Sheela Na Gig Podcast
The Sheela Na Gig Podcast celebrates women in history whose strength, talent, and perseverance went largely (or completely) unrecognized or perhaps someone you don’t yet know about, but should! We are dedicated to celebrating women—one per episode—who we lovingly & reverently call “our Sheelas.”
Episodes
Shere Hite’s groundbreaking 1976 book, ‘The Hite Report,’ spun ‘a revolution in the bedroom.’ While she sold tens of millions of copies of her book and is credited with giving women the right to enjoy their own bodies, unrelenting criticism of her work drove her to self-exile in Europe.
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The Revolutionists is a comedic play about four real women who lived boldly in France during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. This unexpected and original dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. In our interview with Actor Amie Farrell and Director Jami...
PART 2 -Dare Wright was an extraordinary story teller & photographer , and also an actress & model, who single handedly changed the genre of Children's literature in 1957 when she published her first of 10, Lonely Doll books.
We had left off as Dare’s success had launched. In this episode, Dare continues to create her stunning “Lonely Doll&...
"We women were especially drawn to electronic music when the possibility of a woman composing was in itself controversial. Electronics let us make music that could be heard by others without having to be taken seriously by the male dominated establishment."
- Clara Rockmore
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Author and poet Miriam O’Neal takes us on a deep dive into the prolific life and work of artist, Elizabeth (Betty) Rivers. Rivers, who exhibited and published volumes of prints and a book about her life in Ireland, A Stranger in Aran, is being recognized once again for her vast contributions and enduring spirit!
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Doula, homebirth midwife, historian of Renaissance English History, and the author of the trilogy “The Tudor Queens’ Midwife (Books 1-3),” Brigitte Barnard shares about the history and practice of midwifery, home births (she had four!), and her new, forthcoming nonfiction book from Penn and Sword Press, entitled “Childbirth in the Tudor Court.” A true Sheela with many interests and accomplishments, Bri...
Despite being credited for her groundbreaking research that overturned a fundamental law of physics, Chien-Shiung Wu was denied the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. A pioneering Chinese-American experimental physicist known for her work on the Manhattan Project and the Cobalt-60 experiment, she was widely known as "the First Lady of Physics," "the Chinese Marie Curie," and "the Queen of Nuclear Research." She was al...
Today’s Sheela is Jeanne Hébuterne. Now most of you know or have heard of Amedeo Modigliani- the famous Italian artist whose unique paintings are instantly recognizable featuring women with elongated necks, mask-like faces, and soulful eyes, you know the one I’m talking about right?
Well, Jeanne Hébuterne was much more than Modigliani’s muse...
Virginia Hall is said to be “The Most Dangerous Allied Spy of WWII.” She is a wartime espionage hero in the fight against Nazi Germany. She was also systematically undervalued and underutilized by the American Government during her lifetime and, tragically, too often forgotten in history.
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June Jordan defiantly and purposely addressed the ills and injustices in the world. “POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE: The June Jordan Story, is a Los Angeles production adapted for the stage by her life partner and collaborator, Adrienne Torf, with Raymond O’Caldwell. “POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE: The June Jordan Story” Hear Adrienne Torf’s riveting account of June Jordan’s life and art, and her journey as colla...
Author Pamela Toler shares the riveting, little-known story of American Reporter Sigrid Schultz, who was among the earliest to warn Americans about the rise of the Nazi regime.
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Donaldina Cameron was a Presbyterian missionary, pioneer and also a real life action hero, in the fight against slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown.To the brothel owners, she was Fahn Quai, the White Devil. To the girls & women she saved who were living in her Mission Home, she was Lo Mo, or Little Mother and to her family, she was Aunt Dolly and history calls her Chinatown’s Angry Angel, Before human traf...
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