Feel Familiar? Emotionally Intelligent History
"Feel Familiar? Emotionally Intelligent History" explores important but sometimes overlooked events from the past to gain a clearer understanding of the present day. It connects broad, macro-level developments in politics and society to relatable, individual feelings and thoughts.
Feel Familiar? Emotionally Intelligent History
Latest Episodes
Thank You, God, We’ll Take it From Here: How Doctors and Scientists Put Themselves in Charge of Sex and Gender, and What it Meant for Drag
Beginning in the 1800s, doctors, researchers, and men of science decided sex and gender was suddenly in their wheelhouse, not the church's. Now if you were queer or cross-dressed, you weren't a sinner, just sick or "inverted." Havelock Ellis, R...
Dames, Wenches, and “High Yallers”: From Camp Queens to the Minstrel Show’s Tragic Divas
With women playing women onstage, female impersonation took a turn for the comical, the campy, and the cartoonish. Legendary "dames" like Dan Leno and Bert Savoy pioneered the art of "false disguise." During the late 1800s, that most troublingl...
Shakespeare, the Restoration, and the Rise of the Actress: Men Insisting They Make Better Women Than Women
Juliet, Ophelia, and Lady Macbeth were all originally written for and played by men. Then women broke onto the scene and, for a time, theatre bros around London argued that drag artists were better than actual women onstage. We also talk about ...
Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire… and Sweet Home Alabama: How Men Use Drag to Show Their Power
You thought drag and female impersonation was something subversive and perverse? Think again! In Golden Age Greece 2,500 years ago, then later in Roman times, men dressed up as women onstage to enjoy power and prestige, and to show what a woman...
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