• Satan Wants You

    In today’s episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica introduces Shannon to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s through the award-winning documentary, Satan Wants You. 

    To scare people back into a Sunday pew, the Catholic Church funded the publication of a book based on the account of a woman who claimed to have survived satanic ritualistic child abuse. Michelle Remembers was a bestseller and the survivor Michelle Smith and Dr. Larry Pazder, her therapist, coauthor, and eventually her husband, spent their time promoting the book on talk shows or training law enforcement to spot this new crime spree targeting children across the country. Cops started training therapists and suddenly, more than 200 people across the country had been criminalized without a single shred of evidence.

    It was all based on a convenient lie. Does any of this sound familiar? Pun intended. This is a Tim Ballard and the Sound of Freedom origin story. Check out our last episode for context!

    Join Tashmica and Shannon as they fall down a rabbit hole where they discover that when it comes to resistance, bodily autonomy, and knowing who the real enemies of children are, the Church of Satan may be the church for a time such as this. 

    Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition.

    For this week’s pop culture homework, visit www.popagandapod.com.

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    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 + Art: Tashmica Torok


    S2 - 54m - May 14, 2024
  • Britney Spears with Guest Zara Raven

    Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok discuss Britney Spears, the nuances of conservatorship, mad liberation, and the liberatory possibilities of dancing on the internet with our first guest ever - mad queer mama, Zara Raven.

    Zara Raven isn't just our premiere Abolitionist Britney building a world without prisons + policing, starting at home. They are the coordinator for Queenies Crew, an initiative that engages children in learning about building communities of care without prisons or policing, the former director of Collective Action for Safe Spaces in D.C., a grassroots, trans and queer-led organization that focuses on creating safe republic spaces, and a cocreator of 8 to Abolition. For more information about Zara, visit https://linktr.ee/bubblybutfierce.

    Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition.

    For this week’s pop culture homework, visit www.popagandapod.com.

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

    Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts!

    Credits:

    • Executive Producers: Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok
    • Audio Production: Shannon Perez-Darby
    • Show Notes + Art: Tashmica Torok
    S2 - 1h 0m - May 6, 2024
  • Lingo Plinko! Abortion Trafficking is the New Satanic Panic

    What do abortion and human trafficking have in common? Find out on this week's episode of Lingo Plinko.

    Read the full article at https://accountablecommunities.com/writing

    Find the full show notes and links at www.popagandapod.com

    6m - May 3, 2024
  • Sound of Freedom

    Tim Ballard is a lying, McLiar face (allegedly) but that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t had an indelible impact on how everyday Americans understand or misunderstand the sexual exploitation of children around the globe. But how did this qanon-tinged thriller become the 10th biggest domestic film of the year? Join Shannon and Tashmica for a conversation about Operation Underground Railroad, the scam behind the ‘new’ Anti-Trafficking Movement, and why the mythology created by Ballard is a threat to your reproductive rights.

    We watched The Sound of Freedom so you don’t have to. Please don’t watch it. We beg you.

    Listen + subscribe everywhere you get your podcasts. For more information, visit www.popagandapod.com.

    Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition. 


    Pop Culture Homework:


    People + Practices We Love:


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    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 + Art: Tashmica Torok
    S2 - 1h 9m - Apr 29, 2024
  • Lingo Plinko! Criminal Legal System

    Why do Shannon and Tashmica say the criminal legal system instead of the criminal justice system? Tashmica breaks it down with a little help from the Bureau of Justice and the Vera Institute for Justice.

    Functions of Criminal Justice

    Why we say "criminal legal system," Not "criminal justice system"

    Season 2 of The Popaganda Podcast launched on Monday, April 22nd. Did you know that a 9-minute video called “Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist” was leaked to the media in 2008? In a bizarrely intense interview, Cruise claimed that Scientologists are the only people on the planet equipped to handle addictions, car accidents, and natural disasters.

    If this made you stop and say, “What now?” You might be one of our pop culture besties.

    Click here to listen + subscribe everywhere you get your podcasts. You can also join our Pop Culture Besties! Instagram Broadcast Channel for a behind-the-scenes look at what we’re watching, our pop culture emergencies (that are never real emergencies), and special announcements. If you love the project, your engagement will help it grow so thank you in advance for supporting this one-of-a-kind show.

    Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition. 

