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Writer and comedian Sovereign Syre teams up with VR innovator and former librarian Ela Darling to chronicle the lives of women and gender nonconformists that got a bad rap. Whether they were pioneers in male dominated fields, criminal masterminds, or just epic sl*ts, we here at ILL REPUTE! support women's rights, but more importantly we support women's wrongs.

ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling

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Writer and comedian Sovereign Syre teams up with VR innovator and former librarian Ela Darling to chronicle the lives of women and gender nonconformists that got a bad rap. Whether they were pioneers in male dominated fields, criminal masterminds, or just epic sl*ts, we here at ILL REPUTE! support women's rights, but more importantly we support women's wrongs.

    The Bombshell

    The Bombshell

    From the silent era's vamps to the Golden Age goddesses of Hollywood, the bombshell has always been an enchanting figure, shaped and reshaped by societal desires and anxieties. 
    The bombshell is not a static ideal. It has morphed and adapted, mirroring the shifting landscapes of culture and feminism. Today, in the digital age, the bombshell exists in a new dimension, where social media amplifies both empowerment and objectification. We are left to question: Is the bombshell a symbol of female agency, or merely a construct designed to titillate and control?
    This exploration will delve into the complex history of the bombshell inits various incarnations, and examine the power it wields.
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    Script by Joshua Anderson
    Hosted by Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling
    Produced by Joshua Anderson
    Sources:
    The Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper:https://www.etymonline.com/word/bombshell
    "Bombshell (slang)" Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombshell_(slang) 
    Jean Harlow jeanharlow.com/about/biography 
    Dorothy Dandridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Dandridge 
    Josephine Baker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker 
    Ertha Kitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eartha_Kitt 
    Hallie Berry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Berry 
    Mariyln Monroe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
    Theda Bara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theda_Bara 
    Louise Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks
    Rita Hayworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Hayworth
    Lana Turner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner
    Ava Gardner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Gardner 
    Bridget Bardot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot 
    Sophia Loren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Loren 
    Jayne Mansfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield 
    Raquel Welch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch 
    Ann Margaret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann-Margret 
    Jane Fonda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda 
    Diane Keaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Keaton 
    Faye Dunaway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Dunaway 
    Farah Fawcett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett 
    Bo Derek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Derek 
    Cheryl Teigs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Tiegs 
    "Pamela Anderson" Biography.com. A&E NetworksTelevision.https://www.biography.com/actors/pamela-anderson
    "Carmen Electra" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Electra 
    "Salma Hayek" Biography.com. A&E Networks Television. https://www.biography.com/actor/salma-hayek
    "Anna Nicole Smith" Biography.com. A&E Networks Television. https://www.biography.com/personality/anna-nicole-smith
     

    • 55 min
    Michael Dillon: The First Trans Man

    Michael Dillon: The First Trans Man

    His transition required thirteen operations and took place over four years, with no one the wiser. Dillon went on to be a surgeon himself, and traveled the world with various naval vessels for six years, living life as a man, with no one suspecting his origins. 
    He was ultimately outed because of his nobility.  There are peerage records that are made of everyone's descendancy and changing one’s names in those had been impossible and eventually someone noticed the discrepancy. 
    After living as Michael Dillon for fifteen years, he was onboard a ship when he got a cable from England. It was from The Daily Express as said “Do you intend to claim the title since your change-over?”
    Sources:
    Out of the Ordinary by Michael Dillon
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    • 1 hr 27 min
    Harold Gillies: The Father Of Plastic Surgery

    Harold Gillies: The Father Of Plastic Surgery

    Today, we are taking on our first man. Because sometimes men do important stuff for women. Like creating the field of plastic surgery. He’s a saint that changed the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers during WWI and pioneered many of the cosmetic procedures that are used today…primarily on women. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr. Harold Gillies
    Sources: 
    The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gillies
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    Written by Sovereign Syre
    Hosted by Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling
    Produced by Joshua Anderson
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    • 58 min
    Prozac Nation

    Prozac Nation

    “Prozac Nation is a young person’s book, both in terms of its author and its target audience…What seemed most important to me about Wurtzel’s writing was that she had been messy, and she was willing to detail that mess without apology…It was a radical departure from how I’d seen women write about themselves…Whether we like it or not, Prozac Nation really did change the landscape when it comes to the way women write about themselves. It laid the groundwork for the what Jia Tolentino called the “personal-essay boom” of the early 2010s, an era when no detail was too graphic, no humiliation too private for sharing.”
     
