The Oldest Profession Podcast

In part one, host Kaytlin Bailey sets the scene by covering queer culture in New York City, from 1869 to 1969.

References:

CT Trans History and Archives. Sylvia Rivera: She Was More Than Stonewall Documentary (November 25, 2019), accessed October 30, 2020

Kasino, Michael and Richard Morrison. "Pay It No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson." Film accessed August 18, 2020

Dr. Charlene Fletcher (Historian for The Oldest Profession Podcast) hosts a discussion with EPB (Writer, Visual Artist, and Researcher for Liminal Praxis) and Kaytlin Bailey (CEO + Founder of Old Pro Productions) about Victoria Woodhull and what we can take from her story in terms of sexual freedom, and the complexities and multitudes that women contain.

In part three, host Kaytlin Bailey recounts the end of Woodhull's life, and notes her impact on the Suffrage Movement that has somehow (yet also intentionally) mostly been forgotten.

Victoria Woodhull was a suffragette, stock broker, rumored sex worker, and first female candidate for the President of the United States. A woman who wore many hates and was called many names.

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In part two, host Kaytlin Bailey notes Woodhull's crucial involvement in the Women's Suffrage Movement, and recounts the events that ultimately lead to her trouble with law enforcement.

Victoria Woodhull was a suffragette, stock broker, rumored sex worker, and first female candidate for the President of the United States. A woman who wore many hates and was called many names.

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Host Kaytlin Bailey talks about Victoria Woodhull's early life and what led to her becoming an old pro.

Victoria Woodhull was a suffragette, stock broker, rumored sex worker, and first female candidate for the President of the United States. A woman who wore many hates and was called many names.

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At a time where full service sex workers in Seattle euphemistically called themselves seamstresses, Madam Lou Graham was so rich that she served as an alternative to banks, giving loans to business propositions deemed too risky by bankers. She was also largely responsible for the funding of Seattle's school system.

At the height of her power, Graham got arrested by a rookie cop who clearly did not know who he was dealing with. She was so influential that she was cleared of all charges AND had the police commissioner fired.

The most famous sex worker of today's music industry, Cardi B unabashedly flaunts and celebrates her past as a stripper in her songs, music videos, and social media.

Best known for is commercial paintings of the moulin rouge, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was also a john who (literally) lived in brothels.

As a tenant and client, Toulouse-Lautrec created compelling portraits of the full service sex workers with whom he socialized. His empathetic gaze captured the elements of their lives often missed by more sensationalist or romanticized depictions of sex work by other artists of his time.

In 1949, Marilyn Monroe, struggling to make ends meet as an actress, got paid 50$ to pose nude for a calendar. She worked as a pinup and, some say, as a prostitute before becoming an internationally recognized sex symbol & box office sensation.

Her vibrant, sensuous charisma, her comedic genius and witty flair deeply resonates with old pros and civilians alike- over fifty years after her death, we're still obsessed with her.