Feminist Killjoys, PhD

In this episode, we say goodbye. We are ending FKJ, PHD. It's real. We take the time to end our podcast with a discussion about what we loved and didn't love about this project. Thank you for your continual dedication to this project. We will miss you.

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Original music for FKJ, PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

In this episode we talk to Alex Boutrous, the Operations and Events Coordinator at Voices for Racial Justice, the Board Chair of the Women For Political Change Education an Advocacy Fund, and the President of the Minnesota Young DFL (MYDFL), and previously, Rep. Ilhan Omar's Operations Director. Alex talks to us about the importance of bringing youth and people of color into political organizing, how social media helps and harms pushing politics further left, her response to the response to Rep. Omar's comments on Israel, and much more!

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00-017:41 Check-ins

17:41-60:02 Interview with Alex

60:03-end RWLs

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Original music for FKJ, PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

In this episode we dig into a listener requested topic on labor/work, late capitalism and Marx. We discuss capitalism theory, worker alienation, the gig economy, and the various uses of the term "hustle." Plus our personal experiences in the (elder) millennium generation.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00-09:59 Check-ins and special announcement

10:00-46:55 Work work work work work

46:56-51:20 RWLs

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Original music for FKJ, PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

Today we discuss buzz around J. Lo's Motown Grammy performance in relation to theories of cultural appropriation, Arianna Grande's performance of race in relation to the notion of black fishing, and also use our critical race theory skills to unpack notions of Whiteness, how essentialism complicates these critiques, and also how it all connects to capitalism. We draw on and amplify Black writers/theorists and as always understand if you want to hear this analysis from POC instead of us! We also spend some time on the recent Ryan Adams expose, and the backlash against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00-00:715 Check-ins

07:26-23:41 Ryan Adams (boo) and Ilhan Omar (yay!)

23:36-45:40 J. Lo & Ariana Grande performances via theories of cultural appropriation, essentialism, black fishing, whiteness, and more

45:46-51:11 RWLs

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Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

In this episode we talk about the "crazy women" narratives perpetuated by the news media in the 1990s (Lorena Bobbit, Marsha Clark, Tonya Harding, Monica Lewinsky, Amy Fisher, etc.). Inspired by the new Lorena documentary by Jordan Peele and accompanying press, we dig into the whitewashing of Lorena Bobbit, nostalgia of 90s culture, the narrative redemption of these women, and how post-feminism relates to all of this.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00-07:25 Check-ins

07:26-14:21 Barbara Ehrenreich’s anti-U.S. empire tweets

14:22-42:15 Lorena Gallo (Bobbit) and the other “crazy” women covered by the 90s news

42:16-47:23 RWLs

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Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

In this episode, we chat about "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher. It's like a two-person book club that you can listen in on? More seriously, we talk about Fisher's argument about mental health and its direct correlation with capitalism. **trigger warning for discussions about mental health causation** Fisher also has some things to say about students and the "communicative sensation-stimulus matrix" which we also dive into. And before all that we talk about the Gillette ad that has a few select men's undies in a bundle.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00-5:00 check-ins

5:01-14:36 Gillette Ad

14:45-49:30 Capitalist Realism

50:00-end RWL

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Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

In this episode, we discuss Kevin Hart and the Ellen Oscars interview, the new "Surviving R Kelly" documentary, the death of Jazmine Barnes, and how about some light stuff too? A look at Raechel’s Golden Globes picks. Also a shout-out and connection to Anne Helen Petersen's "How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation."

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00-07:15 check-ins

07:16-18:35 "How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation" discussion

18:36-39:42 current events discussion: (Kevin Hart/Ellen, R. Kelly, Jazmine Barnes +RIP+)

39:43-46:50 Golden Globes discussion

46:51-48:57 RWL

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Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

In our finale of Shop Local month, we share an interview with Jess Hirsch, the founder of Women’s Woodshop. We talked with Jess about owning a business in a male-dominated industry, making wood craft accessible and welcoming to women of color and non-binary folk and so much more. Recorded in the Women's Woodshop in South Minneapolis.

Last call for the FALL FUN DRIVE :: don't forget to check out our Patreon page for details on our month-long fun drive where new (and longtime) patrons can receive unique gifts including activist grab bags, a FKJ, PhD poster, and salt soaks.

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Time Stamps

00:00-19:30: chit-chat, Fun Drive, the death of GHW Bush and the unnecessarily sappy news coverage, helping trans women at the Mexico border.

19:31-49:50: interview with Jess

49:51-57:14: RWLs with Raechel and Melody

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Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

We talk with Dulce of Dulceria Bakery in the second episode of our Shop Local month. This interview ended up being about so much more than running a bakery. We talked about getting burnt out in the activism-education world, creating safer spaces, and the importance of people of color owning businesses in a gentrifying urban space. We really want you to listen to this interview.

+Visit Dulce and her bakery at dulceriabakery.com+

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FALL FUN DRIVE :: don't forget to check out our Patreon page for details on our month-long fun drive where new (and longtime) patrons can receive unique gifts including activist grab bags, a FKJ, PhD poster, and salt soaks.

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Time Stamps

00:00-30:00: chit-chat, Fun Drive, and a discussion about whether white people practicing self-care reinforces white supremacy.

30:01-59:07: interview with Dulce of Dulceria

59:08-1:04:00: RWLs with Raechel and Melody

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Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3

In our final installment of this year's Witch Month, we talk with The Firebrand Witch. They are a brilliant, cyborg witch with so much to say about the power of our narratives, toxic social justice spaces, identity politics, and much more.

This episode features a wonderfully poppy and thematic outro song, "Witchcraft" by Graveyard Club (used with permission from Graveyard Club).

Happy Halloween and Happy Samhain, killjoys. <3

Time Stamps

00:00-10:44 chit-chat

10:45-57:50 interview with The Firebrand Watch

57:51-01:02:00 "Witchcraft" by Graveyard Club

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Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com

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Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here*

You can also email us at [email protected]. <3