalist by profession” and all around badass Mary Ellen Pleasant. Junior Mintt is a drag artist in Brooklyn, out to show how Minty the world can be with a little kindness, empathy, and a strong Black, Trans, Queer perspective . Donate to her patreon and support a black trans artist! https://www.patreon.com/Juniormintt Junior is the local artist for G.L.I.T.S, a black trans run organization helping black trans people with housing! Donate to them here- https://www.glitsinc...
Jun 27, 2020•16 min•Season 10Ep. 3
Catherine Clune-Taylor, Ph.D. is a Black queer feminist writer, educator and activist. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Feminist Science and Technology Studies at San Diego State University, which is even cooler than you think it is. About 13.6% cooler, to be precise. Please send her some love, and by love we mean money and venmo her Catherine-Taylor-23 Catherine would also like to direct donations to the Emergency Relief Fund https://emergencyreleasefund.com/about/ which provides bail...
Jun 18, 2020•25 min•Season 10Ep. 2
Solange Azor (they/them & she/her) is a doula, comedian, and abolitionist based in Brooklyn/Lenape land. At one point you could find them performing standup and supporting births & abortions around the city. These days she is eating pasta, enjoying weed, and asking you to donate to this Fundraiser to house Black Trans folks . You can also support Solange individually via Venmo @Solangeaz...
Jun 16, 2020•13 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Come hang out with us because we are going live! On this special livestream edition, we’re celebrating women in medicine because your gals are topical as hell. Our lineup of comedians, historians, and storytellers will raise a (very full) glass to the women of yore who took risks, asked hard questions, and saved lives. Molly Gaebe and Kylie Holloway are your hosts, giving you a dash of context, a dab of framing, as we travel down the rabbit hole of women's history. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'...
May 10, 2020•2 min•Season 9Ep. 1
People Have Been Masturbating Forever. Joycelyn Elders knew it, Arti Gollapudi celebrates her story. Arti Gollapudi is a Brooklyn based comedian who received her bachelor of music from Berklee College of Music and her masters of arts in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch. Arti uses comedy as a tool to open dialogue about personal identity, trauma, and farts. Follow her on twitter and instagram @artiparty
Mar 31, 2020•29 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Don't Agonize, Organize. The fabulous hosts of the Violently Funny Podcast raise not one but two glasses to repro rights activist Flo Kennedy. https://anchor.fm/violentlyfunnypodcast Violently Funny is a comedic podcast about domestic violence, dating, sex and sisterhood hosted by survivors Onika McLean (@divaofcomedy) and Brittany Brave (@brittanybrave.) Don't punch back-- punch up. New episodes every Tuesday! https://anchor.fm/violentlyfunnypodcast
Mar 24, 2020•26 min•Season 8Ep. 4
It's Lizz Fucking Winstead! The founder of Abortion Access Front (and Molly's boss) stops by our studio to chat activism, why the anti-choice movement in funny, and the late, great abortion provider Susan Wicklund. https://www.aafront.org/ Lizz Winstead is Abortion Access Front’s founder and chief creative officer, is one of the top political satirists working today. As co-creator and head writer of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” she forever changed the way people get their news. Now with Ab...
Mar 17, 2020•39 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Ladies Can Breathe Too. Get ready to angry-drink, Sarah Hartshorne celebrates mythbusting Victorian sex scholar Clelia Duel Mosher "Sarah Hartshorne is best known as the plus-size contestant on Cycle 9 of America’s Next Top Model and was voted Least Annoying Contestant of her cycle by the now defunct annoying or not.com. After the show, she modeled all over the world for clients like Glamour, Vogue, Skechers and more. Since “retiring” from modeling she’s performed standup all over NYC and at the...
Mar 10, 2020•28 min•Season 8Ep. 2
The Ancient Irish Catholic Abortion Provider. Jaye McBride raises a wee bit of whiskey to Saint Brigid of Kildare. Jaye McBride is funny, smart and proudly transgender. Jaye has traveled the world performing stand-up comedy both as a headliner and sharing the stage with comedy greats like Aziz Ansari, Gilbert Gottfried, Jim Norton & Bobcat Goldthwait. Jaye has also been a part of The Boston Comedy Festival, The Maine Comedy Festival and the She Devil Comedy Festival. In addition to stand-up,...
Mar 03, 2020•22 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics. The one and only Solange Azor celebrate the life of sex worker and activist Margo St. James. Solange Azor is a Brooklyn based comedian and writer. You can also find her supporting births as a birth and abortion doula! Follow her @solangenaz on instagram and twitter.
Feb 25, 2020•21 min•Season 7Ep. 4
The Thing that Changes History. Miss Junior Mint gives us the whole story of one of the greats- Josephine Baker. Junior Mint is a black, Trans-femme producer and host of the weekly trans & PoC Centric variety show “In Living Color!” Follow @inlivingcolorbk and @juniormintt
Feb 18, 2020•30 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Anna Cain Bianco introduces us to Theodora, sex worker, actor, and Empress of Byzantium Anna Cain Bianco is a NYC based comedian and museum consultant. You can catch her at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, doing standup around the city, or on Twitter @annacainbianco.
