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Lawrence v. Texas Part 1 with Marcus McCann Sep 18, 2024

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Or, is it legal to have gay sex in your own home? This week, Marcus McCann takes us back to the 2003 Supreme Court case that challenged a Texas anti-sodomy law--with little stops along the way for Mexican food, the endowment of James Dean, and peevish police. (Part 2 coming next week!)

Dale Carpenter's book Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

Marcus' book Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander off the Path

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The Jane Collective with Moira Donegan Sep 04, 2024

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"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws."
— Linnea Johnson
This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves.

Moira's podcast In Bed with the Right
Moira in the Guardian
Moira on the tradwife
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Dungeons & Dragons & The Satanic Panic with Adrian Daub Aug 20, 2024

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This week we travel back to the 80s, when America’s parents decided to freak out over some kids rolling dice and drawing things on graph paper! Adrian Daub walks Sarah through the history of Dungeons & Dragons, and the panic it inspired.

Content note: The story we're telling today also involves suicide; please listen with care.

Find Adrian online here.

Buy his book The Cancel Culture Panic here.

And check out this delightful 60 Minutes segment about the dangers of Dungeons & Dragons from 1985.

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Rosie Ruiz and the Marathon Women with Maggie Mertens Aug 05, 2024

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Maggie Mertens tells us a tale of the first women who fought to run the marathon, and of one woman who decided to cut to the finish line.
Find Maggie online here.
Find Maggie's book Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women online here.

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Has the Supreme Court Always Been This Terrible? with Mackenzie Joy Brennan Jul 22, 2024

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What is “originalism,” and what does it have to do with all these bribes? Mackenzie Joy Brennan has some answers.
Find Mackenzie online here.
You can find Abortion Access Front online here.
"Anita Hill" episode of You're Wrong About.
The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery by Moira Donegan

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https://www.aafront.org/
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Balloonfest ‘86! with Harmony Colangelo Jul 11, 2024

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The city of Cleveland will not be made to apologize for its balloons. Harmony Colangelo defends the mistake on the lake.

You can find Harmony on This Ends at Prom.

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Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lorenz Jun 25, 2024

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This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on?

Listen to Taylor's podcast, Power User

Read Taylor in the Washington Post

...and her book, Extremely Online
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Immigration with Alejandra Oliva Jun 12, 2024

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Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth, came by to catch us up on the last few decades of American immigration policy--and to talk about how the world as we know it is not the world as it must be.

Alejandra's website:
olivalejandra.com

Read Rivermouth, out now in paperback:
https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672

Further Reading:

Greg Grandin The End of the Myth (2020)

Jonathan Blitzer Everyone Who is Gone is Here (2024)

David Bacon The Right to Stay Home(2014)

Dara Lind, "The disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today's immigration problem." Vox, April 2016.

Heather Timmons. "No one really knows what ICE is supposed to do. Politicians Love that." Quartz, July 2018.

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https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781250214850
https://bookshop.org/p/books/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-the-united-states-central-america-and-the-lives-in-between-jonathan-blitzer
https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9780807061213
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11515132/iirira-clinton-immigration
https://qz.com/1316098/what-is-ice-supposed-to-do-the-strange-history-of-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement
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The Tradwife Rises with Sarah Archer May 29, 2024

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Sarah Archer came by to make an episode from scratch. What's the real history of the American housewife? Where did the tradwife come from, and why? Is she okay? Will we be okay? And who is she churning all that butter for?

Sarah Archer's accompanying Substack post https://open.substack.com/pub/saraharcher/p/going-to-business

Sarah Archer's bibliography

Clips:

Mrs. Modern versus Mrs. Drudge from The Middleton Family at the 1939 New York World's Fair (produced by Westinghouse) https://youtu.be/vH2Lpl-UB64?si=vtVFAWhAvkDq-EOE
Design for Dreaming from General Motors 1956 Motorama featuring the Frigidaire “Kitchen of the Future” display https://youtu.be/4_ccAf82RQ8?si=mzVREYgY-d2yWcCl
“Total Electric Home,” Westinghouse, 1959 https://youtu.be/IRrMLaiiAGY?si=aoc-7PQfSQIEZW5r
The Frankfurt Kitchen at MoMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T3EM872x-A
Articles Books and Pods:
Dolores Hayden, Grand Domestic Revolution: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262580557/the-grand-domestic-revolution/
Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674286078
“Wife Sentences,” Moira Donegan https://www.bookforum.com/print/3004/lisa-selin-davis-s-confused-history-of-homemakers-25336
“Trad Wives,” In Bed with the Right https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-bed-with-the-right/id1696774612?i=1000651855063

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Rosa Parks with Princess Weekes May 15, 2024

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Today, Princess Weekes takes us to meet the real Rosa Parks.
Find Princess on YouTube:
Princess’ video, “The 1920s Sex Scandal You’ve Never Heard of”
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