Les Femmes Dangereuses

We're playing it loosey-goosey this week, with the Shout Out King Lochie joining us for a season finale celebration in which we pit all of our season one ladies against each other in the Thunderdome. Who will take home the title of Season One's Most Dangerous Femme? Will it be Baba Yaga piloting her chicken leg house like a mech? Mary Seacole commanding the power of cholera and narrative? Joan of Arc with a sword? Place your bets now, folks.
Thanks to all who listened and supported us during the haphazard creation of season one! We love you all. We'll be back in a couple of months with ten new dangerous femmes to share with you all and we can't wait.

Hit us up if you have a gal you want to talk about, and find us at lesfemmesdangereuse@gmail.com or @lesfemmespod on twitter.

Bonnie is mysteriously absent this week on sinister bog witch business, and so we are joined by the wonderful Lucy Rees in order to discuss the entrepreneurial, driven, and sadly oft-forgotten Mary Seacole – hero of the Crimean War (no, not the one with the lamp, yes, we know). Join us as we learn about Mrs. Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures in Many Lands, the invention of the camping cooker, and the worst thank you speech we have ever had the misfortune to hear.

Find us at lesfemmesdangereuse@gmail.com and @lesfemmespod on twitter.

We're back baby! For the past few weeks we have journeyed (metaphorically) across the sands of time, to bring you one of the oldest and most dangerous femmes - Lilith! Join us as we track this absolute babe from Ancient Sumer, through Jewish folklore and culture, into modern pop culture and art history. First wife of Adam? Demon Queen? Secretly in a devoted sisterhood full of homoerotic overtones with Eve? 

Yes please.

Find us at lesfemmesdangereuses@gmail.com and @lesfemmespod on twitter.

A giant episode for a political giant of the Ancient World. 

Join us as Bonnie blacks out and extensively covers the life and death of Cleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt. This week we cover everything from the start of the Ptolemaic Dynasty right through to Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film. Emma drops in with some handy dandy tidbits, like, where is Cleopatra buried? And what's up with all the miserable Shakespearean critics that don't seem to like her? We also definitively classify some historical himbos, and just generally fawn over Cleopatra's genius & MILF status.

Do you believe in curses? Best beware, as this week we're learning about the three progenitors of modern J-horror: Oiwa, Okiku and Otsuyu. Were these ghostly ladies in the right? Yes, absolutely.  What was happening in Edo Japan that summoned all these spooky stories? What does hair, blood, and water have to do with monstrous women? And was Slimer a person before he died?

Also, who is the mysterious third voice in this recording? (Hint: she's pretty darn cool).

Thank you to Hashimoto-Sensei, Katsu-Sensei & Masae-Sensei for their insights and advice this week. Find us at lesfemmesdangereuse@gmail.com and @lesfemmespod on twitter.

Join us as we explore what some have termed the OG Lesbian, Ancient Greek Poetess Sappho. Was she really a lesbian? Yes, undoubtedly. But there are other questions like was she a sexy lesbian chad Hozier type? and do you think she would date Bonnie? Also we talk a bit about poetry. 

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Join us as we venture deep into the dark forest to investigate the spooky and mysterious Baba Yaga. Is this ambiguous figure of slavic folktale a wicked old witch? Or does she slap severely and the real problem is an abundance of Ivans?

Warnings for the discussion of cannibalism, transphobia and the existence of Sigmund Freud. 

Bonnie was so hurt by her bad audio last episode, and also a witch's curse,  that now she only speaks in a tiny mouse voice-- we are working to remedy this.

Join us in our pilot episode as we discuss Salome. Bloodthirsty temptress or innocent child? We strip away those seven veils to get to the truth of this enigmatic figure.

Warning for discussion of violence, misogyny, anti semitism and unfriendly language

Also we apologise for Bonnie’s terrible audio she was stuck in a bog at the time of recording. Will improve! Promise.