Welcome to Broads You Should Know, the podcast about amazing and noteworthy women from history!
Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sam Eggers, Sara Gorsky, & Justin Xavier, and if you have no idea who we are... this is the episode for you! In it, we introduce ourselves and then break down the history & usage of the word "Broad" and why we chose it for the title of our podcast. We also talk about the types of women we'll be covering & give you a feel for who we are and why we're passionate about the subject!
If you have any women you'd love for us to cover on a future episode, send us an email at BroadsYouShouldKnow@gmail.com or dm us on IG: @BroadsYouShouldKnow
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Mary Kenner — Holds the Most US Patents of Any African-American Woman
Tomyris — Queen of the Massagetae Who Defeated Cyrus II [Sara Gorsky]
Izumo no Okuni — Inventor of Kabuki Theater [Steven Townshend]
Ernesta Drinker aka Commando Mary — Writer, Designer, and WW2 Radio Celebrity [Joe Lex]
Kadambini Ganguly — First Female Medical Doctor in India [Sara Gorsky]
reBROADcast: Coretta Scott King - Civil Rights Leader, Peace Advocate, & Wife of Martin Luther King Jr. [Sara Gorsky]
Sister Carrie Miller — Devoted Her Life to Empowering Families [Rev. Dr. Barbara Gorsky]
Broadly Speaking #9: The Broads of 2021
Charlotte Cushman — World-Famous 19th Century Actor [Dawn Alden]
bell hooks — Profound Writer, Theorist, Scholar and Architect of Modern Feminism [Sara Gorsky]
Mary Seacole — Jamaican-British Nurse and REAL Mother of War Hospital Sanitation Practices [Adrian Snow]
Sarah Winchester — Millionaire Heiress, Builder of the Winchester Mystery House & Supernatural Legend [Sara Gorsky]
Khutulun Khan (aka Turandot) — The Mongolian Warrior Princess & Wrestling Champion [Sara Gorsky]
Na Hye-sok — Korean Artist, Writer and Radical Feminist [Earl T. Kim]
Yu Gwan-sun — Korean Teenaged Activist Who Fought for Independence [Sara Gorsky]
Dr. Paulina Luisi — First Female Uruguayan Doctor & Feminist Leader [Sara Gorsky]
Valiant Ladies of Potosí — Teenage Peruvian Vigilantes of the 1600s [Dawn ”Sam” Alden]
Policarpa ”La Pola” Salavarietta — Columbian Revolutionary Spy Whose Voice Inspired Liberty [Sara Gorsky]
Hatshepsut — Pharaoh Who Restored Glory to Egypt and was Erased from History [Zach Livingston]
Vishpala — First Known Female Warrior and Prosthetics Recipient in Human History [Sara Gorsky]
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