Marsha, Marsha, Andre

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This Pride month, we chose to cover three biographical projects that focus on Black queer experiences. First, we talk about two different approaches to presenting the life of Marsha P. Johnson, an important activist involved in the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn. With the Drunk History episode "Marsha P. Johnson Sparks the Stonewall Riots," and the short film "Happy Birthday, Marsha!" we see two paths to sharing Johnson's story & her connection to Pride. We also talk about the gaps in the documentary "The Gospel According To André" - a recent study of the icon Andre Leon Talley. Join us for this look at the man called "the Kofi Annan of what you've got on" and the woman who insisted: "no pride for some of us, without liberation for all of us!"

Also mentioned on this episode: Mini-Syllabus: Memes and Blackness by Amber Officer-Narvasa

Original air date: June 27, 2020

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to American Girls, the podcast. This is the show where we're reliving the American
0:15.4	Girl series book by book, except on Patreon where we get to talk about basically whatever
0:20.9	we want that we imagine fits within the world of this show.
0:24.8	I'm Mary.
0:26.3	And I'm Allison.
0:27.8	Not still Allison?
0:29.2	I should be still Allison.
0:30.6	I know we're gonna be talking a lot about crafting your identity and thinking about yourself and I am still Allison that's true.
0:39.0	Okay, well, you know, I just I don't want to push you but I just want to like have you check in with yourself and you know I hear you don't be afraid to be yourself on this show that's what I want to say I mean I will still always okay okay I feel good about that Just you know don't cut your own hair I guess yet. Although I know it's a loaded topic but I will probably weep when I do actually get a haircut.
1:03.0	I feel the same way and someone I work with literally was joking about this.
1:09.0	They said, oh, you know, you haven't been commuting, so you haven't been able to cut your hair and I was like
1:14.4	jokes on you I've been commuting three weeks and I caught my hair in the car Monday so oh my god
1:19.7	while driving or did you wait until a park? What?
1:24.2	Wait, the car is moving, it's in drive.
1:27.3	Yes.
1:28.4	Where are your hands and where are your eyes?
1:31.4	Honestly, it's very simple. I would say the kinesthetics of it are hard to explain.
1:36.0	You know, it's kind of an abstract process.
1:38.0	Isn't like intuitive, like you need to be in your body and or in the car.
1:42.0	For legal reasons, I have to be close to the best with it,
1:45.4	but it's a process that can be learned.
1:47.5	I see.
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