In this episode, we say goodbye. We are ending FKJ, PHD. It's real. We take the time to end our podcast with a discussion about what we loved and didn't love about this project. Thank you for your continual dedication to this project. We will miss you. *** Original music for FKJ, PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

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EP 118: Goodbye

In this episode we talk to Alex Boutrous, the Operations and Events Coordinator at Voices for Racial Justice, the Board Chair of the Women For Political Change Education an Advocacy Fund, and the President of the Minnesota Young DFL (MYDFL), and previously, Rep. Ilhan Omar's Operations Director. Alex talks to us about the importance of bringing youth and people of color into political organizing, how social media helps and harms pushing politics further left, her response to the response to Rep. Omar's comments on Israel, and much more! *** TIMESTAMPS 00:00-017:41 Check-ins 17:41-60:02 Interview with Alex 60:03-end RWLs *** Original music for FKJ, PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

Ep 117: Political Organizing Reflections with Alex Boutrous!

In this episode we dig into a listener requested topic on labor/work, late capitalism and Marx. We discuss capitalism theory, worker alienation, the gig economy, and the various uses of the term "hustle." Plus our personal experiences in the (elder) millennium generation. *** TIMESTAMPS 00:00-09:59 Check-ins and special announcement 10:00-46:55 Work work work work work 46:56-51:20 RWLs *** Original music for FKJ, PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

EP 115: Working Under Late Capitalism

Today we discuss buzz around J. Lo's Motown Grammy performance in relation to theories of cultural appropriation, Arianna Grande's performance of race in relation to the notion of black fishing, and also use our critical race theory skills to unpack notions of Whiteness, how essentialism complicates these critiques, and also how it all connects to capitalism. We draw on and amplify Black writers/theorists and as always understand if you want to hear this analysis from POC instead of us! We also spend some time on the recent Ryan Adams expose, and the backlash against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. *** TIMESTAMPS 00:00-00:715 Check-ins 07:26-23:41 Ryan Adams (boo) and Ilhan Omar (yay!) 23:36-45:40 J. Lo & Ariana Grande performances via theories of cultural appropriation, essentialism, black fishing, whiteness, and more 45:46-51:11 RWLs *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

Ep 114: Ariana, J. Lo, & Critical Race Theory

In this episode we talk about the "crazy women" narratives perpetuated by the news media in the 1990s (Lorena Bobbit, Marsha Clark, Tonya Harding, Monica Lewinsky, Amy Fisher, etc.). Inspired by the new Lorena documentary by Jordan Peele and accompanying press, we dig into the whitewashing of Lorena Bobbit, nostalgia of 90s culture, the narrative redemption of these women, and how post-feminism relates to all of this. *** TIMESTAMPS 00:00-07:25 Check-ins 07:26-14:21 Barbara Ehrenreich’s anti-U.S. empire tweets 14:22-42:15 Lorena Gallo (Bobbit) and the other “crazy” women covered by the 90s news 42:16-47:23 RWLs *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

EP 113: The "Crazy" Women of the 90s

In this episode, we chat about "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher. It's like a two-person book club that you can listen in on? More seriously, we talk about Fisher's argument about mental health and its direct correlation with capitalism. **trigger warning for discussions about mental health causation** Fisher also has some things to say about students and the "communicative sensation-stimulus matrix" which we also dive into. And before all that we talk about the Gillette ad that has a few select men's undies in a bundle. *** TIMESTAMPS 00:00-5:00 check-ins 5:01-14:36 Gillette Ad 14:45-49:30 Capitalist Realism 50:00-end RWL *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

Ep 112: Capitalist Realism

In this episode, we discuss Kevin Hart and the Ellen Oscars interview, the new "Surviving R Kelly" documentary, the death of Jazmine Barnes, and how about some light stuff too? A look at Raechel’s Golden Globes picks. Also a shout-out and connection to Anne Helen Petersen's "How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." *** TIMESTAMPS 00:00-07:15 check-ins 07:16-18:35 "How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation" discussion 18:36-39:42 current events discussion: (Kevin Hart/Ellen, R. Kelly, Jazmine Barnes +RIP+) 39:43-46:50 Golden Globes discussion 46:51-48:57 RWL *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

EP 111: 2019 Headlines (including R. Kelly and Kevin Hart & Ellen)

In this episode, we discuss research by Dr. Jean Twenge that show a striking correlation between smart phone use and depression. This research focuses on Generation Z, or what Twenge calls the "iGen" generation. Of course, we have our critiques. You can read an except from Twenge's book via her article with The Atlantic, "Is Social Media Destroying a Generation?" Plus, Kevin Hart and The Oscars ruin our dinner party this week. *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

EP 110: Smart phones, mental health, & capitalism

In our finale of Shop Local month, we share an interview with Jess Hirsch, the founder of Women’s Woodshop. We talked with Jess about owning a business in a male-dominated industry, making wood craft accessible and welcoming to women of color and non-binary folk and so much more. Recorded in the Women's Woodshop in South Minneapolis. Last call for the FALL FUN DRIVE :: don't forget to check out our Patreon page for details on our month-long fun drive where new (and longtime) patrons can receive unique gifts including activist grab bags, a FKJ, PhD poster, and salt soaks. *** Time Stamps 00:00-19:30: chit-chat, Fun Drive, the death of GHW Bush and the unnecessarily sappy news coverage, helping trans women at the Mexico border. 19:31-49:50: interview with Jess 49:51-57:14: RWLs with Raechel and Melody *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

