Today's episode is a all about the history of why the day after Thanksgiving (in America) is called Black Friday and a look at how the Horror Comedy from 2021 Black Friday turns this Capitalist Holiday into an absurd horrific experience. Stay Safe this holiday season!

Next Up -- Banned Book: This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

Trailer to Black Friday:
https://youtu.be/qRlPqz5VYMI?si=zXt7RqrYt0I_49Fs

Adams Family Values Thanksgiving Scene:
https://youtu.be/tJE3KDxTbWI?si=5NyDqJacmCBGyk3_

Info on Black Friday:
https://www.history.com/news/black-friday-thanksgiving-origins-history
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-30241594
https://thehustle.co/black-friday-deaths-injuries-data/

Philly After the Eagles play
https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/eagles-fans-flood-philly-streets-after-super-bowl-loss-f-k-the-chiefs/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/04/us/philadelphia-after-super-bowl-win/index.html

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The 2006 book Sold, by Patricia McCormick, is a powerful and emotional story based off of 3 years of research she conducted—looking in to the lives of Nepalese girls and tragic realities of human trafficking. Today's episode talks about what this book is about, why its been banned, the style its written in and why stories like the main character Lakshmi's, should never be banned.

Next up --> 2021 film Black Friday

PEN America:
https://pen.org/banned-book-list-2023/ (Updated SOLD move to 7th with a Tie to 13 reasons Why) ---So sorry recorded this episode before the article!
https://pen.org/banned-books-list-fall-2022/ (This is when SOLD tied with PUSH for 6th)

Human Trafficking Resources/Information:

https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/what-human-trafficking
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-Trafficking/Human-Trafficking.html
https://www.state.gov/humantrafficking-about-human-trafficking/
https://www.state.gov/identify-and-assist-a-trafficking-victim/
https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/indicators-human-trafficking
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https://apneaap.org/
https://savethedaughters.org/
https://www.didiproject.org/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/
https://www.wearepact.org/
https://www.vitalvoices.org/

Patricia McCormick website:
https://www.patriciamccormick.com/

Interviews:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/sexual-assualt-book-ban.html#:~:text=To%20ban%20this%20book%2C%20which,them%20to%20share%20their%20stories.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/3-questions-for-patricia-mccormick-whose-book-sold-has-been-banned-in-6-states-090032171.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGH0awZOm5uCzocSmyai4ThMUU1b4mBVscz0IzGsE9LKtgICz6hKF2UcJ6r2SgVTrZ8BgwLHo9amu-G3am7D2fbzR9jMvtAoCZnT8BuZVMNnoHlEteFW0wqJ33mAVPc3tYwO4UEGeK-lYE6QYxCXZB2Kz_fG8MJWkpY6q3R6_zxO

Trailer for SOLD:
https://youtu.be/15JFTJbkQw0?si=LyaFMgJIvjwRriE0

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Today’s episode covers a brief history of tracing the origins and development of the legend of La Llorona from Mexican folklore and La Pucullén from Chilean folklore. This is the start of my research into these folkloric figures, and hope you enjoy!

Next up —> Banned Book: Sold by Patricia McCormmick

Aztec Empire
https://youtu.be/rgdaG6aTJto?si=QhtkHZkMGc0HOxmv

https://youtu.be/GyNR82u9vl0?si=5EJySueDgO6mUYBS

Nahuatl Youtube Channels
https://youtu.be/JONVfWtmTig?si=hWlWFZtP-PdGY_uM

https://youtu.be/eu7EtaVMYoM?si=1l9QfRHyxVyVsz3t

Florentine Codex
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667837/

Elvira’s Story
https://books.google.com/books?id=tdBBTe-ntEQC&pg=RA1-PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false

Cihuacoatl
https://zoesaadia.com/historia-en-el-calmecac/cihuacoatl-the-goddess-of-the-earth/

https://occult-world.com/cihuacoatl/
https://youtu.be/uujigES6RXg?si=-vX-xcU29DArkvu5

https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuacoatl
La Llorona
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/gh-lallorona/

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/10/la-llorona-roots-branches-and-the-missing-link-from-spain/

La Pucullén
https://chiloemitologico.cl/los-mitos-de-chiloe/mitos-terrestres/la-llorona

https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-legend-of-La-Llorona-have-small-changes-depending-of-the-folklore-of-each-Latin-American-country

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Is Mike Munoz the ne ew Holden Caulfield? The book Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison is 7th in the most banned book of 2022 according to the American Library Association. This episode will include my response to its banning and an exploration on if Mike Munoz is this generations new Holden Caulfield from J.D Salinger Catcher in the Rye.

