Podcasts by History Becomes Her

Caroline Criado Perez and Tracy King on the gender data gap that's putting lives at risk from 2020-07-02T09:30

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’...

Jess Phillips MP on remembering Jo Cox and speaking truth to power from 2020-06-25T09:30

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 ou...

Vicky Spratt and Diane Munday on the 1967 Abortion Act and their campaign to decriminalise abortion from 2020-06-18T09:30

Vicky Spratt and Diane Munday are camp...

Sofie Hagen on fat activism and taking up space in a fatphobic world from 2020-06-11T09:30

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 an...

Akilah Hughes on Constance Baker Motley and self-care for the extremely online from 2020-06-04T09:30:21

Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, YouTuber, and podcaster. Hughes is the co-host of Crooked Media's Listen

Ruth Hunt on Virginia Woolf, LGBTQ history, and Section 28 from 2020-05-28T09:30

Ruth Hunt is one of Britain’s leading LGBTQ campaigners. She has played a central role in campaigning for same sex marriage in England and Wales and access to fertility treatment for lesbians. A...

Zing Tsjeng on pirate queens, resistance heroines, and history's forgotten women from 2020-05-21T09:30

Zing Tsjeng is a journalist and the author of the Forgotten Women book series. These four books provide fascinating biographies of the leaders, scientists, artists, and writers who...

Lisa Taddeo on 'Three Women,' sexual desire, and how we judge other women from 2020-05-14T09:30

Lisa Taddeo spent eight years writing Three Women — a best...

Poorna Bell on powerlifting, grief, and finding inner strength from 2020-05-07T09:30

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide and grief.

Poorna Bell is an author and journalist who is actively challenging our ingrained beliefs about mental...

Gina Martin on the power of activism and how she made upskirting illegal from 2020-04-30T09:30

Gina Martin is an activist, campaigner, author, and law-changer...

gal-dem's Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Leah Cowan on Windrush women and Britain's Black Power movement from 2020-04-23T09:30

gal-dem is a UK publication that is actively addressing the way people of colour are portrayed in the media. Founded ...

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on the Harvey Weinstein investigation that ignited #MeToo from 2020-04-16T09:30

Season 1 kicks off with two very special guests: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times reporters behind the Harvey Weinstein investigation. Within days of the ...

Introducing History Becomes Her from 2020-04-09T11:23:06

Welcome to History Becomes Her, a new Mashable podcast about women making history right now. Each episode, we speak to women making change about the women of the past who paved the way for them....