For the very first episode, we’ll set up the foundation for all of the New Orleans’ sex industry history we will cover over the next few months. Tune in for a crash course on everything from early syphilis (including mine), the first women of New Orleans, the Ursuline Nuns, placage, and the beginnings of our discussions of antebellum sex work all while sounding like I used a vacuum cleaner to record myself.

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The political cartoon “A Peaceful Evening on Gallatin Street”:

https://www.hnoc.org/peaceful-evening-gallatin-street

Books and articles used for research today include”

The Accidental City by Lawrence Powell 

The Accident of Color by Daniel Brook

Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women by Judith Schafer

Neworleanshistorical.org

Bulbancha is Still A Place ( A zine by the POC Zine Project)

Lords of Misrule by James Gill

The “Baby Dolls” by Kim Marie Vaz 

And The American Slave Coast by Constance and Ned Sublette 

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