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The podcast about amazing and noteworthy women from history! A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules; Broads You Should Know shares the stories of those Broads who have helped shape our world.
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Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
This week, Sara sheds some light on The Invisible Battalion! While Ukrainian women have been defending their country on the front lines for decades, it wasn't until 2018 that they were actually allowed to serve in combat ranks, thanks, in large part, to a massive campaign known as "The Invisible Battalion," led by the NGO Institute of Gender Programs (invisiblebattalion.org). The women leading this movement have opened the door for Ukrainian women's rights, and their powerful campaign also gives us a stark and heartbreaking window into the war Ukrainians have been fighting to keep their homeland since 2014.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Cornelia Sorabji dreamt long and hard about becoming a lawyer, even though in India in the late 1800's women were just barely allowed to go to University at all, and were NOT permitted to law school or the court system as a whole. Born into a progressive, education-minded family, though, Cornelia was not deterred by these archaic laws - instead she gathers supporters and chases her dreams all the way to Oxford, where she becomes the first woman to study law and the first woman to be admitted to the men-only library.
What follows is a difficult pathway trying to weave her way into a men-only profession, but Cornelia is able to build a successful career defending the Purdahnashin (women who weren't allowed to talk to men outside their family) who could not engage the services of male lawyers to defend themselves in cases of wrongdoing, neglect and abuse.
Her advocacy for this undefended population and her own success breaking down the male only walls of the British and Indian legal systems, make her an absolutely epic BYSK, but her name and achievements are pretty forgotten. Why? You'll have to listen to find out!
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Today, Colin A. Borden brings us the tale of Verity Lambert - the founding producer of Doctor Who!
As an aspiring young writer and director, Verity kept running into the glass ceiling, being told time and time again that there wasn't any more room for another woman.
Verity kept at it, though, and when an accident on set means someone has to step in to keep the show together, Verity meets the challenge with aplomb and leaves an indelible impression on the studio department head. Later, when he's looking for someone to try and get a weird show called "Doctor Who" on its feet, he remembers Verity, and she becomes both the first UK female TV producer, and the youngest at the time.
Her story is amazing, and this now beloved TV show is a staple in many a home, but it wouldn't have even happened were it not for the tenacious, creative, and get-it-done attitude of Verity Lambert. Listen now for the full story!
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
The Broad, the Myth, the LEGEND! We all know her name, but do you actually know her story? To start with, did you know that wasn't really her name?!
Joan was born into a war-torn France at a time when French hope was greatly diminished. How on earth does a thirteen-year-old farm girl travel across dangerous, disputed territory, win an audience with the Crown Prince of France, inspire the entire French army and restore the hope of France, when it would have seemed statistically impossible? And what price would she have to pay for her stunning accomplishments? You'll have to listen to find out!
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Wednesday May 29, 2024
This week Sara brings us one of her personal heroes and feminist icons, the incomparable and prolific - bell hooks! Growing up a segregated Kentucky, Gloria Jean Watkins witnessed firsthand the wake of destruction wreaked by what she would later dub the Imperialist-White-Supremacist-Capitalist-Patriarchy. She spent the rest of her life in a fight against it as a writer, teacher, scholar, intellectual, cultural critic and author, and in Sara's opinion, is the the architect of a modern feminism that is both transformative and accessible to all.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Wednesday May 22, 2024
When Cnopus goes to invade Erythrae he calls on an oracle to provide some wartime guidance. This oracle advises he put a Priestess of Hecate from Thessaly in charge of his army. Chrysame is sent forth from Thessaly and she immediately sets to work devising one of the most epic strategies of 11th Century BCE using none other than her Hecate-given knowledge of animals and poisons. So epic, in fact, that her name appears in Polyaenus' Stratagems in War - one of the only women even mentioned in it. What does she do? You'll have to listen to find out!
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
In 1908, when Winston Churchill shoots his mouth off about women during an election cycle the suffragists in town are not having it, and Mary Moloney puts on her boots, grabs her dinner bell and becomes Churchill's greatest nightmare: A silencer of his voice.
Mary rings her bell for a whole week during by elections in Dundee Scotland, following Churchill wherever he goes, winning crowds over in droves and drawing large press attention. Does he ever apologize? Does he win the election or does Mary prevail? You'll have to listen to find out!
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Chloe joins Sara this week to talk about the laugh of the century: Why men can't figure out why a woman thinks bears are less dangerous than them and how deeply upset they are about it. They cover this latest viral TikTok, as well as the latest in women's rights in the US, the temptation of protest voting, Nikki Glaser's brilliant roast of Tom Brady, Challengers and the most recent, female-led True Detective season, beloved by many and unjustly crapped on by the one person who probably should have just kept his mouth shut.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
This week, Chloe Skye returns to bring us the story of Beate Gordon! When Beate's Ukrainian-born Jewish parents fled Russia in the 1920's, eventually landing in Japan, Beate fell in love with the Japanese people and culture, but WWII leaves Beate in the US, separated from her parents and unable to contact them. Beate uses her incredible ployglot skills to become a translator, eventually working her way onto Douglas MacArthur's team and to the very table where his team was writing the new Japanese Constitution and Beate, of all people, became responsible for the future of all Japanese women.
Her story is astonishing, and her impact on the women of Japan cannot be understated. How the heck did she meet MacArthur and become a feminist leader in Japan? And did she ever find her parents?? You'll have to listen to find out!
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
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3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
This week, Sara brings us the story of Kadambini Ganguly, the first woman to graduate college, first woman admitted to an Indian medical school and the first female medical doctor in India! Her work wasn't limited to medicine, either. A champion for women's and worker's rights, Kadambini's socio-political impact on India was undeniably incredible.
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A Broad is a woman who lives by her own rules. Broads You Should Know is the podcast about the Broads who helped shape our world!
YT/IG/FB @BroadsYouShouldKnow & TW @BYSKpodcast
—
3 Ways you can help support the podcast:
- Write a review on Apple Podcasts
- Share your favorite episode with a friend or on social
- Send us an email with a broad suggestion, question, or comment at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sara Gorsky.
IG: @SaraGorsky
Web master / site design: www.BroadsYouShouldKnow.com
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Broads You Should Know is produced by Sara Gorsky & edited by Chloe Skye