How is Her Life Not a Film is my first try at a podcast. * I write shortened biographies of women whose lives are vivid, influential, and dare I say "operatic" enough to be the material of a blockbuster biopic. Usually, I learn about these people through internet rabbit holes or offbeat TV shows, and I think, "Why didn't I learn about her in school?" Then I realize it's because history isn't widely regarded as a real school subject, but instead as a method of instilling nationalism. *Scrolling through my projects you may find some completely unrelated narrated bits, with topics such as these: - Symbolism of cornflowers - Golems - The Romanov family
Once again, thank you to @EV1mac for chatting with me and inspiring me to start this. She asked how Emma Goldman's life is not a movie, and I plan to do an episode about Emma Goldman soon. As a note, Victoria Woodhull didn't always support the same things. She started off her independent career as a spiritualist, which she later revealed to people as a scam. For most of her economic and political career, she was a socialist and supported gender and racial equality and public education. This was the period that defines the biggest influence she had on America. Later in her life she became a Christian conservative, probably because of a combination of her husbands' influences and those of more traditional Victorian-era women. At that point, she supported restrictions on marriage and divorce and encouraged motherhood as inherent to womanhood- which is mind-blowing because she used to be a leader of the Free Love movement. She is intriguing as a person, but please consider the nuances of the questionable movements (such as Victorian ones towards arranged marriage) she got involved in later on. #victoriawoodhull #feminist 'shistory
