Dead Ladies Show

A week to go until our next @deadladiesshow.bsky.social at @lettretage.bsky.social I’m attempting to talk about Boudica.
Here’s the details:
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It’s hard to get inspired while the world is burning. But I’m feeling the Flo today — how about you?

"The biggest sin is sitting on your ass" - radical feminist lawyer and civil rights advocate Florynce “Flo” Kennedy.

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Find out more about Flo in Ep 24 of our podcast.

Save the date! Our next show in Berlin is Feb 16th at 7pm! Link to 🎟️: literatur-berlin.tickettoaster.de/produkte/364...?

Please enjoy our extensive (6 hours!) playlist featuring many talented women who became Dead Ladies in 2024: open.spotify.com/playlist/2iE...

New ep: the story of Anna Göldi, sometimes called ‘the last witch,’ who was executed in 🇨🇭in 1782; just 7 years before the French Revolution & long after witch trials were rampant in Europe. It took 200+ years for this miscarriage of justice to be addressed. Listen now wherever you source your pods.

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Could you add us, please? We are history but very often covering women of letters and always citing our book sources. Danke!

Had to share this campaign poster from Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 election run. Yeah!

Coming soon…Sept 14th at 4pm to PodFest Berlin!

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I NEED TO FIND MY PEOPLE 📚

Tonight our friends at DLS NYC have their first show of the year! Featuring Dead Ladies Sarah Bernhardt, Maya Angelou, and Emily Warren Roebling. Go see them at the Red Room at KGB Bar! Entry is free!

😢 our CBS feature has been postponed; the anticipation continues!

This just in! DLS on TV? Yes! The CBS Evening News feature on the Dead Ladies Show & DLS NYC is scheduled for this Sunday evening’s program! If you’re in the US, tune in to see it live at 6pm EST! Can’t wait! Thanks to all who made it happen! 💓

@susanstone.bsky.social that is!

A four panel cartoon from comic strip Miss Fury, featuring a woman in a black leopard suit sneaking around the Brazilian jungle.

🐈‍⬛Our newest episode is here! Susan Stone tells the story of June Tarpé Mills, the first woman to create a female superhero. Miss Fury only reigned the comics pages from 1941-51, yet influenced Wonder Woman, Catwoman & more. Find it here or wherever you like to listen: tinyurl.com/DLSJTM1

Vintage poster of Käthe Paulus parachuting and in a hot air balloon

Our show at Podfest Berlin is tomorrow night! Time to tell you about the 2nd lady we’ll feature: 🪂KÄTHE PAULUS was Germany’s first female airship pilot, a professional aerial acrobat, & inventor of the folding parachute. Katy Derbyshire tells the story auf Deutsch on Saturday at our live show!

Today's From-the-Vaults Treasure

In case you ever wondered what Sarah Bernhardt sounded like. (At the very least, you gotta check out the Phèdre track; it's wild.)

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Our show at PodFest Berlin is coming up soon! Time to tell you a bit about the Dead Ladies we’ll be featuring! First up: JUNE TARPÉ MILLS created the first female-drawn comic-book action heroine — Miss Fury, the secret identity of socialite Marla Drake.

Image of Dead Ladies Show logo with the words Live Podcast Taping October 14, Podfest Berlin 2023 and the Podfest Berlin logo which features the Berlin tv tower transformed into a microphone

Come see us at @Podfest_Berlin
Oct 14 for our last live show of the year! 🎟️here: podfestberlin.com/event-detail...

The Guardian view on female composers: a forgotten musical powerhouse | Editorial Editorial: For centuries the achievements of women have been ignored in classical composition. That can’t go on

'Mendelssohn prevented his sister from publishing her music, on the grounds that it “would only disturb her in her primary duties of managing her house” '> The Guardian view on female composers: a forgotten musical powerhouse #c18th #music #skystorians
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🕯️New Episode! Nafisa Ferdous from Dead Ladies NYC presents Amrita Sher-Gil, a queer, feminist, Hungarian-Indian artist, writer, & art critic. Sher-Gil was an incredibly charismatic non-conformist whose work reframed discussions on art & feminism, orientalism, & colonialism:
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Oppenheimer resides in the realm of Great Man histories, a world where there is no question as to whether the subject’s story should be told...Barbie engages with women’s history... long fought to be seen as legitimate in the public eye, and within the broader field of academic history as well.'

Podcast #66: Doreen Massey In this episode, we encounter the show’s very first featured geographer. Doreen Massey was a pioneer in her field. She challenged existing ideas about space, place and power, was compassionate, poli...

🚨New Episode Alert! We feature our first ever geographer!
🌍 UK-born Doreen Massey was a pioneer in her field. She challenged existing ideas about space, place & power, was compassionate, politically active, & hopeful. Agata Lisiak tells her story.

🎧Find the episode here: https://bit.ly/DLS-Massey

Podcast #9: Käthe Paulus The Dead Ladies Show is a series of entertaining and inspiring talks about women who achieved amazing things against all odds, presented live on stage in Berlin at ACUD. This podcast is based on that ...

Leaping into the blue sky like Dead Lady Käthe Paulus, Germany’s pioneering balloonist and inventor of the folding parachute: https://deadladiesshow.com/2018/05/24/podcast-9-kathe-paulus/