Introducing: Encyclopedia Womannica
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Every weekday for a full year, listeners can 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 Pioneers, Creators, Villainesses, STEMinists, Warriors & Social Justice Warriors, and many more. Encyclopedia Womannica 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.
Encyclopedia Womannica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith and Andi Kristins. Special thanks to Shira Atkins, Alli Lindenberg and Edie Allard.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates. And that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you |
| 0:44.6 | get your podcast. Hello and welcome. |
| 0:54.3 | From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm so excited to introduce our brand new show, Encyclopedia Womanica. |
| 1:04.0 | Thinking back to our history classes growing up, we had one question. |
| 1:09.9 | Where are the ladies at? |
| 1:12.8 | Enter Encyclopedia Womanica. |
| 1:15.4 | In just five minutes a day, learn about trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women from antiquity through modernity. |
| 1:23.4 | Every weekday for a year, we're going to highlight a different woman who you may or may not know, but definitely should. |
| 1:31.1 | Each month is themed. |
| 1:32.9 | For June, we're starting with pioneers, that is, women who achieved some sort of first. |
| 1:38.4 | From Lucille Ball to Ethel Payne to Murasaki Shikibu. |
| 1:43.8 | Future themes include creators, villains, steminists, |
| 1:48.0 | witches and saints, warriors and social justice warriors, and more. By no means can we rectify |
| 1:54.3 | the inequities of historical memory in one go. We can't come close to including every |
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