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It’s Public Intellectual Day at StraightioLab HQ as we welcome The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix to the lab to talk about, quite simply, EVERYTHING: the semiotics of handbags, Lizzo’s Pass, the many of Joan Didion, and of course the state of religion in the United States of America. StraightioLab: Live! at the Bell House: https://concerts.livenation.com/straightiolab-live-brooklyn-new-york-04-16-2025/event/3000626340673C34STRAIGHTIOLAB MERCH: cottonbureau.com/people/straightiolab SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON at patreon.com/straightiolab for bonus episodes twice a month and don't forget to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We've finally arrived! After four episodes and nearly ten hours of discussion and dissection, Pop Pantheon's Britney Spears Mega Series concludes with the big question: Is Britney Spears in Tier 1 of the Pantheon? To parse that out, Louie and Russ are joined by friend of the pod Molly Mary O'Brien to pull at this debate from every possible angle. Throughout the nearly two-hour (!!!) debate, they also hear from Dean of USC's Thornton School of Music's Jason King regarding his thoughts on Britney, her legacy, her ranking, and the Pantheon in general, along with ranking opinions from every past guest of the series including The New Yorker's Doreen St. Félix, NPR's Ann Powers, The New York Times' Caryn Ganz and Beyond the Blinds' Troy McEady. Finally, Louie ranks Britney Spears in the official Pop Pantheon. Check out Pop Pantheon's Britney Spears Essentials PlaylistCome to Gorgeous Gorgeous NYC on 4/11Come to Gorgeous Gorgeous LA on 4/18Join Pop Pantheon: All Access, Our Patreon Channel, for Exclusive Content and MoreShop Merch in Pop Pantheon's StoreFollow DJ Louie XIV on InstagramFollow DJ Louie XIV on TwitterFollow Pop Pantheon on Instagram
For the first in our five-part series on Britney Spears, The New Yorker's Doreen St. Felix returns to Pop Pantheon to chart the birth of a pop princess. Doreen and Louie dig into Britney's origin story, from Star Search and The New Mickey Mouse Club to her Jive deal and development in Sweden with Max Martin. Then they tackle her legendary breakout smash and music video, “...Baby One More Time," ”and her 1999 album of the same name, which shot her to the front of the teen pop pack. Next, they parse 2000's hit-packed Oops!... I Did It Again, which solidified Britney's spot as the most important pop star of the new millenium. Join us next week for Part 2, in which we'll discuss 2001's Britney and 2003's In The Zone.Check out Pop Pantheon's Britney Spears Essentials PlaylistCome to Main Pop Girls on 3/21!Come to Gorgeous Gorgeous NYC on 3/1Come to Gorgeous Gorgeous LA on 3/14Join Pop Pantheon: All Access, Our Patreon Channel, for Exclusive Content and MoreShop Merch in Pop Pantheon's StoreFollow DJ Louie XIV on InstagramFollow DJ Louie XIV on TwitterFollow Pop Pantheon on Instagram
Danielle Deadwyler, who first grabbed the spotlight for her performance as Emmett Till's mother in the film “Till,” stars in a new film called “The Piano Lesson”—one of August Wilson's Century Cycle plays about Black life in Pittsburgh. Denzel Washington has committed to adapting and producing all ten of Wilson's Century Cycle plays; “The Piano Lesson” is directed by his son Malcolm, and his other son John David co-stars. Deadwyler plays Berniece, a widow who has kept the family piano after her migration north to Pittsburgh; her brother, who remained in Mississippi, wants to sell it to buy a plot of land. Themes of inheritance and history are central to the siblings' conflict. “Histories are passed as we keep doing things together . . . through struggle, through joy, through lovemaking, through challenge,” Deadwyler explained to the New Yorker's Doreen St. Félix. “The Piano Lesson” is playing in select theatres, and will be available on Netflix starting November 22nd.
One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris's candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would not be the first Black President. “I think that most times when people bring Kamala Harris and Barack Obama into the same conversation, they are kind of mistaken—it's just this kind of wish-casting,” Vinson Cunningham says. But “what they do have in common is a Black father who is not from America. And this brings all kinds of strange things into being . . . in creating a Black American identity.” Cunningham and fellow staff writer Doreen St. Félix discuss Harris's complicated identity as the child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, and more. (This segment is an excerpt from a longer conversation on The Political Scene.) Plus, the New Yorker sports correspondent Louisa Thomas talks with David Remnick about some of the unusual venues of the Paris Olympics—from the Place de la Concorde and the supposedly cleaned-up Seine to a small reef village in Tahiti.
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the start of Kamala Harris's Presidential campaign and the surge of excitement among Democrats on the Internet and at rallies. Plus, who might be her running mate and how Republicans plan to launch “racist, misogynist” attacks against her. This week's reading: “Biden's Exit, Harris's Moment,” by Susan B. Glasser “Why Did Progressive Democrats Support Joe Biden?,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “Kamala Harris Should Tell Her Family's Story,” by Jay Caspian Kang “J. D. Vance's Sad, Strange Politics of Family,” by Jessica Winter “Was Biden's Decision to Withdraw ‘Heroic'?” by Isaac Chotiner “Kamala Harris, the Candidate,” by Doreen St. Félix “Who Should Kamala Harris Pick as Her Running Mate?” by Amy Davidson Sorkin “J. D. Vance's Radical Religion,” by Paul Elie To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send in feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com with “The Political Scene” in the subject line.
