Witch, Please Productions

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Channel • 2 Shows

Parenting

Parenting

Every two weeks
Society & Culture

Society & Culture

Every two weeks

31 JUL

Why Our History Matters with Elio Colavito

In our penultimate episode of Season two, we are joined by friend of the pod, Elio Colavito (he/they)! Elio chats with Marcelle and Raimi about their doctoral research on the history of trans community-building and mutual aid. The group chat about the importance of being connected to community from the past into the present. In response to this week's listener voicemail, Marcelle, Raimi and Elio think through how to support kids when someone in their life comes out or transitions, including changing the pronouns used. Recommendations this week include children's musician Susan Salidor, the Digital Transgender Archive, and doing karaoke with your kids! You can find more of Elio at eliocolavito.org or on twitter @eliocolavito. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with family and friends! For ad-free episodes and to show your support, head to patreon.com/ohhwitchplease! To support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review! Reviews help new listeners discover the show — and it gives us an idea of what you're liking about the new season! See you next week on the playground! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

31 Jul

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44 min
7 AUG

Building the Playground with Marcelle, Raimi, Reese and Coach

In this final episode of Gender Playground Season Two, the GP team gives listeners a peek behind the curtain! Marcelle and Raimi are joined by Coach and Associate Producer, Reese Carr, for a conversation about the making of this podcast! We also tackle two additional voicemails we didn't get to in our other episodes and then, as always, end on some recommendations! And that's a wrap on Gender Playground Season Two! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with family and friends! For ad-free episodes and to show your support, head to patreon.com/ohhwitchplease! To support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review! Reviews help new listeners discover the show — and it gives us an idea of what you're liking about the new season! See you next week on the playground! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

7 Aug

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1h 2m
23/05/2024

What Are You, New?

In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi look closely at the misconception that trans children are a new phenomenon. They discuss the emergence of terms like ‘transtrender’ or ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria,' and consider the long history of trans-ness in children. Then, Marcelle offers a historical and material analysis of the social constructs we have around children, and, with Raimi, considers the value of surfacing, exploring and honoring trans histories. If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends! *** Books Referenced by Raimi: Histories of the Trans Child by Jules Gill-Peterson, 2018. Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyem, 2022. *** Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23/05/2024

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37 min
20/06/2024

What's My Line Again?: Unpacking Social Scripts

How can we as caring adults respond when our children grow beyond our imagination? And how do we, as caring adults, deal with our emotions as we adjust our emotional investments? This week, Marcelle and Raimi work through these questions and discuss gender coded experiences and narratives that we as parents and guardians place on our children. You can find a compilation of resources, corresponding with each episode's topic on our webpage, at ohwitchplease.ca/gender-playground. If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends! *** Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20/06/2024

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46 min
24 JUL

Challenging Gender Essentialism with Lindz Amer

Children’s writer and educator, Lindz Amer (they/them), is our special guest this week! We ask Lindz about their experiences making both indie and mainstream children's media, their goal to make more LGBTQ+ inclusive children’s content and how Queer Kid Stuff came from a desire to create resources they wish they had when they were a kid. Lindz then helps us answer a voicemail from our listener Jasper (they/them), on how to approach talking with and challenging kids on gender essentialist ideas that may pop up in time constrained contexts like team sports. Recommendations this week include queeryouthassemble.org, Lindz’s Singing Storytime programming on their Patreon, A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff, and The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

24 Jul

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44 min
28/03/2024

The Well-Meaning Auntie

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks. Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you! In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi talk through the various ways family and friends may express concern, ignorance, fear or bias. Together they discuss, from personal experience, when there's space for growth and care in those conversations and when boundaries may come in handy. To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

28/03/2024

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37 min
11/04/2024

Pronouns & Preschool

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks. In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi talk about navigating conversations around gender with extended community, other caretakers, and teachers. They discuss the value in setting a positive tone and the importance of giving children space to be playful, despite the political climate and the hostility towards expansive gender expression. If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends! *** Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

11/04/2024

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43 min
10 JUL

As Long As They Know They’re Loved with S. Bear Bergman

Join us on the playground with fellow ‘gender nerd’ and this week's guest, S. Bear Bergman (he/him). In this episode, we chat about Bear's new book, Special Topics In Being A Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way, and answer a listener-submitted voicemail from Steph! We talk to Bear about the benefits of leading with personal experience rather than a position of expertise when it comes to parenting advice, and his desire to write a book about caretaking that didn't gender the parenting experience. We then dive into Steph's voicemail all about gender neutral parenting. Recommendations this week include Ben Greene’s Substack Good Queer News and Morgan M. Page’s podcast One From the Vaults. Marcelle’s recommendation this week is to run for your local municipal government or school board! You can find Bear on his website https://www.sbearbergman.com/, Instagram (@bearbergman), or Blusky (@sbearbergman). If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with family and friends! For ad-free episodes and to show your support, head to patreon.com/ohhwitchplease! To support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review! Reviews help new listeners discover the show — and it gives us an idea of what you're liking about the new season! See you next week on the playground! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

10 Jul

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50 min
14/08/2017

S2E5: Witch, Please and the Fan-Made Musical

By popular demand, we sat down and watched A Very Potter Musical and boy did we have some thoughts. Some… thoughts. ANYWAY, if you still like us after this episode and you’d like to chip in to send us to Orlando, you can do that here. If you like the sound of boring self care, check out Hannah Daisy and maybe buy some of her stuff. Don’t forget to listen all the way to the end for our latest #trywitches tournament challenge and the answer to this episode’s #witchpleasetellme question! http://ohwitchplease.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Witch-Please-and-the-Fan-Made-Musical.mp3Download this fan-made episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

14/08/2017

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1h 38m
17/10/2023

Star Wars x Mass Culture

Why is Star Wars so popular? What were the material conditions that set the first film, A New Hope, up for success in 1977? What can a Marxist critique help us understand about the film? In this episode, Marcelle leads Hannah through a conversation about one of her favorite franchises by first taking a close look at George Lucas's politics and the state of Hollywood in the 1970s. Marcelle and Hannah then think through the movie's seemingly progressive narrative — and the way it's been co-opted by people of all political views. Pulling on the work of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Marcelle offers a Marxist reading of the film's lasting legacy and asks: what is conservative about the film? How does the film work to undermine and/or reinforce the ideology of repressive state apparatuses? If you like our show, please share it with family and friends! Word-of-mouth is the primary way we reach new listeners who are interested in feminist materialist critique, pop culture and laughing at and from within *the discourse.* Share the show today! *** Material Girls is a new show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand. We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca. *Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment. Music Credits: “Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020 Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

17/10/2023

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1h 6m

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