Episode 68: Two Backbrace Girls, and Romy & Michele’s Highschool Reunion (with Lauren Edwards)

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Join us for the last episode of the year with the vivacious comedian and musical theatre actor Lauren Edwards. Lauren and Steph bond over their shared experience with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and being backbrace girls in highschool. We go through the limited selection of scoliosis-based media until we get to the beloved comedy film Romy and Michele's Highschool Reunion (1997). Find out what makes the film so iconic and whether its brief but infamous depiction of scoliosis was helpful or harmful!

Also if anyone needs to make a call, I've got a phone.

CONTENT DISCUSSED:

Deenie by Judie Blume (1973), Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The House Bunny (2008), Kiss Me (2014).

CONTENT WARNING: some discussion of ableism and bullying, discussion of Looking for Mr Goodbar which is full of sexual assault, homophobia and sex shaming, sorry!

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REFERENCES:

• Curvy Girls Scoliosis
• Scoliosis Australia
• Setting Scoliosis Straight
• Cobb angle | Radiology Reference Article | Radiopaedia.org
• The Blonde Leading the Blonde: An Oral History of ‘Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion’ | Vogue
• Caught Through the Looking Glass: Sarah Polley on Grief, Girlhood, and Scoliosis ‹ Literary Hub
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film) - Wikipedia
• Deenie - Wikipedia
• https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-nerdy-curve

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