2024 was a banner year for women in the Olympic Games. This week, Sovereign and Ela explore the historic equal gender representation at the 2024 Summer Olympics and the fiery debates over women’s uniforms—from France’s hijab ban to barely-there track gear. We also spill the tea on the high-stakes drama in gymnastics centered on Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles, and cheer on the fierce women who dominated the global stage.

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Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna162518

https://wwd.com/pop-culture/culture-news/nike-womens-olympic-uniform-1236317601/

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/08/opinion-womens-sports-coverage-olympics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/68739487.amp

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mykayla-skinners-comments-on-2024-olympic-gymnasts-stir-controversy/

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/olympics/news/mykayla-skinner-controversy-apology-olympic-gymnastics-simone-biles/011dc320d81728f2d465a001

https://www.themat.com/news/2024/august/19/u-s-women-s-olympic-team-honored-with-wrestle-like-a-girl-s-afsoon-courage-award-for-remarkable-performance-in-paris

https://olympics.com/en/news/team-usa-highlights-memorable-moments-paris-2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna166149

https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-womens-basketball-team-usa-france-gold

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jordan-chiles-bronze-medal-statement-gymnastics-paris-olympics-2024/

https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/triple-espresso-just-the-beginning-olympics-showed-that-black-women-are-taking-over-global-women-s-soccer/bltebaa406603bd2d3a

https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-weightlifting-solfrid-koanda-olympic-records-81kg-gold

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/exploring-the-history-of-gender-equity-at-the-olympics-and-where-things-stand-today

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/american-gymnast-jordan-chiles-has-no-plans-return-bronze-medal-amid-olympics-controversy-report.amp

https://apnews.com/article/romanian-gymnast-bronze-medal-chiles-3cec6ec6344b8d4ecc91270916b0d357

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nba-legend-julius-erving-supports-caitlin-clark-being-left-off-olympics-roster-slow-your-roll.amp

While Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling spend the next few months writing episodes for the next season, they are starting a new format for our weekly episodes. Covering current events each week. 

In our -inaugeral- episode, we talk about the campaign for the presidency from Kamala Harris's entrance into the race to the DNC this week. And we do it by looking at the various memes and soundbites that have taken over an election that is very much about vibes and viral content. 

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Sources: 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnupRfs/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnuGMux/

Kamala is announced as the candidate and coconut tree memes:

Original: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnaRwjH/

Mixes: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNn5oWSk/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnaFQg8/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNn9M6Ls/

Trump hates her: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNn5TXsK/

Kamala gives her stump speech:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNn9u32y/

Tim Walz gives his speech:

https://youtu.be/pttUWZQWJi8?si=c53ebQ6RWri0U9gN

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnx4w6P/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnxD6X7/

Donald Trump questions her Blackness:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnueAA9/

Donald Trump gives a weird speech from Mar a Lago

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnumNwQ/

Donald Trump has a disastrous Elon Musk twitter spaces thing

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNnu8FoP/

Hi guys. sovereign accidentally forgot to upload this episode. 

This week, Sovereign syre and Ela Darling finish their two part episode about Juana Maria, the last Nicoleno. Today we focus on what happened to her story long after her death when it was reimagined as the popular children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins. 

Since its publication, Island of the Blue Dolphins, a fictionalized telling of the story of a Nicoleno woman abandoned on San Nicolas Island for twenty years, often credited as the last of her tribe, the book has been a staple in American curriculum. The very sanitized story told in the book, featuring a twelve year old girl who learns to survive on her own by finding harmony with the land and animals that surround her, manages to tell the story of the Lone Woman, without telling us anything about her at all. In effect the book serves as colonialist propaganda. And today, we’re going to correct the record.

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Sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131113111647/https://www.afognak.com/media/Afognak%20Alutiiq%20History%20Benefits%2007-22-08_letter.pdf

http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=timeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awa%27uq_Massacre

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

http://newspapers.com

https://daily.jstor.org/juana-maria-blue-dolphins/

https://daily.jstor.org/juana-maria-blue-dolphins/

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2016/10/08/researchers-discover-nicoleno-survivors/91732008/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Gabriel_Arc%C3%A1ngel

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2018/04/19/researchers-uncover-new-twist-165-year-old-story-lone-woman-life-island/513210002/

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

https://lonewoman.ischool.illinois.edu/lonewoman/home/118

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

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/im-horrified-after-revisiting-my-favorite-book-from-elementary-school/

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/follow.htm

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_36-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf

https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-critical-look-at-odells-island-of.html

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-myth-of-the-vanishing-indian

This week on the podcast Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling discuss Juana Maria, better known to history as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island. Juana Maria was a Native Californian woman who was the last surviving member of her tribe, the Nicoleño. She lived alone on San Nicolas Island off the coast of Alta California from 1835 until her removal from the island in 1853. Scott O'Dell's award-winning children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins was inspired by her story. She was the last native speaker of the Nicoleño language. 

