Proofing and Lies

This week Elle talks with University of Delaware sociologist, Felicia A. Henry. Her dissertation work examines the intersection between the criminal legal system, race, and natural disasters. Check out her work at http://www.feliciahenry.com/ and check out Elle's bread on Instagram @ProofingAndLies

This week Elle created a dark chocolate tart with a high fashion white chocolate swirl to go with Dr. Emily Newman's work on political fashion. Newman is an Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M Commerce. Her new book Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States is out now! Check out her work at http://www.emilylnewman.com/ and see how this episode's baking project turned out on Instagram @ProofingAndLies

We're back! PAL is back with new episodes every other week. This week Elle experiments with dessert mashups and talks with Katelyn Foltz about gender-based violence in sports. Foltz is a sociologist out of the University of Maryland who helped launch the first publicly accessible database of gender-based violence in sports. Find the database here: https://smithandhattery.com/ and check out photos of Elle's bake on Instagram @ProofingAndLies

Books referenced:

Forty Million Dollar Slaves - William C. Rhoden

Skimpy Coverage - Bonnie M. Hagerman

Op-ed:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2023/04/04/ineffective-policies-for-gender-based-violence-in-sports-result-in-lack-of-accountability/

PAL co-host Elle is branching out! Every other Wednesday find Elle on Measuring Violence, the University of Delaware's Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence new podcast. Measuring Violence explores how experts define, quantify, and prevent violence. Each episode highlights scholarship and intervention specialists on how we can understand and ultimately prevent violence. Be sure to follow or subscribe to Measuring Violence wherever you find your podcasts. 

Perfect for true crime lovers, academics, and activists alike.

This week Elle talks with pal of PAL historian Thomas Lecaque about the significance of twitter and the possibility that it may fall apart under new leadership. Elle pitches Neopets as a twitter alternative and Dr. Lecaque talks about what Mastodon is and isn't (spoiler: it isn't twitter). Check out Elle's pumpkin pie on Instagram @ProofingAndLies and follow us on Twitter while it lasts @ProofingL. Check out Dr. Lecaque's twitter @tlecaque before he and Elle are banned for talking about El*n M*sk on this episode. His work has also been featured in the Washington Post and Salon. 

This week Elle shares her pumpkin chai loaf cake with white chocolate chai glaze and Jennifer Dudley discusses her work on Congressional civility. Reilly and Elle have a lot of questions about civility, politeness, and the midterms. Check out Dudley's work at www.jenniferdudley.info and check out the Pumpkin chai on Instagram @ProofingAndLies or on Twitter (if it exists still) @ProofingL

This week Reilly quizzes Elle on U.S. demographics! How well can you estimate populations within the U.S.? Play along at home and tweet @ProofingL with how you did. 

Check out Elle's lemon and earl grey tart on Instagram @ProofingAndLies. Be sure to like, follow, share, and review!

Interview begins at 7:33

Reilly and Elle talk about recreating a popular snack food and Dr. Earl Smith and Dr. Angie Hattery come on to talk about their new book Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement.  For a chance to win a copy of Way Down in the Hole tweet @AngelaHattery with one piece of misinformation about solitary confinement from today's episode. As always be sure to like, rate, review, follow, and share! You can find more from Professors Smith and Hattery at smithandhattery.com. You can find today's bake on Instagram @ProofingAndLies and follow us on twitter @ProofingL.

Interview begins 10:42

It's episode 42 and Columbus sailed the ocean blue (and hoped to trigger the apocalypse). Fan favorite Dr. Thomas Lecaque is back to tell us about Christopher Columbus! The actual, historical figure is often lost in the modern myths about him. Reilly and Elle get into the details of a chocolate raspberry cake and a lemon blueberry cake. Check out this episode's bakes on Instagram @ProofingAndLies and find us on Twitter @ProofingL. Find Dr. Lecaque on Twitter @tlecaque

A special thanks to Minelly Marcelino for our intro and outro music.

Reilly bakes this week! Reilly and Elle talk with Applied Worldwide co-founder, Stephanie Wilson, about stigma and health inequalities. The public discourse around monkey pox made the outbreak this summer more potentially dangerous. Wilson explains how as well as how the LGBTQ community builds alternate public health safety nets. Check out AppliedWorldwide.com to read "Are We Worrying About Monkey Pox Wrong?" the piece on monkey pox, stigma, and violence. Follow PAL on instagram @ProofingAndLies or on twitter @ProofingL. Check out Rosco on instagram @rosco_francis. Applied Worldwide is also on Instagram @Applied_worldwide and on Twitter @applysociology