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Mary is finally on the throne and this guy Thomas Wyatt the younger thinks she`s gonna be overthrown that easily? Absolutely not.
A clip from our new episode! Available on Patreon today and wherever you get your podcasts tomorrow!
#womeninhistory #thetudors
The audacity is really audacity-ing today.
Who did we miss? What`s your favorite "No you don`t" of history?
40 years ago today, Oct 22, 1986, the Koop report was released which frankly discussed AIDS and safe sex during the AIDS epidemic.
📜 The first reported case of AIDS in America was in 1981. But president Ronald Reagan refused to discuss the disease since it primarily affected the gay community. And that made his conservative base feel icky.
📜 Until his friend, Rock Hudson, died. Then he was like hmm... now that this has affected my life, maybe we should look into it.
📜 At the time, his Surgeon General was C. Everett Koop. Koop was a conservative who morally opposed homosexuality. Reagan tasked Koop with writing a report on his findings of how AIDS is spread and what we can do to prevent that spread.
📜 Everyone assumed the the conservative Koop would write a report that just said "Gay people, bad. Sex before marriage, bad. Go to church".
📜 Instead, Koop surprised everyone by working hard to look at the issue from all points of view and consider what was actually in the public`s best interest. And his report reflected that.
📜 On October 22, 1986 (5 years into the AIDS epidemic) his 36-page report was released. It frankly discussed sex and needle sharing. It was objective, honest and stressed the importance of sex education in the school system.
📜 He even had the "Understanding AIDS" pamphlet sent to every house in America.
📜 Not everyone loved this honest approach, including garbage person and woman hater, Phyllis Schlafly. Her and her crew believed the only sex ed anyone needed was abstinence.
📜 Anyway, here`s Schlafly being hit in the face with a pie.
📜 Before Koop`s report it was a common belief that AIDS could be spread through saliva. Tho controversial to many, this pamphlet did a great job at educating the masses and probably helped save lives.
On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette lost her head during the French Revolution. Was the monarchy a mess? Absolutely. Did Marie deserve everything that happened to her? Ehhh, we`re not so sure.
👑 Born to the formidable Empress Maria Theresa, Marie wasn`t even supposed to marry into French royalty. But when her older sister contracted smallpox, 14-year-old Marie was next in line. And honey, she was NOT prepared.
👑 Her marriage to the future Louis XVI wasn`t exactly a fairy tale. Louis showed little interest in his young wife, leaving Marie lonely and isolated.
👑 Meanwhile, France was in crisis. Ordinary people struggled to afford bread while the royal family lived in extraordinary luxury. Not exactly great optics.
👑 And speaking of bread... Marie`s most famous quote, "Let them eat cake"? SHE NEVER SAID THAT. The story appeared in Rousseau`s Confessions years before the French Revolution, when Marie was still a child.
👑 But the rumor stuck. Because apparently, blaming a woman for everything is a timeless tradition. 💅
👑 In January 1793, Louis XVI was executed. Just nine months later, Marie followed him to the guillotine at age 37.
Was Marie Antoinette a perfect queen? Absolutely not. But her real story is a lot more complicated than the spoiled, cake-eating villain of popular imagination. We`ve covered Marie Antoinette on Queens Podcast! Find her episodes wherever you listen.
#MarieAntoinette #FrenchHistory
🏴☠️ PIRATE QUEENS, BABY! 🏴☠️
Anne Bonny and Mary Read were two of the most notorious women of the Golden Age of Piracy. They dressed in men`s clothing, sailed the Caribbean, fought alongside pirates, and allegedly had some VERY complicated romantic lives. 👀
And who better to help us untangle the history, myths, and general pirate fuckery than Greg Jenner, host of the BBC`s You`re Dead to Me?!
We`re talking scandal, sword fights, questionable men, and one of the most savage alleged breakup lines in history.
Swipe for a little taste of the chaos. 💖
🎧 Our episode on Anne Bonny & Mary Read featuring @greg_jenner
is OUT NOW wherever you get your podcasts!
🏴☠️ umm... Excuse me? Piracy has a better pension plan than most of corporate America?
Apparently! Historian @greg_jenner (BBC`s You`re Dead to Me) joins us to talk about Anne Bonny, Mary Read and the wild world of the Golden Age of Piracy.
⚔️ Sword fights! Cross dressing! Scandal! Uhh...Benefits!
This episode is out now wherever you get your pods xoxo 🍹
#historypodcast #WomensHistory
We are 2 episodes into our 3-part Mary I of England series and as we`ve mentioned, this is not a Queens Podcast 101 class. There are prerequisites. So, to make it easier for you all, we`ve compiled them all into one blog post that you can find on our website (link in bio)
But in the meantime, here`s who we suggest getting to know before her next episode.
📚️ Catherine of Aragon, Mary`s mother. For obvious reasons. She`s a HUGE part of the first episode and looms large over the rest of Mary`s life. Hard headed, set in her convictions (lol, hello Libra) and a wonderful historical figure to know.
📚️ The Grandmothers: we`ve covered both Mary`s maternal and paternal grandmothers on this show. Isabella of Castile was a queen in her own right and one of the most independently powerful women in Europe. While Elizabeth of York flexed her muscles in a quieter way while surviving political turmoil at home. Amazing women to learn all about.
📚️ Margaret Pole. Oh, dear. What a life of trauma. To survive an entire life of civil war and political games, just to lose your head in your 60`s. She served as Mary`s second mother and loved her dearly. Love Maggie.
📚️ Anne Boleyn. We do not want the ghost of Mary coming to haunt us so we didn`t linger on Anne too much in these episodes, but she`s Anne "Big Sexy Mouth" Boleyn, ffs. Of course we have 3 episodes on her.
📚️ Juana of Castile isn`t someone that directly affected Mary`s life, but we mention her son, Charles V, like A LOT. Juana was Mary`s aunt who she never met. Juana lived a very sad life, but it`s an interesting story either way.
This week we are back for episode 2 in our 3-part Mary I of England series. But for today, she is simply ✨️ the LADY Mary ✨️
👑 So, Mary`s dad (Henry VIII) has declared himself the head of the church in England, which Mary has feelings about...
👑 Meanwhile Mary`s new diplomatic bestie, Eustace Chapuys, gives Mary some great advice to avoid the fate of some who were not so lucky as to be the king`s daughter
👑 And while we won`t dive tooooo deep into the lives of all her step mom`s we do touch on the revolving door and the "divorced, beheaded, died" of it all.
👑 We also pour one out for Margaret Pole again. She did not deserve that and it bears repeating.
👑 BUT! Ding-dong the king is dead and we follow Mary as she navigates life as a Catholic under the rule of her VERY protestant baby brother.
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! xoxo cheers, y`all