Today's episode covers a strongwoman of the early 1900s, Charmion. Through her gender subversion, acrobatic stunts, and strip tease, this woman made people clutch their pearls. Pieces of her career and the way her narrative was shifted by those around her inspired a further discussion of the parallels to another strongwoman...Chyna.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmion

https://archive.ph/20061111131335/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/march/presence.php?page=2

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40257964?mag=the-trapeze-disrobing-act&seq=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJCCr2-Sso

https://daily.jstor.org/the-trapeze-disrobing-act/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40257964?mag=the-trapeze-disrobing-act&seq=2