EP 109: Women's Woodshop

We talk with Dulce of Dulceria Bakery in the second episode of our Shop Local month. This interview ended up being about so much more than running a bakery. We talked about getting burnt out in the activism-education world, creating safer spaces, and the importance of people of color owning businesses in a gentrifying urban space. We really want you to listen to this interview. +Visit Dulce and her bakery at dulceriabakery.com+ *** FALL FUN DRIVE :: don't forget to check out our Patreon page for details on our month-long fun drive where new (and longtime) patrons can receive unique gifts including activist grab bags, a FKJ, PhD poster, and salt soaks. *** Time Stamps 00:00-30:00: chit-chat, Fun Drive, and a discussion about whether white people practicing self-care reinforces white supremacy. 30:01-59:07: interview with Dulce of Dulceria 59:08-1:04:00: RWLs with Raechel and Melody *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Now on Spotify! Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

EP 108: Building Intentional and Intersectional Community in a Local Latinx Bakery

It's November and this month's theme is SHOP LOCAL. This month we will be talking with small business owners around Minneapolis about how they got started and their feminist intentions within their spaces. This week we talk with Lacey of The Future. The Future is a witchy project space, Aquarian lab, and artist market in South Minneapolis. Lacey is an public art witch, photographer, and astrologer. We talk with Lacey about The Future space itself including some powerful Drew Barrymore and Prince vibes, plus other rad stuff like community-building and the infamous Witch District. You can find Lacey and The Future online at laceyprpichedtke.com & thefuturempls.com. *** FALL FUN DRIVE :: don't forget to check out our Patreon page for details on our month-long fun drive where new (and longtime) patrons can receive unique gifts including activist grab bags, a FKJ, PhD poster, and salt soaks. *** Time Stamps 00:00-14:00: chit-chat 14:00-43:00: interview with Lacey of The Future 44:00- end: RWLs with Raechel and Melody *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

Ep 107: Witch-District-Making & Anti-Capitalist Business Owning with Lacey Prpić Hedtke

In our final installment of this year's Witch Month, we talk with The Firebrand Witch. They are a brilliant, cyborg witch with so much to say about the power of our narratives, toxic social justice spaces, identity politics, and much more. This episode features a wonderfully poppy and thematic outro song, "Witchcraft" by Graveyard Club (used with permission from Graveyard Club). Happy Halloween and Happy Samhain, killjoys. 

EP 106: Narratives, Call Out Culture, and Identity Politics with the Firebrand Witch

Witch Month is here! All this month, we are talking with witches and bringing you our conversations. In this episode, we talk with Casey Wait about their path to being a witch, how religion played a role in their transformation, and why it is important for witches to come together and organize for fair labor practices. Casey Wait is a genderqueer witch/intuitive, tarot reader, artist, maker, writer, lover of history, proud socialist Flower Person living in occupied Abenaki/Pocumtuk territory, also known as Southern Vermont. Happy Witch Month everyone. Time Stamps 00:00-6:00 chit-chat 6:11-end interview *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 

EP 105: Labor organizing with witches

(Hey it's a bonus ep! Witch Month returns next week!) In episode 104, we talk to Dr. Z Nicolazzo about her research on trans* students in higher education. We talk the methodology behind ethnographic work, the importance of affirmative and resilience-based frameworks, and how Z does trans killjoy. Z also talks about hir upcoming workshop, "Teaching While Marginalized: What Our Bodies Teach Us About Critical Pedagogy" at the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Graduate Symposium series on October 13th at 11:45am. Find Z on Twitter @trans_killjoy. Learn more about the PNCA series at https://pnca.edu/news/grad/cs/z-nicolazzo-lecture/. *** Time stamps: Chit chat: 00:00-12:40 Interview with Dr. Z Nicolazzo: 12:45-51:50 RWL: 51:15-58:15 *** All original music by Emily Jane Powers. *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us 2004 at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies *** WITCH MONTH RETURNS NEXT WEEK!

EP 104: Trans* Resilience, Pedagogy and Methods with Dr. Z Nicolazzo

Witch Month is back! All this month, we will be talking with witches and bringing you our conversations. In this episode, we talk with Tess, otherwise known as City Witch (@cityxwitch on instagram). Tess//City Witch is a a folk tarot reader, city witch, retired sex worker, and zinester residing in so-called Ottawa on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. They are a Cancer sun and moon and an Aries rising. We talked with City Witch about lineage in the tarot world, important books that inspire City Witch's work, and the dynamics of labor politics within spiritual work. This interview is full of gems of knowledge. Happy Witch Month everyone. Time Stamps 00:00-7:30: chit-chat 7:30-end: interview *** Original music for FKJ PhD by Emily Jane Powers. For more information on her work, visit emilyjanepowers.com *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review. Follow us on the Gram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on the Fy. Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. All Patreons receive our FKJ, PHD newsletter and stickers. So become a Patreon today! *insert jingle music here* You can also email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com. 