Yeah. I mean there's no more devoted, loyal, crazy mad audience than an audience that finally you know that feels like, finally I see myself, I'm being represented. OK, I can’t feel the flow. Plus, what got The L Word reboot rolling.

Ilene: Really boring things. I don't feel like my mom was ever like, OK.

Cristen: Well Caroline, today I learned that bra sizes are gaslighting us, and I can only assume that they’re in cahoots with Big Denim. Chidera Eggerue: When I first stopped wearing a bra, the first thing I noticed was how much people would notice your nipples. The hardships of the Great Depression suppressed the openness of the 1920s and the ‘30s. It’s like, yes, Brenda. Ilene: Yes. Sound design and additional music is by Casey Holford. Cristen: So, Empire is loosely based off Lee Daniels’ upbringing, and Caroline, this feels like a little callback to back when she helped get Benny Medina’s life-inspired sitcom to air with Fresh Prince. Did it quote unquote help manage those relationships in any kind of way. Cristen: Caroline, in the VERY early days of pandemic lockdowns, do you remember allllll the jokes about at least I don’t have to wear a bra for a month?! I love that question because I think that it's - it's so nuanced and not often discussed.

But in our breast-obsessed, sexist culture, saggy boobs are seen as unsexy sight gags, and that’s fucked up! Ilene: He just - he stood up in the room and said, “I love this, we're doing it.”.

The eldest of four children, Bentley had a difficult upbringing. “One of the frustrating and actually joyous things about Gladys Bentley was she was constantly inventing herself,” Wilson says. Ilene: You know, without going into detail, I will say that I didn't emerge unscathed. Alice: Dana, most girls are straight until they’re not, and then soemtimes they’re gay til they’re not. Ilene: I felt like people didn't know this was happening, and I wanted to write about it.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alain-locke/, Image courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh], . Cristen: Yeah, and the network didn’t just greenlight a pilot. Hell yes, Brenda. It's mainly like - there's about three key groups of people: women who are under 18 and considering surgery, women who have just had a child and women who are like above 40. In the mid-1930s, she headlined at the Ubangi Club. Cristen: Yeah to be honest, Caroline, it was surprising to go back and read how Ilene was processing the sort of political expectations, like, fans had for the original L Word. We were objectified and sexualized and expected to and hit on and - and dismissed and overlooked in every possible way.

You don't have to hire all lesbians you can hire some lesbians. Esther: Right. Bentley moved 3,000 miles away to Los Angeles into a small bungalow with her mother. Agree. It was the thing may be that you did if you couldn't make it as a movie writer. Go in. I know it's because I'm not going to places and rooms and environments where I need to show up in a particular manner. Caroline: We’re back with Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word. On January 18, 1960 at age 52, Bentley died of influenza. Your body is fine as it is.” But I didn't believe her because it's my mom, and she's biased. And he called me two days later and he said, “OK, let's do it.”. © 2020, courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA]. Caroline: Well, that’s the kind of boobspiration it takes to stand up for saggy boobs! In 1970, The New York Times declared “Braless Look: 2 Years Ago a Daring Fad, but Now It’s a Trend.” And what’s FASCINATING Caroline, is how as soon as women started thinking of bras as optional instead of mandatory, the warnings about bralessness causing boob sag suddenly got louder…, Cristen: And propaganda laced with white colonialism. In addition, during this time powerful Black preachers, such as Adam Clayton Powell, played a critical role in public opinion on homosexuality within the Black community. You're gonna be multiple sizes, which doesn't make shopping very easy, but you shouldn't get hung up on it. So we always try to say, look you know you're not one size. Cristen: Well since you were at the center of all of these powerful men in Hollywood. And for that, our second guest is a woman who really knows her way around a nip slip, scientifically speaking. UNLADYLIKE2020 is a production of Unladylike Productions, LLC in association with THIRTEEN’s American Masters. At the same time, mainstream audiences that could pay for entertainment started preferring the sophisticated rhythms of swing, and the craze for the blues waned as a result. Same-sex marriage was far from legal, and state laws typically prevented unmarried couples from adopting, so the whole kid factor was a giant legal obstacle. So we get very hung up as women, I feel in saying, right. Mixing is by Andi Kristins. She co-created, sold and ran a TV show entirely about lesbians. You can wear a bra or you could not wear a bra. Bentley started playing piano at all-night rent parties, and she became well known for her deep voice, her boyish apparel, and for performing popular songs of the era with an unladylike twist. Oh, my gosh.

