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The Popaganda Podcast

Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of harmful state systems? Do you struggle to reconcile the two? Join Tashmica Torok and Shannon Perez-Darby on Popaganda, as we dive deep into our love of transformative justice, pop culture and where the two meet.

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Sponsored in part by: Accountable Communities Consortium and The Firecracker Foundation.

Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts!

Content Warning: The Popaganda Podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice, prison abolition, and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic, sexual and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence.

Credits:

Executive Producers: Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok

Audio Production: Shannon Perez-Darby

Show Notes + Graphic Design: Tashmica Torok

Science Fiction Kids & Family Documentary Parenting Government Society & Culture Self-Improvement Science Health & Fitness Spirituality Relationships Arts Sexuality Social Sciences Entertainment News History Tv & Film Music Religion & Spirituality News Fiction True Crime Education
Update frequency
every 10 days
Average duration
49 minutes
Episodes
38
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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Britney Spears with Guest Zara Raven

Britney Spears with Guest Zara Raven

Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok discuss Britney Spears, the nuances of conservatorship, mad liberation, and the liberatory possibilities of dancing on the internet with our first guest ever - …

01:00:12  |   Mon 06 May 2024
Lingo Plinko! Abortion Trafficking is the New Satanic Panic

Lingo Plinko! Abortion Trafficking is the New Satanic Panic

What do abortion and human trafficking have in common? Find out on this week's episode of Lingo Plinko.

Read the full article at https://accountablecommunities.com/writing

Find the full show notes and…

00:06:19  |   Fri 03 May 2024
Sound of Freedom

Sound of Freedom

Tim Ballard is a lying, McLiar face (allegedly) but that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t had an indelible impact on how everyday Americans understand or misunderstand the sexual exploitation of children …

01:09:49  |   Mon 29 Apr 2024
Lingo Plinko! Criminal Legal System

Lingo Plinko! Criminal Legal System

Why do Shannon and Tashmica say the criminal legal system instead of the criminal justice system? Tashmica breaks it down with a little help from the Bureau of Justice and the Vera Institute for Just…

00:05:19  |   Tue 23 Apr 2024
Tom Cruise & Scientology

Tom Cruise & Scientology

Tom Cruise once claimed Scientology had solved humanity’s greatest challenges. To which Shannon and Tashmica say, “What now?”

The Popaganda Podcast kicks off season 2 with a conversation about “Tom Cr…

00:59:32  |   Mon 22 Apr 2024
The Popaganda Podcast Season 2 Trailer

The Popaganda Podcast Season 2 Trailer

The Popaganda Podcast: an award-winning social justice podcast about the pop culture we love and how it inspires us to build a safer, more just world for everyone. Hosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashm…

00:01:46  |   Wed 17 Apr 2024
Lingo Plinko! Box Breathing

Lingo Plinko! Box Breathing

Lingo Plinko is a minisode of The Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. On Monday, we dropped a bonus episode about the HBO original documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life tha…

00:06:05  |   Wed 10 Apr 2024
Great Photo, Lovely Life

Great Photo, Lovely Life

CW/TW: child sexual abuse.

In anticipation of the Popaganda season 2 launch on April 22nd, cohosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok reconnect to discuss the original HBO documentary, Great Photo…

00:23:26  |   Mon 08 Apr 2024
Pop Culture Chisme

Pop Culture Chisme

Popaganda Season 2 launches on April 22nd but Shannon and Tashmica can’t wait that long to talk pop culture chisme and transformative justice. In this bonus episode, we talk about cults, communes, an…

00:55:39  |   Fri 29 Mar 2024
Radical Visions - It Takes More Power to Build Than to Burn

Radical Visions - It Takes More Power to Build Than to Burn

It takes more power to build than to burn and Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok want to build.

In the season finale of The Popaganda Podcast, you are invited to jump into a time machine and look …

01:16:53  |   Mon 23 Oct 2023
True Crime

True Crime

In episode 5 of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica Torok guides Shannon Perez-Darby through where her love of True Crime began and how it has changed over time. The people who are the most interested in…

01:00:27  |   Mon 16 Oct 2023
Lingo Plinko! TERF

Lingo Plinko! TERF

Lingo Plinko is a minisode of the Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. During these short and sweet segments, we'll be breaking down our working definitions of the transform…

00:04:36  |   Fri 13 Oct 2023
TikTok Beef

TikTok Beef

One thing about Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok is they're gonna get to the bottom of a TikTok beef. In episode four of Popaganda, join them as they scroll through a collection of bookmarked b…

01:06:11  |   Mon 09 Oct 2023
Lingo Plinko! Abolition

Lingo Plinko! Abolition

Lingo Plinko is a minisode of the Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. During these short and sweet segments, we'll be breaking down our working definitions of the transform…

00:03:25  |   Thu 05 Oct 2023
Bachelor Nation

Bachelor Nation

In the third episode of Popaganda,  Shannon Perez-Darby invites Tashmica Torok for a hometown visit to one of her favorite pop culture stomping grounds -- Bachelor Nation!

Listen in as we reflect on e…

01:16:25  |   Wed 04 Oct 2023
Copaganda

Copaganda

In the second episode of Popaganda, Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok talk about what Copaganda is and how it impacts survivors as they attempt to seek out justice for themselves and their commu…

01:06:36  |   Mon 25 Sep 2023
Why Pop Culture and Abolition?

Why Pop Culture and Abolition?

In the first episode of Popaganda, Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok make some pretty big confessions. Shannon has spent hundreds of hours watching the Kardashians and as if that’s not bad enoug…

00:48:21  |   Mon 18 Sep 2023
Introducing The Popaganda Podcast!

Introducing The Popaganda Podcast!

Come for the pop culture, stay for the abolition.

Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok, and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of har…

00:01:12  |   Mon 11 Sep 2023
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