Dark Academia
Join your professors, Allie Dellicarri and Nicki Nesi, as they take you on a tour of everything mysterious and macabre around the world's finest educational institutions. They cover everything from haunted halls to paranormal professors to demonic dorms, and even some secret societies.
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Dark Academia
Episode 31: Matilda Joslyn Gage
We are back from our sabbatical! Today, Prof. Allie is going to teach us all about one of the most badass feminists you never learn about in school. How does she connect to a modern day blockbuster?
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Sources used in this episode:
Boland, Sue. “The Power of Women: Matilda Joslyn Gage and the New York Women’s Vote of 1880.” New York History, Vol. 100, No. 1. 2019. Pgs. 28–50. Accessed 15 October 2021. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/734937/pdf
Schwartz, Evan I., and Frank Baum. “The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz.” Smithsonian Magazine, 15 December 2024, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/. Accessed 11 March 2025.