Latest Cultural cricism Podcast Episodes
Patreon Preview: The Barbie Movie Pt. 1
Material Girls - August 15, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe had to talk about the Barbie movie! We structured this bonus like our usual Patreon-only Q&A episodes, only this time we only answered questions you submitted about Greta Gerwig's blockbuster hit. We talk mainstream feminism, satire, the limits and possibilities of camp, aesthetics and so muc...
Barbie x Petro-Capitalism
Material Girls - August 08, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe had to talk about Barbie! This episode is all about Barbie dolls and way they took over the toy industry in the 90s. We've since recorded an episode about the movie which will be available on our Patreon in the coming weeks. For now, please enjoy this episode that touches on liberal feminism...
Spare x Tender Masculinity
Material Girls - July 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsIt's here! Welcome to the first episode of Material Girls, a scholarly podcast about pop culture co-hosted by Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman. This show aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (so...
Material Girls: An Introduction
Material Girls - July 13, 2023 18:56 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWelcome to Material Girls! A new show from the team behind the beloved podcast, Witch, Please. Every episode you'll get your pop culture fix with some academic theory added to the mix. Join feminist scholars Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman for episodic dives into the zeitgeist. Together they...
Appendix: The Witch, Please Wrap Up
Material Girls - July 11, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWell Witches... we're here, at the end of Witch, Please the podcast. If you've been following us on Instagram, then you know that we are so grateful for the last eight seasons AND we're so excited for our new flagship show: Material Girls, a scholarly podcast about popular culture. You'll notic...
Appendix: Fan Studies Revisited
Material Girls - June 27, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsFor our final regular episode, we decided to revisit Fan Studies! We begin with a review of our episodes on Foucault and authorship, Michel de Certeau and the tactics of the disempowered, Jane Tompkins and circulation and Michael Warner's idea of discourse publics. Even though it's our last regu...
Introducing Gender Playground with Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx
Material Girls - June 23, 2023 04:54 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe're thrilled to share the pilot episode of Gender Playground! Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended...
Introducing: Gender Playground
Material Girls - June 23, 2023 04:54 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe're thrilled to share the pilot episode of Gender Playground! Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended...
Bonus Ep: Shame Spiraling with Ely Kreimendahl
Material Girls - June 13, 2023 12:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsIn this bonus episode, Hannah and Marcelle are joined by comedian and podcaster Ely Kreimendahl (she/her) for a discussion about shame, relationships, being adults and podcasting! If you haven't already fallen in love with Ely's show, Shame Spiral, check it out! Now is the time! We'll be back in...
Appendix: Critical Adoption Studies with Nia
Material Girls - May 30, 2023 04:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsThis week we're joined by Nia (they/them) for a conversation about critical adoption studies — a field of scholarship that explores adoption as a legal, political, and economic institution that severs and creates familial bonds. We begin with a review of our episodes on motherhood, class, femini...
Appendix: Anti-Fatness with Aubrey Gordon
Material Girls - May 16, 2023 04:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe're so excited to be joined by Aubrey Gordon (she/her) for an episode about anti-fatness in the Harry Potter series. We begin with a quick review of disability studies, monstrosity, and sentimentality before jumping into a conversation about anti-fatness, body positivity and fat liberation. Au...
Appendix: Giggle-ology with Dix McDevitt
Material Girls - May 02, 2023 06:39 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsAs you know, we love to laugh! That's why we were thrilled when a brilliant listener, Dix McDevitt (she/her), pitched us an episode about giggling in the Harry Potter series. In Revisions, we talk through Disability Studies, Queer Theory and Trans Studies to prepare for a framework devised by Di...
Appendix: The Author
Material Girls - April 18, 2023 05:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe said we would and so we did! Here is our episode on l'auteur! In this episode, Marcelle leads us through a brief Revisions segment because there is just too much to get into! We talk ideology, discourse, structuralism, celebrity and capitalism before heading into a chat about two dead French ...
Bonus Ep: Hogwarts Legacy with Michelle Thompson
Material Girls - April 04, 2023 04:32 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsIn this bonus episode, Marcelle is joined by Michelle Thompson to discuss Hogwarts Legacy! If you've been curious about this game and the shitstorm surrounding it, think of this convo as your primer! We'll be back in two weeks to add to our Appendices. If you want more of Michelle, check out h...
Appendix: Witch Hunts with Niki Fitzgerald
Material Girls - March 21, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsIn this episode we bring in a guest, Niki Fitzgerald (she/her), to talk about Witch Hunts. Niki is an NHS doctor specialising in Care of the Elderly and General Internal Medicine. She has recently completed her Masters in Applied Medical Humanities and her dissertation was titled Is Medicine Obs...
Appendix: Holocaust Studies
Material Girls - March 07, 2023 05:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWelcome back to our Appendix Season — a chance to look at the Harry Potter series as a whole. In this episode we bring in a guest, Andrea Dara Cooper (she/her), to talk about Holocaust Studies. Andrea is Associate Professor and Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Scholar in Modern Jewish Thought and Cultu...