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Produced by Joshua Anderson

Sources: 

https://web.archive.org/web/20131113111647/https://www.afognak.com/media/Afognak%20Alutiiq%20History%20Benefits%2007-22-08_letter.pdf

http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=timeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awa%27uq_Massacre

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

http://newspapers.com

https://daily.jstor.org/juana-maria-blue-dolphins/

https://daily.jstor.org/juana-maria-blue-dolphins/

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2016/10/08/researchers-discover-nicoleno-survivors/91732008/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Gabriel_Arc%C3%A1ngel

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2018/04/19/researchers-uncover-new-twist-165-year-old-story-lone-woman-life-island/513210002/

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

https://lonewoman.ischool.illinois.edu/lonewoman/home/118

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

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/im-horrified-after-revisiting-my-favorite-book-from-elementary-school/

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/follow.htm

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_36-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf

https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-critical-look-at-odells-island-of.html

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-myth-of-the-vanishing-indian

In 2005 Lisa Frank filed for divorce. She filed a second lawsuit to oust James Green from the company. What followed was a protracted legal battle that made the psychodrama that had been taking place at LFI for over a decade, a matter of public record. 

The following is from the article The Rainbow Gulag, published on Jezebel.com in 2013 by Tracy Egan Morrissey.:

“[James] really turned that place into a shit hole,” said Justin, who added, “The guy’s kind of dick.”

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Sources:

http://newspapers.com

https://arainbowinyourcloud.com/blogs/planet-cloudland/our-legal-case-with-mga

https://omnilegalgroup.com/blog/lisa-frank-settles-copyright-infringement-suit-over-vibrantly-colored-designs/

https://tucson.com/business/local/tucson-factory-silent-colorful-world-of-lisa-frank-fades/article_9cd1ca94-98e9-50be-89bb-30d3189d55e2.html

https://laist.com/news/entertainment/lisa-frank-flat-studio-mucci-controversy-theft-eviction-downtown-los-angeles

https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/lisa-frank-forrest-greens-fiercely-private-celebrity-filled-world

https://www.jezebel.com/inside-the-rainbow-gulag-the-technicolor-rise-and-fall-1179495705?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

https://heykatewilliams.squarespace.com/urban-outfitters-lisa-frank

https://salesamurai.io/stickers-on-etsy/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150831001100/http://www.foundationsmag.us/features/2015/8/27/lisa-frank-on-lisa-frank

https://royalgreenmarket.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-stickers

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20130130032149/http://hellogiggles.com/behind-the-rainbow-curtain-an-interview-with-lisa-franks-head-designer

https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a29491534/lisa-frank-hotel-knockoff-studio-mucciolo/

Today we’re discussing Lisa Frank, the artist behind the eponymous brand Lisa Frank Inc. If you were alive in the 80s and 90s, the psychedelic, neon airbrushed designs of unicorns and teddy bears and dolphins had a chokehold on your childhood. From stickers to binders to pencil cases, Lisa Frank merchandise was what divided the cool from the broke. Lisa Frank was one of the first fine artists to gear her designs toward children rather than wealthy art collectors. And her gamble paid off big, at the peak of her popularity, Lisa Frank Inc was taking in more than $150 million dollars a year.

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https://heykatewilliams.squarespace.com/urban-outfitters-lisa-frank

https://salesamurai.io/stickers-on-etsy/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150831001100/http://www.foundationsmag.us/features/2015/8/27/lisa-frank-on-lisa-frank

https://royalgreenmarket.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-stickers

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20130130032149/http://hellogiggles.com/behind-the-rainbow-curtain-an-interview-with-lisa-franks-head-designer

This week is part two of our two parter on Cass Elliot. Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling talk about Cass's life after the break up of The Mamas And The Papas and her vindication as a solo singer. 

Once money started coming in, Cass hosted artist salons at her large Laurel Canyon estate. She was kind and charismatic, easily making her the most popular one of the group. Joni Mitchell wrote several songs in her living room. At a soiree at her home one night, she urged her friends David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash to sing together at her place, thus forming Crosby Stills and Nash. She was also the only other person to sing on the first Crosby Stills and Nash album.

David Crosby described her life, “She had possibly the nicest house of any of us, and she liked having people over… I remember an afternoon when I took Eric Clapton up there and he and Cass and Joni Mitchel played tunes.”

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Sources:

Fiege, Eddi. Dream a Little Dream of Me : The Life of 'Mama' Cass Elliot. Pan Macmillan, 2005

Elliot-Kugel, Owen. My Mama, Cass. Elm Streeet Books, 2024.

