Latest Sovereignsyre Podcast Episodes
The Bombshell
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - June 17, 2024 04:13 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsFrom the silent era's vamps to the Golden Age goddesses of Hollywood, the bombshell has always been an enchanting figure, shaped and reshaped by societal desires and anxieties. The bombshell is not a static ideal. It has morphed and adapted, mirroring the shifting landscapes of culture an...
Michael Dillon: The First Trans Man
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - June 10, 2024 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsHis transition required thirteen operations and took place over four years, with no one the wiser. Dillon went on to be a surgeon himself, and traveled the world with various naval vessels for six years, living life as a man, with no one suspecting his origins. He was ultimately outed because...
Harold Gillies: The Father Of Plastic Surgery
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - June 03, 2024 12:10 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsToday, we are taking on our first man. Because sometimes men do important stuff for women. Like creating the field of plastic surgery. He’s a saint that changed the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers during WWI and pioneered many of the cosmetic procedures that are used today…primarily on wo...
Prozac Nation
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 27, 2024 01:53 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings“Prozac Nation is a young person’s book, both in terms of its author and its target audience…What seemed most important to me about Wurtzel’s writing was that she had been messy, and she was willing to detail that mess without apology…It was a radical departure from how I’d seen women write abou...
Elizabeth Wurtzel: The "It" Girl of Generation X
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 19, 2024 20:59 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling profile writer and icon, Elizabeth Wurtzel. A beautiful, young, Harvard graduate whose memoir Prozac Nation got her on the New York Times Bestseller List and made her an overnight celebrity. She also suffered from major depression and was one of the first...
The Hustlers at Scores
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 13, 2024 02:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsRoselyn “Rosie” Keo was the daughter of Cambodian refugees. When she was younger, her parents got caught up in gambling and nightlife, taking off for Atlantic City, leaving Rosie and her siblings to be raised by their elderly grandparents. She was a wild child, getting in fights, having bad boyf...
Ada Lovelace |2 The Analytical Engine
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - May 06, 2024 03:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIt's the end of Season Two! We did it! This week we conclude our series on Ada Lovelace. In September 1843, Ada Lovelace published her paper on the Analytical Engine in Scientific Memoirs under the title "Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator.". Ada was 27 years old,...
Flowers In The Attic: The Birth of Dark Young Adult
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 29, 2024 02:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratings“Plot: A young wife is suddenly widowed. Left with four children. She is totally unskilled for the labor market, and deeply in debt. Her home and all she has are repossessed. However… she has one choice. She is the sole heir to a tremendous fortune. If she can deceive her dying father, and neve...
V.C. Andrews: IFYKYK
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 22, 2024 03:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn today's episode, we discuss VC Andrews, a writer who created her own genre of fiction and scandalized a generation of young female readers. We cover Virginia's early life, her emergence as a writer, and the real life inspiration for her most famous novel, Flowers In The Attic. Contact Us: ...
Ada Lovelace | 1: Born of Scandal
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 15, 2024 03:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWhen one of the smartest women in England, Anne Isabella Milbanke, fell in love with the most scandalous, and handsome, creative genius of his time, Lord Byron, the fallout was nothing less than a national scandal. Their young daughter, Ada, was caught in the crossfire. Ada spent her early child...
Misery Lit | 2: Ethics of Exploitation
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 08, 2024 04:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn the conclusion of our series on Misery Lit and Literary Fraud, we discuss two more famous cases of fabricated memoir and what our conspicuous consumption of trauma porn tells us about ourselves and the cultural narratives around female suffering. Contact Us: [email protected] Fol...
Zone of Tolerance: The Murder of Sheila Anderson
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 01, 2024 02:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsOn a very special episode of ILL REPUTE! we interview Ret. Constable Tom Wood of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1983, Constable Wood was called to investigate the murder of Sheila Anderson, a local sex worker. During his investigation, he came to understand that the sex industry had changed, and so did...
Misery Lit | 1: Memoir Meets Marketing
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - March 25, 2024 13:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMisery Literature is a genre of memoir that details the real-life struggles and adversities of individuals, focusing particularly on themes of abuse, poverty, addiction, and survival against the odds. They are usually harrowing stories of the author's survival through complex trauma, usually tol...
The Witch Hunts 2| The Black Death and The Hammer of Witches
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - March 18, 2024 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThe plague led to a drastic reduction in population, labor shortages, and social upheaval. Entire villages and towns were depopulated, and some regions saw a collapse of agricultural and economic systems. People in the 14th century had little understanding of the causes of the plague, and variou...
The Witch Hunts 1 | From Feudalism to Capitalism
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - March 11, 2024 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThe European Witch Craze, also known as the Witch Hunts or the Witch Trials, was a period of intense persecution of individuals accused of witchcraft in Europe from the late 15th century to the 18th century.Thousands of people, primarily women, were accused, arrested, tried, and often executed a...
