Cringewatchers

Reshma has some final advice: trust the aunties.

For our final episode, we welcome back our very first guest, Reshma Gopaldas, for one last glorious cringe featuring the viral, no-nonsense wisdom of her Indian mom and auntie.

We also announced the launch of Cringewatchers.com, home to the full archive of past episodes.

Topic Discussed:

Auntie wisdom, breasts (revisited), and whether we’ll ever be post-cringe

Binging/Cringing:

Lori's binging Ms Rachel

Leila’s cringing live political debates

Special Guest:

Reshma Gopaldas

https://www.instagram.com/reshmago

Recommended Viewing:

Reshma's series "Conversations with my mom and aunt"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdAWNC9dz-g&list=PLCnhip3QZ-trG7TTRMCj2Qf2ZZYa1wHbl

Credits:

Editor: Samira Tazari

Logo and cover art: Judith Walker

Theme song: Dallas DL Engram

Episode Topic:

Lori and Leila are joined by Correspondent of Cringe Devon Vox to rank the cringiest multiple timeline films/series of the universe.

Links:

Time Travel and Cheating: is your time travelling romancer a cheater?

https://sagacitymagazine.com.au/featured/time-travel-and-cheating-or-is-your-time-travelling-romancer-a-cheater/

How to Manipulate Time

https://thetwelfthhouse.substack.com/p/how-to-manipulate-time

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Credits: Devon Vox is our Correspondent of Cringe dsmccoy7.wixsite.com/devonvox

Our editor is Samira Tazari www.samiratazari.com

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song @dadollars

River is the sober Che Diaz

Show watched: And Just Like That...Ep5 "Painfully Hip"

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Special guest:

River Butcher

www.riverbutcher.com/

River's comedy special A Different Kind of Dude is out now!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWBjutaBfw

Binging/Cringing:

Leila is binging Alok Vaid-Menon's Book "Beyond the Gender Binary"

Lori is cringing at corporate Black History Month content

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Related readings:

On Chris Noth allegations

www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/chri…-1235063596/

Justice For Steve

www.thecut.com/2022/01/sex-and-t…erves-better.html

Ad:

SHAG...a sexy shop

weloveshag.com/

Credits:

Our editor is Karen Y. Chan

www.karenychan.com

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

@dadollars

Our ad music is by Sidhartha Corses

www.siddharthamusic.bandcamp.com/

Jazmine has no regrets.

Guest: Jazmine Hughes

www.jazmine-hughes.com/

Cringe segment:

Putting your money where your mouth is

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Credits:

Devon Vox is our Correspondent of Cringe

dsmccoy7.wixsite.com/devonvox

Our editor is Samira Tazari

www.samiratazari.com/

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

@dadollars

Dedication: In memory of Baruch Thaler/Jean Darabi

Dr. Fausto-Sterling throws like a girl.

Lori is binging newsletters.

Leila is cringing election predictions.

Cringe segment: Unrivaled women's basketball league.

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Credits:

Devon Vox is our Correspondent of Cringe

dsmccoy7.wixsite.com/devonvox

Our editor is Samira Tazari

www.samiratazari.com/

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

@dadollars

Bri is cringe watching The Craft

Special guest: Bri Luna a.k.a. The Hoodwitch

https://www.thehoodwitch.com/

Lori is binging baby Halloween costumes

Leila is binging The Witches of Brooklyn

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Credits:

Our editor is Samira Tazari

www.samiratazari.com/

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

@dadollars

Sarah has come full circle on 'free the nipple.'

Special guest: Sarah Thornton

www.sarah-thornton.com/

Topic: Breasts

Lori is binging Colored Television by Danzy Senna

Leila is binging James by Percival Everett

Cringe segment: Breastmilk shaming via the breastfeeding subreddit

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Credits:

Devon Vox, Cringe Correspondent

dsmccoy7.wixsite.com/devonvox

Our editor is Samira Tazari

www.samiratazari.com/

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

@dadollars

Morgan means this with all the shade in the world.

Special guest: Morgan Jerkins

https://www.morgan-jerkins.com/

Topic: Trad Wives

Lori is binging the proverbial going to the show

Leila is cringing had sidewalk etiquette

Suggested Links:

Trad Wives are Thriving in the Post-Dobbs Era by Morgan Jerkins

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/trad-wife-wives-nara-smith-estee-williams-dobbs-roe-escapism/

My So-Called #TradWife Life by Anne Helen Peterson

https://www.elle.com/culture/a44708112/tradwife-life-interview-2023/

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Credits:

Devon Vox, Cringe Correspondent

https://dsmccoy7.wixsite.com/devonvox

Our editor is Samira Tazari

https://www.samiratazari.com/

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

@dadollars

Lori and Leila get personal and seek advice from two experts — including the mother of all guests

Special guests:

Dr. Jennifer Nash, author of Birthing Black Mothers

https://twitter.com/pornoscholar

https://www.dukeupress.edu/birthing-black-mothers

Dr. Katherine Fennelly, author of Family, Declassified (AKA Leila's mom)

https://www.katherinefennelly.com/

Buy their books!

Topic: Motherhood/Unmotherhood

Leila is binging The Guardian's series on Black women and infertility

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/the-great-fertility-divide

Loris is cringing at foster parents who don't want to give back the baby

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/foster-family-biological-parents-adoption-intervenors

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Credits:

Rue Spence edited this episode

https://www.sonivia.com/

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

https://soundcloud.com/dadollars

Renee invites us to visit Shondaland.

Special guest: Renee Bracey Sherman

www.reneebraceysherman.com

Topic: Abortion on TV a year after the fall of Roe v. Wade

Shows Discussed:

Grey's Anatomy

Love is Blind

Ramy

Leila is cringing at the closing of abortion clinics

Lori is binging Glamorous on Netflix

Suggested Links:

New York Times feature on clinics closing

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/us/abortion-clinics-dobbs-roe-wade.html

Renee's abortion storytelling organization, We Testify

https://www.wetestify.org/

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Credits:

Our editor is Karen Y. Chan

www.karenychan.com

Judith Walker created our logo and cover art

Dallas DL Engram created our theme song

@dadollars