Queens and Rebels

First hand recollection of women's experiences in WW2.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Moorehead, Caroline. “The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Review – for 'Filth' Read Truth.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 2 Aug. 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/02/unwomanly-face-of-war-svetlana-alexievich-review. - Aleksievich, Svetlana. Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II; Trans. by Richard Pevear. RANDOM House, 2017.

Spooktober special - Part 3 of 3 on Jack the Ripper's victims.  Who were the woman behind the infamous crimes? Let's take a trip to the darkest parts of London and find out. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Black Swan, 2020.

Spooktober special - Part 2 of 3 on Jack the Ripper's victims.  Who were the woman behind the infamous crimes? Let's take a trip to the darkest parts of London and find out. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Black Swan, 2020.

Spooktober special. Part 1 of 3 on Jack the Ripper's victims.  Who were the woman behind the infamous crimes? Let's take a trip to the darkest parts of London and find out.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Black Swan, 2020.

Vengeance, sainthood, taxes and a one bad-ass Queen.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - The Rus' Primary Chronicle. Translated by Leonid Makhnovets, Dnipro Publishing, 1990. - Hruševsʹkyj Mychajlo Serhijovyč. History of Ukraine - Rus'. Translated by Marta Daria Olynyk et al., Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2010. - Plokhy, Serhii. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. Basic Books, 2021. - Subtelny , Orest. Ukraine: A History. 4th ed., University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Homosexuality now re-criminalized faced brutal repression.  Stalin's death brought gradual and limited freedoms that unfortunately omitted attitudes and laws on gay life.    Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004. - Guskov, Kirill. “Gay Life in Stalin's Gulag.” OpenDemocracy, 11 Dec. 2018, www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/gay-life-in-stalins-gulag/.

Homosexuality criminalized and re-criminalized and what happened in between.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Queer life in post-revolutionary Russia.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004. - History.com Editors. “Russian Revolution.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/russia/russian-revolution.

Life of gay men and women in tsarist Russia on the cusp of revolution.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

A revolutionary writer, Loraine brought a queer and feminist perspective to her tireless civil rights campaign. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Ingle, Zachary. “‘White Fear’ and the Studio System: A Re-Evaluation of Hansberry's Original Screenplay of ‘A Raisin in the Sun.’” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, 2009, pp. 184–193. - Lipari, Lisbeth. “LORRAINE HANSBERRY: (May 19, 1930–January 12, 1965).” Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance, edited by STEVEN C. TRACY, University of Illinois Press, 2011, pp. 193–217. - Sehgal, Parul. “The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/books/review-radical-vision-lorraine-hansberry-biography-soyica-diggs-colbert.html. - “Lorraine Hansberry Quotes.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 18 May 2020, www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/lorraine-hansberry-quotes/14401/. - Fonseca, Sarah. “The Double Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Out Magazine, September 1999).” Medium, Medium, 23 Oct. 2020, girlsinmitsouko.medium.com/the-double-life-of-lorraine-hansberry-out-magazine-september-1999-a60c1d471d49. - Whitney, Joel. “Lorraine Hansberry Was an Unapologetic Radical.” Jacobin, jacobinmag.com/2020/12/lorraine-hansberry-raisin-in-the-sun-playwright. - “Lorraine Hansberry Biography.” Chicago Public Library, www.chipublib.org/lorraine-hansberry-biography/. - “American RadioWorks - Say It Plain, Say It Loud.” APM Reports - Investigations and Documentaries from American Public Media, americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/lhansberry.html.

Amazons' journey from barbarous arch-enemies of Greeks to kick-ass women we all know and love today. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. British Museum Press, 1995. -Hardwick, Lorna. “Ancient Amazons - Heroes, Outsiders or Women?” Greece & Rome, vol. 37, no. 1, 1990, pp. 14–36. - Tyrrell, William Blake. “AMAZON CUSTOMS AND ATHENIAN PATRIARCHY.” Annali Della Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa. Classe Di Lettere e Filosofia, vol. 12, no. 4, 1982, pp. 1213–1237. - Franklin, Margaret. “Boccaccio's Amazons and Their Legacy in Renaissance Art: Confronting the Threat of Powerful Women.” Woman's Art Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2010, pp. 13–20. - The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History Of Herodotus, by Herodotus, Release Date: December 1, 2008 [EBook #2707] - Foreman, Amanda. “The Amazon Women: Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth?” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Apr. 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amazon-women-there-any-truth-behind-myth-180950188/. - Hawkins, Derek. “Amazons Were Long Considered a Myth. These Discoveries Show Warrior Women Were Real.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 1 Jan. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/31/amazons-were-long-considered-myth-these-discoveries-show-warrior-women-were-real/. - Man, John. “The Real Amazons: How the Legendary Warrior Women Inspired Fighters and Feminists.” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-greece/the-real-amazons-how-the-legendary-warrior-women-inspired-fighters-and-feminists/. - Cartwright, Mark. “Amazon Women.” World History Encyclopedia, World History Encyclopedia, 28 May 2021, www.worldhistory.org/amazon/.

The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

One of the O.G. feminists, authors and advocate for Egyptian independence.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Shaʻrāwī Hudá. Harem Years: the Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist. Virago, 1986. - Kahf, Mohja. “HUDA SHA'RAWI'S ‘MUDHAKKIRATI’: THE MEMOIRS OF THE FIRST LADY OF ARAB MODERNITY.” Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, 1998, pp. 53–82. - Weber, Charlotte. “Between Nationalism and Feminism: The Eastern Women's Congresses of 1930 and 1932.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2008, pp. 83–106. - Julia Lisiecka. Re-reading Huda Shaarawi’s “Harem Years”– Bargaining with the Patriarchy in the Changing Egypt. The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol. 8 (2015). - Hossain, Anushay. “Outside the Harem: Egyptian Feminist's Life Reminds Us To Keep Fighting.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 28 June 2013, www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2013/06/27/outside-the-harem-egyptian-feminists-life-reminds-us-to-keep-fighting/?sh=3887e48f578f. 