Ethnic Identity Fraud: In Conversation with Dr. Kim Tallbear
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - March 04, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week on ILL REPUTE! Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling welcome their very first guest! Dr. Kim Tallbear is a Native scholar who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA, and has become the defacto expert on self-indigenization, more commonly known as race shifting, ethnic fraud, or prete...
Buffy Sainte Marie | 2 The Big Ones Get Away
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - February 26, 2024 09:03 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn 2022, PBS released the documentary “Carry It On” about Buffy Sainte Marie’s life. A Native journalist sat down to watch it, and found herself uneasy as the documentary progressed. Something about Buffy’s adoption story didn’t add up; Buffy had never found her real parents. So she started digg...
Buffy Sainte Marie | 1 It's My Way!
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - February 19, 2024 08:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsBuffy Sainte-Marie burst onto the folk music scene in the early sixties, playing in the coffee houses of Manhattan and Toronto with the likes of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. She quickly caught the attention of music critics with her warbling delivery, and her unapologe...
ADHD: The Gender of Diagnosis
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - February 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn this episode of gender bias in medical diagnosis, Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre tackle ADHD. What is it? Why are so many women denied a diagnosis despite suffering from the same symptoms as their male cohorts? Support Us: http://patreon.com/illrepute Contact Us: illreputepod@gmail...
The Most Beautiful Suicide
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - February 05, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week on the podcast Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling examine three different iconic depictions of female suicide and talk about their impact on the culture, and what they can teach us about how we view female suffering. They analyze the painting "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais and the lat...
Phyllis Diller |3 Comedy Cums From Tragedy
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - January 30, 2024 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling conclude their series on Phyllis Diller. “As a child I had very strong passions and aspirations, and I’ve lived to realize them all. I’ve had a family, I’ve known great romance, clothes are coming out of my ears, God only knows the friends I have, and...
Phyllis Diller |2 Not Another Pretty Face
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - January 22, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week on the pod, Sovereign Syre tells Ela Darling about Phyllis Diller's whirlwind rise to fame, making her the first female stand up comedian to become a household name. While her star was on the rise however, her turbulent homelife was about to implode. Phyllis found herself in new territ...
Phyllis Diller |1 The Unhappy Homemaker
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - January 15, 2024 05:01 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week on the podcast Sovereign Syre tells Ela Darling about Phyllis Diller. During her career she became the first female stand up to become a household name, but Phyllis Diller started at the very bottom, a mother of five children married to charismatic loser that was at turns dismissive an...
Sharbat Gula: The Making Of A National Geographic Supermodel
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - January 08, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsGreetings and welcome to SEASON TWO of ILL REPUTE! In 1984, an ambitious photojournalist snuck into Afghanistan to document the refugee crisis there. When he came across a beautiful young Afghan girl with blazing green eyes, he knew he had to get a photo of her...and seventeen years later, wou...
Calamity Jane |5 Calamity's Last Ride
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - January 01, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsSOV ACCIDENTALLY UPLOADED THE WRONG FILE! It's fixed now, but if you started playing and it was episdoe four, it's the correct file now, so just redownload. In the conclusion of our series on Calamity Jane, Sovereign Syre teaches Ela Darling about modernity and how it failed the frontier, or...
Calamity Jane |4 From Outlaw to Mother to National Monument
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - December 25, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMerry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Or if you don't believe, Happy Monday! In part four of our series on Calamity Jane, we follow the Dime Store Novel Heroine as she navigates motherhood and celelebrity with all the drinking and fu*king she's used too. Enjoy! Watch: http://youtube.com/@il...
Calamity Jane |3 From Deadwood to Deadwood Dick
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - December 18, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn the third installment in our series on Calamity Jane, Sovereign Syre tells Ela Darling about the birth of Deadwood. Initially a settlement of a few storefronts and tents, in a period of a few months the town nestled in the Black Hills attracted close to ten thousand citizens. Far from a bustl...
Botox: Is Anti-Aging Anti-Feminist?
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - December 11, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratings(No. It's not.) It’s 1983 and our heroine, an ophthalmologist, is treating a patient with a condition called blepharospasm, a painful neurological disorder that causes involuntary muscle spasms and contractions of the eyelid. After administering a neuromodulator to the affected muscles, a proc...
Calamity Jane |2 From Rolling Scum to Army Scout
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - December 04, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn her lifetime Calamity Jane was the most famous woman in the world, and her name still evokes the spirit of the WIld West. She has been a character in countless dime novels, television shows, and feature films, and yet all of them were largely fabricated bearing no resemblence to her actual li...
Calamity Jane |1 Born To Run
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - November 27, 2023 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn her lifetime Calamity Jane was the most famous woman in the world, and her name still evokes the spirit of the WIld West. She has been a character in countless dime novels, television shows, and feature films, and yet all of them were largely fabricated bearing no resemblence to her actual li...
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