Here's The Thing, Tho with Soaliha

Dec 17 2024 81 ep. 54 mins 12

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Decolonise your mind with Soaliha as she discusses politics, pop culture, and the never-ending capitalist hellscape.

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PATREON PREVIEW: If Spotify Wrapped Has Zero Haters, I’m Dead

Dec 17 2024 11 mins

Hello everyone! This week we are off for the holiday season. Instead of the usual episode, please enjoy a 10 minute preview of our Patreon exclusive discussion on Spotify Wrapped and why we are long-standing haters. We talk about the data surveillance inherent to Wrapped, its exploitative origins, and how it relates to "conspicuous consumption." Check out the full conversation over

Is It Ok to Talk About Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s Bodies?

Dec 03 2024 50 mins

This week we talk about celebrity culture, body positivity, and whether it’s ever okay to talk about other people’s bodies — no matter how famous they are. We discuss the Wicked press tour, the eating disorder to white supremacy pipeline, and the role celebrities play in our society. Content warning: this episode discusses disordered eating. Check out Soaliha’s Substack

The Internet Is (not) Forever

Nov 19 2024 53 mins

This week we discuss the power of storytelling as a tool for preserving history — and how that preservation is not only being undermined, but is actively under threat thanks to platform capitalism. We talk about ‘the write side of history’ panel at Muslim Agenda, the way narratives are shaped and disseminated by mediators like news publications and streaming services, and th

Puriteens, Smut & Sabrina Carpenter

Nov 05 2024 65 mins

This week we talk about the rise of puriteens—a portmanteau of puritans and teenagers—and how their sexphobia, suspicion, and moral policing are shaping how sex is talked about and represented online. We discuss the prevalence of puriteenism across BookTok and other platforms, interrogating their criticisms of the dark romance genre, sex scenes in movies, and the wardrobe of Sa

Unsafe vs. Uncomfortable

Oct 22 2024 53 mins

This week we talk about feeling “uncomfortable” compared to feeling “unsafe”, and how these terms have become conflated in conversations around free speech and protests against genocide in Palestine. We discuss what it actually means to be unsafe, the way safety as a concept has been weaponised against marginalised folk, and the importance of sitting with discomfort for gro

Objectivity as a Colonial Myth

Oct 08 2024 60 mins

This week we talk about the concept of being “objective” in western media as discussed in Amy McQiure’s new book ‘Black Witness’: how objectivity is not only weaponised against marginalised folks, but is a state that isn’t even possible to reach in the first place. We discuss the Australian media’s bias towards pro-Israel coverage, the systematic undermining of non-w

Barbie’s Gender Theory

Sep 10 2024 73 mins

This week we talk about Barbie (2023) — was the endlessly hyped film a feminist masterpiece, or just a massive toy commercial? Or perhaps, something else? We discuss the history of Barbie, the film’s gender theory and the queerness of Allan, and line it all up against Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Soaliha: @soalihaofficial & Linktree Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea &

Blake Lively, Chappell Roan and What Celebrities Owe Us

Aug 27 2024 80 mins

This week we talk about celebrities, PR disasters and the difference between what celebrities give us, and what they owe us. We talk about the It Ends With Us film adaptation (and the surrounding drama), Blake Lively’s dumpsterfire of a press tour and Chappell Roan’s latest assertion of boundaries. Soaliha: @soalihaofficial & Linktree Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea & Lin

The Myth of the Tradwife

Aug 13 2024 52 mins

This week we talk about ‘tradwives’: what are they, where did they come from, and why is their content so popular right now? We discuss the ahistorical nostalgia that tradwives are predicated on, the politics of their labor and the neocolonial nature of homesteading. Really, we ask the question: does the ‘tradwife’ as we know her actually exist, or is she a mythic projectio

The Cruel Optimism of Kamala Harris

Jul 30 2024 91 mins

We're back! This week we discuss the internet frenzy around presidential candidate Kamala Harris and our collective amnesia surrounding her previous (and conservative) policies. We talk about her contradictory political history, the abject failure of US democracy and whether radical change can truly be enacted via electoral politics. Soaliha: @soalihaofficial & Linktree Mit