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Dirt After Dark: Unmentionables

Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Amber daughter of Joe, who brought countless rants upon this episode. Amber's myriad gripes and the several glimpses into our younger years aside, this month we think about lingerie and undergarments throughout human history. 

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner (HistoryExtra)

10 Better Ways to Say Underwear (Merriam-Webster)

Underwear in the Medieval Period (ThoughtCo)

Medieval Fashion Statement (Archaeology)

Lingerie For Men Exists And It Will Shatter Gendered Clothing Stereotypes (Like.Shared)

Subligaculum (Wikipedia)

Fundoshi (Wikipedia)

Temple garment (Wikipedia)

40 Unusual Underwear Designs (Trendhunter)

And check out The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design, by Rana Salam and Malu Halasa

Amber's note: Trust me, dear Dirtbags, I tried to find evidence of Anna's old band, Pants, but alas, the internet has been scrubbed. The best I can offer you is this gif of the scene from The Thick of It I quoted, courtesy of an unnecessarily horny tumblr (kind of a tautology, I know) I found.

EDIT! I FOUND IT 

https://myspace.com/pantsband

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As science communicators in anthropology and archaeology, we hosts of The Dirt acknowledge that we hold a position of considerable privilege and opportunity, and commit ourselves to continuous learning, unlearning and reflection. We recognize that our disciplines, as well as our own lives, are rooted in and propped up by settler colonialism, white supremacy, and dispossession.

We now reside on the stolen ancestral territory of the Shawnee and Haudenosaunee and on the lands of the Muscogee and Cherokee Nations, but over its lifetime, The Dirt has also been produced on the unceded traditional territory of the Piscataway Conoy and Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians, as well as that of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Patwin and Miwok peoples and all those dispossessed by Cession 296. We offer our show as a platform for Indigenous scholarship, history, and cultural expression, through citation and conversation, and we welcome the opportunity to host and compensate Indigenous scholars of archaeology and anthropology as interview guests.

Likewise, we encourage all listeners who reside in settler-colonial states to learn about on whose land they reside, their place in the ongoing process of colonization, and how to contribute materially to reparations and Indigenous sovereignty.