Daily: “If you can’t see it, you can’t be it” – Fixing history’s woman problem

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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After decades of feminist thought, why is history still a parade of men and the things they’ve done? The writers, poets and teachers behind the Twitter initiative @OnThisDayShe are putting women back into history, one day at a time – and they’re not leaving out the serial killers. Jo Bell, Tania Hershman and Ailsa Holland of @OnThisDayShe talk to Jude Rogers about why history leaves women out, their new book, why women don’t have to be heroes… and how your best ideas can come on a day out at the local treacle market. “If you can’t see it, you can’t be it.” – Tania Hershman “The way we talk about history is revealing. A man is said to have done something. A women is always ‘reputed’ to have done something.” – Jo Bell “Even if women are recognised in their own time, they’ll often be forgotten by history afterwards.” – Ailsa Holland “Women’s history is always expected to be somehow uplifting. But it’s not history’s job to be inspiring.” – Jo Bell “If I’d know at school about some of the women we’ve featured it would have changed my whole outlook on life.” – Tania Hershman “This isn’t women’s history. It’s everyone’s history, with women put back in.” – Jo Bell Presented by Jude Rogers. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.2	punchy way of teaching people about history for many years. But which
1:20.7	histories are being taught when this happens who's being forgotten?
1:24.4	It may come as a jaw-dropping surprise to you that women's stories are often the ones
1:29.3	left on the shelf of the cut-room floor. Three female writers Ailser Holland, Joe Bell and Tanya Hirschman, noticed this and got together to launch a much-needed corrective. In January 2018, on this date she launched on Twitter, drip-feeding entries of female achievement
1:46.0	into the Bloke Cannon.
1:48.1	Their project quickly spiraled.
1:50.0	Ever since, on this Day She's daily posts have covered the achievements of women from all across the world and many periods of time.
1:57.0	A different woman is featured every day, ideally not on her birthday or the day she died, but on a day that was important to her, the day she qualified as the first doctor in her country or patented her first invention for example.
2:10.0	Women aren't just portrayed as Saints and Heroes either.
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