Our Favorites: Sappho
Womanica
Acast Creative Studios
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Sappho (c. 615 BC) was an ancient Greek poet and an architect of the very words we use to talk about queer identity today.
For the past six years, we’ve been telling the stories of women you may or may now know– but definitely should. This month, we’re bringing back our favorite Womanica episodes from across our back catalog. These are women throughout time and around the world who made their mark.
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, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Sara Schleede, Paloma Moreno Jimenez, Luci Jones, Abbey Delk, Adrien Behn, Alyia Yates, Vanessa Handy, Melia Agudelo, and Joia Putnoi. Special thanks to Shira Atkins.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica. |
| 0:07.0 | For the past six years, we've been telling the stories of women you may or may not know about, |
| 0:12.0 | but definitely should. This month, we're bringing back our favorite Womanica episodes from |
| 0:16.9 | across the back catalog. These are women across centuries and around the world who made their mark. |
| 0:24.0 | With that, here's one of our favorite episodes. |
| 0:32.7 | Hello, I'm Carmen Borka Carrillo. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm a producer at Wonder Media Network, |
| 0:37.4 | and I'm so excited to guest hosts during this final week of Pride Month. |
| 0:41.7 | We're celebrating Pride Month with icons, supreme queens of queer culture. |
| 0:47.0 | Some are household names. |
| 0:49.1 | Others are a little more behind the scenes. |
| 0:52.1 | All of them have defied social norms and influenced generations of people to be unapologetically themselves. |
| 1:02.0 | Today, we're talking about an icon of antiquity, a forerunner of queer language, an architect of the very words we use to talk about |
| 1:12.7 | queer identity today. While her own sexuality has been a subject of debate for centuries, |
| 1:18.7 | her influence on poetry and her role in giving a name to love between women is undoubted. |
| 1:25.6 | Let's talk about Sappho. |
| 1:30.9 | Sappho's personal history is shrouded in mystery. |
| 1:35.3 | She was likely born around 6.15 BC to an aristocratic family on the Greek island of Lesbos. |
| 1:42.9 | She probably had several brothers, and she probably married a wealthy man and had a daughter. |
| 1:48.9 | She might have run an academy for unmarried young women. |
| 1:52.1 | She might have been a priestess. |
| 1:54.1 | She might have died young, throwing herself off a cliff after her heart was broken by a young sailor. |
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