Underestimated: A Podcast

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and this week, in episode 6 of #DontMentionIt, I speak with Kalimah Johnson, Founder and Executive Director of the Sasha Center in Detroit. SASHA stands for, "Sexual Assault Services for Holistic Healing and Awareness." We talk about Kalimah's path to founding the Sasha Center, holistic healing, and why creating this space for African-American women, with shared cultural experience from the Detroit area to heal together from the trauma of sexual assault is so important.

Links to support the Sasha Center are in the show notes below.

*Note: Toward the end of the interview, the audio quality suffers some issues, but I chose to leave it all in, because you can make out what Kalimah is saying, and it is all important to hear. Also, I have a very sore throat for the intro and signoff. Thank you for understanding.*

The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer, or company.

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Show Notes

RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline - 1.800.656.HOPE

Sasha Center

Website

https://www.sashacenter.org/

Support the Sasha Center

https://www.gofundme.com/sashacenter

https://www.sashacenter.org/donation.html

Sexual Assault Services for Holistic Healing and

Awareness 1-888-865-7055

Email: [email protected]

@SashaCenter1 on Twitter

@sashacenter on Instagram

Sasha Center on Facebook

Music Credits

“Transitioning” Lee Rosevere

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Living_With_Trauma/Lee_Rosevere_-_Living_With_Trauma_-_10_Transitioning

Transitioning by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Edited for episode.

Episode 5 of #DontMentionIt, “A New Kelly,” is a very personal episode. A couple of feminist friends talk about unexplained infertility, surviving a miscarriage, and our hope that talking about these things will become more and more normalized the more we share our stories with each other.

The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer, or company.

Follow Underestimated on Twitter @underestipod, on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast, or visit https://www.underestimatedpodcast.com. You can support Underestimated on Patreon by visiting https://www.patreon.com/underestimated

Show Notes

Music Credits

“Transitioning” Lee Rosevere

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Living_With_Trauma/Lee_Rosevere_-_Living_With_Trauma_-_10_Transitioning

Transitioning by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Edited for episode.

“Swing” Dee Yan-Key

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/Jazzz/10--Dee_Yan-Key-Swing

Swing by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

Edited for episode.

In Episode 4 of "Don't Mention It," we dive into the history or reproductive health in the United States with historian Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson. We talk about 19th and early 20th century reproductive health in the United States, how a lack of fundamental equality in the Constitution restricts our access to healthcare, sterilization, the Comstock Laws, "Twilight Sleep," and more.

Note: Some audio issues occurred in the recording of this episode, you may notice audio level changes in the intro section.

The view expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host, and are not those of anyone else, any other entity, any employer, or company.

Show Notes:

Books & Articles

Jacqueline H. Wolf: Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
https://www.amazon.com/Cesarean-Section-American-Technology-Consequence/dp/1421425521

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Bondage-Origins-American-Gynecology/dp/0820351350

Kelly Suzanne O’Donnell: "Reproducing Jane: Abortion Stories and Women’s Political Histories," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43, no. 1 (Autumn 2017): 77-96.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/692444

Trump “Gag Rule” Articles

Katelyn Burns, Rewire News

Trump Administration Releases Final Text of Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Restriction on Title X

https://rewire.news/article/2019/02/22/trump-administration-releases-final-text-of-domestic-gag-rule-restriction-on-title-x/

Ariana Eunjung Cha, National reporter for The Washington Post

Trump administration bars clinics that provide abortions or abortion referrals from federal funding

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/22/trump-administration-bars-family-planning-clinics-that-provide-abortion-referrals-million-program/?utm_term=.2d222572522e

Steve Benen, MSNBC for The Rachel Maddow Show, “Targeting abortion rights, Trump unveils ‘domestic gag rule’”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/targeting-abortion-rights-trump-unveils-domestic-gag-rule

Michelle Goldberg, Slate.com, Trump Didn’t Just Reinstate the Global Gag Rule. He Massively Expanded It.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/trumps-global-gag-rule-is-even-worse-than-it-seemed.html

Steve Benen, MSNBC for The Rachel Maddow Show, Following women’s marches, Republicans target reproductive rights

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/following-womens-marches-republicans-target-reproductive-rights

Sterilization Articles

Hastings Women’s Law Journal

"If They Hand You a Paper, You Sign It": A Call to End the Sterilization of Women in Prison

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/Roth_If_They_Hand_You_1_15_2015.pdf

NPR

California's Prison Sterilizations Reportedly Echo Eugenics Era

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/09/200444613/californias-prison-sterilizations-reportedly-echoes-eugenics-era

