Margaret talks with journalist and writer Laurie Penny about Josephine Baker, the first black woman to star in a film, who also helped fight the Nazis.

Margaret talks with journalist and writer Laurie Penny about Josephine Baker, the first black woman to star in a film, who also helped fight the Nazis.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

As long as there&rsquo;s been oppression, there&rsquo;ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be&mdash;and fight to be&mdash;free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Part One: Josephine Baker: The Actor and Spy Who Mighta Saved the World

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/a5c89388-9ff6-4823-9279-aff8000c932a/transcript

Margaret continues her talk with Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.

Sources:

Radical Antiquity, Christopher B. Zeichmann

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ostracism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170719062739/http://www.livius.org/li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae091.html#95

https://web.archive.org/web/20160326113007/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220855/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus2.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20110805121329/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0581.html

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#116

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html#9

http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch18.htm

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-republic-guide-how-senate-plebeians-citizenship-women-democratic-fall-end/

https://www.thecollector.com/first-servile-war-revolt-shook-rome/

https://www.thecollector.com/second-servile-war-slave-rebellion/

https://www.rfmwilliams.com/the-sicilian-slave-revolts-of-ancient-rome/

https://warflute.org/armies/sicilian_slave_revolts_135-132_104-103_bc_polemicus_army_t3.html

http://societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/human_sacrifice.php

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/gladiatorial-games-in-ancient-rome

https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/why-are-we-so-uncomfortable-the-confusing-taboo-of-menstruation-in-ancient-rome-and-modern-america/

Margaret continues her talk with Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.
Sources:
Radical Antiquity, Christopher B. Zeichmann
https://www.worldhistory.org/Ostracism/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170719062739/http://www.livius.org/li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae091.html#95
https://web.archive.org/web/20160326113007/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220855/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110805121329/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0581.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#116
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html#9
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch18.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-republic-guide-how-senate-plebeians-citizenship-women-democratic-fall-end/
https://www.thecollector.com/first-servile-war-revolt-shook-rome/
https://www.thecollector.com/second-servile-war-slave-rebellion/
https://www.rfmwilliams.com/the-sicilian-slave-revolts-of-ancient-rome/
https://warflute.org/armies/sicilian_slave_revolts_135-132_104-103_bc_polemicus_army_t3.html
http://societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/human_sacrifice.php
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/gladiatorial-games-in-ancient-rome
https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/why-are-we-so-uncomfortable-the-confusing-taboo-of-menstruation-in-ancient-rome-and-modern-america/

Part Two: Spartacus and the Thurii Commune: How a Slave Rebellion in Ancient Rome Reimagined Society

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/318f484b-8bb5-4c22-82c5-b3b60028eea5/transcript

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.

Sources:

Radical Antiquity, Christopher B. Zeichmann

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ostracism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170719062739/http://www.livius.org/li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae091.html#95

https://web.archive.org/web/20160326113007/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220855/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus2.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20110805121329/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0581.html

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#116

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html#9

http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch18.htm

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-republic-guide-how-senate-plebeians-citizenship-women-democratic-fall-end/

https://www.thecollector.com/first-servile-war-revolt-shook-rome/

https://www.thecollector.com/second-servile-war-slave-rebellion/

https://www.rfmwilliams.com/the-sicilian-slave-revolts-of-ancient-rome/

https://warflute.org/armies/sicilian_slave_revolts_135-132_104-103_bc_polemicus_army_t3.html

http://societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/human_sacrifice.php

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/gladiatorial-games-in-ancient-rome

https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/why-are-we-so-uncomfortable-the-confusing-taboo-of-menstruation-in-ancient-rome-and-modern-america/

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.
Sources:
Radical Antiquity, Christopher B. Zeichmann
https://www.worldhistory.org/Ostracism/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170719062739/http://www.livius.org/li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae091.html#95
https://web.archive.org/web/20160326113007/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220855/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110805121329/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0581.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#116
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html#9
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch18.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-republic-guide-how-senate-plebeians-citizenship-women-democratic-fall-end/
https://www.thecollector.com/first-servile-war-revolt-shook-rome/
https://www.thecollector.com/second-servile-war-slave-rebellion/
https://www.rfmwilliams.com/the-sicilian-slave-revolts-of-ancient-rome/
https://warflute.org/armies/sicilian_slave_revolts_135-132_104-103_bc_polemicus_army_t3.html
http://societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/human_sacrifice.php
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/gladiatorial-games-in-ancient-rome
https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/why-are-we-so-uncomfortable-the-confusing-taboo-of-menstruation-in-ancient-rome-and-modern-america/

Part One: Spartacus and the Thurii Commune: How a Slave Rebellion in Ancient Rome Reimagined Society

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/ddd858d5-3889-4e2d-bc8c-b3b4003bc35c/transcript

Margaret continues her dicussion with Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar

Margaret continues her dicussion with Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar

Part Two: Diogenes: The Greek Philosopher Who Pissed on the Rich

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/4fef3713-bbf3-48f9-bd52-b3af00349ee9/transcript

Part One: Josephine Baker: The Actor and Spy Who Mighta Saved the World

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