Context Clues: Feeling Like a Freak on a Beach
This episode will provide some context for our upcoming series on Florida Man. The excerpts are from Trash Talk Shows, Drugs, and Rednecks. Become a Patron and support our show! Follow American Hyst...
5 Sep 202228min
An Irresistible Movement with Reproductive Justice Activist Loretta J. Ross
CW: Sexual violence. Since the 1970s, Loretta J. Ross has been an instrumental activist in the fight for 'Reproductive Justice', a framework she and her colleagues created in 1994 that went beyond the...
15 Aug 202250min
WOMB WARS (part two)
Featuring yet another flamboyant abortionist, sideshow fetuses, Mother with a capital M, eugenic suspicions, and plenty more population panics. We'll see how the battle over family planning took very ...
8 Aug 202255min
WOMB WARS (part one)
Featuring flamboyant abortionists, dangerously determined doctors, problematic feminists, opportunist politicians, and one sneaky pope, this two-part series will explore the surprising origins of the ...
1 Aug 202258min
Context Clues: Maybe it Ain't About the Babies
Our upcoming series is about the origins of the anti-abortion movement in the time before Roe vs Wade. This Context Clues episode combines clips from three previous episodes to give some context. Bec...
25 Jul 202231min
Postcolonial Astrology with Alice Sparkly Kat
Alice Sparkly Kat (who goes by Ace) is an astrologer and the author of the book ‘Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor’. Today they share with us their perspect...
5 Jul 202241min
THE PLANETARY PROPAGANDA OF THE ANTI-NAZI ASTROLOGER
In 1941, hundreds of British secret agents were sent to the United States to spread creative anti-Nazi propaganda with the hopes of convincing the American people to support military intervention. Thi...
27 Jun 202239min
The Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich with Historian Eric Kurlander
Dr. Eric Kurlander is the author of Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich which details the occult practices and pseudosciences that many high ranking Nazis investigated at leng...
20 Jun 202259min