Feb 11, 2020•23 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Kaytlin Bailey raises a glass of red wine to the baddest sex worker of yore- Phryne Kaytlin Bailey is the host of The Oldest Profession Podcast and is the Director of Communications for Decriminalize Sex Work. @kaytlinbailey
Feb 04, 2020•26 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Yasmin Tayag of One Zero clues us in- if alien life is out there, a lady just might be the one to find it. Yasmin Tayag is the senior science editor at OneZero, formerly the senior science editor at Inverse. Before that, she did unspeakable things with sea squirts in a genetics lab at NYU. You can follow her at @yeahyeahyasmin for more weird science content.
Jan 28, 2020•25 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Science Friday’s Elah Feder shares the story of Jerrie Cobb, and it’s literally and figuratively out of this world. Elah Feder is a development producer. She has a masters from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. She co-hosted and produced the Undiscovered podcast at Science Friday where she is the resident Canadian. You can follow her @elahfeder
Jan 21, 2020•28 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Maya Deshmukh delivers one hell of a celestial celebration of Hisako Koyama Maya is an actor and comedian in NYC. She can be seen performing as ""Brown Rice"" with her satirical fake K-pop girl group: AzN POP, as well as co-hosting a monthly ""fashion-comedy"" show called 'Fashion Puhleeze', where comedians break down trends very far from a red carpet. Maya has been featured on Betches, Nick Mom, Funny or Die, and can be seen on season 2 of HBO's High Maintenance. She also works part-time as a g...
Jan 14, 2020•23 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Moiya McTier tells us the tale of four feet of feminism, the singer, and early astronomer Caroline Hershel Moiya McTier grew up in a log cabin without running water and now she's an astrophysicist studying planets outside of our solar system. Along the way, Moiya became the first person to graduate with degrees in both astrophysics and folklore from Harvard University, she wrote a science fiction novel, and she found a passion for science communication. When she’s not thinking about the universe...
Jan 07, 2020•25 min•Season 6Ep. 1
It's our first guest! Our queen Junior Mint joins us in studio for an education on Blaxpoitation. Junior Mint is a black, Trans-femme producer and host of the weekly trans & PoC Centric variety show “In Living Color!” Follow @inlivingcolorbk and @juniormintt
Dec 24, 2019•36 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Actual witch and our favorite woman of darkness Anna Cain Bianco shares the story of Millicent Patrick- creator of the Creature of the Black Lagoon. Anna Cain Bianco is a NYC based comedian and museum consultant. You can catch her at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, doing standup around the city, or on Twitter @annacainbianco.
Dec 17, 2019•24 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Our resident harlot of horror, Sarah Hartshorne, celebrates the first filmmaker Alice Guy-Blache Sarah Hartshorne is best known as the plus-size contestant on Cycle 9 of America’s Next Top Model and was voted Least Annoying Contestant of her cycle by the now defunct annoying or not.com. After the show, she modeled all over the world for clients like Glamour, Vogue, Skechers and more. Since “retiring” from modeling she’s performed standup all over NYC and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was ...
Dec 10, 2019•30 min•Season 5Ep. 2
The Women of Herstory of the Rocks raise a glass to Mary Shelley
Dec 03, 2019•40 min
Ana Maria Jamolca celebrates the Soldaderas of the Mexican Civil War and reminds us to break the damn rules.
Nov 26, 2019•30 min
If a woman can survive the Yukon Gold Rush, 1800s Seattle, and a marriage to a man named Lying George, you know she's a bad bitch. Check out the story of Shaaw Tlaa as told by Tallie Medel. Tallie Medel is an actor, comedian and dancer based in New York City. She’s appeared on Inside Amy Schumer and Broad City. Tallie is one-third of COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM. **Reuploaded to fix audio glitch!
Nov 21, 2019•33 min
When life hands you lemons, make a herd of reindeer. Regan de Loggans celebrates Changunak Antisarlook Andrewuk. https://www.inupiatgov.com/ https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/climate-change-womens-issues-inuit-culture/ https://indigenouskinshipcollective.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/30-makers-mentors-interview-with-regan-loggans/id1071726419?i=1000392675841 https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
Nov 12, 2019•30 min
Nikki Palumbo raises a glass of whiskey to the one-eyed stagecoach driving hero we didn't know we needed- Charley Parkhurst.
Nov 05, 2019•28 min
In this bonus episode, the fearless explorer Molly Gaebe shares the story of her travels through a dark and tumultuous terrain- her early 20s.
Oct 23, 2019•7 min
Evelina Chumashkaeva raises a very large glass of vodka to Valentina Tereshkova- the first lady is space.
Oct 15, 2019•28 min
Anna Cain Bianco shares the story of Mary Kingsley- explorer, author, and unsinkable woman. Also there's a fish named after her.
Oct 08, 2019•17 min
Tallie Medel celebrates our feminist grandma and world-traveling botanist Ynes Mexia.
Oct 01, 2019•20 min