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 1. Mar 31, 2021.  https://youtu.be/pMD56G93XsQ?si=sT601sB5QK48uktZ

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 2. August 26, 2021. https://youtu.be/_lvmohdhHgE?si=3DM5RIyOWQSrGHsR

CassElliot.com

Pochocki, Regina. Don’t Call Me Mama Anymore: The Story of Cass Elliot. Stinger News, May 5, 2021.

"Biography" Mama Cass. Directed by Joan Owens, featuring Cass Elliot, Tom Smothers, Dave Mason, and Leon Bing. A&E Network, 2003. 

Kloman, William. "Sink Along with Mama Cass." Esquire Magazine, June 1969.

This week on the podcast, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling talk about Cass Elliot, in our opinion, the most important member of The Mamas and The Papas. 

Credits:

written by Ela Darling

hosted by Ela Darling & Sovereign Syre

produced by Joshua Anderson

Contact/Support/More: http://ILLREPUTEPODCAST.COM

Sources:

Fiege, Eddi. Dream a Little Dream of Me : The Life of 'Mama' Cass Elliot. Pan Macmillan, 2005

Elliot-Kugel, Owen. My Mama, Cass. Elm Streeet Books, 2024.

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 1. Mar 31, 2021.  https://youtu.be/pMD56G93XsQ?si=sT601sB5QK48uktZ

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 2. August 26, 2021. https://youtu.be/_lvmohdhHgE?si=3DM5RIyOWQSrGHsR

CassElliot.com

Pochocki, Regina. Don’t Call Me Mama Anymore: The Story of Cass Elliot. Stinger News, May 5, 2021.

"Biography" Mama Cass. Directed by Joan Owens, featuring Cass Elliot, Tom Smothers, Dave Mason, and Leon Bing. A&E Network, 2003. 

Kloman, William. "Sink Along with Mama Cass." Esquire Magazine, June 1969.

In the flash of the paparazzi's cameras, Anna had gone from stripper, to Playmate, to Playmate of the year, to the face of Guess Jeans. A contract rumored to have been worth millions of dollars. Anna’s beauty, sex appeal and supernatural charm had carried her to the edge of the finish line, all she had to do was cross it. In this week's episode, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling conclude the story of Anna Nicole Smith's life.

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Sources:

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2007/04/04/anna-nicole-smith-anatomy-of-a-feeding-frenzy/ 

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/02/rack-and-ruin.html 

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2001/02/02/it-s-very-expensive-to-be-me/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_K._Stern 

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

https://people.com/parents/all-about-dannielynn-birkhead-anna-nicole-smith-larry-birkhead-daughter/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_v._Marshall

https://people.com/celebrity/how-anna-nicole-struggled-with-her-weight/ 

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2007/04/04/anna-nicole-smith-anatomy-of-a-feeding-frenzy/ 

https://www.chron.com/culture/main/article/assault-suit-against-smith-called-an-attempt-at-1821969.php 

https://documents.latimes.com/anna-nicole-smith-case-appellate-court-decision/ 

https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/11/02/Seven-drugs-found-in-Daniel-Smith-autopsy/88821162492420/ 

https://people.com/celebrity/pathologist-meds-killed-daniel-smith/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=canEzXo5pE0&t=38s 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/03/04/the-billionaire-the-playboy-bunny-and-the-tangled-affairs-of-the-marshall-family/ 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/j-howard-marshall 

https://www.bankruptcylitigation.blog/us-supreme-court-cases/the-courtship-of-anna-nicole-smith-part-ii-pierce-marshalls-appellate-arguments-reviewed/ 

In part one of a two parter, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling delve into the origins of a 2000s icon. 

Anna Nicole Smith was a polarizing, misunderstood figure. Often  remembered for being an absolute trainwreck. Her rise to fame, from the girl next door to supermodel, made her a media darling, her campy, over the top persona, and ditzy girl humor on one of the earliest reality shows made her a queer icon, and her slide into addiction and despair made her a tragic figure of mythic proportions.  I mean, she’s become a trope in rap songs alongside the likes of Donald Trump and Monica Lewinsky. Iconic.

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Sources:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anna-nicole-smith-netflix-doc-claims-her-tragic-life-story-was-a-fraud

https://nextwaving.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/the-strange-case-of-anna-nicole-smith/

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN26300814/ 

https://sourcingjournal.com/denim/denim-brands/guess-paul-marciano-sexual-misconduct-accusers-sue-board-members-harassment-335114/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Howard_Marshall 

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

https://fortune.com/2023/09/29/guess-settlement-marciano-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit/

https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/reading-playboy-for-the-articles-13-must-read-journalism-literature-pieces-from-playboy-magazine

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/18/lkl.01.html