Welcome to the After Dark
Guest: Rebecca Rosenberg, Author of Silver Echoes
Pour yourself something strong—we’re going deep.
Welcome to After Dark, where we mix bold spirits with even bolder conversations about sex, women’s rights, and systemic oppression. In our premiere episode, author Rebecca Rosenberg joins us to discuss Silver Echoes—a raw dive into trauma, dissociation, and survival in 1920s Chicago.
We’re unpacking Silver Dollar’s story of trauma and the alter egos women create just to survive. The Prohibition paradox: women leading Temperance while owning their sexuality through burlesque. Mother-daughter trauma cycles. Why the alpha-male podcast epidemic needed flipping. And how dissociation becomes a survival tool when the world refuses to protect you.
From Seneca Falls to the overturning of Roe, from speakeasies to Supreme Court briefs—oppression doesn’t retire, it just rebrands.
This is hedonistic and intellectual, serious and sultry, whiskey-soaked and wickedly smart. We’re laughing, raging, sipping, and demanding better.
Episode Resources:
- Silver Echoes 1920s Cocktails: https://rebecca-rosenberg.com/downloads/SilverEchoes-1920s-Cocktails.pdf
- Buy Silver Echoes: https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Echoes-Historical-Twenties-Biographical-ebook/dp/B0DXFWXTMJ