Appendix: Holocaust Studies with Andrea Dara Cooper
Material Girls - March 07, 2023 05:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWelcome back to our Appendix Season — a chance to look at the Harry Potter series as a whole. In this episode we bring in a guest, Andrea Dara Cooper (she/her), to talk about Holocaust Studies. Andrea is Associate Professor and Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Scholar in Modern Jewish Thought and Cultu...
Appendix: Sentimentality, Revisited
Material Girls - February 21, 2023 07:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWelcome to our Appendix Season — a chance to look at the Harry Potter series as a whole. To kick it off, we're revisiting Sentimentality with a deep dive into Beth Driscoll’s book The New Literary Middlebrow! "But middlebrow is not synonymous with sentimentality?!??!" That's right, but by half...
Bonus Ep: #WitchPleaseTellMe Team Edition
Material Girls - February 07, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe're on a break! Please enjoy this episode of #WitchPleaseTellMe, a monthly Patreon perk we're sharing with you in between seasons! We'll be back in two weeks with our first episode of Season 8, "The Appendix Season." Until then, please enjoy a rambling, fun and chaotic episode featuring the en...
Book 7, Ep. 9 | The Deathly Hallows Wrap Up
Material Girls - January 24, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsIn this episode, we wrap up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and thus Season Seven of Witch, Please. We talk about Hermione and Ron's sex life in Granger Danger and the history of white wedding dresses in Lewk Book. And, of course, we round out the episode with Marcelle's Devastating Fun Fac...
Bonus Ep: Women for Iran
Material Girls - January 10, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe'll be back in two weeks for our final Season 7 Wrap-Up Episode, but this week we're sharing a bonus interview from Patreon. We were so honored to have been joined by Kiana and Vicky in December for a conversation about Women for Iran (formerly Women for Liberty of Iran) an organization compri...
Book 7, Ep. 8 | House Elves with Jessica Marie Johnson
Material Girls - December 27, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe're finally here, Witches — at our long-awaited House Elves episode. We've been talking about Dobby, Kreacher, Winky and the general house elf population for so many seasons and we finally have a perfect guest joining us for discussion. Jessica Marie Johnson (she/her) is an Associate Professor...
Book 7, Ep. 7 | Sentimentality
Material Girls - December 13, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsIn the wise words of Lizzo, it's about damn time! Our latest episode is all about Sentimentality, an 18th century philosophical intervention that emerged in opposition to rationality. Hannah (whose recent book, A Sentimental Education, is all about this topic) guides the episode. We revisit our ...
Bonus Ep: Comfort Creatures
Material Girls - November 29, 2022 14:25 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe’re taking a little break to gear up for the holiday season. So instead of enjoying a regular episode, please enjoy this episode of Comfort Creatures, a podcast hosted by Ella McLeod and Alexis B. Preston. Comfort Creatures is a show from Maximum Fun — the folks who brought you classic podcast...
Book 7, Ep. 6 | Eugenics
Material Girls - November 15, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsIn this episode, we do a deep dive into eugenics, a nineteenth-century pseudosciences that justified a lot of racist, ableist, and generally violent oppressive behaviours. We review our conversations about class, critical race theory, disability, neurodivergence, and trauma from our episodes wit...
Book 7, Ep. 5 | Resurrection with Matt Potts
Material Girls - November 01, 2022 14:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsMatt Potts is back to talk about resurrection! We first revisit theory Matt introduced to us last season on our episode about "the soul" and then consider the nature of Harry's death in the Deathly Hallows. What can we make of Harry's sacrifice? The scene in King's Cross? The conviction of the s...
Book 7, Ep. 4 | New Media
Material Girls - October 18, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe're back with a new episode on New Media! To begin, we revisit Print Culture, Critical Archival Studies and the work of Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan before jumping into a conversation about the phonograph! Well, kind of... We take a look at Lisa Gitelman’s book Always Already New: Media,...
Bonus Ep: A Sentimental Education
Material Girls - October 14, 2022 15:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsHey Witches! We'll be back on Tuesday with our regularly scheduled episodes, but we thought we'd give you the promised sneak peek at Hannah's new book A Sentimental Education. On September 22, Hannah launched her book at Iron Dog Books through a conversation with Minelle Mahtani (Associate Profe...
Unlocked Patreon Exclusive: Sparks Fly with Maia Kobabe
Material Girls - October 04, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsMaia Kobabe (e/em/eir) has been censored enough! We're putting this exclusive bonus interview out to the public because it was just so dang fun to record and Maia is a true gem who deserves as big an audience as we can give em. We'll be back with regular episodes in two weeks (October 18th). If...
Book 7, Ep. 3 | Motherhood with Erin Wunker
Material Girls - September 20, 2022 12:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsWe continue our journey through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with another special guest, Erin Wunker! Erin is a settler scholar and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia. She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essa...
Related Cultural cricism Topics