Bluestocking
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA biweekly podcast aimed at sharing literature, quirky articles, and websites with an interest in promoting self-education. Enjoy!
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43: Propaganda for the Win
April 11, 2022 02:27 - 15.3 MBGreetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Questions or comments? Email me here. Helpful Links: National Archives: Powers of Persuasion Private Joe Louis Music: Escaping Forever by Michael Vignola
42: We Need to Talk About Our Racist Past and Present
June 02, 2021 00:11 - 19.5 MBGreetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Questions or comments? Email me here. Helpful Links: Dr. Margaret Crocco on Texas Textbooks PBS Documentary The Revisionaries Avenue Q (musical) Kate McGee for The Texas Tribune on HB 3979 National Archives’ Rediscovering Black History Blog Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad Good Ancestor Podcast NPR’s Code Switch Podcast - Episode mentioned today: Tulsa: 100 Years Later The 1619 Project Nice White Parents Podcast Rache...
41: What Happened in 2020?
January 02, 2021 05:16 - 63.6 MBGreetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Questions or comments? Email me here. Helpful Links: Feature by Andrew Sullivan Native Land (Nonprofit) Website In the App Store In Google Play Music: First Light Part 1 (Instrumental) by Keith Anthony Holden Author Elizabeth McCracken Devolution by Max Brooks Becoming Duchess Goldblatt Follow her on Twitter! I promise you’ll love it.
40: A Bitter Pill
November 02, 2019 01:36 - 70.1 MBGreetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Helpful Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/books/review-dopesick-beth-macy-opioid-crisis.html https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/ https://www.amazon.com/Year-Rest-Relaxation-Ottessa-Moshfegh/dp/1784707422/ref=asc_df_1784707422/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=343242904475&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11443223706833030748&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028322&h...
39: Therein Lies Madness
October 02, 2019 01:51 - 15 MBGreetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Helpful Links: https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/11/12/illustrations-of-madness-james-tilly-matthews-and-the-air-loom/ Follow this link to purchase Mike Jay’s fascinating book and support the Public Domain Review: https://www.amazon.com/Visionary-Madness-Matthews-Influencing-Machine/dp/1583947175?tag=thepubdomrev-20 Music: "Relaxing Piano Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 L...
38: Anatomy of a Good Yarn
April 02, 2019 00:33 - 23.4 MBGreetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Helpful Links: https://edwardcareyauthor.com/books/little/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview8 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232365/the-underground-railroad-by-colson-whitehead/9780345804327/ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32614/32614-h/32614-h.htm Music: "Relaxing Piano Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ht...
37: Demons and Demon Cats
October 02, 2018 01:29 - 18.3 MBThanks for listening to Bluestocking! Helpful Links: https://historycollection.co/disturbing-historical-demons-you-wouldnt-ever-want-to-run-into/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/19/master-margarita-bulgakov-satire-russia Questions, comments, or ideas? Email [email protected]! Music: "Silver Flame" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Episode 36: Black and Bleu
September 22, 2018 19:41 - 18.4 MBThank you for listening to Bluestocking, the podcast for people who love to learn, but don’t always have time to study. This episode, I was inspired by a series of stories covering art history in seven colors, and reminded of a book from one of my favorite authors, Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore. Helpful Links: https://www.kellygrovier.com/ - poet and art critic Kelly Grovier. Check out his art history series for the BBC. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180312-the-racist-message-hid...
Episode 35: Victorians and their Dangerous Libraries
September 03, 2018 22:13 - 16.1 MBGreetings, and welcome to Bluestocking, the podcast for people who love to learn, but don’t always have time to study. Today we’re delving into the fascinating world of Victorian libraries. Helpful Links: Reading Rooms Designed for Women: https://daily.jstor.org/the-reading-rooms-designed-to-protect-women-from-library-loafers/ Gender and Public Space in Victorian America: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1215236?mag=the-reading-rooms-designed-to-protect-women-from-library-loafers The D...
Episode 34: Hooray for J.K.
August 01, 2018 03:37 - 18.7 MBGreetings, and welcome to Bluestocking! Helpful Links: Fun Facts about J.K. Rowling: https://www.cbc.ca/books/50-things-you-might-not-know-about-j-k-rowling-1.4093971 Charities related to the Harry Potter world: https://dailygeekette.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/use-your-hp-love-for-good-activism-and-charity-in-the-harry-potter-fandom/ Wonderful Quotes from J.K. Rowling: https://www.cbc.ca/books/4-reasons-why-j-k-rowling-is-the-only-person-who-could-have-created-harry-potter-1....
