Olivia Joseph
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668 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Feb
Olivia Joseph’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, yeah.
During the war effort, all the men are gone and the women got to go and work.
How great.
Make their own money and this, you know, hey, this is all right.
Men came back from the war and the women got booted off those factory jobs, all kinds of jobs.
So a lot of women were becoming highly educated and empowered feeling.
And then they ran it for some reason, felt oppressed.
I don't really understand why.
Felt oppressed that, you know, you couldn't have your own business.
checking account in a lot of places.
Along with all of the awakening of women in America in the 20th century came this idea of fiber arts that have been excluded from the world of art and yet are this vast realm of creativity.
Like, why is that?
And if I'm a woman and I'm going to be kept out of the art academy anyway, because I'm not painting like a man, right?
Yeah.
I might as well do whatever I want.
And so starting in the 50s and the 60s, a lot of women started realizing, well, I could make art with fabric, right?
Why not?
So then in the 70s, especially with the rediscovery of American crafts that happened around the bicentennial, the way I see it, I was a card-carrying hippie back to the lander, growing my own organic vegetables and eating- Macrobiotics?
Macrobiotics.
Macrobiotic, thank you.
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