Feminists: Intro to Women's History Month

Episode Summary

The host Jenny Kaplan announces that March is Women's History Month. To celebrate, her podcast network Wonder Media Network will be releasing special episodes every day of the month about important feminists and women's rights activists. On weekdays, they will highlight women who were involved in the suffrage movement and feminist theory. On Saturdays, they will feature modern day feminists sponsored by Fiverr. On Sundays, hosts from other podcasts will choose their favorite feminists from past episodes to highlight again. In addition, they are launching a newsletter called Wamanica Weekly with behind-the-scenes content on featured women. Subscribers this month can enter to win a t-shirt. Wonder Media is also launching other special content in March, including a show on the history of the Equal Rights Amendment called Ordinary Equality and season two of their flagship podcast Women Belong in the House. The woman featured in this special episode is the host's mother Kathy Manning, who inspired everything at Wonder Media Network. Kathy ran for Congress in 2018, which led Jenny Kaplan to start the network and her sister Liz to begin researching women's history.

Episode Show Notes

We've got a lot of exciting content for you this March. This episode, Jenny previews what's in store and highlights the woman who inspired it all, Kathy Manning.

Episode Transcript

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So if you're interested in learning more about women's history, we're making every month Women's History Month. But by presidential proclamation, March is the official Women's History Month. To celebrate, we're gonna bring you episodes every single day, weekdays and weekends, about feminists, women who fought for gender equity. Our regular weekday shows are gonna be focused on women who are particularly important to the women's rights movement, the suffrage movement, and feminist theory. On Saturdays, we're gonna highlight modern feminists brought to you by our sponsor this month, Fiverr. On Sundays, we're gonna highlight favorite feminists from past months chosen by other podcast hosts we love and the WMN community. On top of all of that, we're launching Wamanica Weekly, a newsletter where we'll share behind the scenes content and more on some of our favorite featured women. A link to subscribe is in the episode notes. If you subscribe this month, you'll be entered to win an Encyclopedia Wamanica t-shirt. In addition to all the Encyclopedia Wamanica excitement, we've got a bunch of other stuff cooking here at WMN in honor of March. Tune in to Ordinary Equality, an audio documentary style show about the past, present, and exciting future of the Equal Rights Amendment. It's an incredible story filled with twists and turns and characters. We're closer than ever to getting equal rights for all genders into the US Constitution. So now's the time to get up to speed. We're also launching season two of our flagship podcast, Women Belong in the House. That brings me to the woman my sister and co-creator, Liz and I wanna highlight on today's special episode, the woman who inspired it all, our mom, Kathy Manning. Long story short, our mom decided to run for Congress in North Carolina's 13th district in December of 2017. That decision spurred the chain of events that inspired me to quit my job and start Wonder Media Network, and our first show, Women Belong in the House. It also inspired Liz to start the research project that turned into Encyclopedia Wamanica. Instead of telling you Kathy Manning's life story here, I want to encourage you to go listen to the very first episode of last season of Women Belong in the House to hear from the woman herself. The link is included in this episode's description for your convenience. While Kathy didn't win in 2018, I'm thrilled to share that she's running again, this time in North Carolina's redistricted sixth district. Subscribe to Women Belong in the House to get ready for season two. We'll be releasing the trailer on Super Tuesday. In season one, we talked about the record number of women who ran for Congress in 2018. This time, we'll focus on what it's like being in the House of Representatives, the highs, the lows, and everything in between. 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