episode 76: Mary Walker Would Wear what she Wanted

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally released in 2015.

Proceeds from this episode are being donated to the Transgender Law Center.

Music
*Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.
*The piece opens with Rainfall, by David Darling and Michael Jones.
*Her brief love story is scored by Nathan Johnson’s Penelope’s Theme from his score to The Brothers Bloom.
*When she lands her first gig, we start Garde a Vue, and roll into Le Roi de coeur, from Chantal Martineau.
* The vibraphone piece is “Opening” by Nathaniel Bartlett.
* The recurring violin piece is called Geometria del Universo by the one-named Colleen.
* It ends on Romain’s First Love, again by Georges Delarue, from his fantastic score to Promise at Dawn.

Notes
* I read a lot about Mary, but by far the most useful and most thorough works I came upon were: Sharon M. Harris’ Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical and A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War, in which author Mercedes Graf does a great job walking the reader through Walker’s unpublished memoir.

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0:00.0	Hey there, a quick favor.
0:03.9	We are conducting an audience survey and it would be really helpful.
0:07.4	I'd be really grateful if you can just take a few minutes to answer our survey.
0:11.2	It is fun.
0:12.2	If you can visit survey.prx.org slash memory that is survey.prx.org slash memory, and take
0:18.8	the survey today and give us a quick hand.
0:21.2	Thanks.
0:22.4	A couple of words before we get started.
0:29.8	First thanks to regular listeners for your patience during this last stretch where I have been
0:34.2	doing re-broadcast while I have been spending time focusing on a memory palace book.
0:37.9	There will be some point next year.
0:39.9	I appreciate your patience.
0:42.2	This is the last of those repeats for a while with a new episode coming next time.
0:47.2	But beyond that, this is a story from 2015.
0:50.3	It is a fan favorite.
0:51.3	It is a fun story.
0:52.9	If you have never heard it, you might find a new personal hero in the person of Mary Walker.
0:58.5	But thinking about this story from 19th century America now, the 21st century, it is insane
1:04.6	to me.
1:06.2	And infuriating that here in 2023, there are state legislatures around the United States,
1:13.5	targeting trans people, and drag performers, and more.
1:17.4	And I'm not claiming that Mary Walker was trans.
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