This week, Alice and Kim discuss Idaho extremists, the women who made the internet, and how closely you should identify with Lord Byron (among other things).
We're sponsored this week by:
She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It by Mackenzi Lee
Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs
NEW RELEASES
Educated by Tara Westover (February 20th, 2018)
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (March 6, 2018)
Fisherman's Blues by Anna Badkhen (March 13, 2018)
The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann (March 6, 2018)
THEME OF THE WEEK: International Women's Day
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
FICTION/NONFICTION
White Houses by Amy Bloom
Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay
Who Is the Black Panther by Jesse Holland
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
WHAT WE'RE READING
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Double Bind: Women on Ambition by Robin Romm
THE EXTRA STUFF
Books mentioned in passing:
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
The Radium Girls by Kate
Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim
Other Media:
The Dork Forest podcast (Michelle McNamara episodes)
100 Must-Read Titles About Women's History
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