Things That Keep Me Up at Night

Naptime Nightmares #048 - Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)


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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses the life and death of Pocahontas, which includes potentially-triggering topics such as rape and sexual abuse, pedophilia/child rape, murder, kidnapping, abusive power dynamics, and other disturbing sociopolitical atrocities. Please listen with care.

Basically Brooke went to a shitty daycare when she was a kid and was forced to watch Pocahontas II every single day for a few months and it left such an impression that she had to rope Olivia into watching it for the podcast. And it was INSULTING.

Featuring: rotten carrots, romanticizing assimilation, and OH MY GOD SHE LITERALLY PUTS LIGHTENING POWDER ON HER SKIN AND IT'S PORTRAYED AS A POSITIVE. 

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Things That Keep Me Up at NightBy Brooke Morris, Olivia Leland

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