Best Of: Sappho

Womanica

Acast Creative Studios

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This back to school season, we're bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed. Today's Womanican is Sappho (c. 615 BC). She was an ancient Greek poet and an architect of the very words we use to talk about queer identity today.

This month, we’re heading back to school – and we’re taking you along with us! For all of September, we’ll be bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed. You’ll hear me – and some talented guest hosts – share both iconic and under-appreciated stories. But there’s a twist... each week is dedicated to a different school subject. This week: Women you should be learning about in literature classes!

History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn’t help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.

Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.

Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Sara Schleede, Paloma Moreno Jimenez, Luci Jones, Abbey Delk, Hannah Bottum, Lauren Willams, and Adrien Behn. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran.

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0:00.0	For decades the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold with law enforcement
0:05.6	seemingly powerless to intervene.
0:08.0	It uses terror to extort people.
0:11.8	But the murder of Carmie Galante marked the beginning of the end.
0:15.0	It sent the message that we can prosecute these people.
0:20.0	Listen to law and order criminal justice System on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:28.0	In California, during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles,
0:37.0	two women did something no other woman had done before, tried to assassinate the President of the United States.
0:43.0	One was the protege of Charles Manson.
0:46.0	26 year old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squakee.
0:48.0	The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI.
0:52.0	identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore in her 40s.
0:55.8	The story of one strange and violent summer,
0:58.3	this season on the new podcast, Rip Current.
1:01.3	Listen to Rip Current on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite
1:06.2	shows.
1:07.2	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hemple, host of the Hello Monday Podcast. In my 20s I knew what career success looked like.
1:16.6	In midlife it's not that simple. Work is changing. We are changing and there's no guidebook for how to make sense of it.
1:25.0	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
1:28.0	We'll navigate career pivots, we'll learn where happiness fits in.
1:32.0	Listen to Hello Monday with me Jesse Hemphill on the
1:35.1	LinkedIn Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts
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