Episode 33: The Strangers' Case
July 22, 2018 00:25 - 8.51 MBThank you so much for listening to Bluestocking! This episode is short and maybe not sweet, but certainly poignant. There are some links below if you’re interested in learning more about today’s topic or how you can help some ‘strangers’ through a group like the International Rescue Committee. Helpful Links: https://www.rescue-uk.org/article/what-strangers-case https://qz.com/786163/the-banned-400-year-old-shakespearean-speech-being-used-for-refugee-rights-today/ - The full text of ...
Episode 32: Wedlock
July 12, 2018 06:06 - 26.1 MBThank you for listening to Bluestocking, the podcast for people who love to learn, but don’t always have time to study. Helpful Links: Wendy Moore, Author: http://www.wendymoore.org/ Music: "Peace of Mind" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email [email protected].
Episode 31: Mary, Mary
July 02, 2018 00:39 - 18.3 MBGreetings, and welcome to Bluestocking! This episode delves into the joint biography, Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon, about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Helpful Links: http://charlottegordonbooks.com/ http://time.com/5133735/wollstonecraft-grave-mary-shelley-frankenstein/ Music: "Relaxing Piano Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Psssst... Bluestocking ...
Episode 30: Frankenstein
June 22, 2018 01:15 - 20.1 MBHelpful Links: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180611-why-frankenstein-is-the-story-that-defined-our-fears Edison Silent Movie, Frankenstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fM9meqfQ4 Listen to The Year Without a Summer, about the events that helped inspire Mary Shelley to create Frankenstein: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/the-year-without-a-summer-1.html Or, if you prefer a transcript, from The Allusionist, which is how I first came across the story two year...
Episode 29: Of Princes & Roses
May 22, 2018 01:17 - 23.3 MBHelpful Links: https://www.thelittleprince.com/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-strange-triumph-of-the-little-prince http://mentalfloss.com/article/64148/12-charming-facts-about-little-prince http://mentalfloss.com/article/57198/11-drafts-most-famous-phrase-little-prince https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3621040/The-other-side-of-the-story.html https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/consuelo-de-saint-exupery/the-tale-of-the-rose/ Questions, comments, or suggestio...
Episode 28: Medieval Manuscripts
May 12, 2018 22:10 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBGreetings, and welcome to Bluestocking! Helpful Links: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-manuscripts-embroidery https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-marginalia-books-doodles https://www.instagram.com/uofgcodicologist https://medievalbooks.nl/2014/10/24/feeling-good-about-bad-skin/ http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/05/ready-are-you-more-medieval-yodas.html Questions, comments, or ideas? Email [email protected].
Episode 27: History Crushes
May 02, 2018 03:43 - 12.8 MBHead’s Up: this episode contains strong language. Helpful (and fun!) links: Samuel Pepys’ Diary: https://www.pepysdiary.com F Yeah History Crushes: http://fuckyeahhistorycrushes.tumblr.com/ Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? Shoot me an email: [email protected]. Music Credit: "Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Episode 26: Sorosis of the Ladies
April 12, 2018 02:42 - 18.3 MBHelpful Links: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/delmonicos-womens-lunch https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/06/charles-dickens-and-the-women-who-made-him Music from Kevin MacLeod: Garden Music Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email [email protected]
Episode 25: Uncomfortable Truths
April 02, 2018 05:15 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBHelpful Links Concerning Uncomfortable Truths... About PT Barnum: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-pt-barnum-greatest-humbug-them-all-180967634/ About Mark Twain: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/28/mark-twains-disturbing-passion-for-collecting-young-girls/ Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email [email protected]. Today’s Music: "Wisps of Whorls" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Lice...
Episode 24: Fixing Shakespeare with The Rude Mechs
March 24, 2018 02:59 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBThank you for listening to Bluestocking! I highly recommend Fixing Troilus and Cressida performed by The Rude Mechs in Austin, Texas if you’re able to make it. If you’re far away, you can still read the script and check out the awesome work this creative group is making: www.rudemechs.com Meet Kirk Lynn, the playwright: http://www.kirkkirkkirk.com/ And Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw, the director: http://www.alexandrabassiakoushaw.com/ As always, if you have questions, comments, or suggestio...
