John Lennon admitted it himself: he wouldn't give Yoko Ono a co-writing credit on "Imagine" because she was a woman. That's just one of the stories our first guest ever, Jenna Cosgrove, creator of the viral TikTok series Lost Women, dug up while ripping women out of the footnotes and back into history.

Jenna Cosgrove, the Australian screenwriter and TikTok creator behind Lost Women, joins Ksenija and Sue to talk about the women erased from history, from WWII combat nurses who stormed the beaches at D-Day unarmed and were denied veteran status when they came home, to the real story behind who wrote "Imagine." They also get into whether things have actually gotten better, and the new AI-plagiarism witch hunt disproportionately targeting women authors.

📚 Books Mentioned
• And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II by Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
• The Women by Kristin Hannah

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Hosted by European novelist Ksenija Popović and American engineer Sue Graham Johnston, Transatlantic Bookmarks is a weekly literary podcast that uses books as the starting point for conversations about culture, history, psychology, morality, politics, and the questions hiding between the lines. New segments every Saturday, Monday, and Thursday.

This is Part 1 of a three-part conversation with Jenna Cosgrove. Part 2 digs into literary erasure, centered on Sanora Babb and Steinbeck. Part 3 covers the manosphere, from Jenna's own experience making feminist-coded content publicly.

👉 CHAPTERS
00:00 Introducing Jenna Cosgrove & the Lost Women Project
01:46 Erasing Female War Veterans
08:18 The Case of Yoko Ono and Britney Spears
11:58 AI Witch Hunt