In this episode we talk about impact we have had on our planet in the Anthropocene, moves to end child marriage in the US, an Egyptian monkey that smelled really good and aristocratic ladies and sex workers went both going to the theater with a full face covering.
Tracey’s Stuff in the News
Gloria Olapido, “Michigan Governor signs ‘overdue’ laws that aim to end child marriage,” The Guardian, July 12, 2023. Accessed July 20,2023 at
Anna Liz Nichols, “Child Marriage is Now Banned in Michigan, “ Michigan Advance, July 11, 2023. Accessed July 20, 2023 at
Unicef, Convention on the Rights of the Child, accessed July 20, 2023 at
Girls Not Brides, About Child Marriage, accessed July 20,2023 at
Tracey’s Piece of Stuff
Fatma Tanis, “Women across Iran are refusing to wear headscarves in open defiance of the regime,” The Picture Show: Photo Stories from NPR, March 13, 2023, accessed July 20, 2023, at
Eleanor Beardsley, “A French city approved burkinis in its pools. Then the backlash came,” All Things Considered, NPR. June 19, 2022. Accessed July 20, 2023 at
“Mask: Unique ID: NARC -151A67,” Portable Antiquities Scheme, Accessed on July 17, 2023 at
Pat Poppy, “Vizards and Masks,” Costume Historian, March 6, 2021. Accessed July 17, 2023 at
Deliberately Concealed Garments project, accessed July 17, 2023 at
Photo Credit: By The British Museum – Portable Antiquities Scheme item record NARC-151A67, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28871326
Giulia Montanari, “When Creepy Face Masks Were the Coolest Fashion Item,” Medium, 10 Jun, 2022, accessed on 17 July, 2023. https://medium.com/exploring-history/when-creepy-face-masks-were-the-coolest-fashion-item-51c5abcb2398
“A 16th Century “Visard’ Mask,” Belphoebe’s Web Page, accessed 17 July 2023. https://www.houseffg.org/belphoebe/Research/Masks/Index.html
Braden Phillips, “Celebrated, Scorned, and Banned, face masks have fired passions throughout history,” accessed on 17 July, 2023 at https://cuencahighlife.com/celebrated-scorned-and-banned-face-masks-have-fired-passions-throughout-history/
“Vizards and Invisories: ladies’ Masks in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture accessed on 17 July 2023. http://www,larsdatter.com/vizard.htm
Ashley’s Stuff in the News
Jonathan Amos, “The Anthropocene: Canadian Lake Mud ‘Symbolic of Human Changes to Earth,’” BBC News, July 12, 2023, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66132769.
“NOVA: Making North America: Origins,” PBS, November 4, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9kvYj4y444.
Ashley’s Piece of Stuff
Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Perfume Vessel in Shape of a Monkey,” https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545265.
Carolyn Riccardelli, “Egyptian Faience: Technology and Production,” in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2017, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egfc/hd_egfc.htm#:~:text=There%20were%20various%20manufacturing%20methods,e.g.%2C%20copper%20originating%20from%20metal.
Tabitha Morgan, “Bronze Age Perfume ‘Discovered,’” BBC News, March 19, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4364469.stm.
“Perfume Bottle,” Encyclopedia Britannica, July 20, 1998, https://www.britannica.com/topic/perfume-bottle.
Article about ancient veiling (Ashley mentioned during Tracey’s Piece of Stuff): Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. “House and Veil in Ancient Greece.” British School at Athens Studies 15 (2007): 251-8.
Music Credits:
Background Music: Stars (Extended) by Vlad Gluschenko | https://soundcloud.com/vgl9
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Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)
Intro/Outro/Interlude Music composed by Ashley Bozian
Cover Art
Photo by Tracey Cooper .