The New Yorker staff writers and cultural critics Doreen St. Félix and Vinson Cunningham join Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kamala Harris's sudden ascendence to the top of the Democratic ticket. How might her gender, race, and long political career from prosecutor to Vice-President shape the campaign ahead? “In a weird way, I think that she can run against both Trump and, implicitly, very subtly, against Biden, too,” Cunningham says. “I think her strongest way to code herself is: we're finally turning the page.” This week's reading: “Kamala Harris, the Candidate,” by Doreen St. Félix “A Mood of Optimism at Kamala Harris's First Campaign Stop,” by Emily Witt “Who Should Kamala Harris Pick as Her Running Mate?,” by Amy Davidson Sorkin To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com.
Artist Kara Walker has investigated race, gender, sexuality, and violence through her installations, paintings, silhouettes, and films. Walker's art has won awards and is collected by museums around the world. Her work with stereotypes and the history of racial violence has pushed viewers to confront the continuing violence against Black people in America. With beloved writer Jamaica Kincaid, winner of the American Book Award, Walker is publishing An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children, a brilliant collection of essays and illustrations revealing the beauty of the natural world and the terrible history of colonialism. In July 2024, SFMOMA is releasing a site-specific installation by Walker, focusing on the global loss due to COVID-19, trauma, and technology. On June 6, 2024, Kara Walker came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to be interviewed on stage by New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Félix.
Doreen St. Félix has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017. Previously, she was a culture writer at MTV News. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. St. Félix was named on the Forbes “30 Under 30” media list in 2016. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, and, in 2019, she won in the same category. Recorded March 26, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University Edited by Michele Moses Music by Dani Lencioni Art by Leanne Shapton Sponsored by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, Lit Hub, and Knopf
Hello!Today's episode is a talk with Vinson Cunningham about his new novel GREAT EXPECTATIONS which came out yesterday and is in bookstores everywhere. It's everything you would expect from Vinson: beautiful sentences, long meditations on hoops, the church, and love, and a engrossing storyline that follows a young man who goes to work on the campaign of a certain senator from Illinois during his first presidential run. BUY IT HERE. And if you're in New York City, Vinson will be in conversation with Doreen St. Felix tonight at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. Jay This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe
“I think of ‘The Color Purple' as the epic of our time,” Doreen St. Félix said in a conversation with the actress Danielle Brooks. While St. Félix admits, “I wasn't convinced that we needed necessarily to have a new envisioning of the story—which has been a novel, which has been a film, which has been a musical twice over”—she finds that Blitz Bazawule's film, which opened at the end of 2023, is different from its stage and screen predecessors in significant ways, reflecting the concerns of its millennial cast and director. The actress Danielle Brooks has played a critical role in the work's transition back to film. In 2016, the “Orange Is the New Black” star was Tony-nominated for her performance as the no-nonsense Sofia, and she is now earning strong Oscar buzz playing Sofia on film. The transition from stage to film dramatically changed her performance. “Being actually in Georgia, feeling the hot Georgia sun, being on plantations, actually holding a ten-pound baby and having to be careful with that child,” Brooks tells St. Félix, “opens up the world. Now I feel like I was painting with an endless amount of color.” Sofia was the role first portrayed onscreen by Oprah Winfrey, in Steven Spielberg's 1985 version, and Winfrey is a producer of the new film. “Huge shoes to fill,” Brooks says, of Winfrey. “But I feel like she really allowed me to be the cobbler of my own shoe.”
No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amount of funding and is working behind the scenes to get on Presidential ballots across the country. The group has yet to announce a candidate, but “most likely we'll have both a Republican and Democrat on the ticket,” Pat McCrory, the former governor of North Carolina and one of the leaders of No Labels, tells David Remnick. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are reportedly under consideration, but McCrory will not name names, nor offer any specifics on the group's platform, including regarding critical issues such as abortion and gun rights. That opacity is by design, Sue Halpern, who has covered the group, says. “The one reason why I think they haven't put forward a candidate is once they do that, then they are required to do all the things that political parties do,” she says. “At the moment, they're operating like a PAC, essentially. They don't have to say who their donors are.” Third-party campaigns have had significant consequences in American elections, and, with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden historically unpopular, a third-party candidate could peel a decisive number of moderate voters away from the Democratic Party. Plus, three New Yorker critics—Doreen St. Félix, Alexandra Schwartz, and Inkoo Kang—discuss why so many scripted and reality shows use psychotherapy as a central plotline.
The last time the Writers Guild of America hit the picket line was fifteen years ago, with a strike that lasted a hundred days and cost the city of Los Angeles hundreds of millions of dollars. This year's strike has the potential to drag on even longer. At the core of the dispute is the question of who deserves to profit from the revenue generated by streaming services. “[Studios] tell us that they can't afford the cost of us,” Laura Jacqmin, a veteran TV writer and a W.G.A. strike captain tells the staff writer Michael Schulman. “And simultaneously they're on their public earnings calls, trumpeting bright financial futures to their shareholders.” Plus, the comedian and essayist Samantha Irby talks with the staff writer and critic Doreen St. Félix. Irby is beloved by fans for her particularly unvarnished truth-telling. She recently started writing for television on shows like Hulu‘s “Shrill” and HBO's “And Just Like That . . .,” the “Sex and the City” reboot, which returns for a second season in June. But she has also maintained her memoir-writing practice, and is out with a new essay collection, “Quietly Hostile,” in May.