    Leave a 5-star review for The Popaganda Podcast and we might feature it in an upcoming episode! You can also send us love or suggest show topics by emailing us at popagandapod@gmail.com. 

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    S2 - 5m - Apr 23, 2024
  • Tom Cruise & Scientology

    Tom Cruise once claimed Scientology had solved humanity’s greatest challenges. To which Shannon and Tashmica say, “What now?”

    The Popaganda Podcast kicks off season 2 with a conversation about “Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist”. An American actor, producer, and celebrity Scientologist, Tom Cruise is the lead in major blockbuster films like Top Gun and the spy series Mission: Impossible. As latchkey kids, we will never forget him jumping on Oprah’s couch over his love for Katie Holmes. Long since divorced under questionable circumstances, Cruise has given millions to a religious organization despite repeated accusations of abuse and he’s never been canceled. How does he do it?

    *insert Kate Bornstein + Leah Remini sideeye*

    Tune in as cohosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok discuss how cults, communes, and even nonprofit organizations can use power and control dynamics to hurt people. Could a healthy practice of accountability change everything? Let's talk about it!

    Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition.

    For more information, visit www.popagandapod.com.

    Pop Culture Homework:


    People + Practices We Love:


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    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 + Art: Tashmica Torok



    S2 - 59m - Apr 22, 2024
  • The Popaganda Podcast Season 2 Trailer

    The Popaganda Podcast: an award-winning social justice podcast about the pop culture we love and how it inspires us to build a safer, more just world for everyone. Hosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok are former latchkey kids who grew up to become survivor activists and pop culture besties. Tune in for elevated unscripted commentary that normalizes transformative justice practices and prison abolition strategies by amplifying one culture-shifting truth – we keep us safe.

    Season 2 launches on April 22, 2024. Listen everywhere you get your podcasts.

    Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition.

    Leave a 5-star review for The Popaganda Podcast and we might feature it in an upcoming episode! You can also send us love or suggest show topics by emailing us at popagandapod@gmail.com. 

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    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 + Art: Tashmica Torok


    For more information, visit www.popagandapod.com.

    S2 - 1m - Apr 17, 2024
  • Lingo Plinko! Box Breathing

    Lingo Plinko is a minisode of The Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. On Monday, we dropped a bonus episode about the HBO original documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life that came with a trigger warning and an encouragement to listen with care. So instead of breaking down our working definitions of the transformative justice terms that we use throughout the podcast episodes, we’re going to explore the practice of box breathing. 

    Click here to for the Box Breathing playlist on our YouTube channel. 

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    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: Tashmica Torok
    • Show Notes + Art: Tashmica Torok
    6m - Apr 10, 2024
  • Great Photo, Lovely Life

    CW/TW: child sexual abuse.

    In anticipation of the Popaganda season 2 launch on April 22nd, cohosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok reconnect to discuss the original HBO documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life. This poignant film follows Photojournalist Amanda Mustard as she investigates her ‘touchy-feely grandpa’ and his role in decades of serial sexual abuse through archival photos, home videos, and interviews with the children he harmed and the bystanders who were tricked into believing that everything was fine. 

    Listen in as two lifelong survivor activists consider how turning towards the violence we experience in our families could give us our best chance at understanding, confronting, and ending child sexual abuse.

    Shannon and Tashmica give this documentary the highest of trigger warnings. We encourage you to download and listen with care.

    Whether you’re new to Popaganda or a loyal listener since the very beginning, we thank you for sticking with us. As podcasting newbies, we are always improving our skills. That’s why we are so excited to be one of 16 epic podcasts to be included in the Association of Independents in Radio's (AIR) newest program, New Voices AMPLIFY. We also just got to celebrate 1,000 downloads. None of this would be possible without your support!

    AIR New Voices Amplify Spotify Playlist featuring a ‘Best of’ collection from the 16 podcast fellows.

    Leave a 5-star review for The Popaganda Podcast and we might feature it in an upcoming episode! You can also send us love or suggest show topics by emailing us at popagandapod@gmail.com. 

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    People + Practices We Love:

    Survivor support is available 24/7 through the National Sexual Assault Hotline. We encourage listeners to connect with confidential support services by calling 1-800-656-HOPE [4673] or by visiting rainn.org for access to their LIVE chat.

