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Unpacking Why Copaganda is Dangerous with Journalist Reina Sultan
High Low Brow
English - July 24, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsArts pop culture reality television comedy culture critique Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Media featuring cops has been a staple of North American film and television culture. Heck, who didn't grow up watching Law and Order on A&E? However, during the George Floyd protests, copaganda was identified as a widespread tactic of the police and media. Officers kneeling with protestors in performative displays of solidarity online. People worldwide became increasingly aware of how pieces of popular culture (*cough, police lip-sync challenges on TikTok, cough*) tried to be more sympathetic to the police without showcasing the real cost of policing to marginalized bodies. And it's not hard to see why.
For this week's episode, we have invited Reina Sultan, a Lebanese-American Muslim freelance journalist and one of the co-creators of 8 to Abolition. She is a PIC [prison-industrial complex] abolitionist and anarcha-feminist working to dismantle systems of white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchy. Her work can also be found in VICE, WYV, Bitch Mag, ZORA, and Teen Vogue - to name a few.
In this week's episode, we discuss the following:
Further Reading on this Topic!When ‘Cops’ Forced Ugly Copaganda Down America’s Throat - The Daily BeastHow 70 years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police - VoxNSW Police Are Being Slammed On TikTok For ‘Copaganda’ - JunkeeEven the best cop shows fall into "copaganda" – helping the real-life police more than survivors - Salon~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Support the show