Beyoncé's massive Renaissance World Tour kicks off next week in Stockholm, Sweden so DJ Louie got a veritable Beyhive of all stars— writer of the substack Hung Up Hunter Harris, Keep It! Host Ira Madison III and Pitchfork Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel— in formation to reflect on (almost) one year of the stadium trek's namesake Renaissance, Queen B's seventh album which dropped last July. First, the panel discusses each of their personal journeys with the record, from elation to frustration and everything in between, and its incredibly perplexing rollout complete with no visuals, no live performances and essentially zero acknowledgement of this music from Beyoncé herself. They then share their hopes for the tour before tackling their personal rankings of Beyoncé's seven studio albums. Having lived with it for nearly a year, how does Renaissance stack up against her previous work? Check Out Our Beyoncé Series from last year, Part 1: Destiny's Child with Brittany Spanos, Part 2: Solo Superstar with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Part 3: American Icon with Dr. Daphne Brooks & Part 4: Beyoncé's Renaissance with Doreen St. FelixJoin Pop Pantheon: All Access, Our New Patreon Channel, for Exclusive Content and MoreShop Merch in Pop Pantheon's StoreGrab Tickets to See Louie DJ at his Queer Pop Party, Gorgeous Gorgeous, 5/6 in Los AngelesGrab Tickets to See Louie DJ at the debut of Gorgeous Gorgeous NYC 6/16 at the Sultan Room in Bushwick!!!Subscribe to Hunter Harris' Substack Hung UpFollow Hunter Harris on TwitterCheck out Ira Madison III's Podcast Keep It! Follow Ira Madison III on TwitterFollow Puja Patel on Twitter Follow DJ Louie XIV on InstagramFollow DJ Louie XIV on TwitterFollow Pop Pantheon on InstagramFollow Pop Pantheon on Twitter
The New Yorker's Doreen St. Félix returns to Pop Pantheon for the second episode in our new girl group trilogy, digging into the crazy, sexy and cool career of one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, TLC. Doreen and DJ Louie discuss the album that made TLC instant stars, 1992's raucous Oooh, on the TLC Tip!, their pivot to slinky R&B on their classic blockbuster sophomore album CrazySexyCool (1994), their comeback with 1999's futuristic FanMail and 2002's 3D, released after Lisa Left-Eye Lopes' untimely death. Along the way, they explore TLC's forward-thinking pop feminism and politics, the drama that plagued and in some ways defined them and their impact on both girl groups and pop history. Finally, Louie and Doreen rank TLC in the official Pop Pantheon.Come back April 20 for the final episode in Pop Pantheon's girl groups trilogy.Listen to TLC Essentials playlist on SpotifyJoin Pop Pantheon: All Access, Our New Patreon Channel, for Exclusive Content and More!!Shop Merch in Pop Pantheon's Store!Follow Doreen St. Félix on TwitterFollow Doreen St. Félix on InstagramFollow DJ Louie XIV on InstagramFollow DJ Louie XIV on TwitterFollow Pop Pantheon on InstagramFollow Pop Pantheon on Twitter
Last Thursday, the Memphis Police Department announced that it was firing five police officers who beat a man named Tyre Nichols to death during a traffic stop. Shortly afterward, all five officers were jailed and charged with murder. Then the police department released body-camera and surveillance-camera footage of the incident. In the days that followed, the footage, and the question of whether or not to watch it, became the object of public preoccupation, superseding the violence it captured. Doreen St. Félix is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss police-brutality videos as cultural objects—and the police as a storytelling apparatus.
Quinta Brunson, the creative genius behind the critical and popular hit show Abbott Elementary, was interviewed by Doreen St. Felix on a recent episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour. St. Felix asked her the most interesting question: Did you ever experience an impactful no? You wanted something, you did not get it, the no caused major disappointment at the time, but in the end the no prompted something positive that would not otherwise have happened. Brunson responded that she once went to a television producer with an idea for a network television show she believed in. The plot of the proposed show was that she and a male friend, both in their 20s, who had a good platonic relationship, slept together once, as a result of which she got pregnant. The show would be about how these two friends co-parent their child—a fact pattern that she said happens all the time. The television producer said no, which stung at the time. But in retrospect, that no helped give birth to Abbott Elementary. In class we consider this concept of impactful no through two different lenses.
Quinta Brunson made a name for herself as a master of meme comedy and is a self-described “child of the Internet,” yet her ABC mockumentary series “Abbott Elementary” is an unabashed throwback to the sitcoms of her youth. Doreen St. Félix talked with Brunson at the 2022 New Yorker Festival about her influences and the everyday comedy of the workplace. St. Félix believes that Brunson has found “freedom in formula” when it comes to “Abbott,” which documents the lives of the beleaguered staff at a Philadelphia public school. “There is nothing that I could do,” Brunson says, “or [that] anyone can do that is more triumphant than someone going to their shitty job.” Writing in the wake of shows like “Black-ish,” Brunson relishes being able to center her story on Black people without addressing topical issues about race; the school is its own self-enclosed world. Just surviving, she thinks, provides its own form of liberation. “So much has happened to Black people,” she says. “Why are we still here? . . . We really could have called it quits a long time ago, and somehow we just keep going. It's crazy to me.”
Supposedly, things in Hollywood have been changing for women and people of color. After the #MeToo, #OscarsSoWhite, and Black Lives Matter movements, leaders in the entertainment industry promised a lot: new kinds of stories were going to be told, by newly diverse writers, showrunners, and casts. In short, Hollywood's long history of sexism and discrimination was going to be “reckoned” with. But, as studios have shifted with changing social expectations, there's been talk of a backlash within Hollywood. Actors and studio execs, who were previously worried about getting “cancelled” by their progressive fans, have expressed feelings of “fatigue.” In a wide-ranging conversation about politics, entertainment, and social media, Doreen St. Félix, a staff writer who was previously The New Yorker's television critic, offers some perspective on the current mood in Hollywood and what makes for good art.
