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July 17, 2023 85 mins
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 both going to the theater with a full face covering.
Tracey’s Stuff in the News

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/michigan-child-marriage-law-signed

https://michiganadvance.com/2023/07/11/child-marriage-is-now-banned-in-michigan/

https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention

https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/about-child-marriage/

Tracey’s Piece of Stuff

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/03/13/1157657246/iran-hijab-protest-regime-politics-religion-mahsa-amini

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/19/1105962389/france-burkini-swimsuit-islamic-women

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/402520

https://costumehistorian.blogspot.com/vizard

https://concealedgarments.org/


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
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