Firefighting Women

$The Clydach Murders (part-two): Episode 95: In part two of this two part series I look at four dreadful murders which took place in Clydach, near Swansea, South Wales in 1999\. The sheer savagery and brutality of the murders, which wiped out three generations of the same family, rocked the local...$

SMNTY Classics: A Revisionist History of Abortion, Part 1: In colonial America, early-term abortion was a way of life for many women. But by 1900, it had become criminalized across the country -- but not for reasons you'd expect. In this two-part cultural and legal history of abortion, Cristen and Caroline time travel from ancient Greek herbal remedies to induce miscarriage to 19th-century abortionist Madame Restell at the center of America's first major abortion debate in this classic episode. by Stuff Mom Never Told You

46 min listen

Indigenous-Led Fire Stewardship with Amy Christianson: How can Indigenous communities regain power over their long-honed land stewardship and cultural burning practices? How can these practices be done without the influence of Westernized practices and policies, including prescribed burning? Today's guest Amy Cardinal Christianson, a Métis woman and Fire Social Scientist for the Canadian Forest Service, addressed these questions (and so, so many others) for us in today's episode. On top of advocating for greater authority for First Nation communities over their ancestral lands, Amy also has an extensive background in researching the connection between First Nation communities and wildfire. Her most recent research centers heavily on wildfire evacuations in First Nation communities in Canada; various overlapping factors (like remote locations and a lack of emergency response infrastructure) often result in disproportionate wildfire impacts to these communities. We owe a huge thank you by Life with Fire

47 min listen

The Professional Dominatrix: The dominatrix has become a common pop cultural trope and fashion theme, but mainstream depictions are often misleading. Cristen and Caroline discuss the cultural history of the dominatrix and what a professional dominatrix's job description entails. by Stuff Mom Never Told You

46 min listen

Kathleen Courtenay Stone, "They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men" (Cynren Press, 2022): An interview with Kathleen Courtenay Stone by New Books in Economic and Business History

37 min listen

INFAMOUS: #ChallengeAccepted: When two women are violently murdered five years apart and half a world away, advocates look for a way to call attention to the serious and growing issue of femicide in Turkey. The campaign takes off -- but while it gains momentum, it loses its original meaning. This is the real story behind the viral #ChallengeAccepted campaign that flooded your Insta feed in the summer of 2020. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/infamous-challenge-accepted by Crime Junkie

39 min listen

Weekend Woman's Hour: Period Inequality, Dr Katriona O’Sullivan, Electropop duo Let’s Eat Grandma: Period inequality, Dr Katriona O’Sullivan and Let’s Eat Grandma. by Woman's Hour

53 min listen