Happy one-year podiversary, listeners! Thank you so much for being here with the Non Moms for a whole year of episodes. We are honored to be allowed in your earholes every week. Real talk.
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Debbie Jo officially kicks the episode off with the life and times of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Babe was an incredibly accomplished athlete and took home not one, but two Olympic Gold Medals in Track & Field in 1932. She followed that up with becoming a professional golf player and helping to found the Lady's Professional Golf Association (LPGA). Kelly proves beyond a doubt that she was not ever any kind of jock or athlete. Thank goodness Debbie Jo used to play golf, otherwise Kelly would likely not have understood half of what she said about Babe.
Kelly follows Babe up with the story of American poet Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley is not her birth name, but her slave name, and unfortunately, we do not know her birth name. However, Phillis was the first African American woman to be published as an author in America. Her poetry served as a covert way for her to participate in sociopolitical discussions and support the abolition of slavery, without taking too much heat from colonial white folks about it. This conversation might make you uncomfortable. It's probably supposed to.
Tune in next week for our last episode before Kelly's spinal fusion surgery! There may even be a guest!
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias https://www.biography.com/athlete/babe-didrikson-zaharias http://writersrelief.com/2019/03/06/8-trailblazing-badass-women-writers-you-should-read-writers-relief/ https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
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