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Messy Liberation: Feminist Conversations about Politics and Pop Culture

Messy Liberation: Feminist Conversations about Politics and Pop Culture

De: Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown
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Join feminist coaches Taina Brown and Becky Mollenkamp for casual (and often deep) conversations about business, current events, politics, pop culture, and more. We’re not perfect activists or allies! These are our real-time, messy feminist perspectives on the world around us. This podcast is for you if you find yourself asking questions like: • Why is feminism important today? • What is intersectional feminism? • Can capitalism be ethical? • What does liberation mean? • Equity vs. equality — what's the difference and why does it matter? • What does a Trump victory mean for my life? • What is mutual aid? • How do we engage in collective action? • Can I find safety in community? • What's a feminist approach to ... ? • What's the feminist perspective on ...?2024 Becky Mollenkamp LLC Ciencias Sociales Política y Gobierno
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  • Trending topics: Bieber, Epstein files, Pedro Pascal, Leo season & more
    Jul 28 2025

    Pedro Pascal’s red carpet style, Malcolm Jamal Warner’s tragic passing, and the chaos around the Epstein files — this episode of Messy Liberation goes everywhere at once. Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown dive into pop culture, politics, astrology, and messy real-life feminism with zero polish and plenty of swearing. From debating Pedro Pascal’s “daddy energy” and Leo season’s chaos to unpacking the Cosby Show legacy and the William McNeil police brutality video, they keep it bold, irreverent, and intersectional.


    Discussed in this episode:

    • Pedro Pascal’s red carpet moments and breaking masculinity norms
    • Malcolm Jamal Warner’s drowning and the Cosby Show’s complicated legacy
    • Dating strategically vs dating for love in your 20s
    • Melania Trump and Kennedy Center renaming outrage
    • Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein files, and MAGA conspiracies
    • Police brutality and the William McNeil dashcam video
    • Venus Williams’ comeback and U.S. health insurance issues
    • Leo season, assertiveness vs aggression, and zodiac dynamics

    Resource mentioned:

    • William McNeil dashcam video (TW: police brutality)


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    48 m
  • Internalized Superiority and Judging Pop Culture
    Jul 21 2025

    Ever feel superior for hating the mainstream? Same. In this episode of Messy Liberation, Becky and Taina dig into the hidden hierarchies we create when we judge popular culture, and how that feeds into white supremacy, fatphobia, and American exceptionalism. From YouTube vlogs and Hallmark movies to queer fanfiction and Audre Lorde, they explore how internalized systems show up in even our most frivolous pleasures. This is a funny, challenging, and honest convo about how true liberation means dismantling shit inside ourselves first—without killing joy in the process.

    Discussed in this Episode

    • Toxic traits around rejecting popular culture

    • Fanfiction as a space for safety and creativity

    • Hallmark’s evolving portrayal of queer characters

    • Superiority complexes and gifted child syndrome

    • Exceptionalism and American individualism

    • Intersectional readings of pop culture (like Christmas in July)

    • Fatphobia and anti-fat bias in medical systems

    • Language policing and supremacy in grammar norms

    • Audre Lorde’s ‘master’s tools’ and internalized systems

    • How liberation work demands internal accountability

    Resources Mentioned

    • Ryan Trahan's 50 States in 50 Days YouTube Series

    • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    • "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire

    • "The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House" by Audre Lorde

    • Somebody Somewhere on HBO Max

    • "An Actress of a Certain Age" by Jeff Hiller

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    41 m
  • Making Space for Grief and Anger
    Jul 14 2025

    Grief is always in the room—and in this raw and powerful conversation, Becky and Taina explore the emotional weight of loss, anger, and what it means to truly feel your feelings. They unpack their personal experiences with recent death, the stigma around female rage, and why American culture is so broken when it comes to grief. From pet loss to patriarchal mindsets, they dive deep into the intersections of anger and grief, why somatic expression matters, and how caretaking roles often obscure our own needs. This episode is a tender reminder that grief and joy, anger and love, can—and do—coexist.

    Discussed in this episode

    • Why grief is always present—even when we don’t acknowledge it
    • How female anger is suppressed (and why that’s dangerous)
    • The myth of the angry Black woman
    • Why anger and grief are somatic experiences, not just mental
    • How American culture fails at grief
    • The emotional labor of caretaking and parenting during loss
    • Ways we gaslight ourselves through loss
    • Visualization and embodiment practices for emotional release

    Resources mentioned

    • "Uses of Anger" by Audre Lorde
    • The Emotions Wheel
    • Bernadette Pleasant, The Emotional Institute
    • "Patriarchy Stress Disorder" by Dr. Valerie Rein


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