Tina and Hillary cover Joel-Lehi Organista and Phyllis Schlafly. Tina's Story Joel-Lehi Organista was a rising star in the world of local politics after winning a school board seat. BUT when allegations arise involving minors, he falls from grace. Hillary's Story Phyllis Schlafly made a name for herself in Republican politics. BUT it's her attack of the Equal Rights Amendment that has had lasting consequences. Sources Tina's Story County of Salt Lake Affadavit of Probable Cause (https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PC-Statement-Jail-paperwork.pdf) Fox 13, Salt Lake City Will a new board restore professionalism to the Salt Lake City School District? (https://www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-investigates/will-a-new-board-restore-professionalism-to-the-salt-lake-city-school-district)--by Adam Herbets KSL Ex-Salt Lake School Board member pleads not guilty to federal child porn charges (https://www.ksl.com/article/50194797/ex-salt-lake-school-board-member-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-child-porn-charges)--By Annie Knox Ex-Salt Lake School Board member sentenced to 15 years for child pornography (https://www.ksl.com/article/50421050/ex-salt-lake-school-board-member-sentenced-to-15-years-for-child-pornography)--By Emily Ashcraft Salt Lake City School Board member arrested in child porn case; letter asks for his resignation (https://www.ksl.com/article/50179158/salt-lake-city-school-board-member-arrested-in-child-porn-case-letter-asks-for-his-resignation)--By Pat Reavy Salt Lake City School Board member now charged with object rape of a child (https://www.ksl.com/article/50180091/salt-lake-city-school-board-member-now-charged-with-object-rape-of-a-child)--By Pat Reavy KUTV2 Former SLC School Board member now faces federal child pornography charges (https://kutv.com/news/local/former-slc-school-board-member-now-faces-federal-child-pornography-charges)--by Jeremy Harris Meaww Who is Joel-Lehi Organista? Utah school board member allegedly exploited minors sexually, kept child porn (https://meaww.com/joel-lehi-organista-utah-school-board-member-sexual-exploitation-minors-kept-child-porn-dropbox)--by Pritha Paul Medium Reflection on the Rise and Fall of the Trump Era (https://jlorganista.medium.com/reflection-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-trump-era-aaba217505ee)--by Joél-Léhi Organista Soar Joél-Léhi Organista (https://app.soar.com/joel-lehi) US Attorney's Office District of Utah Salt Lake City Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/salt-lake-city-man-pleads-guilty-child-pornography-charges) Photos Joél-Léhi Organista (https://scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/83990005_104297941137375_8339133889465286656_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=09cbfe&_nc_ohc=JB20hwVlQsUAX_c8ldd&tn=UNXZnlklJkz-3qcA&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-2.xx&oh=00_AT_Pt6powEBzvPWxo5NJpetvSALvetMOyTTbH4ssbmSJrA&oe=6317283F)--via Organista for School Board Page Facebook Organista Speaking at Tedx Event (https://images.dailycaller.com/image/width=1280,height=549,fit=cover,f=auto/https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E2E351B3-2FD0-43A9-B905-B1894726DF58-e1622754357631.png)--Tedx Screenshot via Daily Caller Organista at DeVos Protest (https://archive.sltrib.com/thumbs/2017/0509/DeVosProtest_051017~10.jpg)--Photo by Chris Detrick via The Salt Lake Tribune Hillary's Story Biography Phyllis Schlafly (https://www.biography.com/political-figure/phyllis-schlafly) Britannica Phyllis Schlafly (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phyllis-Schlafly)--by John M. Cunningham History How Phyllis Schlafly Derailed the Equal Rights Amendment (https://www.history.com/news/equal-rights-amendment-failure-phyllis-schlafly)--by Lesley Kennedy Los Angeles Times How accurate is ‘Mrs. America's' portrayal of Phyllis Schlafly? We asked a historian (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-04-24/mrs-america-phyllis-schlafly-equal-rights-amendment)--by Meredith Blake The New Yorker Reviving Phyllis Schlafly in “Mrs. America” (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/reviving-phyllis-schlafly-in-mrs-america)--by Doreen St. Felix The New York Times Phyllis Schlafly, ‘First Lady' of a Political March to the Right, Dies at 92 (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/obituaries/phyllis-schlafly-conservative-leader-and-foe-of-era-dies-at-92.html)--by Douglas Martin NPR Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies At 92 (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/05/492748832/conservative-icon-phyllis-schlafly-dies-at-92)--by Tanya Ballard Brown Politico Remembering Phyllis Schlafly (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/phyllis-schlafly-obituary-eagle-forum-era-214559/)--by Donald T. Critchlow Wikipedia Equal Rights Amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment) Phyllis Schlafly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly) Women's History Phyllis Schlafly (https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phyllis-schlafly)--by Arbora Johnson Photos Phyllis Schlafly (https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/styles/commentary_header_image_1280_945x520/public/images/2020-04/GettyImages-933169356.jpg?h=7a655fea&itok=bPsTfKtI)--from Getty Images via The Heritage Foundation ERA Protest (https://www.tampabay.com/resizer//TMC0lEPwcmuiIQ5YAUD7TJvuluE=/900x506/smart/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tbt.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7RUHRZFA55DDRBNB56HI72LC4M.JPG)--from AP via Tampa Bay Times Schlafly at Trump Rally (https://media1.riverfronttimes.com/riverfronttimes/imager/u/blog/3116467/shutterstock_389315494.jpg?cb=1643755429)--by Gino Santa Maria/Shutterstock via Riverfront Times
Beyoncé's seventh studio and her first in over six years, Renaissance, is finally upon us! For the fourth and final episode of our series on Queen B, DJ Louie is joined by The New Yorker's Doreen St. Félix to discuss the new record. Louie and Doreen share gut-check reactions, break down Renaissance's themes of bacchanalia and sexual freak-dom and how they register through Beyoncé's signature meticulousness, its lush, dynamic sonic palette which runs the gamut from house to disco to afrobeat, this weekend's controversy with Kelis and whether an artist of B's stature's can celebrate other artists and sub-cultures- like ballroom- without subsuming them, and why this may be a superlative pandemic record, a manifestation of Beyoncé's delayed adolescence and of a superstar's fantasy of what life is like for people who, unlike her, can actually go to a club. Read Louie's review of Renaissance in Buzzfeed Tickets to DJ Louie's Pop Party, Gorgeous Gorgeous, on 8/12 in Downtown Los Angeles!Check out Louie's Beyoncé Essentials Playlist on SpotifyJoin the Pop Pantheon Discord!Follow DJ Louie XIV on InstagramFollow DJ Louie XIV on TwitterFollow Pop Pantheon on InstagramFollow Pop Pantheon on TwitterFollow Doreen St. Félix on Twitter
