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Margaret talks with Io about the Iceni revolt of 61 AD that almost drove Rome out of Britain.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4434717
 
https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A31804/attachment/ATT-0/
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20120612044230/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba83/feat3.shtml
 
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html#2
 
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D32
 
https://historyandarchaeologyonline.com/the-evidence-for-the-historical-boudica%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/
 
https://vridar.org/2018/05/07/doing-history-how-do-we-know-queen-boadicea-boudicca-existed/
 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25471937
 
http://simoneparrish.com/2016/07/how-i-woad-using-woad-for-body-painting/

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Part One: Boudica: The Warrior Queen Who Burned Roman London to the Ground

Can our heroes best the mighty beasts who await them in the swamps? Who will Trant throw a bomb at?

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CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Two

Margaret continues her talk with to Gabriel Dunn about the gender deviants of the ancient world and how basically nothing ever changes.
 
Sources:
 
https://arkeonews.net/getting-to-know-matar-kubilea/
 
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/56909/what-is-the-difference-between-galli-and-metragyrtai
 
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Epigram%20History%20and%20Examples.htm
 
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boadicea/
 
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/539632/d6348aa09f4510eb5704b6da501f9e7d.pdf
 
https://www.oldest.org/culture/civilizations/
 
https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities
 
https://www.apsu.edu/philomathes/MattinglyPhilomathesONLINE2023.pdf

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Part Two: The Gallae: Trans Priestess of Ancient Rome

Margaret talks to Gabriel Dunn about the gender deviants of the ancient world and how basically nothing ever changes.
 
Sources
 
https://arkeonews.net/getting-to-know-matar-kubilea/
 
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/56909/what-is-the-difference-between-galli-and-metragyrtai
 
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Epigram%20History%20and%20Examples.htm
 
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boadicea/
 
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/539632/d6348aa09f4510eb5704b6da501f9e7d.pdf
 
https://www.oldest.org/culture/civilizations/
 
https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities
 
https://www.apsu.edu/philomathes/MattinglyPhilomathesONLINE2023.pdf

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Part One: The Gallae: Trans Priestess of Ancient Rome

Margaret continues her talk with Sophie about the philosophers of the celts.
 
Sources:
 
https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/blacksmiths-and-the-supernatural/
https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-archaeology/ferrous-friend-foe-iron-became-enemy-fairy-folk/
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/28y8zwazfxaq2tsb933b54wf0slfcj
 
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/02/woodhenge-is-just-as-fascinating-and-mysterious-as-its-famous-neighbor-stonehenge/
 
https://irishmyths.com/2022/04/29/female-druids/
 
Barry Cunliffe, Druids: A Very Short Introduction
 
Peter Berresford Ellis, The Druids

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Part Two: Druids: Because the Past is Metal as Hell

Margaret talks to Sophie about the philosophers of the celts.
 
Sources:
 
https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/blacksmiths-and-the-supernatural/
https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-archaeology/ferrous-friend-foe-iron-became-enemy-fairy-folk/
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/28y8zwazfxaq2tsb933b54wf0slfcj
 
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/02/woodhenge-is-just-as-fascinating-and-mysterious-as-its-famous-neighbor-stonehenge/
 
https://irishmyths.com/2022/04/29/female-druids/

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Part One: Druids: Because the Past is Metal as Hell

Margaret reads you a haunted house story about real estate desirability.

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CZM Book Club: F*ck This Sh*t Manor, by Laurel Hightower

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care.

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Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them, Part Two

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care.
 
Sources-
 
https://translifeline.org/about/history/
https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds
https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/
https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/
https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/
 
https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li
https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf
 
https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809
https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial
 
https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/
https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions
 
https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional
 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226
 
https://glaad.org/tdor/
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th

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Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them, Part One

Margaret reads you "The Open Window" by Saki and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce

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CZM Book Club: Two Tales of Classic Horror, by Saki and Bierce

Margaret continues talking with Molly Conger about the history of protestors wearing black and masks while fighting neoliberalism and fascism. 

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Part Two: The Black Bloc: It’s a Tactic, Not an Organization

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