Who were the working women of the medieval world.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 By Judith M. Bennett, John R Hubbard Professor - Hanawalt, Barbara A. “Medieval English Women in Rural and Urban Domestic Space.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 52, 1998, pp. 19–26. - "Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians," coauthored with Ruth Mazo Karras, in The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2013), 1-17. - Gies, Frances, and Joseph Gies. Women in the Middle Ages. Harper Perennial, 2018. - Medieval Prostitution In Secular Law: The Sex Trade In Medieval London, Paris And Toulouse, Suzanne Meade, McMaster University, September 2001 - Youngs, Deborah. “Servants and Labourers on a Late Medieval Demesne: The Case of Newton, Cheshire, 1498-1520.” The Agricultural History Review, vol. 47, no. 2, 1999, pp. 145–160. - Crowston, C. (2008). Women, Gender, and Guilds in Early Modern Europe: An Overview of Recent Research. International Review of Social History, 53(S16), 19-44. - Mount, Toni. “What Was Life like for a Medieval Housewife?” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/middle-ages-women-life-marriage-housewives-role-jobs-wear-clothes-husbands/. - Laumonier, Lucie. “Medieval Working Women: Their Role in the Trades of Southern France in the 14th Century.” Medievalists.net, 14 Mar. 2021, www.medievalists.net/2021/03/medieval-women-working/.

The only woman to rule in her own right through out China's imperial history, Wu Zetian remains a controversial figure to this day.  Was her reputation of exceptional cruelty and sexual immorality deserved?  Listen and find out.  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Tung, Jowen R. Fables for the Patriarchs: Gender Politics in Tang Discourse. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. - Rothschild, N. Harry. Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers. Columbia University Press, 2018. - Dash, Mike. “The Demonization of Empress Wu.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 10 Aug. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-demonization-of-empress-wu-20743091/. - Valdez, Teresa “No One Mourns the Wicked: The Female Emperor Wu Zhao.” StMU History Media, 10 Nov. 2017, stmuhistorymedia.org/no-one-mourns-the-wicked-the-female-emperor-wu-zhao/. - Meekins, Jeannie. Wu Zetian: First Empress of China: A 15-Minute Biography. Learning Island, 2019. - Lee, Yuen Ting “Wu Zhao: Ruler of Tang Dynasty China.” Association for Asian Studies, 19 May 2020, www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/wu-zhao-ruler-of-tang-dynasty-china/.

Abolitionist, educator, lecturer, editor, journalist, civil-rights advocate, and lawyer. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History. The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. - “Myseum's Micro-Histories - Mary Ann Shadd.” Myseum, 28 Aug. 2019, www.myseumoftoronto.com/programming/microhistories-mary-ann-shadd/. - https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131055345060d.pdf

During the first wave of the Caribbean immigration to Canada a lot of women came as nurses or as a part of the West Indian Domestic Scheme.  What was their immigration experience like?  What challenges did they face? Listen and find out. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Lawson, Erica. “The Gendered Working Lives of Seven Jamaican Women in Canada: A Story about ‘Here’ and ‘There’ in a Transnational Economy.” Feminist Formations, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013, pp. 138–156. - Gooden, Amoaba. “Community Organizing by African Caribbean People in Toronto, Ontario.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, 2008, pp. 413–426. - Iacovetta, Franca, and Marlene Epp. Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History. University of Toronto Press, 2016. - Canada, Parks. “West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967).” Canada.ca, Government of Canada, 31 July 2020, www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2020/07/west-indian-domestic-scheme-19551967.html. - - Hébert, Paul. “Immigration Policy, the West Indies, and Canadian Black Activism in the 1960s.” AAIHS, 25 Aug. 2016, www.aaihs.org/immigration-policy-the-west-indies-and-canadian-black-activism-in-the-1960s/. - NewsAmericas, et al. “Caribbean News, Latin America News.” Caribbean and Latin America Daily News, 27 Apr. 2016, www.newsamericasnow.com/10-fast-facts-about-caribbean-immigrants-in-canada/.

Rich, powerful and mysterious.  The Queen of Sheba (Saba) captured the imagination of many, but did she actually exist?  Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Mamman Musa Adamu "The Legend of Queen Sheba, the Solomonic Dynasty and Ethiopian History: An Analysis", African Research Review,   Vol. 3 (1), 2009. - Suzanne Conklin Akbari "Where Is Medieval Ethiopia? Mapping Ethiopic Studies within Medieval Studies" Getty Publications, 2019, pp. 80-91. - Toy, C. H. “The Queen of Sheba.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 20, no. 78, 1907, pp. 207–212. - Campbell, Colin. “Was There a Queen Of Sheba? Evidence Makes Her More Likely.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Feb. 1986, www.nytimes.com/1986/02/04/science/was-there-a-queen-of-sheba-evidence-makes-her-more-likely.html.  - “Archaeologists Strike Gold in Quest to Find Queen of Sheba's Wealth.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 12 Feb. 2012, www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba-goldmines. - Delano, Photograph by James Whitlow, et al. “In Search of the Real Queen of Sheba.” Travel, 11 Nov. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/africa/ethiopia/mysterious-queen-sheba-legend-church-archaeology/. - “Two Riddles of the Queen of Sheba.” Metmuseum.org, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465954. - “In Search of Myths &Amp Heroes . The Queen of Sheba.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_four_sheba.html.