“Twilight Sleep” Resources

New York Times, 1915

Twilight Sleep Is Subject of a New Investigation

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/01/31/301777902.pdf

Twilight Sleep – The Brutal Way Some Women Gave Birth In The 1900s

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/twilight-sleep/

“The Business of Being Born,” clip from documentary on Twilight Sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzxs5qPsqX4

Additional video clip about Twilight Sleep

“Twilight Sleep” offered the promise of painless birth—but at what cost?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiFRPx7d_eU

Sarah Seltzer, Rewire.news

“Twilight Sleep:” Is The Past Prologue for Today’s Debates Over Birthing Choices?

https://rewire.news/article/2009/09/29/twilight-sleep-is-the-past-prologue-todays-debates-over-birthing-choices/

Henci Goer, The Journal of Perinatal Education

Cruelty in Maternity Wards: Fifty Years Later

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920649/

Lithotomy position

https://www.google.com/search?q=lithotomy+position&oq=lithotomy+po&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.3574j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Black Women’s Maternal Health Article - Includes Data from CDC

NPR

Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/07/568948782/black-mothers-keep-dying-after-giving-birth-shalon-irvings-story-explains-why

Sound Sources

Harpstrum.wav - freesound.org

https://freesound.org/people/adriann/sounds/149187/

Keeping Old Letters by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Living_With_Trauma/Lee_Rosevere_-_Living_With_Trauma_-_04_Keeping_Old_Letters

Edited for podcast

Somber Heart by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Living_With_Trauma/Lee_Rosevere_-_Living_With_Trauma_-_14_Somber_Heart

Edited for podcast

Everywhere by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a Attribution License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Music_For_Podcasts_5/Lee_Rosevere_-_Music_For_Podcasts_5_-_06_Everywhere

Edited for podcast

Untitled music box recording

This work is licensed under the Attribution License.

https://freesound.org/people/KAMARIN/sounds/417934/

“Don’t Mention It” is a series from Underestimated: A Podcast about the things we’re apparently not supposed to be loud about. The things that don’t get talked about often enough. The stories of people and the issues they face that are undervalued in the mainstream, and shouldn’t be.

Today’s episode, my interview with Shelby Quast, Director for the Americas for Equality Now, is the third in a three episode series within “Don’t Mention It” focused on fighting to end FGM/C and gender based violence against women and girls. 

Show Notes

Equality Now

https://www.equalitynow.org

End FGM/C U.S. Network

https://endfgmnetwork.org/

Additional Music Credits: “All the Answers,” by Lee Rosevere

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Music_For_Podcasts_5/Lee_Rosevere_-_Music_For_Podcasts_5_-_02_All_the_Answers

"Don't Mention It" is a series from Underestimated: A Podcast about the things we're apparently not supposed to mention, things that society doesn't seem to value as much, but things that are important to talk about. This series shares stories that too often go unmentioned in relation to health throughout the spectrum of femininity.

Episode 2 is a discussion with writer, activist, and FGM survivor Mariya Taher about breaking the silence on FGM/C, using storytelling as activism, and her groundbreaking work to collect data on FGM/C survivors living in the United States. 

Show Notes

Sahiyo

https://www.sahiyo.com  

The Orchid Project

https://orchidproject.org/

Change.org Petition - Ban Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Massachusetts

https://www.change.org/p/ban-female-genital-mutilation-cutting-in-massachusetts

U.S. End FGM/C Network

https://endfgmnetwork.org/

Mariya’s Articles

How My MSW Thesis Broke the Silence on Female Genital Cutting

https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/practice/how-my-msw-thesis-broke-the-silence-on-female-genital-cutting/

I Spoke Out About My Private Trauma. My Community Didn’t Want To Listen

https://brightthemag.com/i-spoke-out-about-my-private-trauma-community-didnt-listen-bohra-fgm-sahiyo-c8576757d5c1

Female Genital Cutting - A Continuing Tradition

http://imaginingequality.globalfundforwomen.org/content/female-genital-cutting

Seeing Sahiyo Stories On Female Genital Cutting Come To Life

https://www.storycenter.org/storycenter-blog//seeing-sahiyo-stories-on-female-genital-cutting-come-to-life

"Don't Mention It" is a series from Underestimated: A Podcast about the things we're apparently not supposed to mention, things that society doesn't seem to value as much, but things that are important to talk about. This series shares stories that too often go unmentioned in relation to health throughout the spectrum of femininity.

Episode 1 is a discussion with activist and FGM survivor Maryum Saifee about how FGM is not a faraway problem, the Detroit case, and banning FGM entirely.

Links

End FGM/C U.S. Network

Maryum’s Articles

I’m a survivor of female genital cutting and I’m speaking out – as others must too.

