159 episodes

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

GirlSpeak Girl Museum

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.4 • 10 Ratings

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

    Queerness & Girlhood: The Interviews

    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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    • 34 min
    American Heroine: Poet Phillis Wheatley

    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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    • 18 min
    Girlhood is a Spectrum

    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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    • 28 min
    International Day of the Girl 2023

    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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    • 7 min
    Fashion and Emancipation with Women's Museum Merano

    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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    • 23 min
    Trans across Time

    Trans across Time

    In honor of Pride 2023, Tiffany looks at three potential examples of transgender individuals in history that demonstrate the complexities of studying gender and the importance of recognizing LGBTQ histories.

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    • 18 min

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