Witches, Bitches, and Sluts

Epizodes

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  Tituba: "The Devil Came to Me" 05.10.2026 48min

  "I have done nothing." That's the first thing the 1692 court record says Tituba told the magistrates. By the end of the day, she'd confessed to meeting the Devil, and the Salem witch trials had begun. In the first of three Salem episodes, host Xtina Rose separates what the records actually say about Tituba from three centuries of invention. We cover the enslaved "Indian woman" in the minister's house, the loaded questions that made her confess, the girls who went quiet when she said what the ...
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  Stevie Nicks: "I'm not a witch. Get a life!" 28.09.2026 48min

  It's SPOOKY Season! ...Aaaaand I'm sick, so pardon my nasal voice. This is the first of our Spooky Season Witch episodes, and I am starting with an ICON. Although most of my episodes focus on women who were damaged by their labels, occasionally I'll occasionally feature a woman who triumphed over her label. I'm going to call those Icon episodes, and our first one is Stevie Nicks. -- "I am not a witch. Get a life." That's what Nicks told fans in 1998 — more than two decades into a career, peop...
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  The Trap of Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire 21.09.2026 47min

  The fastest way to misunderstand a Black woman is to reach for a familiar label. We start with the one Michelle Obama names so plainly: how easily Black women get tagged as “angry,” then we pull the thread back through history and forward into research that shows what those snap judgments can do. I walk through three stereotypes that work together like a trap: Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire. Mammy isn’t just a costume from old films it’s a story that made slavery and domestic labor look like d...
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  Hattie McDaniel - Not Your Mammy 14.09.2026 47min

  Hattie McDaniel's Oscar Speech "Any Kind of Man Would be Better than You" by Hattie McDaniel Bob Corley as Beulah The world remembers Hattie McDaniel as a milestone, and too often as a stereotype. We’re telling the story that gets lost when one role becomes a person’s whole identity, and asking the uncomfortable question her career forces on us: what if the thing that makes you famous also makes it harder for people to see you? We follow Hattie from her Kansas beginnings and a childhood fill...
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  Dragon Lady, Lotus Blossom, and Asian Women 31.08.2026 53min

  A character shouldn’t be able to haunt an actor on the sidewalk, yet Lucy Liu’s fear after playing Ling Wu points to something bigger than celebrity. We’re digging into the Dragon Lady and Lotus Blossom stereotypes and how they teach audiences to read Asian American women as either dangerous and hypersexualized or sweet, passive, and disposable. These labels didn’t start with one actress and they don’t end on a screen, they shape the way real people get approached, desired, dismissed, and fea...
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  Anna May Wong: A Thousand Deaths 24.08.2026 45min

  Hollywood didn’t just typecast Anna Mae Wong, it built a whole set of “acceptable” fates around her and then acted like those limits were natural. We pull apart how a third-generation Chinese American woman from Los Angeles became one of the first true movie stars of the 1920s and 30s, while the industry still insisted she could only be a threat, a sacrifice, or a lesson for somebody else’s story. We follow the real-world machinery behind the Dragon Lady stereotype and the Lotus Blossom arch...
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  Dumb or Deadly? Examining the Dumb Blonde and the Femme Fatale 16.08.2026 33min

  A single look can get a woman filed as sweet and harmless or cold and dangerous, and the switch can happen in seconds. We start with Dolly Parton’s iconic joke about the “dumb blonde” label (and the way Marilyn Monroe and Britney Spears echo the same pressure), then trace where these stereotypes came from and why they keep returning in new forms. We walk the long history of blonde hair as a Western beauty ideal, then set it beside the ancient lineage of the femme fatale, from mythic temptres...
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  "Are Women Human?" 10.08.2026 35min

  Content note: this episode discusses slurs, sexual shaming, racism, and harassment. Are women human? Obviously. So why do we have so many words that turn women into categories: the b*tch, the sl*t, the witch, the gold digger, the crazy ex? In this first episode of Witches, Bitches, and Sluts, host Xtina Rose starts with Dorothy L. Sayers's 1938 question, "Are Women Human?" and explores research on how labels work. We cover labeling theory, why words for women become insults, the psychology of...
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  BIO: Marilyn Monroe - "You have to be smart to play dumb" 10.08.2026 51min

  They called Marilyn Monroe a “dumb blonde,” and the world repeated it so often that the label started to sound like a fact. We’re not buying it. We trace how Norma Jean became “Marilyn,” how studios shaped her image, and how the public confused a paid performance with a real personality. Along the way, we look at the cost of turning a woman into a symbol: critics dismissing her as a phenomenon, people insisting she was “witty but not smart,” and an entire culture more comfortable with her bei...
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  TRAILER: Who Wins When A Woman Becomes A Slur? 03.08.2026 2min

  Trailer for the podcast Witches, Bitches, and Sluts. A podcast that investigates when women are labeled and why. Join the Hexy Coven on Instagram @the.wbs.pod, or share your story with me at [email protected] Find the sources for every episode on the website: wbspodcast.com For collabs, sponsorships, and business inquiries: [email protected] Love the show? Help keep it going by buying me a coffee. Written, produced, hosted, and edited by Xtina Rose. Music by Stephen Mexler and Xtina Rose.