Episode 23: Eponymous
March 22, 2018 04:15 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThank you for listening! Helpful Links: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/30-words-inspired-by-29-people-and-an-elephant/ https://www.vocabulary.com Music: "Relaxing Piano Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Questions, comments, or ideas for a topic you’d like to see covered? Email [email protected].
Episode 22: Amo Ammo. A Dystopic Vision, Part I.
March 02, 2018 05:08 - 22 minutes - 18.8 MBA short story about what might happen if teachers are forced to carry firearms. Inspired by The Handmaid's Tale.
Episode 21: Barbara Newhall Follett
February 22, 2018 05:08 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBHelpful Links: 14 debut books by women to add to your TBR list: https://www.bustle.com/p/14-debut-books-by-women-coming-out-in-2018-that-you-need-in-your-tbr-pile-7649023 Laura Smith’s Writings: https://lauraelainesmith.com/writing/ The Conundrum of Writing About the Dead by Laura Smith: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/16/the-last-word-2/ The article which started it all: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act The Art of Vanishing by Laur...
Episode 20: Sweet Sweet Sleep
February 12, 2018 03:43 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBGreetings, and welcome to Bluestocking, the podcast for people who love to learn, but don’t always have time to study. Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? Email [email protected] Helpful Links: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/blankets-summer-hot The Once Common Practice of Communal Sleeping: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/communal-sleeping-history-sharing-bed The Original ‘Nightmare’ Was ...
Episode 19: Murder and the OED
January 22, 2018 02:26 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBGreetings, and welcome to Bluestocking! Helpful Links: http://mentalfloss.com/article/504609/murderer-who-helped-make-oxford-english-dictionary https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2016/03/08/women-and-the-oed/ The Professor and the Madman: http://amzn.to/2DnHYAk Questions, comments, or ideas? Email [email protected]. Music Credits: “String Impromptu Number 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.or...
Episode 18: Zombie
January 02, 2018 01:54 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBHelpful Links: Zone One by Colson Whitehead: http://amzn.to/2CsiggN World War Z by Max Brooks: http://amzn.to/2C7t4NY Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith: http://amzn.to/2CtsNYU NY Times Book Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/zone-one-by-colson-whitehead-book-review.html Questions or comments? Please email [email protected]
Episode Seventeen: Epistolary
December 22, 2017 05:02 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBThank you for listening to Bluestocking! Questions or comments? Email [email protected]. The original article which sparked my interest in epistolary literature: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trunk-stuffed-17th-century-letters-historians-dream-find-180957216/ To learn about the Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered Project, check here: http://brienne.org/unlockedbriennearchive If you’d like to check out Andrea di Robilant’s A Venetian Affair, you can purchase her...
Episode Sixteen: Q & A with Katherine Arden
December 12, 2017 02:07 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBThank you for listening to Bluestocking! Signed copies of Katherine Arden’s beautiful books can be found at www.bookpeople.com. Or, if you would like to support the podcast, please consider purchasing through the following links: The Bear and the Nightingale: http://amzn.to/2BB6n8a The Girl in the Tower: http://amzn.to/2BzCoh7 Questions or Comments? Email [email protected]. Thanks for listening!
Episode Fifteen: Squirrel!
December 02, 2017 05:17 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBHelpful Links: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/squirrels-caching-chunking-memory-system https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pet-squirrel-craze https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-1918-california-drafted-children-into-a-war-on-squirrels https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-squirrels.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FSquirrels&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement...
Episode Fourteen: True Crime and the Count of Monte Cristo
November 22, 2017 04:31 - 19.9 MBThe Diamond and the Vengeance: http://amzn.to/2zYGo96 If you’re curious about the background music used for the outtro: Drums of the Deep Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Do you have questions or comments? Email [email protected].
Episode Thirteen: Words, Words, Words
November 02, 2017 03:07 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MBThanks for listening to Bluestocking! Do you have the www.dictionary.com app to learn a new word of the day? It's fun! Check out these great articles from IFLScience: http://www.iflscience.com/brain/learning-new-words-activates-same-brain-regions-sex-and-drugs/ http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/are-you-a-sillytonian-or-a-losenger-30-olde-timey-words-academics-want-to-bring-back/all/
Episode Twelve: Carrie Fisher, Lois Lane, Me Too
October 21, 2017 21:20 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBHelpful links: http://fortune.com/2017/10/17/carrie-fisher-sent-a-cows-tongue-to-a-producer-that-sexually-assaulted-her-friend/ http://m.valpotorch.com/mobile/arts_and_entertainment/article_50f5265e-b57d-11e7-af4d-8705fa02ab38.html https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lois-lane-explains-white-male-privilege-to-superman
Episode Eleven: Hurricanes and Hurston
October 12, 2017 02:58 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBHelpful Links: NPR article and links about Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1849395 Library of Congress information and links about Zora Neale Hurston: https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-07 Greater Houston Community Foundation: https://ghcf.org/hurricane-relief/ Evangelical Lutheran Church of America: http://elca.org/en/Our-Work/Relief-and-Development/Lutheran-Disaster-Response/Our-Impact/US-Hurricane-...
