A SIMPLE HERSTORY
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"I am well aware that in assuming this position I shall evoke more ridicule than enthusiasm at the outset."

-Victoria Woodhull, Equal Rights Party, 1872
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"Reforms are slow, but they never go backward."

-Belva Ann Lockwood, Equal Rights Party, 1884, 1888
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"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

-Margaret Chase Smith, Republican Party, 1964
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"And one day we just decided we weren't going to do that, and we just exchanged places."

-Charlene Mitchell, Communist Party, 1968
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"It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority... but it is often more important to be ahead of the majority."

​-Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink, Democratic Party, 1972
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"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth."

Shirley Chisholm, Democratic Party, 1972
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"Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power."

​-Elizabeth Dole, Republican Party, 2000
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"The answer was love - the love that was inside the madness."

-Elaine Brown, Green Party, 2008
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"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

​-Roseanne Barr, Green Party, 2012
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"My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'"

​-Kamala Harris, Democratic Party, 2020
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"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps in politics more than anywhere else."


-Shirley Chisholm, Democratic Party, 1972

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A Simple Herstory is a theatrical and high concept podcast series about the women who have run for President of the United States. Over a hundred women have made a run for it, but their stories are rarely heard.

This podcast series features the lives of the women who aggressively, voraciously, and passionately sought to assume the highest office in the land - and lost. Part experimental radio play,
 it will feature an all woman cast and it will be written, directed, & designed by notable American theater talent. Executed with a commitment to structural narrative deviations, the series bends our expectations, not just of content, but of form. The first season is about the first woman to make a bid for the presidency - Victoria Woodhull. She ran in 1872, before women had the right to vote. She was a suffragette, a labor advocate, a newspaper publisher, a stock broker, an actress, a con artist, and a spiritualist medium. Jocelyn Kuritsky (The Muse Project), Jonathan A. Goldberg (The Fall of the House of Sunshine), and Donya K. Washington (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) team up to create the series' inaugural season. The project is a warts and all look at the women, their ambitions, their drives, their ascents, their plummets.

A Simple Herstory is a new podcast series about all the women who have run for President of the United States. Over a hundred women have made a run for it, but their stories are rarely heard.

This podcast series features the lives of the women who aggressively, voraciously, and passionately sought to assume the highest office in the land - and lost. Part experimental radio play,
 it will feature an all woman cast and it will be written, directed, & designed by notable American theater talent. Executed with a commitment to structural narrative deviations, the series bends our expectations, not just of content, but of form. The first season is about the first woman to make a bid for the presidency - Victoria Woodhull. She ran in 1872, before women had the right to vote. She was a suffragette, a labor advocate, a newspaper publisher, a stock broker, an actress, a con artist, and a spiritualist medium. Jocelyn Kuritsky (The Muse Project), Jonathan A. Goldberg (The Fall of the House of Sunshine), and Donya K. Washington (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) team up to create the series' inaugural season. The project is a warts and all look at the women, their ambitions, their drives, their ascents, their plummets.
From outsiders to insiders, and outsiders again, these are the women who ran. 
Check out our teaser.
​And check back soon for more surprises.
A Simple Herstory · Victoria Woodhull: Teaser
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Produced by The Muse Project + The Tank

Slider Photo Credits: Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith, Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink, Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Dole, Kamala Harris - public domain; Belva Ann Lockwood - Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; neg. no. LC USZ 62 11082
; Charlene Mitchell -  Gene Koppack; Elaine Brown - Facebook (2/16); Roseanne Barr - Modified screenshot of Roseanne Barr from Jordan Brady's film "I Am Comic" (6/10), CC BY-SA 3.0.
COPYRIGH​T © 2020 - 2021 The Muse Project, All Rights Reserved.
Site design by Jocelyn Kuritsky.

Original Renderings by Michelle Memran.
​Original Poster Sketch by Anna Lathrop.

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