TW: We are discussing mental health, mental disorders, unfair medical practices that basically qualify as torture, and other topics that are more adult and serious. We also briefly mention suicide and eating disorders. We don't focus too much on them but they will be mentioned, so if you don't want to listen, we completely understand!

This week we're talking about the comparison between Camille Claudel and Britney Spears, who although were born more than a century and nearly 5,000 miles apart, share the similarity of having their mental health used against them unjustly for the majority of their lives. We'll also dive into the history of women's mental health, the lack of understanding about it through time, medication, institutionalization, and other women who dealt with similar injustices, and how that can be a threat to women artists throughout history.

Some of the articles we reference:

Britney Spears’s conservatorship alludes to an older story of controlling women artists

How Victorian Women Were Oppressed through the use of Psychiatry

The Dark American History of Silencing Women Through Psychiatry

Women Who Defied Gender Roles Were Once Imprisoned In Asylums

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