Behind the Scenes Minis: Arsinoë and Sissieretta

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Tracy and Holly talk about the trickier aspects of researching a story like Arsinoë's, as well as women trying to find agency in Arsinoë's time. Discussion of Sissieretta focuses on how the press covered her appearances, and how many of the issues and racist treatment she faced still persist for Black performers today.

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0:00.0	On the podcast, Hey Dude, The 90s Called, David Lasher and Christine Taylor, stars of the
0:05.4	cult classic show Hey Dude, bring you back to the days of slip dresses and choker necklaces.
0:11.0	We're gonna use Hey Dude as our jumping off point, but we are going to unpack and dive
0:15.0	back into the decade of the 90s.
0:17.6	We lived it, and now we're calling on all of our friends to come back and relive it.
0:22.4	Listen to Hey Dude, The 90s Called on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get
0:27.7	your podcasts.
0:29.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:35.8	Happy Friday, I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:46.7	This week on the show, we talked about Arseneway the Second and the very convoluted Ptolemaic
0:52.5	Dynasty.
0:53.6	I'm so glad you did this one. I did not mention it to you because she was on my list for
0:58.8	a long time, and I did what you initially did, which is that you looked at it and got
1:02.3	very overwhelmed and went later, except I looked at it and gave very overwhelmed and
1:05.9	I can't, I just can't.
1:07.8	Well, as I started working on this, it felt like it had some of the same beats as the Zoe
1:16.0	and Theodore episode that we had just done.
1:19.2	And so in other circumstances, I might have put this off a little bit more for later,
1:23.3	but very fortunately, during the pandemic, I have generally been able to get every resource
1:30.2	I needed, or I've had enough of enough other stuff going on that I've been like, okay,
1:35.4	I can just, I can put this off until I can get to that library again.
1:40.4	There is one thing in particular that has been on my, on my list for a really long time.
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