The Public Universal Friend (with Kit Heyam)

June 12, 2024

This season on Vulgar History, we’re investigating How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? To do so, we’re looking at the lives of people who lived during the revolutionary era of the 18th century.

In honour of Pride Month, we’re talking this week about the trans historical figure The Public Universal Friend. The Friend, aka PUF, grew up as a Quaker in late 18th-century Pennsylvania. Were they also a cult leader? Listen and find out!

We’re joined this week by three-time returning guest Kit Heyam to talk about this fascinating historical figure.

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Organizations to Support:

Kit recommends supporting TransActual (UK)

Ann recommends supporting:

Point of Pride (US)

Trans Care+ (Canada)

The Trevor Project (US)

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References:

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Public Universal Friend essay by Amanda Carson Banks from Women in World History

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Vulgar Pride podcast playlist on Spotify

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Deborah Sampson aka Robert Shurtleff (with Greta LaFleur)

June 5, 2024

In honour of Pride Month, this week we’re talking about trans historical figure Deborah Sampson/Robert Shurtleff. Deborah/Robert fought in the American Revolution in a sort of Mulan scenario and their gender presentation has lots to discuss.

Greta LaFleur, associate professor of American studies at Yale University, is our guest this week to help explain Deborah/Robert’s story and offer an introduction to the American Revolution.

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Organizations to Support:

Greta recommends supporting the Trans Justice Funding Project (US)

Ann recommends supporting:

Point of Pride (US)

Trans Care+ (Canada)

The Trevor Project (US)

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References:

The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America by Greta LaFleur

Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern, co-edited by Greta LaFleur

Deborah Sampson essay by Harry M. Ward from Women in World History

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Charlotte Badger (with Jennifer Ashton)

May 29, 2024

This season on Vulgar History, we’re investigating the question How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? To do so, we’re looking at the lives of women who lived during the revolutionary era of the 18th century.

This week, we’re headed to New Zealand (via England and Australia) to learn how the Industrial and American Revolutions contributed to the adventurous life of a convicted thief named Charlotte Badger. This week’s guest is Jennifer Ashton, author of Thief, Confict, Pirate, Wife: The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger.

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References:

Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton

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Constanze Mozart (with Kristin Franseen)

May 22, 2024

This week, Kristin Franseen joins us to discuss Constanze Mozart, best known as the wife and then widow of Amadeus Mozart.

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Learn about the Grove Music Online website of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Project

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Kristin’s references:

Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover

1791: Mozart’s Last Year by H.C. Robbins Landon

“Salieri’s Cosi fan tutte” by Bruce Alan Brown and John Rice, Cambridge Opera Journal 8, no. 1

Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life edited by Robert Spaethling

A Mozart Pilgrimage by Vincent and Mary Novellos

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Operation Olive Branch

Operation Olive Branch Instagram

Operation Olive Branch TikTok

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Marie-Josèphe Angélique

May 15, 2024

It’s season seven! This year we’re investigating the question How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? Marie Antoinette was famously executed during the French Revolution. To understand how that happened means understanding the French Revolution, which means understanding the spirit of revolution that occurred around the world in the 18th century. This is why the first part of season seven is sub-titled Age of Revolution.

Things kick off with the story of Marie-Josephe Angelique, an enslaved Black Portuguese woman who may or may not have burned down Montreal in 1734.

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References:

The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal by Afua Cooper

Wikipedia

https://globalnews.ca/news/211853/montreal-to-honour-slave-marie-josephe-angelique-with-park-name/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-hanging-of-angelique-book-review

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marie-joseph-angelique

https://this.org/2017/03/27/new-film-takes-a-much-needed-glance-into-canadas-uncomfortable-past-with-racism-and-slavery/

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Author Interview: June Hur (A Crane Among Wolves)

May 8, 2024

Today’s guest, June Hur, is the author of historical novels that read like K-dramas. Her latest, A Crane Among Wolves, is set in Joseon-era Korea during the reign of tyrant King Yeonsan.

Learn more about June and her books at junehur.com

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Author Interview: Ella McLeod (author of The Map that Led to You)

April 30, 2024

We’re talking about pirate history this week with Ella McLeod, author of the new YA novel The Map That Led To You! In her research, Ella dove into the world of folklore, pirateology, nautical history, and the voices of people left out of history.

Buy a copy of The Map That Led to You

Ella’s Instagram

Ella’s podcast, Comfort Creatures

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Las Soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution (with Cristina Lumague)

April 24, 2024

We’re getting into a revolutionary, pants-on vibe this week with a look at Las Soldaderas: women who fought during the Mexican Revolution and whose contributions to victory often go uncredited.

Guiding us through their pants-wearing ways is Cristina Lumague, longtime editor of Vulgar History!

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References:

Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History by Elizabeth Salas and Elizabeth Blackshear Flinn

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

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Cristina’s podcasts:

Historias Unknown https://www.historiasunknown.com/episodes/

Espooky tales https://www.espookytales.com/follow

Espooky Tales socials: tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales IG https://www.instagram.com/espookytales

A Little Bit de Todo (short daily podcast, available May 5th) https://episodes.fm/1735794761

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Thanadelthur (with Rosalie Tsannie-Burseth)

April 17, 2024

Today we’re talking about Thanadelthur, a Dene woman who had a profound impact on the Dene people in Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba during the eighteenth-century fur trade. Much of Thanadelthur’s story is shared through oral storytelling among the Dene community. Today’s guest, Rosalie Tsannie-Burseth is a member of the Hatchet Lake Dënesųłiné First Nation in Treaty 10 territory.

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References:

The Legend of Thanadelthur: Elders’ Oral History and Hudson’s Bay Company Journals by Rosalie Tsannie-Burset

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Episode image by Wai Tien from The Peacemaker: Thanadelthur by David A. Robertson

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Matoaka aka Pocahontas (with Lauren DeLeary)

April 10, 2024

We’re joined today by Lauren DeLeary to talk about the true story of Matoaka, commonly known as Pocahontas. Her story has been misinterpreted countless times from the 16th century through today, perhaps still best known from the animated Disney film. Lauren was the screenwriter of Missing Matoaka, an alternate audio track to the Disney film, presenting her as the first Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman.

Learn more about Missing Matoaka: The True Story of Pocahontas

Learn more about the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

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References:

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma by Camilla Townsend

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear’ Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star”

Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley

The True Story of Pocahontas: Historical Myths Versus Sad Reality by Vincent Schilling (Indian Country Today)

Wikipedia

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