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Onna-bugeisha Tomoe Gozen is as legendary as she is mysterious. Fighting in the Genpei War from 1180 to 1185 CE, she was known for her deadly precision in battle and beauty. While Tomoe disappeared from history shortly after the end of the war, she lives on in myth and the arts.

Come along as we cover Japan's first female samurai through history and astrology.

Sources

Articles:

• "The Amazing Stories of Asahina Yoshihide: Japan’s Hercules” by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz (https://tinyurl.com/y7jwdy7p)
• "From Woman Warrior to Peripatetic Entertainer: The Multiple Histories of Tomoe" by Steven T. Brown (https://tinyurl.com/y3tkwp3r)
• “Japan’s Mugen-Noh: Let the Ghosts Speak and Dance One Last Time” by Yuri Minamide (https://tinyurl.com/jdtjrpdu)
• "The Legend of Tomoe Gozen" by Leah Silverman (https://tinyurl.com/yaxjd2pv)
• "Onna-Bugeisha, the Female Samurai Warriors of Feudal Japan" by Christin Bohnke (https://tinyurl.com/3ujxf7r4)
• "Tomoe Gozen" by Kai Fay (https://tinyurl.com/4f2bya3a)
• "Women Warriors of Early Japan" by Rochelle Nowaki (https://tinyurl.com/36vez64j)

Books:

• A Brief History of Japan by Jonathan Clements
• Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan by Chieko Irie Mulhern
• Japan before Perry: A Short History by Conrad Totman
• Samurai Women: Forgotten Heroines of Japan by Keiko Morikawa

Digital Media:

• Lady Tomoe, A History of Japan podcast (https://tinyurl.com/6u9zkff7)

Primary Sources:

• Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke by Thomas Cleary
• The Tale of the Heike translated by Royall Tyler
• Tomoe, a Noh play (https://tinyurl.com/2syh6j56)

Websites:

• The Battle of Awazugahara Historic Site Monument of Honor (https://tinyurl.com/mr2z4df8)
• "Tomoe Gozen" (https://tinyurl.com/42t65j9c)
• "Tomoe Gozen, Samurai Warrior" (https://tinyurl.com/mr36bz7d)

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Dikh He Na Bister means "Look and don't forget" in Romani.

Born into a Romani family in Austria, Ceija Stojka was one of the 1.17 million Roma living in Europe circa 1939. At only 10 years old she, her mother, and siblings were deported to Auschwitz Birkenau. A survivor of not only Auschwitz, but Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen, Ceija was liberated from the camps on April 15, 1945. At 55, Ceija began to process her pain into art, writing, and activism.

Come along with us as we cover the first Romani woman in Austria to speak out about the Porajmos, the under-told story of the Romani Genocide, through history and astrology.

Please practice self care when listening to this episode.

Sources

Books:

• We are the Romani People by Ian Hancock

Digital Media:

• Ceija Stojka — A testimony of a Roma holocaust survivor (https://tinyurl.com/4jw2a4zu)
• Ceija Stojka film trailer (https://tinyurl.com/5y3cmnhf)
• Hitler's Circle of Evil on Netflix
• Roma Genocide Rememberance Day: For Those Who Lost Their Lives in Auschwitz (https://tinyurl.com/5n93bm6u)
• "to open myself, to scream" - A Musical Portrait Artwork on Roma Artist Ceija Stojka (https://tinyurl.com/tpznyyfh)
• Virtual Exhibition of the Block 13 exhibition on the genocide of the Sinti and Roma at the Auschwitz Museum (https://tinyurl.com/2va7xh3a)
• Women of Ravensbrück: The Forgotten Camp (https://tinyurl.com/3zr9uh3j)

Primary Sources:

• The Green, Green Grass Beneath (https://tinyurl.com/3b4en22b)
• The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka: Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust by Ceija Stojka, translated Lorely E. French
• Roma Artist Ceija Stojka: What Should I Be Afraid Of? edited by Stephanie Buhmann, Lorely French, Carina Kurta, et. al.

Websites:

• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (https://tinyurl.com/2wachx8d)
• "Ceija Stojka" (https://tinyurl.com/3dve9rdd)
• "Ceija Stojka: Biography" (https://tinyurl.com/4vfms627)
• Ceija Stojka International Association (https://tinyurl.com/2n35de6b)
• "Ceija Stojka: A Roma Child in Auschwitz" (https://tinyurl.com/3ruatc7n)
• "Margarete "Ceija" Horvath Stojka" (https://tinyurl.com/3pwsmd89)
• "The Porajmos: The Nazi Genocide Forgotten by the world" (https://tinyurl.com/5yuz62sk)
• "Porajmos: The Roma Holocaust" (https://tinyurl.com/58nx2ahz)
• "We are reclaiming the Sunflower as a Symbol for the Life and Resistance of Roma!" (https://tinyurl.com/2s3cv9pv)

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IT'S ALIVE!!!

Born to a radical philosopher and early feminist, Mary Shelley has been immortalized through her 1818 work Frankenstein. Not only did she invent the genre of science fiction, but she also explored themes of human rights, being unsheltered in the world, and social isolation. Truly embodying 'peak goth', she kept her late husband Percy Shelley's calcified heart in a drawer until her death in 1851.

Come along with us as we discover Mary's intellectual pursuits and personal exploration in a world defined by radical thinking through history and astrology.

Sources

Books:

• In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson
• Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour

Digital Media:

• "10 Shocking Facts About Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/mr3h4y2a)
• "Frankenstein (1910)" (https://tinyurl.com/zf3v4hw5)
• “Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - the Birth of Gothic Horror” (https://tinyurl.com/5n86kcvc)
• The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
• "Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/256be346)
• "Mary Shelley: A Biography" (https://tinyurl.com/59whrdv4)
• “Mary Shelley and the Creation of Frankenstein” (https://tinyurl.com/58eb6zrz)
• "Mary Shelley: Writing Frankenstein" (https://tinyurl.com/52xtpcua)
• "The Strange, Tragic Life of Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/yfvdxujz)

Primary Sources:

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Life & Letters of Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley, Vol I & II

Websites:

• "Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein" (https://tinyurl.com/2rauz43a)
• “Birthing Frankenstein, Part 2: Earning a Living by Her Pen” (https://tinyurl.com/kuyse7ur)
• "The Death of Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/myhr4jz4)
• "Famous Bis: Mary Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/4d6p6kxe)
• "Love & Tragedy - The Stirring Saga of Mary and Percy Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/4h29nwwn)
• “Manifestations of Trauma and Madness in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (https://tinyurl.com/ye2a8bd4)
• “Mary Shelley’s Grief” (https://tinyurl.com/ywetswwh)
• "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" (https://tinyurl.com/5fymrum6)
• “Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: extraordinary mother and daughter” (https://tinyurl.com/5hdtpkum)
• "The Tragic Unsolved Mystery of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Love Child" (https://tinyurl.com/yvrb8scn)

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