31: Badass Women (Pirates, opera singers & scientists…oh my!)

November 26, 2018 00:20:09
31: Badass Women (Pirates, opera singers & scientists…oh my!)
Brain Junk
31: Badass Women (Pirates, opera singers & scientists…oh my!)

Nov 26 2018 | 00:20:09

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Trace Kerr Amy Barton

Show Notes

We fell down a Pinterest hole and found a whole bunch of women who we’d NEVER heard about in history classes. Ching Shih, an infamous Chinese pirate, a Viking fighter historians have dubbed, the Birka Warrior, Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered pulsars & Julie d’Aubigny, a swashbuckling, bisexual, opera singing extraordinaire.

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