37: Addy Add On: The Syllabus

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A lot has changed since the "Peek into the Past" chapters were written in the Addy books more than twenty years ago. In that time, the web has gone from a slow novelty to something we carry with us. More importantly, we now also have a new cultural form - the crowdsourced web syllabus. The Addy syllabus we describe in this episode features books, articles, primary sources, games, snippets from AGIG, and more. This list pulls together works and texts that allow for a new or deeper understanding of Addy, and additional ways to consider her story in the context of American culture. One of the purposes of this syllabus was to update the story of civil rights told in the Addy epilogues. We credit black feminist scholars for their creation of this scholarly form: Dr. Marcia Chatelain started the Ferguson Syllabus in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown in Missouri.

You can access the syllabus here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FtfimLFWcm9uQrGvXQso9Umn-gPELOAdAQotcVDz17A/edit

You may also add to the syllabus by writing an entry in this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qGwxt55ommDkbZXPLzipDylI41QnaWaYW9yNIsEbeoA/viewform?edit_requested=true

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0:00.0	Mary, I have to have a really serious conversation with you.
0:08.8	Uh-oh, that doesn't sound great.
0:10.9	So I got this transmission and it was your screen time data for the past few months on your
0:17.2	iPhone? No, no, no, no. How? So I'm not really at liberty to say where how I got that information.
0:25.0	What I am prepared to say is there was a noticeable spike in one particular
0:30.2	application on your cell phone.
0:32.0	Oh God, yes. Do you have anything to say for yourself?
0:37.3	You know, to paraphrase a great philosopher of our time, Tik-Toc won't stop whatever the lyrics are to that song.
0:47.0	I feel like your new bio is going to be, I got Tic-Toc and it went like,
0:51.0	ooh! I'm gonna have to take away the Windex. I'm going to have to take away the
0:57.0	million dollar home that you've been using as a sound stage for the past few weeks.
1:02.0	Uh, TikTokTak broke me.
1:04.0	That's all I can say. Welcome to American Girls. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American
1:18.6	Girls series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm still Allison and here we are again Allison with a very special bonus
1:25.2	Bonus episode we already had an episode this week we're coming back with a mini episode
1:30.1	We really can't be stopped with this content just like a millennial on Tik-Tog.
1:35.0	That's true. It's so sad. It's so dark.
1:38.0	I told some college students today that I recently discovered Tik-Tock and I could feel like they were so sad for me.
1:43.1	It was like it was so dark and also like what they're using Tik-Tak for
1:46.8	versus what I'm using if we're so different.
1:48.7	I'm like, guys, isn't houses of Tik-Tok amazing?
1:51.9	Like these crazy house tours?
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