The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 02: Beauty and the Bikes

The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 02: Beauty and the Bikes

Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker and Boston bicycling trailblazer Kittie Knox.

Fan of a multi-step beauty routine? (Same.) So, as it happens, was Madam C. J. Walker, who built a national beauty empire while providing a path for other Black women to build businesses of their own. Meanwhile, over in Boston, Kittie Knox was riding and racing her bicycle, charming reporters, and challenging the idea that the sport was solely the domain of white men.

Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 59: Cocks and Codexes

Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 59: Cocks and Codexes

The Vatican library and the Council of Trent.

In which we ponder the finer points of the Vatican’s vast pornography stash and look for a fabled storage room brimming with marble dicks.

The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 01: You Can Be the President, I’d Rather Be the Pope

The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 01: You Can Be the President, I’d Rather Be the Pope

Weird pope facts and the bizarro world that is Vatican City/the Vatican/the Holy See.