HeyJaredMaterial Girls
A scholarly podcast about pop culture hosted by Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman, produced by Witch, Please Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma x The Gaze (opens the original)
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We simply could not pass up an opportunity to discuss queer filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun's latest horror, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma . To make sense of the film and its engagement with sex, identity, femininity and transness, we dig into the history of gender representation in slasher films and spend most of the episode thinking through The Gaze , a concept coined by English art historian John Berger (in his 1972 book Ways of Seeing) that was later picked up by feminist film theorists. Ha
Material Concerns: Fringe, Scrapbooking, and Clapping for Hannah Pt. I (opens the original)
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In this week's Material Concerns, Coach talks at length about her experience at Edinburgh Fringe, Marcelle showcases her scrapbooking talent and methodology, Hannah celebrates her impending freedom from massive professional responsibility! Join us for a long check-in and then a powerful creature report. Part II is over on Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease ! Part II features the rest of Creature Report and a Mailbag Teaser answering the question: What are your ingredients for a good hang with
Dungeon Crawler Carl x Transmedia Storytelling (opens the original)
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If you’ve been in a bookstore recently, chances are good you’ve seen a table stacked high with thick hardcovers with black covers and neon lettering. So of course, we had to talk about the currently unfolding contemporary phenomenon: the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman! Hannah leads us in a conversation all about LitRPG, transmedia storytelling, and participatory fan culture. Plus, she and Marcelle dig into the stellar audiobook production of the series and why these books are getti
Brought to You by the Common Loon Pt. I (opens the original)
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Baby's back! Gaby joins Hannah and Marcelle for a long, Canadian-forward check in and a very important (and also Canadian) Consumer Retorts. Join us on Patreon for Part II and plenty of BoCo (bonus content, just a new thing we're trying out). Support Material Girls To learn more about the show, head to our Instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease ! Or check out our website ohwitchplease.ca (you can also find transcripts here!). You can gift a Patreon subscription at this link: https://www.patreo
Dopamine Decor x Pleasure Activism (opens the original)
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Is your FYP and Instagram feed full of brightly colored decorations, furniture, and art? Are you finding yourself drawn to funky shaped furniture, maximalism, and painted doors? Boy do we have the episode for you! Today, Marcelle leads us through a conversation all about the “dopamine decor” trend! Through adrienne maree brown’s theory of pleasure activism, she and Hannah unpack dopamine science, homeownership amongst millennials, and why we turn to beauty when the world is hard. Related listeni
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