84: Gender, Slavery, Politics, Scandal & Lies in the White House. Eurydice Eve w Elizabeth Mitchell

Eve Eurydice speaks with Elizabeth Mitchell—author of Lincoln’s Lie: a true civil war caper through fake news, Wall Street, & the White House—about history & politics, Gender & Patriarchy, Abe & Mary Lincoln, shopaholics man & murder at the theatre, the civil war & Slavery as an existential issue for the American Experiment. We live in historically potent times & we can understand the present instability better when we look closely to our past. Men in the public sphere still fight dirty for dominance. Women are still judged by the male gaze, no matter what we achieve in work & motherhood. We all get trapped by the demands of self-presentation & have no way to get out of the old dualisms. The way out is to restructure language & meaning & our consciousness so that we can contain all our contradictions at once into one continuous weave. America was founded on behalf of multiplicity instead of central authoritative truth, inclusion instead of identity optics. America’s promise is to unite the opposites under the democratic ideal. The conundrum is when we all believe we are fighting for democracy & are willing to die for it & not understand that we stand on the same side. ⚡️ Humanity is both ineffably flawed & ineffably beautiful. Biz Mitchell has also authored Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin, & more. Find her at https://elizabethmitchell.info @bizmitchell @elizabethmitchellauthor For more on Speak Sex, go to https://Speaksexpodcast.com @speaksexpodcast https://www.facebook.com/Speaksexpodcast Read more History, Write less Code. Incorporate our Human Complexity into the Internet. That should be the goal of the Lincoln Project. ⚡️ For podcast on Apple, Subscribe to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speak-sex-with-eve/id1448261953 ⚡️For video interviews, follow https://YouTube.com/SpeakSexwithEveEurydice