Ep #5: Let’s Talk About The Dark History of Birth Control. Buckle In | Dark History Podcast
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Published 2021-07-29
Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Today, we are going to talk about a racist creation, a drug invented to control populations, which devastated the fertility of an entire nation. That drug? Birth Control.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
02:59 History of Birth Control
05:43 Margaret Sanger
06:52 Ad Break
11:26 The Trio
14:02 Puerto Rico
17:22 The Trails Begin
19:58 Effect of Puerto Rican Women
22:14 Ad Break
24:20 The Effects
28:01 Eugenics
29:45 Ad Break
32:03 Sanger, Gamble, & Eugenics
35:51 The Hits Keep Coming
38:10 Ad Break
40:23 Puerto Rico Today
43:04 Where are they now?
46:29 The Pill Today
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Andrews, Katherine. “The Dark History of Forced Sterilization of Latina Women.” Panoramas Scholarly Platform, 30 Oct 2017, www.panoramas.pitt.edu/health-and-society/dark-history-forced-sterilization-latina-women
“A Note About Our Founder Dr. Clarence Gamble.” Pathfinder, 7 Apr 2021, www.pathfinder.org/articles/a-note-about-our-founder/#
Borrell, Merriley. “Biologists and the Promotion of Birth Control Research, 1918-1938.” Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 1987, pp. 51-87. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4331000
Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
“Family Planning - A Special and Urgent Concern.” Planned Parenthood, www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-gulf-coast/mlk-acceptance-speech
Gordon, Linda. The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America. 2007, eBook. Read on Kindle (where 464 pages somehow becomes 10,819).
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Holz, Rose. “Nurse Gordon on Trial: Those Early Days of the Birth Control Clinic Movement Reconsidered.” Journal of Social History, vol. 39, no. 1, 2005, pp. 113–140. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3790532
La Operación. Directed by Ana María García, 1982.
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Mass, Bonnie. “Puerto Rico: A Case Study of Population Control.” Latin American Perspectives, vol. 4, no. 4, 1977, pp. 66–81. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2633177
Michals, Debra. “Margaret Sanger: 1879-1966.” National Women’s History Museum, 2017, www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/margaret-sanger
Ordover, Nancy. “Puerto Rico.” Eugenics Archive, eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/530ba18176f0db569b00001b
Reichard, Raquel. “In Puerto Rico, A History Of Colonization Led To An Atrocious Lack of Reproductive Freedom.” Refinery29, www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/10/10029088/puerto-rico-sterilization-abortion-reproductive-rights-history
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Schoen, Johanna. Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
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Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires: a History of Contraceptives in America
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Dark History is an Audioboom Original.
Executive Produced by:
Chelsea Durgin from Slash Mgmt, Bailey Sarian, and Ed Simpson from Wheelhouse DNA
Producer: Lexxi Kiven, Derrial Christon and Spencer Strasmore
Research: Jed Bookout and Elizabeth Hyman
Writers: Jed Bookout, Michael Oberst, Joey Scavuzzo, Bailey Sarian
Host - Princess of the Dark, Bailey Sarian
Historical Consultants: Linda Gordon
Video Dir: Eric Abell
Editor: Ryan Philander
PM: Marissa Barrrientos
All Comments (21)
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“If a man is suffering, only then does change follow.” -Bailey Sarian, 2021
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Also, i think its important to talk about how man should be responsible for getting someone pregnant too. A man birth control its been delayed for decades, even when it could be safer and easier (no hormonal). If the fight its for equality, woman shouldn’t be the only ones responsible for avoiding pregnancy.
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As a puertorrican woman, I am so glad you made this episode because not a lot of people know about this. Its not even taught in school over here, its really hush hush still. I learned it through my family. So thank you for educating people on this.
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Makes me cry because Bailey is talking about what happened to the women in my family. This impacts how I feel about doctors, free clinics, government programs…to this day.
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Every time Bailey says "nay, nay" her fans gain a year on their lives.
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The dark & cruel past of psychology/psychiatry would be a great topic for this podcast.
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Imagine teachers rolling out that tv cart to play dark history to teach the kids 😅
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Henrietta Lacks story is amazing. Her cells have saved women through this world. Science labs still use her cells. My heart goes out to her severe suffering with uterine cancer and the horrible medical treatment she received at John Hopkins hospital.
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imagine how fun a sleepover with Bailey would be
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women’s health as a whole has a terrifying history. modern day gynecology was created by a man who experimented on slaves. it’s just so heartbreaking how many women have suffered in the past and present to have the knowledge we know today about our own bodies
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Thank you for sharing this!!! In Puerto Rico this is like a terror story that is never told, is not even taught at school. Thank you for educating about this matter, as a Puertorrican woman, I appreciate it. BTW! This is not the only thing we have been used to test, this subject is a whole rabbit hole
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Bailey, I am a history major literally one class away from a bachelor’s and I cannot explain how much I love these videos! They are so well informed and the fact that you are drawing from scholarly articles?! AND you cite them?? It’s wonderful!
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Margaret was an OG racist and I’m so happy that people, especially women are waking up to see this. She’s a monster. 🙌🏻
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I'm puertorrican and both my mother and my grandmother were victims of birth control testing and forced sterilization... I'm happy you are using your platform to educate others on this because people don't know about it
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I'm just glad Bailey is getting so many sponsors in one video/podcast, I was like 'Yeess sis' get that coin' sh deserves it
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I never thought my homeland would be in dark history. I did a presentation on this topic on my first year of my bachelor's degree. And the thing is, this isn't the only experimentation they have done on us.
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Bailey's hair game in Dark History is next level! JESUS.
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I would really love to hear a Dark History on the Tuskagee Study - A horribly racist study on untreated syphilis in the black community in the 1930s. It is awful and insane what happened. Love your Dark History series!
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On the topic of women’s health, can you talk about all of the side effects of hormonal birth control on the brain, and how drs tend to gas light the symptoms away? Everyone is only concerned about physical symptoms, but very few talk about the psychological symptoms it can produce.
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Anytime I heard old Margaret's name I would get upset. That lady was something else.😒 There's a reason there are more Planned Parenthood clinics in poor/ minority neighborhoods.
