Episode 7: Feminist Food Futures Here is the link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZcavCcqSEIBMaRYwmHe8fhT68yy355XLtZSMHXBL4k/edit?usp=sharing In the past six episodes we have been talking a lot about feminist and queer food history and what is going on in the present. Today we are going to shift our framing somewhat. I begin…

Episode 6: Generational Differences Here is the link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/146l8DcPRuQ6vrCxVSMsns61QpuWPENUvbZV7k92w6EY/edit?usp=sharing Our previous episodes have emphasized the histories of feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses in the 1970s and 1980s in the USA and Canada a bit more than the current existin…

In previous episodes, we have talked about how feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffehouses in the United States and Canada in the 1970s and 1980s were connected to feminist bookstores, lesbian bars, women’s rights organizations– not to mention the broader network of Civil Rights, LGBTQ rights, and anti-racist organizations. Today we’ll be talking …

In our first episode we talked about what feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses were and are. In the second, we talked about what feminist food is and the connections between food in gender. In the third, we talked about the ways that feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses were part of the feminist nexus and other ideas of networks. …

In the first episode we talked about the history of American and Canadian feminist restaurants and in the last episode we talked about what feminist food is. Today we will be talking about what I like to call “the feminist nexus”. We will be joined by Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking, the author of A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers…

Episode 2: What is Feminist Food? Here is the link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14O1r5t3y-i4oJtO0eW-Mu8NL6kRubUK4L6VG3ivQoCs/edit?usp=sharing In the last episode we talked about what a feminist restaurant is. Today we will be talking about feminist food and the big question of what makes food feminist. I’ll be joined by two…

Episode 1: What Are Feminist Restaurants? Here is the link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fRmRkNVBgixBNi4jCLr2cadX6C_Dw1gdiHcdvNJskjc/edit?usp=sharing I wanted to tell you a little bit about what to expect from the podcast and go over some key concepts and terms that will recur throughout the podcast… such as what even is a …

Coming Soon- a new podcast on food, feminist, LGBTQ, and restaurant histories! The podcast is called: Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast! It’s hosted by me, Dr. Alex Ketchum. I’m a scholar of food, gender, feminist, and tech history and the author of the book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Femin…

In this episode of Feminist History, Maggie tells about the adventures and struggles of the first half of Mary Shadd Cary's life, an activist who shook up the abolitionist discourse in the Antebellum period and went on to become the first black female newspaper editor in North America. Source list available at darknostalgiaworks.com.…

This week, Maggie from Feminist History joins Jasmin as they discuss Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum's history and horrors. Built in the early 19th century, the asylum was initially only meant to house 250 people. It quickly became overcrowded, and lack of funding combined with a host of bad ideas lead to egregious human rights violations. The stories t…

In Feminist History's first minisode, Maggie tells the wild story of a mystery baby left in Grand Central Station in NYC in December 1919. At the time, Nellie Bly was writing a column for the NY Evening Journal in which she detailed her activities as an unofficial social worker placing needy babies in affluent homes. The story of Love O' Mike prove…

In the second episode of Feminist History, Maggie takes you through the second-half of Nellie Bly's life. For a complete source list, please visit darknostalgiaworks.com. Please rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and remember to SUBSCRIBE!!! You can find the lost Nellie Bly novels https://www.davidblixt.com.…

In episode 1 of Feminist History, we are exploring the life of famed stunt reporter/investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Source list available on request. Follow Feminist History on Twitter and Instagram @femme_history. Link to Sheet Music Singer rendition of "Nellie Bly"Kirjoittanut Maggie Coomer

Feminist History is a creative nonfiction storytelling podcast about nonconformist women: the rule-breakers, the ones who clawed their way to victory through sheer force of will, or perhaps, died while trying to take the hill. Through honest biographical sketches, Feminist History will examine the different ways individual women have advanced the a…

A little introduction to the Mormon Feminist History Primer, a project that seeks to make Mormon feminist history more accessible.