Popaganda Podcast
Carmen was the writer, producer and host of Bitch Media’s Popaganda podcast — and explored subjects ranging from the Spice Girls to diet culture, taking thousands of listeners into Michele Pred’s studio and the offices of Lipstick Lobby during the HEAT and GLAMOUR seasons.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: Glamour Beyond Capitalism
Capitalism has complicated our cultural definition of “glamour”—and in the process, it has corrupted how we see and express ourselves. In the seventh episode of Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season, host Carmen Rios encourages activists to envision a world where glamour is divorced from elitism, excess and exclusion.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: How to Lipstick It to the Man
I met up with Davida Hall from Lipstick Lobby in Los Angeles — and learned the stories behind each shade of the feminist beauty brand’s movement-oriented products.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: Class War, but Make It Fashion
In the fifth episode in Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season, host Carmen investigated the labor crises facing women who work in fashion’s supply chain—and challenged listeners to become part of a better fashion economy.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: Inside Michele Pred’s Feminist Artist Studio
I visited feminist artist Michele Pred in her Oakland, California, studio and watched her make some of her famous vintage-handbags-turned-mini-billboards.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: Climate Anxiety, But Make It Fashion
Building a fashion economy where the environment and the workers along the supply chain are treated with respect is possible. I talked to experts outlining how we can build it together.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: The Feminist Beauty Secrets of Witches
A group of magical experts in witchcraft and beauty culture guided my investigation into the powerful potential of hexing the patriarchy, carrying empowering talismans and invoking the names of powerful goddesses alone to yourself in your room.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: The Feminist Guide to Escaping Diet Culture
I kicked off Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season by talking to feminist activists and academics about how diet culture is fueling the kyriarchy, and how all of us can escape its clutches.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: Burning Down the House
In this special 2020 elections episode of Popaganda, I talked to the women leading the charge for a feminist agenda on Capitol Hill — and what it will take to continue empowering women in politics to shake up the system.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: Real Talk with Feminist Trailblazers
Inspired by my own feelings of displacement and isolation in the movement, I talked to some of the most prominent intersectional feminist leaders for this extended episode of Popaganda about the challenges that women like them face in real-time when they work to build a better feminism.
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BITCH MEDIA | Popaganda: Stovetop Social Justice
I took my listeners into the kitchens where refugee chefs and their neighbors are breaking bread and building community.
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