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Max Dashu - Pythias and Classical Oracular Women
What was the oracular tradition like in Ancient Greece and what were its matriarchal roots? Join us we talk with Max Dashu about this incredible tradition. Sean Ma...
Female Revenge Movies - Thelma & Louise (1991)
The iconic film Thelma & Louise debuted in 1991 and changed the cinematic landscape forever. Join Vicki Noble, Dawn "Sam" Alden and Sean Marlon Newcombe as they exami...
Vicki Noble - Marija Gimbutas Symposium - Encore Presentation
We present an encore presentation of Vicki Noble's discussion of the Marija Gimbutas Symposium from 2021. As our following has grown, we'd like to acquaint our new li...
Blood Mysteries
Vicki Noble & Marilu Shinn - Women's Blood Mysteries Vicki and Dawn speak with Marilu Shinn about menstrual blood - its beginning, its end, and how it is entangled wi...
Women Have Always Fought - Encore Presentation
Dawn "Sam" Alden talks with Sean Marlon Newcombe about the myriad of women warriors throughout history and how their stories have been erased. What we talk about in th...
Rematriartion - Voices of Indigenous Women
Join us for a wonderful discussion of the rematriation movement as it impacts Native American people. According to the women leading the this movement, "rematriation" ...
Female Revenge Movies - Promising Young Woman (2020)
Referred to as, "A black comedy told in pastels," the film "Promising Young Woman" initiates our series on female revenge movies. Written and directed by Emerald Fenn...
Fifth Sacred Thing - Novel by Starhawk
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing w...
Fearless Nadia-- Female Action Hero!
Join us as Dawn "Sam" Alden regales us about the colorful and incredibly exciting life of Mary Ann Evans, the woman known in India as "Fearless Nadia." A pioneer of w...
Genevieve Vaughan and Vicki Noble - The Gift Economy
Could matriarchy provide an alternative to the predatory corporatism that defines the global economy? Join us as we bring bring back our third member of the Make Matri...
Dr. Ping Yao - Women, Gender and Sexuality in China
Returning to chat with us again is Professor Ping Yao of Cal State Los Angeles. A specialist on gender and religion in Premodern China, Dr. Yao joins us to do a deepe...
Circe - A Novel By Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller's beautiful and lyrical novel, "Circe," Is one part mythology, one part biography and one part half-remembered dream. It is a work that explores Greek...
In Praise of the Goddess - Freyja - Blood Eclipse
Sex and war. Magic and death. These are the realms of the great Goddess Freyja. Seemingly rising from the chthonic myst of power in the matriarchal past, Freyja is ...
Constance Tippett - The Goddess Timeline - with Vicki Noble
The Goddess Timeline is a chronological record of archaeological images of women and goddesses on a uniform time scale from 30,000 BCE to the present. Join us as we t...
Women Heroes of Aviation - The WASPs
We chat with filmmakers Matia Karrell and Hilary Prentice about their documentary on the American female military aviators of World War II, the WASPs. Overlooked then...
Ellen Snortland - Beauty Bites Beast
Ellen Snortland is a writer, director and producer who has been a women's self-defense advocate and instructor for most of her career. Her seminal work, "Beauty Bites ...
Misogyny In The Ancient World - Ep. 3 - Hesiod Was An A**hole
In describing the punishment that Zeus would levy upon the world for the "transgression" of man using fire, Hesiod wrote, "At once he made an affliction for mankind......
Elaine Pagels - Women in Gnosticism and the Early Church
Elaine Pagels is one the most celebrated scholars of early Christianity in the world. She is the author of such popular works as "The Gnostic Gospels," "Adam, Eve and...
Vicki Noble - War Against The Goddess - Echoes In Ukraine
It is a tragic echo of earliest civilizations that an army would sweep out of the Crimean to attack a people in Ukraine. As when the Indo-European warriors stormed th...
In Praise of the Goddess: Artemis
Matron of the Amazons. Goddess of the moon. Sister of the hunt. The OMG-- Original Mother-Goddess. She is Artemis and we LOVE her. Join Sean Marlon Newcombe and Da...
Mary Mackey -- Novelist and Poet
Mary Mackey is a beloved novelist and poet whose work centers on matriarchal and ecological subjects. Her historical novels take place in the matriarchal, goddess-cen...
In Praise of the Goddess - Ishtar
Ishtar, the Great Goddess, warrior and lover!
The tale of Gallus Mag & Sadie the Goat
In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we bring you a piece of overlooked women's history, in radio play form! Produced by Vicarious Films.
Vicki Noble - From Priestess To Bride
Join us as Vicki Noble guides us through the story of how the religious rites of The Goddess were turned into the wedding rituals of the patriarch. Long ago, the wheel...
Tony Wolf - Suffrajitsu: The Bodyguard of the British Suffrage Movement
Join us as we take a fun dive into the history of the British suffrage movement and the untold story of the women who became martial arts experts and protectors of the...
Podcast Crossover-- Broads You Should Know-- Valiant Ladies of Potosi
A special crossover episode of the Broads You Should Know podcast. (https://broadsyoushouldknow.com/) Today it's our own Dawn "Sam" Alden joining the Broads You Should...
Lieutenant Nun (La Monja Alférez) - Catalina de Erauso, Swashbuckler
Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to a life of adventure and violence throughout South America posing as a man.
Vicki Noble - Jeannine Davis-Kimball
Join Dawn "Sam" Alden as she talks with Vicki Noble and Sean Marlon Newcombe about the achievements of Jeannine Davis-Kimball and their experiences meeting her. Dr. K...
In Praise of the Goddess - Sekhmet and Bast
We start the new year with "In Praise of the Goddess"! This time it's Sekhmet and Bastet. Join us as we explore these powerful divine females and set 2022 ablaze with...
Ping Yao - Women In Ancient China
Join us as we discuss the roles of women in Ancient China with Prof. Ping Yao of Cal State Los Angeles. What were gender relations like in Chine before and during th...