Queenie

When Charles Dickens banned women from dinner, FDR forced Japanese Americans into Internment Camps, and symbolic Civil Rights Legislation was in peril, Women's Social Clubs were the solution. Get to know clubwomen of yore, who were so much more than the white-gloved-ladies-who-lunch that they've been reduced to. Thanks to our presenting sponsor SAP. To learn more, visit www.sap.com/womenforward.

In this episode, we don't let Ana Mendieta's untimely death overshadow her pioneering work. Thanks to our presenting sponsor SAP. To learn more, visit www.sap.com/womenforward.

Four women who lived a hundred years apart, connected by one devastating allegation: Alice Mitchell was the origin, Dr. Evelyn Hooker was the pioneer, and Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen the heroes. Thanks to our presenting sponsor SAP. To learn more, visit www.sap.com/womenforward.

Ida B. Wells was the most famous black woman in America during her lifetime--but how did that happen? We travel to Memphis and learn about the moment that changed the rest of her life--and put her in mortal danger. Thanks to our presenting sponsor SAP. To learn more, visit www.sap.com/womenforward.

Meet the real Sylvia Plath--who is far more than a phase. Thanks to our presenting sponsor SAP. To learn more, visit www.sap.com/womenforward.

Queenie was a 1920s Harlem gangster who ruled the illegal numbers game until she disappeared. We set out to find her. Thanks to our presenting sponsor SAP. To learn more, visit www.sap.com/womenforward.

No Man’s Land is a podcast about women who were too bad for your textbooks. It's hosted by Alexis Coe, the in-house historian for The Wing, a network of work and community spaces for women.Season 1 will feature stories of women who refused to be defined by their era. Stories of murder, gangsters, mysterious disappearances, and untimely ends. Stories of women you have never heard of and stories of women history never understood.Subscribe now and hear the first episode on November 15th.