Feminist history with wine-night velocity.
Wining About Herstory is a feminist history show built around women from history, loose conversation, and a glass-in-hand sense of mischief. Its episodes move from Minnesota artists and baseball trailblazers to inventors, filmmakers, authors, and historical figures who were crowded out of standard narratives.
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Wining About Herstory turns women's history into a rowdy, affectionate exchange between two longtime friends. The show centers women who should be easier to name than they are. Its rhythm is part research session, part wine-night spiral, part small act of correction. Emily and Kelly introduce historical figures with curiosity and irritation in equal measure, especially when the record is thin, dismissive, or shaped by sexism. Recent episodes show the range. One live Women's History Month recording at the Olmsted County History Center highlights Minnesota figures while making space for local women artists and business owners. A segment on Alice, Florence, and Hastings Needleworks lingers over patterns, embroidery, lampshades, and the fragile evidence that lets historians connect work to makers. Toni Stone becomes a story about athletic excellence, persistence, and a public that was not ready for her. Florence Parpart appears in the same conversational universe as spring weather, therapy ads, name pronunciation, and refrigeration. Jessalyn Finch brings the show into contemporary art and film, discussing a short independent film shaped by an all-female production. Danielle Frank connects wine culture, parenting humor, and independent authorship. The hosts do not hide the casual chaos around the history. Seasonal songs happen. Minnesota weather gets processed. Friendship tangents stretch into jokes about bereavement tattoos, holiday survival, and shared exhaustion. That looseness is the point rather than a distraction. The show makes history feel like something argued for at a kitchen table: imperfectly preserved, emotionally charged, and very much alive. Its feminist lens is direct, but the delivery is playful, irreverent, and often tender. Listeners come for women left out of the usual textbooks and stay for the sense that the hosts are discovering, defending, and laughing their way through the archive together.
Made for: For listeners who want women's history with humor, friendship, and a clear feminist point of view. It especially fits people who like researched stories about women from history but prefer conversational energy over classroom formality.
What sets it apart: The show pairs historical recovery with an unusually intimate friend dynamic, so the archive sits beside wine jokes, local community moments, interviews, and unfiltered reactions. Its episodes feel less like lectures and more like a running argument against forgetting women.
Have you ever wondered where all of the women were in your history books? You're not alone! Join long time gal pals, Kelley & Emily, as they swap stories about incredible women from history over a cheap bottle of wine. They take wining to a whole new level. Women's history has never been this tipsy!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kelly and Emily restore overlooked women to the historical record while keeping their achievements, compromises, and contested legacies in view.
Kelly and Emily recover women whose work has slipped out of familiar historical accounts, then tell those stories through research, argument, and the easy interruptions of a long friendship.
Kelly and Emily bring wine to the footnotes; you bring a taste for complicated history.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A live Minnesota history episode connects local makers, women's persistence, and Tony Stone's overlooked baseball story.
Whining About Herstory uses an evening at the Olmsted County History Center as a warm frame for Minnesota women's history. Local women artists and business owners talk through the work they are building, while the historical thread runs from Alice and Florence's embroidered…
A spring-chatty Florence Parpart episode that leans on banter, spelling, and a slower pace.
Wining About Herstory opens on Mary Oliver's Worm Moon, a spring check-in, and a weather-soaked mood before settling into Florence Parpart. Its clearest strength is the way the hosts keep returning to Florence Parpart's name and spelling, which gives the conversation a steady…
Wine, family, and a feminist wink keep the episode's history and humor working together.
Kelly and Emily keep the focus on Danielle Frank, a wine and spirits executive with more than 20 years in the industry, and on the book idea that grew out of a family joke after her niece and nephew complained about something and she heard the wine-language pun in it.
Saint Dymphna, Giel, and a town's demanding idea of care
Whining About Herstory links candid talk about sexual harassment, emotional fragility, and crying to the history of care for mentally ill people in Giel.
A Thanksgiving-tinted conversation about Mount Vernon, memory, and who gets named on streets and schools.
Whining About Herstory opens on a Thanksgiving riff built from the Bob's Burgers song and the cranberry sauce joke, and that gives the episode an easy, lived-in start.
A messy, comic portrait that keeps returning to the work of being remembered.
Whining About Herstory opens with a joke about "white women's syndrome" and then settles into a story about education, a garage library for neighborhood kids, and the way a grave marker can shrink a life to one name.
A cozy, combative history hour that turns wine-night banter into a sharp argument about erasure.
Whining About Herstory settles into a cozy-fall mood fast, all sweater weather, cinnamon-scented drinks, and a wine-night ease that gives the discussion room to breathe.
Messy women, sharp history, Regency receipts.
Women’s history with drinks, jokes, and bite.
Earth stories, science lives, human impact.
Difficult women, messy histories, sharp company.
Gold Rush California, told through its women
One overlooked woman, one storyteller, one live room.
A live recording from the Olmstead County History Center for Women's History Month, featuring local women artists and business owners.
The hosts discuss the arrival of spring, a Mary Oliver poem about the Worm Moon, and the unpredictable weather in Minnesota.
Emily and Kelly celebrate seven years of their women's history podcast with a humorous intro and reflection on changes.
Two friends drink wine and discuss Minnesota's new family leave law and hypothetical tattoos if one dies.
Two friends drink wine and whine about a woman in film, continuing their women's history podcast.
Emily and Kelly interview Jessalyn Finch, a gymnast, artist, teacher, and filmmaker, about her short independent film with an all-female production.
Kelly and Emily interview wine exec Danielle Frank about her book 'A Wine Lover's Guide to Parenting' and discuss women's history.
Two friends introduce their women's history podcast with a festive, wine-fueled banter about the holiday season.
Edna Klein-Reckie was a 18-year-old Scottish woman in 1959 who wrote "The Rainbow Bridge" after losing her Labrador Major.
Ann Pamela Cunningham got Congress to pay $7,000 after the Civil War commandeered Mount Vernon's steamboat.
Kelly and Emily of Whining About Herstory drink whiskey barrel-aged wine while covering Monica Helms, the trans Navy veteran who created the transgender pride flag, timed to Veterans Day.
An interview with author Eden Collinsworth about her new book on Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for U.S.
Emily apologizes for a lost episode about Mary Kenner and Henrietta Lax, re-releasing it for Black History Month.