    For ongoing care or referrals to healing practitioners, check out these resources:


    #QOTD: “Part of what's gonna change the culture that leads to child sexual abuse is that we have to turn and face it. We have to shine the light on what's happening. And I would prefer folks [to] do that in this stumbling, imperfect way than to feel like you have to be an expert.” - Shannon Perez-Darby

    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
    23m - Apr 8, 2024
  • Pop Culture Chisme

    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. 

    Download and listen to this episode to join the conversation!

    This might also be a good time to revisit the Copaganda episode from Season 1. Don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss upcoming announcements and the Lingo Plinko! Minisodes. 

    Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition.

    Whether you’re new to Popaganda or a loyal listener since the very beginning, we thank you for sticking with us. As podcasting newbies, we are always improving our skills. That’s why we are so excited to be one of 16 epic podcasts to be included in the Association of Independents in Radio's (AIR) newest program, New Voices AMPLIFY. We also just got to celebrate 1,000 downloads. None of this would be possible without your support!

    AIR New Voices Amplify Spotify Playlist featuring a ‘Best of’ collection from the 16 podcast fellows.

    Leave a 5-star review for The Popaganda Podcast and we might feature it in an upcoming episode! You can also send us love or suggest show topics by emailing us at popagandapod@gmail.com. 

    Follow us on Social media!

    TikTok - @Popaganda_Pod 

    YouTube - The Popaganda Podcast

    Instagram - @popagandapod 


    Pop Culture Homework (Media Mentions):


    People + Practices We Love:


    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

    55m - Mar 29, 2024
  • Radical Visions - It Takes More Power to Build Than to Burn

    It takes more power to build than to burn and Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok want to build.

    In the season finale of The Popaganda Podcast, you are invited to jump into a time machine and look into their radical visions for a future where transformative justice practices and abolition frameworks are realized. Listen in as they reflect on how their lived experiences in childhood and within their family systems have helped them see the sci-fi possibilities that have helped sustain their hopefulness in a future that they will likely never see.

    What can we build if we feel connected to and are willing to sacrifice for that bolder, more just future?


    Pop Culture Homework


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    Content Warning: This podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season, and 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. 

    S1E6 - 1h 16m - Oct 23, 2023
  • True Crime

    In episode 5 of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica Torok guides Shannon Perez-Darby through where her love of True Crime began and how it has changed over time. The people who are the most interested in the True Crime genre are also those who experience the highest rates of sexual and domestic violence. How can this be?

    Listen in as we explore what may be our unhealthiest relationship with Copaganda or a tool to help our loved ones see the criminal legal system for what it truly is.

    PS - if you need a primer on Copaganda, go back and give episode 2 a listen.

    Pop Culture Homework


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    Content Warning: This podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season, and 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. 

    S1E5 - 1h 0m - Oct 16, 2023
  • Lingo Plinko! TERF

    Lingo Plinko is a minisode of the Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. During these short and sweet segments, we'll be breaking down our working definitions of the transformative justice terms that we use throughout the podcast episodes.

    So far, you’ve heard us drop the acronym TERF at least twice. But do you know what a TERF is or what Shannon means by “TERF-y” talking points?

    Listen in as Tashmica talks about Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERF) so that you can spot and disrupt TERF-y talking points and learn how to be a better ally to trans people. Check out the links below for more!

    You May Have Heard About TERFS

    Happy Pride! Don't Be A TERF

    Dax Shepard’s Latest Podcast Controversy With Jonathan Van Ness, Explained

    How to Spot TERF Ideology

    Why Sex isn't Binary - The Scientista Foundation

    Defend Trans Youth – The Firecracker Foundation

    To be in touch with Shannon or Tashmica, you can send an email to popagandapod@gmail.com.

    S1 - 4m - Oct 13, 2023
  • TikTok Beef

    One thing about Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok is they're gonna get to the bottom of a TikTok beef. In episode four of Popaganda, join them as they scroll through a collection of bookmarked beefs and discuss cancellations that have pushed popular influencers into digital exiles.

    Whether we're creating parasocial or for real social relationships online, we are creating patterns that we can all learn from.

    Pop Culture Homework


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    Content Warning: This podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season, and 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. 

    S1E4 - 1h 6m - Oct 9, 2023
  • Lingo Plinko! Abolition

    Lingo Plinko is a minisode of the Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. During these short and sweet segments, we'll be breaking down our working definitions of the transformative justice terms that we use throughout the podcast episodes.

    Listen in as Tashmica talks about what we mean by the word 'Abolition' and offers real world examples of abolitionist practices.

