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  • Ep 110- Crimes of Fashion

    Ep 110- Crimes of Fashion
    2026/05/17

    You know the perfume. You don’t know the woman. By the end of this episode you’re going to be furious that the only thing most people associate with her name is a bottle on a department store counter.


    We don’t usually think about fashion and war crimes at the same time. Today’s episode forces us to. This story is about 2 MAJOR fashion houses and the very different roles they played in Nazi occupation in Europe. Trigger warnings apply. Please listen with care as this episode discusses concentration camps, rape, and torture (nothing detailed). I would call this episode adult content only.


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    54 分
  • Ep 109 -The Dorothy Kilgallen mystery/conspiracy

    Ep 109 -The Dorothy Kilgallen mystery/conspiracy
    2026/04/27


    This week we have a true crime story for you. I don’t want to give away too much here in the notes. But Dorothy Kilgallen was the Oprah or Barbara Walters of her time (the 40s, 50s & 60s)…and most of us have never heard of her. She was erased. Why? Dun-dun-dun… This story is wild!



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  • Ep 108 - Inventions by Black Women

    Ep 108 - Inventions by Black Women
    2026/03/09

    This week on Bitchstory, Kelly and Lisa uncover the Black women who invented parts of everyday life — and then got ignored for it. From laundry tech and menstrual products to home security systems and space-saving furniture, these innovators made modern life easier while battling racism, sexism, and a patent system that rarely worked in their favor. Some lost their fortunes, some had their inventions rejected, and one even signed her patent with an X. Turns out the world we live in was built by women whose names most of us never learned.


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    29 分
  • Ep 107 - Lady Librarians Saving Civilization

    Ep 107 - Lady Librarians Saving Civilization
    2026/02/19

    During the 19-teens and through the Great Depression, women and particularly black women were holding together literacy in society with their bloody fingertips and blistered feet. In this episode we discuss the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky, and the black librarians of the Harlem Renaissance. Literacy is power, guys. And Black history is American history. And women’s history is still sadly overlooked, which is why we do this podcast!


    Kelly’s creative projects of the moment:

    Goddess justice arc 2026 calendar


    Well behaved women keychains



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    45 分
  • Ep 106 - GPS Queen - Dr. Gladys West

    Ep 106 - GPS Queen - Dr. Gladys West
    2026/02/04

    Dr. Gladys West is the mathematical genius whose work helped create the GPS you literally use to find coffee, Target, and your emotional support parking spot. Her groundbreaking satellite modeling helped map the Earth with wild precision — and, shockingly, she didn’t get the credit she deserved for decades. This Black History Month, we’re celebrating the Black women who built the future while the world was busy ignoring them.


    Goddess justice arc 2026 calendar


    Well behaved women keychains


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    23 分
  • Ep 105 - Question Everything- Hannah Arendt

    Ep 105 - Question Everything- Hannah Arendt
    2026/01/21

    Hannah Arendt didn’t write about monsters. She wrote about ordinary people who stop thinking — and what that does to the world. In this episode, we dig into the life of the Jewish philosopher who gave us the phrase “the banality of evil,” fled the Nazis, pissed off half the intellectual world, and refused to make evil feel dramatic or mysterious. This is the story of a woman who believed thinking clearly was a moral act.


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    38 分
  • Ep 104 - The Women Who Built Christmas

    Ep 104 - The Women Who Built Christmas
    2025/12/16

    Christmas looks like it belongs to men — Santa, Jesus, the Wise Men, even Frosty — but the holiday itself has always been built, carried, and saved by women.

    In this episode of Bitchstory, we reclaim Christmas for the girls, the gays, and the theys by telling the stories history tends to forget:the women whose words, labor, courage, and organizing shaped the holiday as we know it. In this episode we'll discuss 4 (of many!) women who have made Christmas into the nostalgic, magical time of year we know it as today.

    From Victorian England to WWII France to Jim Crow Alabama to the North Pole, this episode reveals a truth hiding in plain sight:Christmas has always run on women’s work.

    So pour the eggnog, light the candles, put up your feet (you've earned it!!) and join us for a historically accurate, slightly unhinged, feminist retelling of the season.


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    38 分
  • Ep 103- You glow girl! The radium girls and what they taught us

    Ep 103- You glow girl! The radium girls and what they taught us
    2025/11/24

    They were called the Glow Girls — until their glow started killing them. In this episode, we dive into the haunting story of the Radium Girls: the teenage dial painters who trusted their employers, lip-pointed their brushes, and unknowingly swallowed enough radiation to light up a dance hall. Their bodies became evidence, their fight became historic, and their courage forced the first real conversations about worker safety in America.

    Join us as we tell the story of the women who glowed in the dark, exposed an industrial lie, and sparked the beginnings of modern labor protections. Feminist horror, corporate greed, and righteous rage — all in one episode.


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    35 分