The Bitchionary

1. Episode · Aug 21, 2026

   Inventing Aunt Jemima (PART 4): The White City (opens the original)

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   In Part 3 we mapped the architecture—where the controlling images came from, what they were built to do, and where they went when the minstrel stage went dark. This episode goes back to the place where the pancake brand was launched, and to the three people standing in three different positions relative to the same gate. In the spring of 1893, Chicago built a city out of plaster and painted it white. Twenty-seven million people came to see it over six months. It was America announcing itself as

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2. Episode · Aug 21, 2026

   Inventing Aunt Jemima (PART 5): Her Name Is Nancy Green (opens the original)

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   For four episodes we've been building context—the machinery of modern branding, the minstrel stage, the taxonomy of caricature, the fair and its gate. All of it was in service of this. Now we come back to the woman. The part people sort of know is that Nancy Green walked into a casting call in 1893 and spent the next thirty years traveling the country as the living face of a company's invention. This episode is about everything else. She was a founding presence at what became the largest Black c

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