Hey folks, it's Joanne Freeman.

We have a special treat today.

We're making this week's full backstage segment available for free to the broader now

and then community.

Backstage is where we share our personal reflections on the topic of the week, and we often

look back on the moments in our own lives that help shape our views, on politics, on teaching,

on the world.

This week that meant talking about the barriers that we faced as women historians with public

platforms.

And I'll add here that as Heather and I were talking our way through the backstage

segment, we realized that a lot of what we were saying was both universal enough and important

enough that it deserved a broader audience.

Typically, backstage is only available with the Cafe Insider membership.

To hear backstage every week, become a member at cafe.com slash history.

And now on to backstage.

So Joanne, this episode with its parallel tracks of women seeing things slightly differently

and having to figure out ways around gatekeepers to get their vision of the world before the

public.

At the same time they're facing harassment for doing that, struck a few chords, would

you say?

Indeed.

Indeed.

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