    For more information about the movement to Stop Cop City, visit stopcop.city. If you want to dive deeper on abolition 101, check out Transform Harm or Critical Resistance.

    To be in touch with Shannon or Tashmica, you can send an email tp popagandapod@gmail.com.

    S1 - 3m - Oct 5, 2023
  • Bachelor Nation

    In the third episode of Popaganda,  Shannon Perez-Darby invites Tashmica Torok for a hometown visit to one of her favorite pop culture stomping grounds -- Bachelor Nation!

    Listen in as we reflect on examples of harm, accountability, and repair lived out by the Bachelor Nation contestants. And because we have a few extra roses to hand out, we'll throw in a conversation about a couple of our favorite podcast hosts - Dax Shephard and Jonathon Van Ness.

    This may be the most dramatic episode of the Popaganda Podcast yet!

    Pop Culture Homework


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    Content Warning: This podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season, and 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. 

    S1E3 - 1h 16m - Oct 4, 2023
  • Copaganda

    In the second episode of Popaganda, Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok talk about what Copaganda is and how it impacts survivors as they attempt to seek out justice for themselves and their communities. Cops are always singing, whatcha gonna do when they come for you but we want to know, whatcha gonna do when they don’t. 

    As children, McGruff taught us to take a bite out of crime but something must’ve gone wrong because he’s not taking our calls.

    #QOTD

    "Law enforcement is the same institution that will tell us that they need millions and millions of dollars so that they can get rapists and murderers off the street. But somehow during this time when we're trying to restrict funding to them, they also have time to support the food bank and stand outside the grocery store in my neighborhood that is primarily black and present themselves as a solution to other problems when they can't even respond to mental health crisis without murdering people. That is how I think about copaganda in real time." -- Tashmica Torok, Popaganda Podcast

    Pop Culture Homework

    • McGruff the Crime Dog
    • Reno 911
    • Brooklyn 99
    • ACAB TikTok
    • Law & Order SVU
    • C.O.P.S


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    Content Warning: This podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season, and 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. 

    S1E2 - 1h 6m - Sep 25, 2023
  • Why Pop Culture and Abolition?

    In the first episode of Popaganda, Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok make some pretty big confessions. Shannon has spent hundreds of hours watching the Kardashians and as if that’s not bad enough, Tashmica spent much of 2022 soothing herself by secretly watching The Cosby Show. They say they’re abolitionists but, do they even go here?

    Listen in as they talk about how they discovered Transformative Justice (TJ) and where they see connections between the pop culture they love and the prison abolition work we all need to accomplish in order to remake the world into a more just place.


    #QOTD

    “I had a situation where I did something that hurt my partner deeply. In the course of repairing that, and of course, of attending that together, I also had this experience where I got to feel a true depth, really feel what it was to also be unconditionally loved to have this feeling of, oh, this person loves me. And there's actually nothing I could do that would make this person not care for me. And I can actually feel that through the course of having made a mistake, having done something that was hurtful to him, and having repaired it. From that repair, was also deep connection. Both were true. It was painfully miserable to harm him and it was also deeply connective to repair and then feel what it was to be in connection still after having done something that was harmful to him.”

    - Shannon Perez-Darby


    Pop Culture Homework

    • Indiana Jones
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    • Lifetime TV
    • The Color Purple
    • The Women of Brewster Place
    • Billie Holiday; Lady Sings the Blues
    • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    • The Price Is Right
    • Bill Cosby; The Cosby Show
    • Chuck Norris; Walker Texas Ranger
    • Full Metal Jacket
    • Platoon
    • The Basement
    • The Walking Dead
    • Kirk Cameron and Nicolas Cage; Left Behind Movies
    • Jada Pinkett Smith and Jordyn Sparks; Red Table Talk
    • Kim, Kylie, and Chloe Kardashian; The Kardashians


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    Content Warning: This podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season, and 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. 

    S1E1 - 57m - Sep 18, 2023
  • Introducing The Popaganda Podcast!

    Come for the pop culture, stay for the abolition.

    Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok, and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of harmful state systems? Do you struggle to reconcile the two? Join Tashmica Torok and Shannon Perez-Darby on Popaganda, as we dive deep into our love of transformative justice, pop culture, and where the two meet. 

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    Content Warning: This podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season, and 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. 

    S1 - 1m - Sep 11, 2023
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