Infinite Women

Dr. Kiera Lindsey, South Australia's History Advocate, joins us to talk about her new biography Wild Love: The ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the first Australian artist to astonish the world. Dr. Lindsey also delves into the complexities of, and need for, speculative biography to tell marginalised stories.Buy the book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Kiera-Lindsey-Wild-Love-9781760296759Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kiera-Lindsey-on-Adelaide-Ironside-transcript.pdfRead more about Adelaide Ironside on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/adelaide-ironside/

Novelist Sherilyn Decter, author of the Bootlegger Chronicles, Rum Runners Chronicles and Moonshiner Mysteries series, joins us to chat about Prohibition in the 1920s United States, and the women who defied it in spectacular fashion.More on Sherilyn's books: https://sherilyndecter.com/books/Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sherilyn-Decter-on-the-women-who-defied-Prohibition.pdf

Sara Hardy, author of The Unusual Life of Edna Walling, joins us to talk about the iconic, queer English-Australian landscape designer.Buy the book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Sara-Hardy-Unusual-Life-of-Edna-Walling-9781741142297Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-Hardy-on-Edna-Walling-transcript.pdfRead more about Edna Walling on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/edna-walling/

Dr. Kaley Butten, a Research Scientist with CSIRO, joins us to talk about pharmacologist and physician Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who prevented thousands of birth deformities and whose work led to stricter safety regulations in the U.S. and beyond.Read more about Kelsey on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/frances-oldham-kelsey/Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kaley-Butten-on-Frances-Oldham-Kelsey.pdf

Dr. Shelley Stamp, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood. She joins us to discuss Lois's career and how her personal story reflects the history of early Hollywood, especially for women writers, directors and actors.Read more about Dr Stamp and her work: shelleystamp.netRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Shelley-Stamp-on-Lois-Weber.pdfRead a short biography of Weber on the Infinite Women site, writteny by Dr Stamp for the Women Film Pioneers Project: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/lois-weber/

Loretta Smith, author of A Spanner in the Works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage, joins us to talk about Alice's incredible, but tragically short, life. Buy the book: https://www.hachette.com.au/loretta-smith/a-spanner-in-the-works-the-extraordinary-story-of-alice-anderson-and-australias-first-all-girl-garageRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Loretta-Smith-on-Alice-Anderson-transcript.pdf

Dr. Carrie Gibson, author of Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day and El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America, joins us to talk about Mary Prince, subject of one of the earliest slave narratives. With Prince as a starting point, we delve into the complexities of how the stories of enslaved and formerly enslaved women like Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Freeman were told - for better or worse - by white abolitionists, and how we can do justice to their stories today with questionable, scant documentation.Read more about Dr. Gibson: carriegibson.co.ukRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Carrie-Gibson-on-Mary-Prince-and-who-tells-black-womens-stories-.pdfImage: Sojourner Truth

Dr. Leah Redmond Chang, author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power, joins us for a conversation about the lives and relationships of Catherine de' Medici, her daughter-in-law Mary, Queen of Scots and her daughter Elisabeth de Valois, and how these women's experiences reflect larger patterns for royal women and women in general, even today.Read the interview transcript

CSIRO Communications Officer Morgan Gilbert joins us for a chat about women doctors of the ancient world, and how CSIRO's Mother app is helping pregnant people today.Learn more about the Mother app: https://vimeo.com/770947091Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Morgan-Gilbert-on-ancient-doctors-transcript.pdfRead more about Agdonice on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/agnodice/

Dr. Gwendolyn Collaço, Collections Curator at MIT's Aga Khan Documentation Center, joins us to talk about wedding trousseaus as curated collections that were meticulously displayed and evaluated before they were ever used in a household. Women played the part of artist, curator and performer in the creation and presentation of the trousseaus.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Gwen-Collaco-on-Ottoman-wedding-trousseaus.pdfImage: Wedding procession on the Bosphorus, by Jean Baptiste Vanmour, Istanbul, c. 1720 - c. 1737. Rijksmuseum, SK-A-2000. (Photo: Public Domain)