Remi Kalir discusses his #Annotate22 project and the impact of annotation in the world on episode 404 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Annotation is all around us. -Remi Kalir Annotation is an everyday literacy practice and you are an annotator. -Remi Kalir Annotation provides information. -Remi Kalir This is an act of public pedagogy. -Remi Kalir Resources Annotation, by Remi Kalir & Antero Garcia Crowdsourcing Ungrading, by David Buck - produced by the #UNgrading Virtual Book Club On Grading, Efficiency, and Contingency - Chapter by Mary Klann in Crowdsourcing Ungrading Remi's blog post: #Annotation is (#Annotate22 January) Remi's blog post: #Annotation on (#Annotate22 February) Annotation is a grade with criticism. An instructor grading Jacques Derrida. Annotation is a dedication, a date, a flower. “I give this June day to Ms. Gordon Bottomley the inside of this book. Michael Field June 5, 1908” MD was a pseudonym for authors Gathering Bradley & nice Edith Cooper Annotation is a threat and criminal. Note by Jacob Chansley written at desk of Vice President Mike Pence in the U.S. Senate chamber on January 6, 2021 Annotation on the Woolworth's lunch counter. February 1, 1960, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond & Jibreel Khazan - The Greensboro Four - began sit-in protests The #marginalsyllabus Debbie Reese Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That's Fit to Print, by Sandra Stevenson (about Alexandra Bell's redactions to New York Times headlines) The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell, by Doreen St. Félix PubPub platform The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated The Declaration of Independence: Annotated
Sam chats with NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson about why dysfunction in the Democratic Party is putting the big "Build Back Better" spending bill in Congressional limbo. Plus, The New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Felix on Succession, representations of class on TV, and why the plethora of shows about white people being terrible (Succession, The White Lotus, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers, Hacks ... you get the idea) are so addictive. Then, they are joined by The New York Times metro reporter Jazmine Hughes for a game of Who Said That? You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at samsanders@npr.org.
Remembering Jacob Desvarieux, John Davis and Chucky Thompson. Guests: The New Yorker's Doreen St. Felix; Billboard's Gil Kaufman; Jeff Mao.
Ira, Louis, and guest host Doreen St. Félix discuss The White Lotus season finale and criticisms of the show, the fatphobic and misogynoir backlash to Lizzo's new song “Rumors,” Alabama Rush Week, Jeopardy! hosting drama, and more. Plus, Brett Goldstein joins to discuss Ted Lasso and what movies tell us about ourselves. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/keepit. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amanda Gorman looks like herself on the cover of VOGUE, and in Doreen St. Felix's profile, she doubles down on being worthy of all the attention - in her speech, dress, and actions. But if she's already 'perfect' - where will all the talent and opportunities take her, and how will she change? Plus, what if you're super talented, working hard, and not getting attention? One SNL star is leaning into the unlikely label of 'The One Who's Overlooked'. Join us each week as Duana and Lainey deep dive into work behind the gossip, the shows, the scripts, and the screenplays. From casting decisions to image management to the process of putting an idea onto the stage or the big screen, 'Show Your Work' is a film or theatre geek's essential weekly listen. Tune in weekly and let us know your thoughts at @laineygossip and @duanaelise on Twitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Gemma & Phoebe talk about Doreen St. Felix's read of SLC as “culturally sensitive trash,” the Violence of Brooks Marks, Juergen Teller, and the celebrity obsession with Living Life
Poet, activist, optimist, style icon—Amanda Gorman has become so much more than a literary star. Doreen St. Felix on a phenomenon in the making. Find the full story on Vogue.com. For more from Doreen St. Félix and VOGUE, make sure to subscribe to VOGUE Stories on: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vogue-stories Spotify: open.spotify.com/vogue-stories Google: podcasts.google.com/vogue-stories or wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hello and welcome to episode 37 of Diversity Hire. Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyToday’s guest is Doreen St. Felix, who is the New Yorker’s television critic. We have been looking forward to this conversation since we first started the pod, and we think you guys will enjoy everything we talked about, which ran the gamut from the art of ambiguity and ambivalence, when we figured out what a critic even was, finding a place in white-dominated spaces, the concessions we make to do the work we want to do, and is Virgil Abloh actually cool? This was a super fun episode and if you are a new listener who caught this on Montez Press Radio, WELCOME! Kevin and Arjun also talked about the week in brutal media news and why it feels like 2016. Thanks for listening.Doreen’s work mentioned in this episode:December 19, 2015 Part I, Enormous Eye, 2015KARA WALKER’S NEXT ACT, Vulture, 2017On the Street in Brooklyn the Morning After the Police Shooting of Saheed Vassell, The New Yorker, 2018Virgil Abloh, Menswear’s Biggest Star, The New Yorker, 2019Queen Latifah Obliterates Trumps n’ Musks in “The Equalizer”, The New Yorker, 2021The Embarrassment of Democrats Wearing Kente-Cloth Stoles, The New Yorker, 2020———This is your brain *picture of your brain*. This is your brain on Diversity Hire *it’s the same picture of your brain, but this time it’s wearing sunglasses and an Eckhaus Latta lapped t-shirt*. Any questions? If so, email us at diversityhirepod@gmail.com. We’ll read your questions in an upcoming Q&A episode. Also, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. You can use your review to share anonymous experiences of working in corporate media, and we will read those on the pod as well.Thanks,Arjun & Kevin Get on the email list at diversityhire.substack.com
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry, the Duchess and Duke of Sussex, was riveting celebrity television, but it may also be a significant turning point in the history of the British royal family. Revelations about racism and about Meghan’s struggles with mental health are already reshaping public perception of the powerful institution. The interview also touched on racism and mental health, issues that are familiar to many families. “In the future, we will look to this interview as a real touchstone marking the change of who it is we see as authorities of their own experience,” says Doreen St. Félix. In conversation with St. Félix and the eminent historian Simon Schama, the author of a three-volume history of Britain, David Remnick discusses how the interview plays into culture wars in the U.K. and in American.
