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History Becomes Her

Mashable

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Who inspires the women making history right now? History Becomes Her is a weekly Mashable podcast about women who are shaping the world, presented by Rachel Thompson. Each episode, we speak to women making change now about the women of the past who paved the way for them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recent Episodes

JUL 2, 2020
Caroline Criado Perez and Tracy King on the gender data gap that's putting lives at risk
Caroline Criado Perez is an author and feminist campaigner. Tracy King is a writer and campaigner. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez exposes the erasure of women in a world that’s been designed BY men FOR men — and men alone. In this world, wome...
47 MIN
JUN 25, 2020
Jess Phillips MP on remembering Jo Cox and speaking truth to power
Jess Phillips is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley and the author of Truth to Power and Everywoman.When she’s not standing up in the House of Commons, calling out the prime minister for playing “bully-boy game” during Brexit votes, she...
37 MIN
JUN 18, 2020
Vicky Spratt and Diane Munday on the 1967 Abortion Act and their campaign to decriminalise abortion
Vicky Spratt and Diane Munday are campaigning to decriminalise abortion in England, Scotland, and Wales.Diane Munday campaigned to legalise abortion in Britain in the 1960s. Her activism has not only changed women’s lives in this country — ...
39 MIN
JUN 11, 2020
Sofie Hagen on fat activism and taking up space in a fatphobic world
Sofie Hagen is a Danish comedian who co-created the Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Frances White. Hagen is non-binary and uses pronouns she/they/he. Hagen is a fat acceptance campaigner and plus size fashion designer, who speaks candidly about ou...
39 MIN
JUN 4, 2020
Akilah Hughes on Constance Baker Motley and self-care for the extremely online
Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, YouTuber, and podcaster. Hughes is the co-host of Crooked Media's What A Day podcast and one of the few black women hosting a daily news podcast. Podcasting has a representation problem. There are more podcasts...
31 MIN