Subframe Episode 2 – Gender Armageddon
In this episode of Subframe, Kip Reinsmith explores genders roles at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) and specifically the shifting role of women around the time of the fair in 1915. Sarah J. Moore, author of Empire on Display: San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, walks us through some iconic and gendered imagery of the fair. She also delves into how technology was shaping perceptions of gender.
We also speak with Abigail Markwyn, author of Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, who talks with us about the various roles of women at the fair, including the presence of the Women’s Board, as well as the fair’s YWCA. Markwyn explains how those women-driven initiatives were also tied in with the women’s suffrage movement and the implications the movement had on people of different racial backgrounds.
Kip Reinsmith hosts this episode and shares his unique perspective on gender as a transman in modern day America.
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This episode was produced by Kip Reinsmith and produced and edited by Tony Gannon.
Subframe brings cinematically driven storytelling merging history, literature, science and technology. We like to think of ourselves as time traveling documentarians bringing stories from afar, packaged with a stylish bow. We’re both entertaining audiences while also giving them something to think about.
If you haven’t listened to Episode 0 or Episode 1 of Subframe, we recommend you go back and start from the beginning to set the mood and to learn a little bit more about the Panama Pacific International Exposition before diving into this episode.
Pioneer Mother at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Courtesy San Francisco Public Library
The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules – Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915, Courtesy California Historical Society