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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POPAGANDA | Glamour Beyond Capitalism
Capitalism has complicated our cultural definition of “glamour”—and corrupted how we see and express ourselves. As part of Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season, I explored how we might untangle the word from elitism, excess and exclusion.
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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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POPAGANDA | Class War, but Make It Fashion
For Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season, I 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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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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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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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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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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POPAGANDA | Burning Down the House
I talked to women advancing feminist agendas (and candidates) on Capitol Hill about what it will take to continue empowering women in politics to shake up the system.
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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 about the challenges they’ve faced in their work to build a better feminism.
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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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