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. The nerdy revolutionaries: Bunny Sandler, Patsy T. Mink, Edith Green, and Pauli Murray, among others—women who left behind clues about their lives, not just what they achieved, but how they did it, and who they were, little pieces that we pick up and find along the way.

Host Leigh Fondakowski and an all-star cast led by Jodie Foster and Samira Wiley, dig deep into the archives to uncover and reveal the secret origin of Title IX.

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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.  

However the first time Rora is too young to fully understand her Great Aunt Bunny’s pivotal role in the women’s movement and the second time Bunny is too old to remember the details. 

What happens when nobody is left who remembers a story? We bridge the generational gap to resurrect that lost history.

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Feminist Files is written and produced by Leigh Fondakowski and Sarah Lambert

Featuring the Feminist Files Ensemble:

Jodie Foster as Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler

Samira Wiley as Pauli Murray

Amy Hill as Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink

Mercedes Hererro as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Edith Green, Alice Paul, Phyllis Schlafly, and ensemble parts

Margo Hall as Commissioner Frankie Freeman and ensemble parts

Chris Rickett as Vincent Macaluso and ensemble parts

Victoria Libertore as Ann Scott

Christina Sajous as Shirley Chisholm

And Alex Grubbs, Jules Latimer, Ronald Peet, RyanNicole in ensemble parts

Associate producers: Margo Hall, Victoria Libertore, and Diana Park

Executive producers: Stacey Book, Dominique Ferrari, Avi Glijansky, and Rora Brodwin

Original Music and Sound Design by: Gary Grundei

Theme music created by: Gary Grundei with vocals by Silversmith

Sound Engineering by: Julian Kwasneski

Additional Engineering by: Donovan Dorrance

Special Thanks to: Wendy Mink, Julia Lamber, Jean Robinson, The Scheslinger Library and its staff, Shari Hoffman, Charlotte Sheedy, and the estate of Pauli Murray.

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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 become the legal basis for Title IX – and how she used it to start taking on the most powerful universities in the nation.

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Feminist Files is written and produced by Leigh Fondakowski and Sarah Lambert

Featuring the Feminist Files Ensemble:

Jodie Foster as Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler

Samira Wiley as Pauli Murray

Amy Hill as Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink

Mercedes Hererro as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Edith Green, Alice Paul, Phyllis Schlafly, and ensemble parts

Margo Hall as Commissioner Frankie Freeman and ensemble parts

Chris Rickett as Vincent Macaluso and ensemble parts

Victoria Libertore as Ann Scott

Christina Sajous as Shirley Chisholm

And Alex Grubbs, Jules Latimer, Ronald Peet, RyanNicole in ensemble parts

Associate producers: Margo Hall, Victoria Libertore, and Diana Park

Executive producers: Stacey Book, Dominique Ferrari, Avi Glijansky, and Rora Brodwin

Original Music and Sound Design by: Gary Grundei

Theme music created by: Gary Grundei with vocals by Silversmith

Sound Engineering by: Julian Kwasneski

Additional Engineering by: Donovan Dorrance

Special Thanks to: Wendy Mink, Julia Lamber, Jean Robinson, The Scheslinger Library and its staff, Shari Hoffman, Charlotte Sheedy, and the estate of Pauli Murray.

For more visit frequencymachine.com/feministfiles

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.