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Listen: Badass Philly Women—Then and Now

Header photo (top left, clockwise): Jeannine Cook, Nicole Marquis, Jane Golden, Judy Wicks, Lara Price, Tamala Edwards

In honor of Women’s History Month, we scoured our city’s past to find dozens of inspiring, badass Philly women to celebrate for our Women’s History Month All-Stars, a series of trading card-style profiles you can read and share online.

Then we asked some amazing badass Philly women of the moment to record each woman’s biography for you, so that you can take their stories with you wherever you go. The result is an awesome compendium of the women who made, and continue to make, Philly the best it can be.

We hear from Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Jane Golden; 76ers Chief Operating Officer Lara Price; restaurateur and environmentalist Judy Wicks; 6abc anchor Tamala Edwards; HipCityVeg founder and CEO Nicole Marquis; and Jeannine Cook, owner of Harriet’s Bookshop in Fishtown and Ida’s Bookshop in Collingswood, NJ.

Listen below, and check back each week for new episodes.

JEANNINE COOK ON …

Nellie Rathbone Bright, teacher, author and poet

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_22-Cook-Bright.mp3?_=1

 

Marianne Moore, poet and critic

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_13-Cook_Moore.mp3?_=2

 

Clara Ward, legendary gospel singer and songwriter

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_23-Cook-Ward.mp3?_=3

 

TAMALA EDWARDS ON …

Pearl Bailey, Tony-winning singer and actress

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_10-Edwards_Bailey.mp3?_=4

 

Carrie Burnham Kilgore, lawyer and activist

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_19-Edwards-Kilgore.mp3?_=5

 

Margaretta Hare Morris, entomologist

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_17-Edwards-Morris.mp3?_=6

 

Lucretia Mott, early feminist and abolitionist

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_6-Edwards_Mott.mp3?_=7

 

JANE GOLDEN ON …

Charlene Arcila, transgender activist

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_3-Golden_Arcila.mp3?_=8

 

Mary Ann M’Clintock, feminist and abolitionist

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_12-Golden_MClintock.mp3?_=9

 

Mary Engle Pennington, chemist and refrigeration pioneer

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_11-Golden_Pennington.mp3?_=10

 

The Philadelphia Ten, artists and activists

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_14-Golden_Philadelphia-10.mp3?_=11

 

NICOLE MARQUIS ON …

Helen Octavia Dickens, physician and sexual health advocate

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_2-Marquis_Dickens.mp3?_=12

 

Betty Holberton and the ENIAC Six, computer programmers

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_20-Marquis-Eniac-Six.mp3?_=13

 

Joyce Craig Lewis, firefighter

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_8-Marquis_Lewis.mp3?_=14

 

Anandibai Joshi, first Indian-American female doctor

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_16-Marquis-Joshi.mp3?_=15

 

LARA PRICE ON …

Gloria Casarez, LGBTQ advocate and community organizer

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_5-Price_Casarez.mp3?_=16

 

Hannah Callowhill Penn, Pennsylvania’s first female governor

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_4-Price_Penn.mp3?_=17

 

Ann Preston, physician and educator

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_15-Price-Preston.mp3?_=18

 

Ora Mae Washington, Philly sports great

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_1-Price_Washington.mp3?_=19

 

JUDY WICKS ON …

Pearl S. Buck, writer and humanitarian

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_7-Wicks_Buck.mp3?_=20

 

Catherine Littlefield, Philadelphia ballet founder

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_18-Wicks-Littlefield.mp3?_=21

 

Elizabeth Willing Powel, socialite and American founding mother

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_9-Wicks_Powel.mp3?_=22

 

Vera Rubin, astronomer

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/S_21-Wicks-Rubin.mp3?_=23

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