Episode Ten: I am, I am, I am...a tribute to Sylvia Plath
October 01, 2017 08:21 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBPlease consider helping support the podcast by shopping through our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2yf7DMK Check out All The Lives I Want by Alana Massey: http://amzn.to/2xNqDAt Do you have ideas or stories you’d like to share? Email [email protected]!
Episode Nine: Memory
September 22, 2017 03:52 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThanks for listening to Bluestocking! Today we're talking about two books and the subject of memory... Moonwalking with Einstein and The Paper Menagerie *Spoiler Alert* The author of Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer, actually did win the United States Memory Championships the year he competed. Please rate, subscribe, and review to help us out. Have questions, comments, or ideas to share? Email [email protected] and let us know! Thank you for listening.
Episode Eight: Required Reading
September 11, 2017 06:25 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBPlease note: this episode does contain some strong language in the first five minutes. Skip ahead and you’re fine. Helpful Links: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/excerpts-from-the-all-girl-remake-of-lord-of-the-flies https://pizzabottle.com/45524-15-of-the-funniest-reactions-to-that-all-female-lord-of-the-flies-remake/ https://comicsverse.com/good-earth-review/ Find these books on Amazon, and help support Bluestocking! Lord of the Flies The Good Earth...
Episode Seven: Miscellany, Marston, and some Wonderful Women
September 02, 2017 03:52 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBThank you for listening to Bluestocking! Questions and comments can be directed to [email protected]. Please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play. Helpful Links: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-true-story-of-roland-the-farter-and-how-the-internet-killed-professional-flatulence http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170619-why-british-english-is-full-of-silly-sounding-words https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Wonder-Woman-ebook/dp/B00K4C3QPK/ref=s...
Episode Six: (Not So) Short And (Not So) Sweet
August 22, 2017 03:11 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBThank you for listening to Bluestocking! In this episode, I’ll be sharing two short stories by one of my favorite authors, Emma Donoghue (https://www.emmadonoghue.com/), award-winning author of Room. In her collection of short stories, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, she tells little-known stories based on history, including such characters as Mary Toft, Baker Brown, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Please consider checking out Eve Ensler’s V-Day Movement (http://www.vday.org/) if you are tr...
Episode Five: My Favorite Memoirs - Chapter 2: The Glass Castle
August 12, 2017 02:06 - 28 minutes - 26 MBHelpful Links: https://www.bustle.com/p/jeannette-walls-hopes-the-glass-castle-inspires-others-to-confront-their-pasts-tell-their-stories-69081 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library http://www.carnegielibrary.org/about/history-of-carnegie-library-of-pittsburgh/ http://beautyandthebook.com/ https://imaginationlibrary.com/
Episode Four: Portraits of Lincoln
August 02, 2017 03:01 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBEarly photoshop, spirit photography, vampires, and purgatory - they all have some sort of tie to our 16th President in this week's episode.
Episode Three: My Favorite Memoirs (Chapter 1)
July 22, 2017 00:06 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBIncluding works by Samantha Irby, Jenny Lawson, and Allie Brosh.
Episode Two: I've Got Ninety-Nine Problems, but a Witch Ain't One
July 12, 2017 04:46 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBFurther information: http://www.naominovik.com/ http://www.katherinearden.com/ http://www.amightygirl.com/fearless-girls As always, if you have ideas, suggestions, or questions, please email: [email protected] Thank you for listening!
Episode the First: Mozart's Starling, Beatrix Potter, and more!
July 01, 2017 22:42 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBEpisode One of Bluestocking is being launched! Thank you for checking us out. Interesting Links: http://www.thetanglednest.com/ http://www.lyandalynnhaupt.com/ https://www.facebook.com/LyandaLynnHaupt/ http://www.manfeels-park.com/ http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beatrix-potter-secret-journal-code-leslie-linder