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Gals Guide

Gal‘s Guide To The Galaxy

From the first women"s history lending library in the United States...This adult-centered podcast features a round-table discussion where each guest picks a rebellious woman of history relating to our topic of the month. The Gals Pals do get pretty drunk and the show is a lot of fun!

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18:37

Ado - Kami's Japan Pick

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2024/05/15

Kami continues Japan Month with J-Pop star Ado. Her debut song "Usseewa" reached more than 100 million plays in record time and hit #1 on Billboard Japan Hot 100. She also has a song for One Piece Film. But get this...she doesn't show her real face. Learn about this fascinating and multi-talented artist creating powerful music right now.

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18:27

Komako Kimura - Bonnie's Japan Pick

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2024/05/08

Bonnie starts us off by learning about the controversial actress Komako Kimura. This gal managed two theaters in Toyoko, performed in nearly 500 plays, and created a movement. Komako was all about women's suffrage and Japan tried to shut it down. So she came to America to walk in the 1917 Women's Suffrage Parade in New York...and perform at Carnegie Hall...and on Broadway

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30:02

Çatalhöyük - Riwo's Middle East Pick

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2024/05/01

Riwo's has gone rogue. She has as her pick an ancient site in what is now Turkey. Çatalhöyük has many twist and turns. It is a journey through some problematic guys. But Çatalhöyük, was said to be ruled by women 9000 years ago.

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24:28

Sameera Moussa - Katie's Middle Eastern Gal Pick

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2024/05/01

Middle East Month continues with the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Sameera Moussa is Katie's pick. Learn about Sameera worked toward and hoped for a world where atomic energy was used to help those in need at little or no cost and that this new energy was used in peace and productivity. She is known as the Mother of Atomic Energy and "Atoms for Peace."

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35:21

Sama El Masry - Amy's Middle Eastern Gal Pick

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2024/04/17

Amy returns to the show with an insightful look at the controversial actress and belly dancer, Sama El Masry. Sama's views and delivery may be polarizing but she is a woman who was arrested, sent to jail, and fined for posting a TikTok video.

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21:26

Artemisia 1 of Caria - Bonnie's Middle Eastern Gal Pick

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2024/04/10

Bonnie starts us off with an exploration of women in the Middle East. Artemisia 1 of Caria was a Queen of what is now Turkey. She commanded ships, was a friend of Xerxes 1, King of Persia and she's written about in Herodotus.

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31:49

Kate O'Brien - Jackie's Irish Gal Pick

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2024/04/01

Did you think Ireland Month was over?! Well, we found a pot of gold on this April Fools Day! Gal’s Guide just happens to be so lucky because we know Jackie. Jackie is a native Hoosier who now calls Ireland home. She also runs the Castlelyons Library, which is supported and sponsored by Gal’s Guide. So for this bonus episode, Jackie Donegan tells us about the amazing Irish author Kate O'Brien!

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30:16

Queen Medb - Riwo's Irish Gal Pick

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2024/03/28

Riwo's pick is pre-Christian times in Ireland. Her pick is also part historical but also part myth and legend. She’s a complex woman. Queen Medb (also spelled Maeve, Mave, Meave) her name is connected to alcohol - you know meade-woman - she starts a war over who has a prettier bull, and it takes 30 men in a night to satisfy her sexually. She’s a lot and she's not apologizing for any of it.

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21:59

Sinéad O'Connor - Lori's Irish Gal Pick

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2024/03/18

Lori continues Ireland Month by talking about singer, songwriter, and activist Sinéad O'Connor. The Pope and Prince tie into this episode as we learn about the many albums, struggles, and talents of this Dublin musician.

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22:05

Bernadette Devlin - Katie's Irish Gal Pick

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2024/03/12

Katie continues Ireland Month with a campaigner for social justice, elected to Parliament at age 21, served prison time, wounded in an assassination attempt, and sometimes called "Ireland's Joan of Arc", Bernadette Devlin.

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18:40

Lilian Bland - Bonnie's Irish Gal Pick

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2024/03/06

It's the start of Ireland Month! Bonnie's pick is an all-around adventurer. Lilian Bland is an aviator, horseback rider, lumberjack, painter, and car salesman. And when we say aviator we mean, she's the first woman to build her own plane 'cause it's 1910. And when we say car salesman, we mean the idea of cars is new.

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25:21

Mariama Ba - Katie's African Gal Pick

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2024/02/26

Katie finishes up African Gals Month by sharing about Senegalese author, Mariama Ba. So Long a Letter is a novel expressing the fate and the frustration of African women. Mariama received the Noma Award, a major book award in Africa.

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27:15

Agojie - Leah's African Gals Pick

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2024/02/21

Gal's Guide Film Club is discussing the Viola Davis movie The Women King. Leah wanted to dig deeper into the real-life all-female military regiment in the Kingdom of Dahomey known as the Agojie. If you are wondering if they are what the Dorje Milaje of Black Panther is based on - you are correct my friend.

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23:33

Professor Nox Makunga - Josh's African Gal Pick

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2024/02/14

Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the medicinal plant biologist, Nokwanda Pearl Makunga. Professor Nox is a researcher in Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University. Her work is fascinating if you have a green thumb and even if you don't!

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19:41

Huda Sha'arawi - Bonnie's African Gal Pick

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2024/02/08

It's a new month and Bonnie starts African Gal month with a trailblazer of the Egyptian Feminist movement, Huda Sha'arawi. Learn about this amazing suffragette.

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23:38

Sister Elizabeth Kenny - Leah's Australian Gal Pick

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2024/01/31

Leah closes out Australian Gals Month with her pick. Sister Elizabeth Kenny (who was a military sister, not a religious sister) was an Australian Bush nurse who basically created physical therapy. At the time her methods of treating polio patients were unconventional but one day there was some help from the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Learn more about this amazing woman.

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23:54

Mary Reibey - Katie's Australian Gal Pick

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2024/01/23

Katie's Australian Gal is a legendary businesswoman who started as a convict. Learn about Mary Reibey, an incredible woman who is on the money and became a role model for many.

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23:40

Edith Cowan - Barb’s Australian Gal Pick

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2024/01/15

Australian Gals Month continues! Barb's pick is a social reformer who was the first woman to serve as a member of Parliament.

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21:39

Julia Gillard - Bonnie’s Australian Gal Pick

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2024/01/08

It is a new season of the Gal’s Guide Podcast! Can you believe it, it’s season 7! We’ve got a slightly new spin on all of 2024’s episodes. We’ll be learning about women around the world with a new region each month. This month, it’s Australia! Bonnie starts us off with the first female Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard.

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35:32

Susan La Flesche Picotte

Gals Guide ·

2023/11/27

For the last episode of Season 6, Barb ends Medicine Woman month with Omaha Medical doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte.Season 7 begins on January 8, 2024, with Australian Gals.

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