Next Episode --> The Myth of La Llorona and La Pucullen

Place to Jump to avoid a spoiler: 45.56 - 49.29

Books mentioned
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Johnathan Evison:
http://www.authorsroad.com/JonathanEvison.html
http://jonathanevison.net/

About Lawn Boy Ban
https://www.oif.ala.org/top-10-banned-books-lawn-boy/#:~:text=The%20book%20was%20eventually%20banned,its%20graphic%20scenes%20and%20language.

Banned Books Week:
*Correction the live stream is on Facebook but details can be found on the instagram @banned_books_week* sorry about that!
https://bannedbooksweek.org/
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned

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Today’s episode is Part 2 of an amazing conversation with Writer, Producer, Performer and soon-to-be Director, Sarah de Leon also known as Sweet Serendipity and Robin O’Hart. We are talking about her creative journey, mental health, the impact of the Toy Story Franchise, and the 2023 Barbie movie. I’m so grateful to have her for this episode, and hope you enjoy part 2!

Next up → Banned Book: Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison 

Time to jump through: 33.10- 40:41

Where to Support Sarah

Instagram

Production Company: @sweetserendipityprod

Burlesque: @thesweetsarahd

Drag: @robin_ohart 

Patreon

Sweet Serendipity Productions 

Resources if you need them: 

https://sprc.org/

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=onebox

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Today’s episode is Part 1 of an amazing conversation with Writer, Producer, Performer and soon-to-be Director, Sarah de Leon also known as Sweet Serendipity and Robin O’Hart. We are talking about her creative journey, mental health, the impact of the Toy Story Franchise, the Barbie movie, and a Buddy the Elf Universe Conspiracy?? I’m so grateful to have her for this episode, and hope you enjoy!

Next up → A conversation with Sarah De Leon: Part 2 

Where to Support Sarah

Instagram

Production Company: @sweetserendipityprod

Burlesque: @thesweetsarahd

Drag: @robin_ohart 

Patreon

Sweet Serendipity Productions 

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Today's episode takes a look at the banned and challenged book Out of Darkness by Ashely Hope Pérez. A little bit of discussion on what the book is about, why its been banned, the historical fiction genre and history of the New London School explosion in East Texas.

Next up --> ...to be announced...

Ashely Hope Pérez website:
https://ashleyperez.com/

The Intellectual Freedom Blog
https://www.oif.ala.org/top-ten-banned-books-out-of-darkness-by-ashley-hope-perez/

History of the 1930s
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1930s
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/fdr-racial-discrimination-1942

The New London School Explosion
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/oh-my-god-its-our-children/
https://time.com/5359158/new-london-school-explosion/

Also read Out of Darkness!

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Today's episode covers the currently second most banned book in the United States, All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. Today's discussion talks about Intersectionality, and power dynamics within language and history. 

Next Up --- The Emo of New Jersey: Senses Fail

The App I talked about:
https://lithub.com/the-banned-books-club-is-an-e-reader-app-that-can-get-you-over-the-firewall/

George M. Johnson's website
When Racism Anchors your Health

Interviews with George M. Johnson
Time Magazine
NPR
PEN America

Courage California

Professor Kimberle Crenshaw's podcast
Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality 101

Advice on making Friends and finding Communitiy
NPR article on Making friends
A video from Mel Robbins that had some good advice

My tiktok that literally no one asked for:
@lizfromthegrowlery

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Today's episode dives into what is existence and how to perceive consciousness using the character of Murderbot from Martha Wells The Murder Bot Diaries: All Systems Red. We also go through a few different philosophies from Renee Descartes and Thomas Metzinger in the process.....kind of.

Next up --> Banned Book: All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson.

Martha Wells website:
https://www.marthawells.com/

Overview of Aristotelianism:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aristotelianism

Everything you might want to know about Rene Descartes:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

Thomas Metzinger
Book: The Ego Tunnel

Again thank you to Meg for the suggestion!

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