Girlypoplitics

part political analysis, part pop culture spiral

It's like the late-night voice memo your friend sends you at 2 a.m., but it's 60 minutes long and includes citations on fascism, feminism, and pop culture. Might include dog snores. girlypoplitics.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 07/11/2025

    The Death of Nuance: Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Faith, & Gramsci

    Here are the things I read in writing the script: "Your Fave Is Selling You a Pedophilic Fantasy" by Jade Hurley: the viral essay that had me scratching my head and asking, "wait, what?" “Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies” The Prison Diaries - Gramsci. Popular Culture and The Turn To Gramsci - Tony Bennet (not *that* Tony Bennet) key stuff I watched and yapped abt: Brett Cooper’s Sabrina episode. Kat Blaque offering nuance. The infamous Lolita images, which, call me crazy, but I feel like you’re telling on yourself if you immediately see the image of an adult woman and think of one scene in Lolita. Similarities do not pedo-bait a person make. It’s worth looking at the full spread at W. The context, I think, sheds light on this being framed as a “Lolita” shoot. Hint: context makes it look like a weird zoom in. The image that launched a thousand hot (s****y) takes: Amid the backlash, she released an alt cover that she says is “approved by god”. I appreciate that she didn’t apologize and just subtly rolled her eyes at the whole discourse. Don’t you love it when a backlash sanitizes art? This podcast is also approved by god, so you should obviously subscribe and not be a heathen. Get full access to GirlyPoplitics at girlypoplitics.substack.com/subscribe

  2. 06/10/2025

    Who laid the alt-right pipe?

    Things I read in writing this: Books: Democracy in Chains – Nancy MacLean (The Buchanan/Koch bible—dark, but essential) Hood Feminism – Mikki Kendall (On white women’s complicity) The Burnout Society – Byung-Chul Han (Why capitalism seduces instead of oppresses) Angry White Men – Michael Kimmel (On brittle masculinity) Articles/Studies: "The Women Behind the Alt-Right" – The Atlantic "How Neo-liberalism Reinvented Democracy" – Jacobin edit: guys, i’m upset i just found this image and didn’t think to connect the Bene Gesserit to Buchanan. Get full access to GirlyPoplitics at girlypoplitics.substack.com/subscribe

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It's like the late-night voice memo your friend sends you at 2 a.m., but it's 60 minutes long and includes citations on fascism, feminism, and pop culture. Might include dog snores. girlypoplitics.substack.com

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    part political analysis, part pop culture spiral
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    2025
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