100 Objects #20: AA Sobriety Chip

Comedian, writer, and podcaster Jamie Loftus has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous.

喜剧演员、作家兼播客杰米·洛夫特斯 (Jamie Loftus) 一直都知道戒酒互诫协会。

As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips — that little piece of plastic that marks a day, a month, a year of sobriety.

小时候，她很喜欢她父亲保存着所有 AA 芯片的专辑——那块小塑料片标志着一天、一个月、一年的清醒。

Now as an adult, Jamie wanted to understand where that little chip came from.

现在，作为一个成年人，杰米想了解那个小芯片是从哪里来的。

What she found is that imbued in that little chip is a hidden history — from Prohibition to women’s suffrage — of America’s relationship to gender, religion, and morality.

她发现，那个小芯片中蕴藏着一段隐藏的历史——从禁酒令到妇女选举权——美国与性别、宗教和道德的关系。

A History of the United States in 100 Objects is a production of 99% Invisible and BBC Studios .

《100 件物品中的美国历史》由 99% Invisible 和 BBC Studios 制作。