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

(No. It's not.)
It’s 1983 and our heroine, an ophthalmologist, is treating a patient with a condition called blepharospasm, a painful neurological disorder that causes involuntary muscle spasms and contractions of the eyelid. After administering a neuromodulator to the affected muscles, a procedure she had performed with her patient many times before, her patient was unhappy. Angry, in fact: the doctor had neglected to treat the area between her eyebrows. 
Apologizing, our doctor explained, “I’m sorry but I didn’t think you were spasming there.” The impatient patient retorted, “I know. I’m not spasming there, but every time you treat me there I get this beautiful untroubled expression.”
This is how Dr. Jean Carruthers pioneered the cosmetic use of Botulinum Toxin, and thus Botox was born... and the "Discourse" has been ambivalent about its ubiquity ever since. 
Either Botox is anti-feminist because, as one writer for the Washington Post put it, “Every choice to conform to sexist social norms makes it harder for other women to choose otherwise. Every woman who has plastic surgery or Botox or gets her hair dyed or, yes, changes her name makes it harder for other women not to.” 
Or…  Botox is just like any other decision women make about their bodies and appearance: an ongoing practice in agency and self-determination that is most competently observed through the lens of Women Making Personal Choices rather than Women Being Personally Responsible for Upending Centuries of Oppression.
Sources Atefeh Velayati, Shahideh Jahanian Sadatmahalleh, Saeideh Ziaei & Anoshirvan Kazemnejad (2019) Can Botox Offer Help Women With Vaginismus? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, International Journal of Sexual Health, 31:3, 233-243, https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2019.1616029
Carruthers, Dr. Jean. “Beneath the Surface of Botox.” TEDx Vancouver 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuEZ8I_lZe0
Cohen, Kate. “Sorry, but these choices aren’t ‘feminist.’ They’re sexist.” Washington Post. 8/17/2022. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/lopez-affleck-name-change-feminist-sexist-choice/
Cook, P. S., & Dwyer, A. (2017). No longer raising eyebrows: The contexts and domestication of Botox as a mundane medical and cultural artefact. Journal of Consumer Culture, 17(3), 887-909. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540516634414
Nigam, P. K., & Nigam, A. (2010). Botulinum toxin. Indian journal of dermatology, 55(1), 8–14. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.60343
Scott, A. B., Honeychurch, D., & Brin, M. F. (2023). Early development history of Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA). Medicine, 102(S1), e32371. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000032371
Singh, C., Dulku, A., Haq, A., Bhatti, T., & Bhatti, A. (2015). Why Do Females Use Botulinum Toxin Injections?. Journal of cutaneous and aesthetic surgery, 8(4), 236–238. https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.172201
The United States Attorney’s Office. “Las Vegas Doctor and Wife Sentenced to Prison for Botox Fraud Scheme.” March 30, 2009. https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nv/news/2009/03302009.html
Wikipedia. (n.d.). Hypotonia. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotonia#Floppy_baby_syndrome
Credits
Script by Ela Darling
Hosted by Ela Darling & Sovereign Syre
Produced by Joshua Anderson
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In her lifetime Calamity Jane was the most famous woman in the world, and her name still evokes the spirit of the WIld West. She has been a character in countless dime novels, television shows, and feature films, and yet all of them were largely fabricated bearing no resemblence to her actual life. In this series on Calamity Jane, we hope to rectify that. In the following episodes we will profile her REAL life, and find that truth is far wilder than fiction. 
In part two of our series, we follow a newly orphaned Jane as she navigates the politics of being a part of the Rolling Scum and her transition into military scout. Including original research by Sovereign Syre, we delve into some theories about what Jane was doing during her "missing years." 