Female Genital Mutilation and the Detroit Ruling: A Survivor’s Perspective

Transcripts of the episode are available at underestimatedpodcast.com

Underestimated is written, produced, and hosted by Elizabeth Palmer; music inexpertly composed in Garageband.

If you can't embarrass yourself in the service of a friend, then what good are you really? Even if that friend is covered in fur and purrs when you pet her.

This is a short update on what's been going on with me, and where the pods are headed in 2019.

Thank you for listening.

This is a short one. I talk about what's next for Underestimated, what to expect for the rest of 2018, and how the show will be changing in 2019.

Follow the pod @underestipod on Twitter and @underestimatedpodcast on Instagram. You can email the show at [email protected].

The views expressed by the host in Underestimated: A Podcast are those of the host and not those of anyone else, any employer, or any other entity.

This week, I dive into some of the weird stuff we're exposed to as kids that informs, in some ways, who we grow up to be. I cover two Detroit area staples in this episode: Milky The Clown, and Major Magic's All-Star Pizza Revue. 

Follow Underestimated on Twitter @underestipod and on Instagram @underestimatedpodcast. 

The view expressed in Underestimated are that of the host, and are not those of any other entity.

Reference Links:

General

Understanding Megalophobia or the Fear of Large Objects

https://www.verywellmind.com/megalophobia-2671869

The American Museum of Magic

https://sites.google.com/a/americanmuseumofmagic.org/amm/

Food Mascots

The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time/

12 truly bizarre product mascots that made us lose our appetites

https://metv.com/lists/12-truly-bizarre-product-mascots-that-made-us-lose-our-appetites

Clown History

The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-and-psychology-of-clowns-being-scary-20394516/

It's the Grimaldi Clown Church Service this weekend

https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/its-the-grimaldi-clown-church-service-this-weekend-020317

“Pagliacci”: Classic tale of the tears of a clown

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/pagliacci-classic-tale-of-the-tears-of-a-clown/

Milky The Clown

The Magic Word is Clare Cummings

http://www.detroitkidshow.com/Clare_Cummings.htm

YouTube - Video from Milky’s TV Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXh01HjtBV4

So Long, Milky; Milky leaves warm, lasting memories for a devoted fan
http://www.pattywrites.com/pages.php?tabid=3&pageid=65&title=Milky

Major Magic’s

My Major Magic Pizza Career, By Dennis Machinegun Thompson

http://www.machinegunspage.com/2015/04/my-major-magic-pizza-career.html

Nostalgia and elbow grease could bring back piece of popular restaurant Major Magic

http://www.wtol.com/story/36972168/nostalgia-and-elbow-grease-could-bring-back-piece-of-popular-restaurant-major-magic/

Aug. 25, 1989: Forget Chuck E. Cheese's. Remember Major Magic's?

https://buffalonews.com/2014/08/25/aug-25-1989-places-buffalos-kids-jumped-vats-balls-ate-marginal-pizza/

Major Magic’s photos on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pg/majormagic/photos/?ref=page_internal

Audio Credits

From the YouTube Audio Library:

At The Fair - The White Orbs

Cat Circus - Doug Maxwell

Industrial Music Box by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100812

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Don’t Look Inside - Biz Baz Studio

Patriotic March - Max Surla/Media Right Productions

Film:

Short clip (0:06 seconds) from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Film directed by Stanley Kubrick starring Peter Sellers - Columbia Pictures Corporation (presents) (A Stanley Kubrick Production) and Hawk Films

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

In this week's episode, we have an interview with Anne Ryan, founder of the Ann Arbor Aviary. We discuss aerial performance and circus arts, body positivity, and creating the safe spaces we want to see in the world.

You can find the Ann Arbor Aviary at www.a2aviary.com, and you can follow the Aviary on Instagram @a2aviary, and also on Facebook at The Ann Arbor Aviary. 

Check out the art for Anne's episode on underestimatedpodcast.com.

Additionally in this episode: A brief recap of the midterm elections, with a view to covering the outcome of the elections in next week's installment of The Introverted Activist.

Follow the show on Twitter @underestipod or Instagram @underestimatedpodcast.

All opinions expressed by the host in Underestimated and The Introverted Activist are my own, and do not represent the views of any other entity.

Additional sounds credits this week go to the following music from the YouTube Audio Library:

"PeriTune - Strategy4" Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Music provided by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/Mamvr2umWak 

Music: Jazz In Paris - Media Right Productions: https://youtu.be/mNLJMTRvyj8 

The link to the Dana Nessel campaign ad I reference in the episode is here.