As we come full circle, Bunny’s unique form of activism takes flight, while Rora makes a connection that changes her life forever as she walks through the Title IX office doors - doors her Aunt Bunny helped created - after she is sexually assau

EP 9: A Mystery Solved

Aug 24th, 2022 34m 33s

In the last letter in the folder of correspondence with Bunny, Pauli Murray writes to share news of the ordination into the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, and Bunny is invited to the ceremony for Reverend Doctor Murray! Pauli reflects on

EP 8: Patsy and Wendy: Think Mink

Aug 17th, 2022 43m 16s

Opposition to Title IX heats up as the NCAA realizes what’s at stake. Wendy Mink brings to vivid life her mother Patsy Takemoto Mink’s - the first woman of color in Congress - role in crafting the succinct 37 words that would become Title IX.

EP 7: The Ordeal of 1973

Aug 10th, 2022 37m 45s

Pauli Murray, a co-founder of NOW, leaves the movement as well as a tenure track position at Brandeis. It’s a stunning move for someone who’s fought their entire lives to reach the pinnacle of their profession. Why? In the Schlesinger Collecti

A Pause Between Acts

Jul 27th, 2022 8m 26s

Between the first part of our story and the second - we take a moment to pause and reflect on the role Title IX played in Leigh’s early life, when the budding activist in Leigh was born, and the relationship of the artist to history – how the p

EP 6: Under the Radar

Jul 20th, 2022 43m 53s

Returning to the Bunny Sandler Collection at the Schlesinger, Leigh finds a folder of letters between Bunny and Pauli Murray, chronicling their growing camaraderie and friendship. The two share stories from the year’s struggles - the fight for

EP 5: Pauli, Roy & Tim, and The Mysterious Tape Recording That Shouldn’t Exist

Jul 13th, 2022 29m 40s

There were no official audio or video recordings of the Edith Green hearings – only a printed transcript that her office produced and distributed. However, Leigh discovers that the Schlesinger Library also contains the collected papers – and so

EP 4: On the Record

Jul 6th, 2022 34m 19s

As the hearings continue, Edith Green dives into territory beyond education; reaching a tense crescendo as Green presses Frankie Freeman, the only Black woman serving on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, as to which is worse: sexism or racis

EP 3: Bunny Goes to Washington

Jun 29th, 2022 33m 54s

Representative Edith Green of Oregon, known as Mrs. Education in Congress, wants to hold hearings about sex discrimination in Higher Education, but she doesn’t think she has the evidence she needs to do anything about it – until she meets Bunny

EP 2: You Come On Too Strong... For a Woman

Jun 22nd, 2022 37m 55s

Leigh goes to the Schlesinger Library to search through Great Aunt Bunny’s papers and finds an unpublished oral history, the origin story of Title IX. Jodie Foster, as Bunny, brings us into the story of how she found the footnote that would be

EP 1: Great Aunt Bunny

Jun 15th, 2022 33m 21s

We meet Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler through her great niece, Rora Brodwin. Rora interviewed her Great Aunt Bunny twice – once when she was in the 7th grade and once when she was a college senior – both times for school projects about Title IX.

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Introducing Feminist Files - Starring Jodie Foster

Jun 2nd, 2022 3m 51s

Activist Pauli Murray said that all you needed to start a revolution is a typewriter…And a lot of guts.This is the story of how Title IX came to pass and how the women behind the scenes in Washington, D.C. created the academic sex revolution.

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