And that's going to happen anyway. And you know, the difficulty is, like women vary so much in terms of their breast size and breast shape and breast composition. I mean, it was remarkable. Keeping these ladies from getting their drink on while the male rappers and singers do their thing...now THAT is unladylike. Chidera: They're doing amazing. While there is no record of the union of the marriage, this demonstrated Bentley’s bold openness about her sexual orientation.

She changed her image, penning an article in Ebony magazine in 1952 titled, “I am A Woman Again,” stating that she received hormone treatment and married a man. C+C are talking self-care with Girls’ Night In founder Alisha Ramos. Visit unladylike.co to find this episode’s sources, transcripts, and our weekly Unladylike newsletter. Caroline: When you got to Hollywood were you working with many other women, or was it kind of an only-woman-in-the-room situation? Plus, women’s fashion designers had gone all in on creating new looks and silhouettes tailored for the smoother, shapelier brassiere aesthetic. Mixing, sound design, and additional music is by Casey Holford. And playwright and poet Langston Hughes’ 1935 play “Little Ham” featured a character called “Masculine Woman” who was described as looking “exactly like Gladys Bentley.” [Source: An insidious campaign of fear against homosexuality occurred amid McCarthyism and the Red Scare. In August of the same year, she married Charles Roberts, a cook 16 years her junior, although later he disputed that the marriage had in fact occurred. Exactly. I'm sure you'll want to, but, you know, hire just really great writers, some straight men, maybe you know a gay guy if you want, it just - it doesn't have to be written by lesbians.” And so I hired a kind of diverse writing staff. “Oftentimes when she mentioned something about her personal life, you had to take it with a grain of salt and not necessarily take it for truth.” [Source: The Smithsonian Magazine], [Image courtesy of Gay Man’s Press Publishers]. Nonetheless, sensationalized media coverage introduced the idea — which cemented the myth — that the feminists were bra-burners. Executive producers are Chris Bannon, Daisy Rosario and Unladylike Media. Here I always find a lot of helpful information for myself.

And the woman on the packaging, her boobs were sitting and they were pushed up and they looked round and they looked perky. Or maybe we’ll find out on the reboot. You hang in there. So all these factors all influence the breast over the years, which is definitely why we always say you need to regularly check your bra fit because, you know, there's so much going on all the time. And if you don't have a passion for what you're doing, your - your chances of doing it well are far less good, and frankly why bother. She performed in clubs all over the country and inspired characters in several books. You can follow her on social at theslumflower. So who were your favorite - who were your favorite characters? I think that having a passion to tell a story and - and figuring out a way to tell that story is what it takes. Her parents disapproved of her sexuality and took her to several doctors with hopes to “cure” her. Cristen: And that decision to quit bras was a BIG deal for Chidera. And in fact when I do speaking engagements now with - for - for younger writers or for really for any writers, I talk a lot about this idea that you know it used to be looked down upon to have an agenda, a political agenda, when you write or make movies and television, and I think that's nonsense. Cristen: Unladylike is produced by Sam Lee and Nora Ritchie. [Image courtesy of the Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library]. What happens when women break the rules? And also I think probably I identified more with Marianne, which means that I wanted to sleep with Ginger. And reuse old dildos.

I mean, this is there's no muscle in the breast, but yeah, effectively it's a mainly sort of genetic in terms of yet that ratio between the glandular and the fatty tissue within the breast and the breast shape and size.

Now, if the women who have just had babies who have messaged me about saggyboobsmatter, it's been so emotional to see them say that they almost didn't breastfeed their kids because they had other women tell them that if you breastfeed your kids, you're going to have saggy boobs, but if you don't breastfeed, then you can maintain some perkiness. Fertility Woes Pep Talk: Doree Shafrir. Rap superstar Cardi B broke the internet last month when she released her single “WAP” with fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Chidera: Go get your life. [Image courtesy of New York Public Library]. Today, we are talking to the most famous gynecologist on Twitter and arguably the whole internet! Gladys Bentley was born on August 12, 1907, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a working class family. Boobs just feelin themselves in lingerie and bathing suits, T-shirts and tank tops — you name it. It’s … a mess. Her creative drought was definitely over. She was studying to become an ordained  minister. From 1920 to 1933, the 18th Amendment made it illegal to purchase alcohol, leading to a rich underground trade of bootlegged alcohol. Her mom wasn’t convinced.



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