GirlSpeak
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 the Girl Museum team. Our music is by Chan A-V.
Episodes
For our final podcast of the year, we are flipping the script with our collaborative project with James Mason University’s Feminist Rhetorics course. The next three podcasts will be guest-hosted by team of students from that class who are exploring Girl Museum, the Girls. Period. exhibition and the work of WORI, the Women's Rights Initiative in Uganda.
In this first episode, Olivia Chapin, Ally de Cardona, LeeAnne English-Stewar...
Our November episode of GirlSpeak honors US National Native American Heritage Month through exploring girls' letters who attended Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School. Thousands of children were forced to attend these schools across North America for over 100 years. It is a heart-breaking and devastating history that is still very much alive today in the memories of many adults.
Thank you to the Native American Boarding S...
In this month's episode, Head Girl Ashley E. Remer discusses the International Day of the Girl Child and the 2025 theme- ‘The girl I am, the change I lead: Girls on the frontlines of crisis’. She talks about the Girl Goals report and shines a spotlight on Afghanistan with refugee Tahera's inspirational words.
Here are some links for more information.
https://www.girlmuseum.org/my-beautiful-dream-being-a-girl-should-not-b...
In this month's episode of GirlSpeak, Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses the letters between Daisy Bell and her father Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and scientist. This correspondence was between 1895 and 1902, when Daisy was 15 to 22 years old.
The original letters are all held in the Library of Congress. Here is the link to the family's papers for you to explore all the letters.
This month we continue our GirlSpeak series on girls' letters and diaries with Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenburg discussing the journal of Black poet, educator, and abolitionist Charlotte Forten Grimké.
More information on Grimké here and here.
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In a continuation of our series of girls' letters and diaries, this month Girl Museum's Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses girls' interests in STEM, their letters to astronauts, and the big questions of the universe.
Link to the Girl Museum DBQ
Link to article about study of children drawing scientists.
Check our STEM and STEAM Girls exhibitions at Girl Museum.
This month, Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg shares the story of Wang Zhenyi, a Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer, who also wrote poetry. Her body of knowledge was quite an achievement for someone who died at 29.
For more on Wand Zhenyi, check out our blog.
In this month's episode of GirlSpeak, education volunteer Ada Kalu discusses beauty and fashion trends from the late 19th century Spring wardrobe from a Girls' Own Paper to 2020's Tweencore.
You can check out Girl Museum's exhibition What We Wear: British Girls' Fashion and search for other girls' fashion podcasts in our feed.
In our April installment of the girls' diaries and letters series, our Education Advisor Hillary Hanel, discusses college life via girls diaries from the early 1920s and 1940s.
Margetta Hirsch Doyle Diary, 1943
To honor Women's History Month, Girl Museum's Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg discusses girls' participation in the Suffragist movement. Join us at Girl Museum to celebrate Women's History Month with our latest art exhibition.
- Elsie Duvall Diaries and Writings: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/page-11-prison-diaries-1913/QgFClMrVO54fMQ?childAssetId=XAHSL7vZ4x4bYA
- Young Suffrage: https://www.girlmu...
This month, in honor of Black History Month, and to acknowledge President’s Day, Girl Museum resident scholar Elizabeth Dillenburg discusses children’s role in the Civil Rights Movement and girls’ letters to President John F. Kennedy.
These letters show how girls speaking for freedom, justice, and equality in the recent past in the United States of America.
May their voices continue.
Content note: use of historic racial language.
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This year Girl Museum is creating a special series of GirlSpeak, reading and examining historic girls' letters and diary entries.
To begin this series and to coincide with the presidential inauguration on January 20th in the United States of America, Elizabeth Dillenburg, Resident Scholar, highlights girls’ letters to US presidents.
Check out Girl Museum for more girl's history and culture.
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In this last episode of 2024, in honor of the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Ashley examines the church, the story of Mary, and her role in religion and culture.
If you are interested in finding out more about girls in Christianity, check out Girl Museum's exhibition, Girl Saints.
Notes on sources
https://www.france.fr/en/article/10-dates-history-notre-dame/#1991-a-unesco-world-heritage-site-9
This month we are re-releasing a podcast in support of our upcoming exhibition on British Girls Fashion. Please join us again next month for a new episode.
In this episode, we will be looking at the new, different, and exciting range of teenage fashions in the 1950s and 1960s. This was a particularly exciting period for teenagers, as they began to break away from their parents’ generation to develop their own distinct style and int...
We are celebrating International Day of the Girl Child (IDG) on October 11. This year's theme is ‘Girls' Vision of the Future’. Head Girl Ashley E. Remer interviews researcher Özlem Lakatos about her work on girls' and children's rights and the importance of the IDG.
We are wrapping up the Paris Olympics season with Junior Girl Lindsay discusses the amazing achievements of girls at the Paralympics.
In honor of the Paris Olympics, Junior Girl Lindsay discusses the history and amazing achievements of girls in the Olympic Games.
In this month's podcast, Scarlett discusses the changing fashion for girls and women brought about by World War II.
This episode is part of a series of podcasts in support of our upcoming exhibition What We Wear: British Girls' Fashion.
Look forward to other fashion pods coming up later in the year.
Thanks for listening.
This month, Nat Urban hosts our June podcast to celebrate Pride and Trans Girls.
Check out Nat's exhibition at Girl Museum, Queerness and Girlhood: The Interviews.
Thanks for listening.
To commemorate International Museum Day 2024, Girl Museum founder and Head Girl Ashley E. Remer and Education Advisor Hillary Hanel, have a conversation about this year's theme ‘Museums for Education and Research’.
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