Ovaries And Oddities

Victorians Slept in Coffins & Ate Poison on Purpose

In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we’re diving into the horrors of Victorian London, from arsenic wallpaper and poisonous beauty products to deadly sewage, contaminated drinking water, cholera outbreaks, overcrowded streets, workhouses, doss houses, the four-penny coffin, and the infamous two-penny hangover. The Victorian era gave us some of the most iconic aesthetics in history, but behind the pretty dresses and gothic architecture was a city filled with poverty, disease, pollution, human waste, toxic products, and social systems that punished people simply for being poor. See you next Thursday, Ivanna Brookes Victorian London, Victorian era, dark history, arsenic wallpaper, Scheele’s Green, Paris Green, Victorian beauty standards, Victorian poverty, workhouses, doss houses, two penny hangover, four penny coffin, cholera, Great Stink, River Thames, John Snow cholera, Broad Street pump, Joseph Bazalgette, Victorian sanitation, medical horror, historical horror, Ovaries and Oddities

He Experimented on Enslaved Women Without Anesthesia

In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we uncover the dark medical history of J. Marion Sims, the doctor credited with shaping modern gynecology through experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women, including Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey. These women, now often remembered as the Mothers of Gynecology, endured painful procedures without meaningful consent, while history preserved Sims’ name and buried theirs. See you next week, Ivanna Brookes

Prescribed “O’s” For Female Hysteria

Checkout Ovaries And Oddities everywhere 🎧 In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the dark history of female hysteria: the centuries-old belief that women’s emotions, desires, pain, rebellion, and mental health struggles could all be blamed on the uterus. From the ancient idea of the “wandering womb” to Victorian-era medical treatments, asylum culture, and the disturbing ways women were controlled in the name of medicine, this episode exposes how medical misogyny shaped women’s lives for generations. See you next week, Ivanna Brookes Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities female hysteria, Victorian hysteria, female hysteria history, Victorian medicine, women’s history, medical misogyny, medical horror, dark history, history of medicine, women and mental health, asylum history, Ovaries and Oddities

Wigs To Hide STDs!

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American CONCENTRATION CAMPS?!

Listen to full episodes of Ovaries And Oddities on Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, and Apple Podcasts 🎧 What if I told you that the same country that prides itself on freedom, once locked up over 120,000 of its own people for their ancestry? The United States had concentration camps. And not in some distant past… but during World War II. Families. Children. Entire communities… stripped of everything overnight. Most of them being American citizens. Today we’re discussing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two. Let me know what you want to see next. Until next week, Ivanna Brookes More of the podcast: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities