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Episode 8: Thomas(ine) Hall


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An intersex person, born in England, moves to America and finds out how shitty people can be. Includes a ridiculous court case that ruled T Hall had to dress as both a man and a woman at all times.

Trigger warning: Really shitty behavior by colonial Virginians. 

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Sources:

"Minutes of the Council and General Court, 1622-1629 (Continued)." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 31, no. 3 (1923): 207-14. 

Norton, Mary Beth, "Communal Definitions of Gendered Identity in Colonial America", Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, Fredrika J. Teute (eds) Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 
Reis, Elizabeth. "Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960." The Journal of American History 92, no. 2 (2005): 411-41. 

 

Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel

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