Britney's Toxic Conservatorship
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Why did it take 13 years for Britney Spears to speak out against her conservatorship? Tess Barker and Babs Gray share how they galvanized #FreeBritney into a disability right movement. Then, ACLU lawyer Zoe Brennan-Krohn takes us deeper into the ableist origins of guardianship, why it's so hard to get out of one, and how Britney's case could affect the system at large.
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| 1:27.0 | Hey y'all and welcome to UnLadylike. |
| 1:44.1 | I'm Caroline. |
| 1:45.1 | I'm Kristen. |
| 1:46.3 | On today's episode, we're talking about Britney Spears and conservatorships. |
| 1:56.3 | Britney Spears has spent the past 13 years with virtually no control over her life, who |
| 2:02.4 | she sees, where she goes, how she makes and spends her money. |
| 2:07.2 | That's because Britney was placed in a conservatorship in 2008, while she was under her second |
| 2:13.3 | and voluntary psychiatric hold. |
| 2:16.1 | Now usually, California law requires at least five days notice that you might be placed |
| 2:22.2 | under a conservatorship. |
| 2:24.3 | But in Britney's case, a judge determined that her mental health was dire enough to go |
| 2:29.6 | ahead and make her father Jamie Spears her conservator right then and there. |
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