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry, the Duchess and Duke of Sussex, was riveting celebrity television, but it may also be a significant turning point in the history of the British royal family. Revelations about racism and about Meghan’s struggles with mental health are already reshaping public perception of the powerful institution. The interview also touched on racism and mental health, issues that are familiar to many families. “In the future, we will look to this interview as a real touchstone marking the change of who it is we see as authorities of their own experience,” says Doreen St. Félix. In conversation with St. Félix and the eminent historian Simon Schama, the author of a three-volume history of Britain, David Remnick discusses how the interview plays into culture wars in the U.K. and in American.
The two of us think and talk a lot about ~the state of media~, and we figured it was about time we discussed it with a genuine expert. Enter stage left: the thoughtful and incredibly incisive Delia Cai, who writes the newsletter we always open Deez Links (and is a growth and trends editor at BuzzFeed by day—so clearly she’s on top of all the things.) We also figured it was ‘bout time to discuss Claire’s experience with Whole30, at least as it relates to their insurrection content. You can find the Whole30 insurrection statement right over here (the Jan. 7 post). The BuzzFeed article titled “The Small-Town America I Love Is The One I See At Football Games” that first led Erica to Delia (shout-out Dunlap High School—go eagles!). You gotta, gotta sign for Delia’s newsletter Deez Links if you care about media (or good TikToks) at all. An adjacent, relevant newsletter: Today in Tabs. For more on Substack, dive into Clio Chang’s “The Substackerati” piece for CJR (and its discussion of Patrice Peck’s Coronavirus News for Black Folks newletter) as well as Anna Wiener’s “Is Substack the Media Future We Want?” for The New Yorker. Writers Delia always reads: Taylor Lorenz, Doreen St. Félix, and Hua Hsu. Two Deez Links installments we discuss: Delia's piece about a profile of Nick Quah and Hot Pod and a very LOLZy one about fantasy media men beefs. You know about Secret Menu, yah? And how to get your feedback to us? That’s 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, and/or @athingortwohq. Give COOLA and its excellent new Organic Skincare line a go and take 10% off with the code ATHINGORTWO. Play Best Fiends today—you can download it for free on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Get creative with Skillshare and sign up for a free trial of their Premium Membership. Design something cool with Projector. It’s totally free to sign up. YAY. Produced by Dear Media
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assaulted. She spends the rest of the show untangling what happened to her. And yet the HBO series is not a crime drama but a nuanced and sometimes comedic exploration of the emotional toll of surviving assault. The series—written and directed by, and starring, Michaela Coel—is based on Coel’s own experience. Coel tells Doreen St. Félix that she was assaulted while working on the second season of her celebrated BBC show “Chewing Gum.” She took notes about what happened, and some of that material made it into the new show, while other aspects are fictional. Of Arabella, who often wears a pink wig, Coel says, “You don't know where she begins and where I end.”
On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Félix to talk about I May Destroy You. Then, Steve and Dana are joined by Isaac Butler, writer and co-host of this season of Slate’s Working podcast, to discuss the filmed version of Hamilton, now streaming on Disney Plus. Finally, the panel dives into Julia’s comfort-watch pick of the week: the 1996 disaster film Twister. In Slate Plus, the hosts continue to talk with Isaac about Hamilton, its ending, its significance in 2020, and more. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Smartface by Smartface Endorsements Dana: Scott Brick’s narration of Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. Julia: The movie Dave. Steve: “Wanting Wrong” by Anne Enright in the New York Review of Books. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Félix to talk about I May Destroy You. Then, Steve and Dana are joined by Isaac Butler, writer and co-host of this season of Slate’s Working podcast, to discuss the filmed version of Hamilton, now streaming on Disney Plus. Finally, the panel dives into Julia’s comfort-watch pick of the week: the 1996 disaster film Twister. In Slate Plus, the hosts continue to talk with Isaac about Hamilton, its ending, its significance in 2020, and more. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Smartface by Smartface Endorsements Dana: Scott Brick’s narration of Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. Julia: The movie Dave. Steve: “Wanting Wrong” by Anne Enright in the New York Review of Books. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Félix to talk about I May Destroy You. Then, Steve and Dana are joined by Isaac Butler, writer and co-host of this season of Slate’s Working podcast, to discuss the filmed version of Hamilton, now streaming on Disney Plus. Finally, the panel dives into Julia’s comfort-watch pick of the week: the 1996 disaster film Twister. In Slate Plus, the hosts continue to talk with Isaac about Hamilton, its ending, its significance in 2020, and more. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Smartface by Smartface Endorsements Dana: Scott Brick’s narration of Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. Julia: The movie Dave. Steve: “Wanting Wrong” by Anne Enright in the New York Review of Books. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode we welcome David Turner, writer and founder of the Penny Fractions newsletter, which holds a critical and often political lens to the latest developments in the music industry.In this episode we discuss the music industry response to Black Lives Matter, positive infrastructural proposals that could lead to long lasting and meaningful diversification, the meme music economy, lessons from ad hoc protest gatherings and sitting on a small plane with Radiohead and Silento.David is a deeply thoughtful and fun guest, we hope you enjoy this one!LINKS:Penny Fractions newsletter (sign up!): https://www.getrevue.co/profile/pennyfractions/issues/penny-fractions-why-did-we-pause-the-show-255631Black Teens are Breaking the Internet and Seeing None of The Profits by Doreen St.Felix:https://www.thefader.com/2015/12/03/on-fleek-peaches-monroee-meechie-viral-vinesMusic Workers Alliance: https://musicworkersalliance.org/Aziz Mian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX9SsfK6B24Silentó - Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjW8wmF5VWc
Over a lunch at The Beatrice Inn, New York on October 24th, 2019, the writer and curator Charlotte Cotton presented for and against a motion concerning the effects of photographing. Afterwards, guests including Stella Bugbee, Kimberley Drew, Hailey Benton Gates, Heidi Julavits, Pashon Murray, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Doreen St. Félix, Matthew Schneider, Tessa Thompson and Kate Young were only too happy to share their views.
