Diane Greig's Podcast
Invisible Women
Episode 6 is now available!
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Episode 6: Madonnas
There have been two Madonnas worshiped throughout Europe for centuries, reflecting the splitting of the feminine archetypal energy in the mind and lives of western people.
This episode of Invisible Women is about Zosia, a young woman who couriered for the Polish resistance in 1939, went into forced labor and found strength in the teachings of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa. This icon of the Polish people and women symbolizes the power of independence, freedom, resistance, character and integrity.
Vancouver actor Jane Heyman is the voice of Zosia:
"I was thrilled to be cast as Zosia in the Invisible Women podcast. Not only was it another opportunity to provide a voice for women and participate in a project focused on women’s stories, but it connected me to my family history. My parents were Jewish refugees who fled Poland in 1939, eventually arriving in Canada. Zosia’s story resonated strongly with me. Despite the way that her details and those of my parents and other relatives differed, the profound sense of loss at the core of her story was very familiar."
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In Judy Batalion’s book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos she provides in-depth details into Jewish women resisters in Poland in WW 2. . Read more.
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In the county of East Sussex, town of Bexhill, was a unique college from 1932 to 1939 — a Nazi’s girls’ school called the Augusta Victoria College (AVC) for girls and women ages 16-21.. Read more.
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Born in what is now Arizona/New Mexico in the 1840’s Lozen was a ‘shield for her people’. Not interested in the traditional roles of Apache women, she became a warrior, a strategist and a medicine woman. Read more.
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“If you can see it, you can be it.” the National Portrait Gallery in London, has partnered with Chanel Culture Fund in a three-year project called, Reframing Narratives: Women in Portraiture. Read more.
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Noor Inayat Khan was a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in France during WW 2. Due to her fluency in French, unflappable character and exceptional talent with wireless transmitting she was the first woman wireless operator to be sent behind enemy lines in France. Read more.
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At 25 years old, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, was already a highly decorated Soviet sniper and lieutenant from the Red Army’s 25th Chapayev Rifle Division having 309 kills under her belt, including 36 German snipers. Read more.
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Virginia Hall was a tenacious, strategic and adventuresome WW 2 agent. Being American born, wealthy and having studied languages in Europe, she freely travelled during the early war years. Read more.
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Re-examining western cultural history is imperative to revisioning ourselves today. For instance, new archeological techniques are challenging long held beliefs about biological gender roles in ancient cultures.. Read more.
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Soon to be released in English, Amazons of the Mossad, reviews new intelligence information including the identities of some women agents.. Read more.
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In 1925, Missouri-born Josephine Baker, left for Paris travelling with an all-Black troupe as an erotic dancer. She soon came to love France with the freedoms it afforded her and became famous in an era in which being a Black bisexual woman would have been impossible in her home country. Read more.
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IThis year, more than ever, women are being remembered and celebrated in the military. A recent Sun article about women on the front lines reveals that few people have heard of Michelle Norris, the first woman in the U.K. to receive the military cross in 2007, or Violette Szabo or sisters, Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, all of whom worked undercover in WW2. Read more.
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Eighty years post WW 2 and 70 years since Canada first passed the equal pay legislation, why does the power ratio of men to women still exist in the top levels of the modern day workplace? The Globe and Mail did a two- and half-year study assessing why men still significantly outrank and out-earn women even though women are almost half the work force and now outnumber men as university graduates. Read more.
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