Bada$$ Women History 👣 Walking Tour and Discuss 📕My Name is Ona Judge

Walk in the footsteps of the women who shaped Philadelphia’s soul. 🥾📚✨ Join Brenda for a powerful afternoon where history, activism, and storytelling collide on a Badass Women’s History Tour through Philadelphia. From hidden heroines to groundbreaking rule-breakers, this walking tour uncovers the women who built, challenged, healed, and transformed the city we call home.

Over lunch we’ll discuss _My Name is Ona Judge,_who is one of the women we’ll hear about on our tour.

FEE: $49 (that’s $10 off the normal price!) - covers tour. Lunch is pay on your own.

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🥗 12:15pm LUNCH: TBD

📚 NOVEL: My Name Is Ona Judge
Genre: Historical Fiction

A hidden journal links two women across centuries. In 1796, Ona Judge—enslaved by George and Martha Washington despite being their “favored” maid—records the harrowing truth of her escape and the price of her freedom.

In the present day, Tessa Scott discovers Ona’s tattered journal while surveying an old Virginia property, and as she becomes immersed in Ona’s story of betrayal, courage, and defiance, she’s forced to confront her own life and the controlling relationship she’s trapped in. As Ona fights for freedom in the past, Tessa must decide if she has the strength to claim her own in the present.

👣 2:00pm - WALKING TOUR: BADASS WOMEN HISTORY WALKING TOUR
Start: 6th and Market (599 Market Street) at the Visitor Center
End: 13th and Locust
Distance: ~1.5 miles

We’ll journey through Old City, Society Hill, the Gayborhood, and beyond to meet:

• 👑 Hannah Callowhill Penn — the forgotten founder whose leadership saved the colony.
• 🏃‍♀️ Ona Judge — whose courageous escape from George Washington changed American history.
• 🏥 The First Women Doctors in the WORLD — and the infamous 1869 Jeering Episode at Pennsylvania Hospital.
• 🎨 The Women of The Plastic Club — artists like the Red Rose Girls and Meta Warrick Fuller who shaped Philly’s creative identity.
• 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ Trailblazers — including Barbara Gittings, Gloria Casarez, and Charlene Arcila, whose protests and activism reshaped civil rights.

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Happy reading!
Audrey

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