    It’s important to understand what was going on in the culture at this time. Prozac had just become popular, and record numbers of people were being diagnosed with depression. The chart topping artists were Depeche Mode, Nirvana, and Nine Inch Nails, bands whose messages were those of apathy and wallowing in despair, and a few months before Prozac Nation was published, Kurt Cobain committed suicide. There was a problem, but people were also wary of how we were treating it. 
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    Sources: 
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/no Elizabeth_Wurtzel
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html
    https://lithub.com/how-did-elizabeth-wurtzel-survive-us/
    https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/elizabeth-wurtzel-auction.html
    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-chaotic-beautiful-larks-of-elizabeth-wurtzel
    https://longreads.com/2019/09/25/prozac-nation-turns-25/
    https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/7/archives-elizabeth-wurtzel/
    https://observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequences/
    https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/books/rambunctious-with-tears.html
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/177392370/?match=1&terms=Elizabeth%20Wurtzel
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/08/with-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-blew-open-the-memoir-as-we-know-it
    https://litfemme.substack.com/p/ive-been-thinking-about-elizabeth
    https://www.thecut.com/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html

    • 41 min
    Elizabeth Wurtzel: The "It" Girl of Generation X

    Elizabeth Wurtzel: The "It" Girl of Generation X

    This week Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling profile writer and icon, Elizabeth Wurtzel. A beautiful, young, Harvard graduate whose memoir Prozac Nation got her on the New York Times Bestseller List and made her an overnight celebrity. She also suffered from major depression and was one of the first people to be prescribed the drug Prozac.  She was both a media darling, and roundly mocked by others, for what was precieved as a kind of narcissism endemic of a news generation, a cohort labeled Gen X. 
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    Sources:
    Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/no Elizabeth_Wurtzel
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html
    https://lithub.com/how-did-elizabeth-wurtzel-survive-us/
    https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/elizabeth-wurtzel-auction.html
    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-chaotic-beautiful-larks-of-elizabeth-wurtzel
    https://longreads.com/2019/09/25/prozac-nation-turns-25/
    https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/7/archives-elizabeth-wurtzel/
    https://observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequences/
    https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/books/rambunctious-with-tears.html
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/177392370/?match=1&terms=Elizabeth%20Wurtzel
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/08/with-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-blew-open-the-memoir-as-we-know-it
    https://litfemme.substack.com/p/ive-been-thinking-about-elizabeth
    https://www.thecut.com/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html
     
     

    • 50 min
    The Hustlers at Scores

    The Hustlers at Scores

    Roselyn “Rosie” Keo was the daughter of Cambodian refugees. When she was younger, her parents got caught up in gambling and nightlife, taking off for Atlantic City, leaving Rosie and her siblings to be raised by their elderly grandparents. She was a wild child, getting in fights, having bad boyfriends, typical teenage rebel stuff. She was growing up Rockland County, and by the age of 17, she dropped out of school and got a job working at New York City Diner to help with expenses at home. There was a gentleman’s club nearby called, Lace, and the dancers would often come into the diner after their shifts. One night a manager at Lace tipped her $20 bucks on a $20 dollar ticket and told her she should hit up the club if she was interested in making “real money.” Soon after she went to the club, lied about her age, and started working the pole.  What followed became the basis for the hit film Hustlers starring Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo and Cardi B. 
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    Sources: 
    https://jessicapressler.com/the-hustlers-at-scores/498
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/movies/hustlers-real-story.html
    https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jennifer-lopez-hustlers-samantha-barbash-lawsuit-934721/
    https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/samantha-barbash-real-ramona-hustlers-lawsuit
    https://time.com/5671735/hustlers-movie-true-story/
    https://www.msk.com/newsroom-alerts-2901
    https://nypost.com/2017/04/05/stripper-gets-probation-for-drugging-clients-taking-their-money/

    • 1 hr 18 min

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