Poor Lass Podcast

Episode Six is all about the bloody coronavirus. Mad we have this as a title but you know what, this shit is disproportionately affecting working class people so we need to say it. How can we help eachother? What's going down and how can our communities get through it? Our special guest, the excellent Holly Casio also joins us to talk about unions, how you can (should) join one, what it all means explained in a way we all understand. With the usual Poor Lass LOLZ throughout, we promise it's not all doom and gloom!

Join Em & Seleena for their first ever LIVE episode recording with special guest Laura Swithenbank!

The theme of this episode is - Working Class Heroes - set to a backdrop of over 100+ slides of amazing working class people we love.

Recorded in front of a live audience at Federation, Manchester 17th August 2019. Features some beef on Caitlin Moran, if you were a Take That or East 17 fan, if you knew Cilla was a tory or not, which good or bad eggs are from your home town and loads more daft stuff

Join Em for her panel on Identity at Poor Lass LIVE! She is joined by Iqra Choudhry, Sade Mica & Rachael Catherine. They discuss being read as working class, how class shapes your identity, discussing class with friends and family, how race determines how people read your class, adjusting to university and social mobility

Join Seleena at Poor Lass LIVE as part of her panel on Arts & Culture. Joining her is Jack Fallows & Alison Erika Forde. Both are working class artists and they discuss how identifying as an 'artist' makes them feel, earning a living, existing in arts spaces as a working class person and all their top tips!

Join Seleena and Em LIVE in Manchester UK for an all day event - Poor Lass LIVE! This intro features them jogging in, ahem, looking awkward and standing up in front of a lot of people and explaining what all this is all about. Let's be real though, the audience was just buzzing to run and pick up a free crisp sandwich!

Episode 5's theme is FASHION. We talk about legitimacy, appropriating working class culture and masquerading when it suits, buying your gear out the catalogue for 33p a week, gold jewellery, 'work wear' and more

Episode 4's theme is MONEY. We talk about how to make, manage and save it as well as what to do to improve credit, how to hustle and Em shares her own experience of bankruptcy

Episode 3 welcomes Rachael from RECLAIM, a Manchester based project focusing on young working class people. We discuss gentrification, Big Asda, the idea of girlboss, being talking about or on behalf of, what it means to make it and estate life.

Episode 2 is about the experience of class from the perspective of being the child of an immigrant. Seleena's dad is from Jamaica and she chats to our two guests Kirby (from Ghana) and Melissa (parents from St Lucia/Venezuela)on everything from North/South working class traits, Wakanda, Desmonds, revisiting the country your family is from and class differences from there to the UK, The Good Immigrant book and more.

Poor Lass is a podcast hosted by Em Ledger and Seleena Laverne Daye about real life experiences from the mouths of legit working class people. Episode 1 is an introduction to who we are, what the project is about and the print zine collection we've been publishing since 2012.