Pop Culture Chisme

The Popaganda Podcast

Popaganda Season 2 launches on April 22nd but Shannon and Tashmica can’t wait that long to talk pop culture chisme and transformative justice. In this bonus episode, we talk about cults, communes, and the surveillance state through the experiences of the recently released but not quite free Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, the docuseries Natalia Speaks, and HBO’s The Garden.

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Pop Culture Homework (Media Mentions):

• Gypsy Rose (TikTok)
• The Act (TV series)
• The View’s Joy Behar Forgets Gypsy Rose Was Involved in Mom's Murder Mid-Interview
• Nick Viall and The Viall Files

People + Practices We Love:

• Circle Forward + The Consent Principle
• Cultish by Amanda Montell

Episode Inspired TJ Quote: “We will never dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools.” - Audre Lorde

Sponsored in part by: Accountable Communities Consortium and The Firecracker Foundation.

Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts!

Content Warning: The Popaganda Podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice, prison abolition, and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic violence, sexual violence, and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season. In this episode in particular, we will be talking about these themes and our own survivorship. We will not be talking in high levels of detail about specific experiences of violence. We invite everyone to use this information to make choices about what is right for you.

Credits:

Executive Producers: Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok

Audio Production: Shannon Perez-Darby

Show Notes + Graphic Design: Tashmica Torok