Raechel and Melody discuss the controversy surrounding the new Roseanne re-boot, but first contextualize Roseanne as a working-class icon and the history of working-class representation in television. We unpack racial codings of white and non-white representations, the intersection of gender in class representation, and of course revisit Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding.

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Time stamps:

OO:00-06:20 chit-chat

06:21-22:00 history of working-class on TV

22:01-23:58 social plug

24:00-53:00 Roseanne discussion

53:01 RWLs

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Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY

Middle twinkle: "Fairy Dust" by Soundfx

Outro: "Fake Like" POLICA

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