# Margot Mifflin
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margot mifflin is an author who has written for The New York Times, ARTnews, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Vice.com.
Mifflin holds an M.A. in journalism from New York University and a B.A. in English from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she was friends with Barack Obama, an experience she has written about for The New Yorker and The New York Times. In 1982 she was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study the role of dreams in creativity.
Beauty Pageants: Constructions and Deconstructions of Womanhood
In this episode, we unpack the ways in which beauty pageants in the United States and Nigeria have been sites for contesting ideas of womanhood and national identity.
With us on this episode are Margot Mifflin (Professor of English at Lehman College - CUNY), Kemi Balogun (Associate Professor of Wom…
The Blue Tattoo: The Story of Olive Oatman
Author and English professor Margot Mifflin talks about her new book "The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman." Oatman was captured and lived as a slave with the Yavapai Indians until she was traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her on the chin and raised her as their own.
Vanessa Williams v Miss America: The Rise and Fall of the First Black Winner (Pt 1)
You may know her as the Grammy-nominated singer, or for playing the cunning and iconic Wilhelmina Slater on “Ugly Betty.” But before all that, Vanessa Williams was a bright young college student from New York who would make history as the first Black Miss America, in 1984. And yet before she could…
Vanessa Williams v Miss America: ‘I Won’t Let That Man Destroy Me’ (Pt 2)
She made history as the first Black Miss America, then dramatically lost her crown in a scandal that would see her branded as "the pageant's own Hester Prynn.” But Vanessa Williams did not just go away quietly, she fought back — going head to head with Penthouse, the magazine that published her pho…
163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American
In 1850, 13-year-old Olive Oatman and her family set off on the perilous journey by foot from Missouri to Arizona. Olive and her little sister were captured by a group of Native Americans and then sold to another. Yet rather than being treated as slaves, the girls were treated with kindness and wel…
Bodies of Subversion: An Interview With Margot Mifflin
On this weeks episode of Beneath the Skin we were honoured to be joined by writer and journalist Margot Mifflin. Margot is the author of the seminal Bodies of Subversion, as well as The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, and Looking for Miss America.
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Why Did Olive Oatman Have a Blue Tattoo?
In this episode, we explore the remarkable true story of Olive Oatman, one of the most famous women of the American frontier and a figure whose life has fascinated historians for more than a century.
As a teenager traveling west with her family in the 1850s,…
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