Sheela Na Gig Episode 2: Lizzie Magie

Who really created the game, Monopoly and what did she want players to learn? The Sheela Na Gig Podcast celebrates women in history whose strength, talent, and perseverance went largely (or completely) unrecognized or perhaps someone you don't yet know about, but should! We are dedicated to celebrating women—one per episode—who we lovingly & reverently call “our Sheelas.” Elizabeth (Lizzie) Magie was a reformer against big business, an economist, an actress, a writer, a poet and a pioneering feminist and inventor who held several patents (She also worked in the dead letter office!). She invented an anti-capitalist board game that was stolen by a lying, opportunistic man and repackaged as capitalist family fun. Listen to her story that was sadly untold before her death, but let’s celebrate and elevate her & her amazing story!

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