Good Witches, Bad Bitches

Marianne Anderson was considered one of the best musicians of her time. She performed across Europe, where she became a massive celebrity, and once the Third Reich began to gain st...

Octavia Butler is one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, known more recently for practically predicting the presidency of Donald Trump, and yet she did not become...

Josefina Guerrero was a Filipina spy during World War II who was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of American soldiers. She spied undetected on behalf of the Allied fo...

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the group primarily responsible for the erection of allll those Confederate statues we've been arguing about for years - yet their name i...

Frances Marion was, at the height of her career in the early 20th century, one of the highest paid people in Hollywood. A prolific and powerful writer, she is credited with creatin...

Sarah Biffin was a 19th century painter famous for her impeccable miniature paintings, realistic artworks whose practically microscopic details were lauded as being some of the bes...

Sacheen Littlefeather is an Indigenous activist who is most famous for delivering the speech on Marlon Brando's behalf, turning down the Oscar he won for the Godfather. But Sacheen...

Wilma Mankiller was an activist and tribal politician, the first woman to be elected to the position of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She faced several health crises and ...

Mary Church Terrell was the child of former slaves and an activist all her life. She was one of the first Black women to earn a college degree in the U.S, she traveled the world, s...

Alice Mitchell was madly in love with Freda Ward - sadly, she was also Freda's murderer. On today's episode of GWBB, Hannah and Deanna discuss gender, sexuality, domestic violence....

Happy Halloween, Witches! Today we're discussing Mary Jane "Bricktop" Jackson, a New Orleans-based Civil War era prostitute and cold-blooded murderer, who loved to brawl and often ...

Spiritualism was a religious movement that came into the popularity in the mid 1800's, and remained strong through the 1920's. The movement insisted that spirits could reach throug...