We’re back!!! Season 5 starts the revolution with Bonnie talking about the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.
Show Notes & Extras
- Start of season 5!!!!!!
- It’s the start of Revolutionary Gal Month
- This month’s gal pals are Katie Harris, Bonnie Fillenwarth, Lisa Cardona, and Dr. Leah Leach
- Book Club shout out
- Bonnie’s art stuff
- Lisa wants to know if you want to volunteer for Gal’s Guide?
- Bonnie’s 1 Cool Revolutionary Gal is Benazir Bhutto
- Her father, Ali Bhutto
- PPP Pakistan People’s Party
- JFK meeting
- Her father was for equality
- Shout out to episode Saudi Arabian Women’s Right to Drive
- Siblings
- “She owes a debt to her people”
- Benazir’s name means “without compare”
- Havard & Oxford
- Father lost an election to a military leader and arrested
- He was hung
- Brother hijacked a plane
- Benazir and her mother spent time in prison and house arrest.
- Left France to see her brother, who was poisoned
- Carry on her father’s legacy but needs a husband
- UPDATE – the 10% guy, his name is Asif Ali Zardari
- Campaigning while pregnant
- Explosive Mangos?
- 1988 Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Built 4800 schools
- Women’s police stations
- Women’s banks and courts
- Military issues
- After 20 months removed for corruption
- 1993 Prime Minister again
- UPDATE: her term was 1993-1996
- Volunteer Exile for 8 years
- Husband in prison
- UPDATE: three kids, Bilawal, Bakhtawar, and Aseeta
- Several assassination attempts
- “If I die” email
- Security weirdness
- Weird parallels
- The podcast that Bonnie recommends is in the BBC Assassination Series
- Documentary on Benazir is on Kanopy
- Gal’s Guide Library has Benizar’s book Recognition
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