Who is the REAL Wicked Witch?

Go to https://surfshark.com/jessica for 4 extra months of Surfshark at an unbeatable price! My BRAND NEW merch store: https://jessicaoutofthecloset.myshopify.com/ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 3:30 Setting the stage: the progressive politics of Wicked and The Wizard of Oz 07:55 Surprise Anouncement! 14:23 Ahead of women who were ahead of their time 20:23 Witches are just “wicked” women 23:34 Wicked Witch or Good Witch? 27:43 The Matilda Effect 29:51 In Conlusion FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram ➭ https://www.instagram.com/JessicaOutOfTheCloset TikTok ➭ https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicaoutofthecloset Facebook ➭ https://www.facebook.com/JessicaOutOfTheCloset Threads ➭ https://www.threads.net/@jessicaoutofthecloset Find my filming equipment on my Amazon store: UK ➭ https://amzlink.to/az0yCIyQyduqS US ➭ https://amzlink.to/az0uHJvmBASLD How to JOIN the Kellgren-Fozard Club and SPONSOR this channel ➭ https://www.youtube.com/c/JessicaKellgrenFozard/join If you've enjoyed this video then feel free to buy me a drink to show your support! ➭ https://ko-fi.com/A1814A5T Music by Epidemic Sound ➭ http://share.epidemicsound.com/mvszv Bibliography: Staged Right: Exploring the Politics of 'Wicked' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_NjQonmX8M) Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist by Angelica Shirley Carpenter This Feminist Icon May Have Partially Inspired 'The Wizard Of Oz' (https://www.bustle.com/p/the-wizard-of-oz-book-by-l-frank-baum-actually-has-a-fascinating-feminist-origin-9326087) From Circe to Clinton: why powerful women are cast as witches (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/07/cursed-from-circe-to-clinton-why-women-are-cast-as-witches) Matilda Joslyn Gage: The suffragist who defied the US government (https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230703-matilda-joslyn-gage-the-suffragist-who-defied-the-us-government) What ‘Oz’ Owes To Early Radical Feminism (https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/what-oz-owes-early-radical-feminism/) The Radical Feminist Behind the Curtain (https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/29/wizard-of-oz-matilda-joslyn-gage-suffrage-feminist/) How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights, Suffrage Movement (https://msmagazine.com/2020/08/18/how-native-american-women-inspired-the-womens-rights-suffrage-movement/) When L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz Series Was Banned for “Depicting Women in Strong Leadership Roles” (1928) (https://www.openculture.com/2016/09/when-frank-l-baums-wizard-of-oz-series-was-banned-for-depicting-women-in-strong-leadership-roles-1928.html) Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/unheralded-women-scientists-finally-getting-their-due-180973082/) What Matilda Gage would say about Supreme Court abortion ruling (https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2022/07/what-matilda-gage-would-say-about-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-guest-opinion-by-gage-foundation-director.html) Gage, Matilda Joslyn (https://freethought-trail.org/profiles/profile:gage-matilda-joslyn/) Anthony, Gage and the 1873 trial that almost won women the vote (https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2023/06/anthony-gage-and-the-1873-trial-that-almost-won-women-the-vote-guest-opinion-by-tracy-winter-allen.html) Matilda Joslyn Gage directed the women’s suffrage movement from her Fayetteville home. Then she was written out of history. (https://www.syracuse.com/living/2020/08/matilda-joslyn-gage-directed-the-womens-suffrage-movement-from-her-fayetteville-home-then-she-was-written-out-of-history.html) The Wizard of Oz Invented the ‘Good Witch’ (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/80-years-ago-wizard-oz-invented-good-witch-glinda/596749/) Matilda Joslyn Gage (https://www.wned.org/television/wned-productions/wned-history-productions/discovering-new-york-suffrage-stories/matilda-joslyn-gage/) Is Elphaba Really Intersex? Explaining the Fan Theory From the Original Wicked Book (https://www.them.us/story/elphaba-intersex-trans-explained-wicked-book-movie) Stop Trying to Make 'Wicked' A Sapphic Romance. It’s Even Better Than That. (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/wicked-movie-queer-romance-revolution_n_67473641e4b08e475503454c) Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo on 'Gelphie' and how 'Glinda might be in the closet' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6gzsTBWWuk) Marissa Bode’s TikTok video: https://www.tiktok.com/@marissa_edob/video/7442866182476041518 Wicked rights a long-standing wrong of the musical (https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a63007338/wicked-nessarose-disabled-representation/) Wicked’s Elphaba Has Always Been Black Girl Coded. Cynthia Erivo’s Stunning Performance Cements It (https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2024/11/11816610/cynthia-erivo-wicked-review-elphaba-black) Five questions with Alexia Khadime of 'Wicked' (https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/interviews/five-questions-with-alexia-khadime-of-wicked)