Episodes 182
Avg. Duration 20m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (11)
Since Jan 2014
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Monthly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
78%
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About This Podcast

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.

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Recent Episodes

March is for Heroines

Mar 18, 2026 14m

Girl Museum celebrates Women's History this month with our biennial Heroines Quilt exhibition. Head Girl Ashley E Remer reflects on the exhibition, what makes a heroine, and why we need them as girls…

Student Takeover 3! JMU Students talk to WORI

Feb 17, 2026 36m

This month's podcast continues our collaborative project with James Madison University’s Feminist Rhetorics course. This is the final of three podcasts guest-hosted by team of students who are…

Student Takeover 2! JMU Students talk about Girls.Period.

Jan 15, 2026 27m

Our first podcast of 2026 continues our collaborative project with James Madison University’s Feminist Rhetorics course. This is the second of three podcasts guest-hosted by team of students from…

Student takeover! JMU Interviews Girl Museum

Dec 16, 2025 22m

For our final podcast of the year, we are flipping the script with our collaborative project with James Madison University’s Feminist Rhetorics course. The next three podcasts will be guest-hosted by…

Girls' Letters from the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School

Nov 24, 2025 27m

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…

International Day of the Girl 2025

Oct 10, 2025 17m

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…

Daisy Bell and her Father

Sep 22, 2025 26m

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…

The Diary of Charlotte Forten Grimké

Aug 17, 2025 21m

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…

Girls' Letters to Astronauts

Jul 15, 2025 18m

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…

Wang Zhenyi: Poet Mathematician

Jun 15, 2025 21m

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…

Girls' Historic & Contemporary Fashion Trends

May 13, 2025 15m

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…

College Girls' Diaries

Apr 16, 2025 10m

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.Mildred Valeda Daum,…

Women's History Month: Girls' Suffragist Writings

Mar 18, 2025 25m

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…

Girls’ Letters about US Civil Rights

Feb 18, 2025 19m

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’…

Girls' Letters to Presidents

Jan 22, 2025 19m

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…

Notre-Dame Cathedral and Mary

Dec 16, 2024 25m

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…

British Teen Fashions of the 1950s-1960s [Re-Release]

Nov 21, 2024 20m

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…

International Day of the Girl 2024

Oct 10, 2024 32m

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…

Girls at the Paralympics 2024

Sep 20, 2024 14m

We are wrapping up the Paris Olympics season with Junior Girl Lindsay discusses the amazing achievements of girls at the Paralympics.

Girls at the Olympics

Aug 14, 2024 15m

In honor of the Paris Olympics, Junior Girl Lindsay discusses the history and amazing achievements of girls in the Olympic Games.

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