SYMHC Classics: Mary Anning, Princess of Paleontology
Today we're revisiting an episodefrom Sarah and Deblina about Mary Anning. She started hunting for fossils in Lyme Regis in the early 1800s. Around 1811, she uncovered the complete skeleton of an icht...
29 Sep 201820min
Interview: Mindy Johnson and the Women of Disney, Pt. 2
In part two of this interview, Mindy busts some myths about women and their work in the Walt Disney Studio, and shares some stories of how new techniques were developed by color animators. The topic a...
26 Sep 201846min
Interview: Mindy Johnson and the Women of Disney, Pt. 1
Mindy Johnson has spent years tracking down the stories of the women who shaped Walt Disney's life, and the success of the Walt Disney Studios. She contextualizes the lives and contributions of these ...
24 Sep 201839min
SYMHC Classics: Victoria Woodhull, Little Queen for President
Today we revisit a Sarah and Deblina episode from 2011. In 1872, the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Woodhull for president, but her radical views and an personal scandal caused her to lose many...
22 Sep 201829min
Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science
Magnus Hirschfeld was a groundbreaking researcher into gender and sexuality in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was dedicated to scientific study with the hope of dispelling...
19 Sep 201835min
SYMHC Live: Anne Royall
Today we've got our live show from our recent East Coast tour, all about Anne Royall. She was a travel writer and a muckraking journalist way before Theodore Roosevelt coined that term, at a time when...
17 Sep 201846min
SYMHC Classics: The Radium Girls
Today we revisit an episode from prior hosts Sarah and Deblina. Between in 1917, hundreds of women got jobs applying radium-treated paint to various products. Many experienced severe health problems. ...
15 Sep 201823min
Lady Anne Blunt, Part 2
As Anne matured and her marriage fell apart, she continued to travel between the Arabian desert and England, always working to improve her horse breeding program. Eventually, she and Wilfrid separated...
12 Sep 201830min