The cultural critic Doreen St. Félix goes to Madame Tussauds with Justin Kuritzkes, the début author of the novel “Famous People,” to talk about the nature of celebrity. Jia Tolentino heads for the children’s section of a bookstore with Rivka Galchen to compare notes on the kids’ books that still inspire them. And Jelani Cobb recommends three recent works of history that shed light on our current moment.
Boots Riley’s directorial début, “Sorry to Bother You,” blends a dark strain of comedy with a sci-fi vision of capitalism run amok. The film’s hero, Cassius Green, is a telemarketer who rises quickly in the ranks—eventually becoming a “power caller”—after he learns to use a “white voice” on the phone, mimicking the way white people are supposed to speak. As sharp as the film is on issues of race and identity, “Sorry to Bother You” ultimately takes capitalism, and the way it exploits labor, as its target. “There were a lot of things about capitalism that were forgiven by big media companies while Obama was in office,” Riley tells The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix in a live interview at the New Yorker Festival. “Things that we had said we were against under Bush.” “Sorry to Bother You” is, in part, a response to that loss of focus. Riley, who is forty-seven, got his start as a rapper; for many years, he led the political hip-hop band the Coup. He traces his interest in art as activism to an incident from 1989, when police officers in San Francisco beat two children and their mother in front of a housing project. Neighbors began protesting, spilling out onto the street and chanting lyrics from Public Enemy's “Fight the Power.” “It made me see what place music could have,” Riley tells St. Félix. “I knew, This is what I had to do.”
The New Yorker staff writers Jia Tolentino, Doreen St. Félix, and Alexandra Schwartz all cover the culture beat from different angles. They talk with David Remnick about the emblematic pop-culture phenomena of 2018 that tell us where we were this year: how “Queer Eye” tried to fix masculinity, and how that spoke to women in the #MeToo era; whether “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” will mark a turning point in the representation of nonwhite people in film; and how, as Tolentino says, “A Star Is Born” was “arguably the only event of the year that brought America together.”
The New Yorker staff writers Jia Tolentino, Doreen St. Félix, and Alexandra Schwartz all cover the culture beat from different angles. They talk with David Remnick about the emblematic pop-culture phenomena of 2018 that tell us where we were this year: how “Queer Eye” tried to fix masculinity, and how that spoke to women in the #MeToo era; whether “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” will mark a turning point in the representation of nonwhite people in film; and how, as Tolentino says, “A Star Is Born” was r“arguably the only event of the year that brought America together.”
Ira is joined by Doreen St. Félix (New Yorker) and Aminatou Sow (Call Your Girlfriend) to dive into James Gunn and the summer of white people losing their jobs, Chance the Rapper buying Chicagoist, and the new Whitney Houston documentary. Plus, the NY Daily News layoffs, why Charlemagne should’ve been canceled a long time ago, and Riverdale season three needs to do less.
En este tercer episodio de Trincheras de la Cultura Pop, Elisa McCausland y Diego salgado atienden a la resurrección del videoclip; un tropo del audiovisual institucionalizado desde hace casi cuarenta años, pero que ha experimentado vaivenes considerables en cuanto a su peso específico en el marco de la cultura popular. En tiempos recientes, el impacto de videoclips como los estrenados a partir de temas de Childish Gambino, Beyoncé y su pareja, o, en nuestro país, Rosalía, animan a reflexionar sobre la vigencia de un formato que cambió durante una época la forma de consumir televisión y los hábitos de la adolescencia, y que, con el auge de YouTube y otras plataformas virtuales, ha alcanzado cotas de repercusión global impensables décadas atrás. Bibliografía: I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, de Craig Marks y Rob Tannenbaum (fragmento), https://www.npr.org/books/titles/141992656/i-want-my-mtv-the-uncensored-story-of-the-music-video-revolution#excerpt. "Del videoclip al largometraje: Spike Jonze y otros visionarios", Eduardo Guillot en Valencia Plaza, http://epoca1.valenciaplaza.com/ver/120996/-del-videoclip-al-largometraje--spike-jonze-y-otros-visionarios.html. "Youtube (Dind't Kill the Video", en la página oficial del Macba, https://www.macba.cat/es/youtube-didnt-kill-the-video. "List of most-viewed YouTube videos", en Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos. "The Power and Paradox of Beyoncé and Jay-Z Taking Over the Louvre", Doreen St. Félix en The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-it-means-when-beyonce-and-jay-z-take-over-the-louvre. "Los mensajes de la industria musical: La dictadura del videoclip, de Jon E. Illescas", José Durán Rodríguez en Diagonal, https://www.diagonalperiodico.net/culturas/29083-la-dictadura-del-videoclip.html. "Reseña de ¿Cuánto vale el arte?, de Isabelle Graw", Ariane Díaz en La Izquierda Diario, http://www.laizquierdadiario.com/ideasdeizquierda/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/GRAW-Untitled-Extract-Pages.pdf. "MTV cumple 35 años: la señal que instauró la cultura del videoclip", de Augusto Dorado en La Izquierda Diario, https://www.izquierdadiario.es/MTV-cumple-35-anos-la-senal-que-instalo-la-cultura-del-videoclip. "Malamente", videoclip de Rosalía, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rht7rBHuXW8. Perros Verdes 1x01: Imágenes en duermevela (los videoclips de Lady Gaga), http://www.perrosverdes.es/2017/02/1x01-imagenes-en-duermevela-11042016.html. "Sobrevivir al feminismo de masas: guía de cultura mainstream", Teresa Villaverde en Píkara Magazine, http://www.pikaramagazine.com/2017/09/sobrevivir-al-feminismo-de-masas-guia-de-cultura-mainstream/.
