Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison. Sources: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html]  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/]  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/]  https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy [https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy]  https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys [https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys]  https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys [https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys]  https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Two Stories from Gaza Writes Back, edited by Refaat Alareer

Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part Two: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/ https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/ https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/ https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/ https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086 https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/ https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/ https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/ https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/ https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086 https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: CZM Book Club Presents: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón

Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution Original Air Date: 6.1.2025 See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.