160 episodes
GirlSpeak Girl Museum
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4.4 • 10 Ratings
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Explore the art, history, and culture of girlhood around the world. Our monthly journeys include conversations and interviews about Girl Museum's exhibitions, projects and more on the topics of art, history, material culture, and social issues that center girls' points of view.
Episodes are narrated by members of Girl Museum, the first and only museum in the world dedicated to celebrating girlhood. Hosted by Ashley E. Remer and other members of the Girl Museum team. Our music is by Chan A-V. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/girlspeak/support
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Reflecting on 15 Years of Girl Museum
To celebrate Girl Museum's 15th birthday, in this episode, founder and Head Girl Ashley E. Remer and Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg talk about the first fifteen years of Girl Museum.
Check out Girl Museum for what's on now.
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Queerness & Girlhood: The Interviews
Ever thought about being your own creator?
In this episode Junior Girl and researcher
Nat Urban explores the exhibition they curated Queerness & Girlhood: The Interviews.
Using the interviews from the exhibition, Urban does a deep dive into the themes and topics of gender, girlhood and queerness and creating your own identity.
Check out the full exhibition, which
includes full interview audio and transcripts.
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American Heroine: Poet Phillis Wheatley
In this episode, Girl Museum resident scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg discusses American poet Phillis Wheatley in honor of Black History Month as well as to introduce the new Girl Museum exhibition for March Heroines of the American Revolution and actor Sarah Sulewski reads Wheatley’s ‘To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth’.
Poem: To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth
Actor details:
Sarah Sulewski is currently a second-year MFA Acting student at the University of Florida. She is originally from the sunny state of California, and she identifies as a Queer, Black, multi-hyphenate artist who believes in the power of art to change the world. Since attending UF, she has starred in five on-campus productions: Yemaya's Belly, Blood at the Root, The Solo Performance Festival, La Mar, and the musical The Prom. She is currently in rehearsals for her sixth UF production, The Pliant Girls, a feminist retelling of Aeschylus' The Suppliants.
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Girlhood is a Spectrum
Thanks for joining us for our first podcast of 2024. In this episode, Ashley and Glafira read their favorite pieces from the new Girl Museum exhibition Girlhood is a Spectrum. This community-created show celebrates the versatility of girlhood through the language of poetry, prose, and images.
Feel free to let us know your favorites too!
Content note: there are strong themes and a few words some might take offense to in these creative works. Listen accordingly.
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International Day of the Girl 2023
It is the International Day of the Girl Child (IDG) on October 11. This year's theme is ‘Invest in Girls' Rights: Our Leadership, Our Well-being’. Head Girl Ashley E. Remer discusses her views and how museums can be more active in commemorating this important day. Learn about the International Day of the Girl and consider how you will ask more from your local museums to collect and showcase girls’ stories.
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Fashion and Emancipation with Women's Museum Merano
Judith Mittelberger of Frauen Museum (Women's Museum Merano) joins Ashley to discuss their work in preserving and interpreting fashion of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, especially for teenaged girls. Judith and Ashley dive deep into a recent museum workshop for teenage girls called "Can I really wear what I want?" that invited participants to discuss women's fashion as a tool for oppression and revolution by looking first-hand at historical costumes.
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The GirlSpeak podcast always provides thought-provoking content. I enjoy learning about girls throughout history and present-day by listening to the episodes on a variety of topics, both serious and light-hearted.