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Sources: 
Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend by James D. McLaird
http://legendsofthewest.com
http://newspapers.com
The Autobiography of Calamity Jane by Herself
Lowdown on Calamity Jane by Dora Dufran
http://wikipedia.com 
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/momaday19-native-american-mythology-video-gallery/n-scott-momaday/
Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers by Robert K. DeArment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6WmPL98s4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8
 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cummins-indian-congress/
http://publicdomainreview.org
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In her lifetime Calamity Jane was the most famous woman in the world, and her name still evokes the spirit of the WIld West. She has been a character in countless dime novels, television shows, and feature films, and yet all of them were largely fabricated bearing no resemblence to her actual life. In this series on Calamity Jane, we hope to rectify that. In the following episodes we will profile her REAL life, and find that truth is far wilder than fiction. 
In part one of our series, we chart Jane's early life. Born Martha Jane Canary in Missouri to a hopeless gambler and his teenage wife, a former dancehall girl, Jane was born to run. After the death of her grandfather, the family discovers that Jane's father had been embezzling from his own father to pay for his gambling habit, so with the threat of the law on the way, her father gathered up the family and put them on a wagon train headed for the gold and silver mines of Montana. 
The world they arrive in is dangerous, crowded and filthy, justice is meted out by vigalante committees and outlaws hang by their necks from the gates of every boomtown. It is into this world that Jane will find herself orphaned. 
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Sources: 
Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend by James D. McLaird
http://legendsofthewest.com
http://newspapers.com
The Autobiography of Calamity Jane by Herself
Lowdown on Calamity Jane by Dora Dufran
http://wikipedia.com 
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/momaday19-native-american-mythology-video-gallery/n-scott-momaday/
Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers by Robert K. DeArment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6WmPL98s4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8
 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cummins-indian-congress/
http://publicdomainreview.org
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Script by Sovereign Syre
Hosted by Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling
Produced by Joshua Anderson
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In the final installment in our series on Hedy Lamarr, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling discuss Hedy Lamarr's most famous invention, frequency hopping, and how the US government f*cked her in the deal to the tune of 30 billion dollars. How is it possible that the inventor that brought us WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth never saw a dime? Because she happened to be a dime herself, of course. 
Sources: 
Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr, by Stephen Michael Shearer
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Directed by Alexandra Dean. 
Hedy Lamarr by Ruth Barton
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This week on the pod Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling discuss Borderline Personality Disorder. Why? Because 75% of those diagnosed with BPD are women, and it is the most stigmatized mental illness out there...and according to the literature, the most painful. People who suffer from BPD live twenty years less than their counterparts, and the rate of suicidality is markedly increased. This is an illness attacking women in large numbers, and it has a body count. 
So let's intervene and disrupt the narrative that women with BPD just, never get better. 
Content Warning: 
Brief discussions of sexual abuse and assault and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org
Sources: 
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHBKQy/
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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AHfPoJ/
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8AH2eD9/
Borderline personality disorder: Causes in females
Why Borderline Personality Disorder is Misdiagnosed
The Lifetime Course of Borderline Personality Disorder
Recent developments in psychosocial interventions for borderline personality disorder
The 4 Types of Borderline Personality Disorder
The Stigma Associated With Borderline Personality Disorder
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This week on ILL REPUTE! Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre discuss Hedy Lamarr's Gilded Cage of a marriage to the richest man in Austria. Plus, we take some side journies to debate the merits of sugaring versus escorting. Which is very important to consider, when considering Hedy's life. 
Sources: 
http://www.kusd.edu/indiantrailpulse/?p=10438
Shearer, Stephen Michael (2010). Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-55098-1. (Hoopla- Austin Public Library)
"'Most Beautiful Woman' by Day, Inventor by Night." All Things Considered, NPR, November 22, 2011.
Barton, R., Wilson, A., & Barton, R. (2010). In Heddy Lamarr: The most beautiful woman in film. essay, The University Press of Kentucky. 
Rhodes, Richard. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the Word. New York: Doubleday, 2011. 
Salamone, Debbie (October 24, 1991). "Heddy Lamarr Won't Face Theft Charges If She Stays In Line" Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Orlando Sentinel; retrieved June 10, 2010. 
Desert Sun, Volume 41, Number 16, 23 August 1967
Horak, Jan Christopher. "HIGH CLASS WHORE." CineAction, spring 2001, p. 31. 
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written by: Ela Darling
hosted by: Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling
produced by: Josh Anderson
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