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Who Did What Now

145. Louisa May Alcott

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This Pride Month, let us tell a tale of one of the best-known authors and least-known asexuals in history - Miss Louisa May Alcott. You may know her as the writer of the classic novel, Little Women, but Alcott had an interesting life that is only hinted at in her novels


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0:00.0

To mix a perfect mojita this summer, all you need is some ice, some rum, and then top up with

0:19.3

zesty, refreshing, fever tree mojito mixer.

0:23.9

Finish with a splash of sunshine and some good friends and enjoy.

0:30.6

Mmm, maybe you don't need the sunshine.

0:34.2

Fever tree mojito mixer, mix with the best.

0:39.3

Please enjoy responsibly.

0:47.2

Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Dead What Now, the History Podcast. It's not your history class with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Highlet and Reader of Books.

1:02.0

It is Pride Month, everybody, and would it be Pride Month if we weren't upsetting transphobes the world over? So first off, we have this fan cast of Zelda going on, right?

1:07.0

It's not even in production, it's not even a thing, but someone said, wouldn't Hunter Schaefer be

1:12.5

perfect for playing Princess Zelda? And if you look at Hunter Schaefer, yeah. She looks like

1:19.5

the daughter of Galadriel. Like she looks like Princess Zelda. And you have all of the transphobes coming at the woodwork complaining that, you know,

1:30.9

Hunder shave is not a biological woman, as if Princess Zelda is a biological human. Like,

1:38.8

she's from Hyrule, the mythical land of Hyrule. She's Hyalian. She is a creature with elf-like features.

1:46.5

We don't know anything about the biology, and I do not recall anywhere in the Zelda lore

1:52.4

where it specifically says that Zelda has a vagina. I mean, nowhere to my knowledge, right?

2:01.0

But like here's the thing.

2:02.3

In Okina of time, Zelda magics herself into chic, into a man, right?

2:08.7

And then, in, what was it, a breath of the wild, transforms into a dragon.

2:15.8

And yet, having a trans woman play this role is somehow out and the, you know, out of the bound somehow?

2:24.9

Like, what is this? It's absolutely nonsense.

2:27.7

And then I had another little thought that I posted to threads, which has made more people angry.

2:35.2

I was like, I don't get why, you know, transphobes use, you know, biology specifically

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