New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) joined Ana this week to continue the discussion they started in columns last week. Ross wrote an op-ed in the Times about the prospect of sex robots as the answer for people who can’t fulfill their sexual desires, to which Ana responded with a lengthy critique. To take that debate off the computer screen, they conducted a wide-ranging conversation that encompassed Ross’ argument, Ana’s problems with it, and what it’s like writing in the age of Trump. After the conversation with Ross, the New Yorker’s Doreen St. Felix (@dstfelix) joined Ana to talk about Childish Gambino’s music video for “This is America.” Doreen analyzed the new video, and they tried to parse through who it was actually made for as well as what makes Glover so compelling. You can find Ross’ sex robot piece here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/incels-sex-robots-redistribution.html Here’s Ana’s response to Ross’ piece: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/robot-sex-w519788 You can find Ross’ Hefner piece mentioned in the episode here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/opinion/hugh-hefner.html Here’s Doreen’s analysis of “This is America”: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-carnage-and-chaos-of-childish-gambinos-this-is-america Get in touch with the show at withfriendslikepod@gmail.com and on Twitter at @crooked_friends. Thank you to our sponsors! Get your body moving in the workspace at fully.com/friends. Get 25% off your design package at havenly.com/friends. Receive free shipping on your first order at everlane.com/friends. For $35 off your first order, visit sunbasket.com/friends.
We’ve been compiling this episode for about 6 months now and we’ve conducted interviews in New York, Bristol, The Shetland Islands and via Skype. We hope our delve into film criticism is worth the wait. Thank you firstly to our participants, so generous with their time and thoughts. A huge thank you also to our roving reporter Charlotte Crofts for the amazing interview with Tara Judah featured in the episode, and others we couldn’t manage to get in. Thank you finally to our listeners who suggested this episode. The wealth of material we got was overwhelming so look out for all the interviews being uploaded in January while we are on our winter break. That should keep you going in the cold winter months. Participants Tara Judah https://tarajudah.com/ @midnightmovies Sam Fragoso http://talkeasypod.com/ @SamFragoso Simran Hans https://www.theguardian.com/profile/simran-hans @heavier_things Ashley Clark http://www.bfi.org.uk/people/ashley-clark @_Ash_Clark Violet Lucca https://www.filmcomment.com/author/vlucca/ @unbuttonmyeyes Mark Kermode https://www.theguardian.com/profile/markkermode @KermodeMovie Prof. Linda Ruth Williams https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/film/staff/lwilliams/ @lindaruth1 Tom Shone http://tomshone.blogspot.co.uk/ @Tom_Shone Roll of Honour All the critics given shout outs across our interviews... Sophie Mayer, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Cerise Howard, Emma Westwood, Thomas Caldwell, Josh Nelson, Jack Sargeant, Dana Linssen, Kees Driessen, Rüdiger Suchsland, Adrian Martin, Catherine Grant, Cristina Alvarez Lopez, Kevin B. Lee, Michael Wood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Robin Wood, Victor Perkins, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Hadley Freeman, Marina Hyde, Ren Zelen, Christina Newland, Molly Haskell, Ashley Clark, James Baldwin, Graham Greene, Cahiers Critics, Bogdanovich & Schrader, Toby Hazlet, Violet Lucca, Doreen St. Felix, Jia Tolentino, Vinson Cunningham, Hilton Als, Wendy Ide, Simran Hans, Guy Lodge, Pauline Kael, Kim Newman, Roger Ebert, Andrew Sarris, Alan Jones, J Hoberman, Anne Billson, Kate Muir, Kay Austin Collins, Ira Madison, Alyssa Wilkinson, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robertson, Tim Grierson, Anjelica Jade, Nathan Heller, Jeremy O’Harris, Hunter Harris, Wesley Morris, Nick Pinkerton, Eric Hynes, Badlands Film Collective, AO Scott, Anthony Lane, David Edelstein, Elvis Mitchell, Amy Taubin, Christian Lorentzen, Senses of Cinema, Four Columns and Reverse Shot. The incidental music for this episode is from Giorgio Gaslini's score for Antonioni's La Notte.
JOIN THE MILITIA'S FB GROUP! https://www.facebook.com/groups/352729398488975 & KEEP TWEETING/REVIEWING/E-MAILING US! We are going to begin to attempt doing weekly feedback episodes starting this Friday, so we can make sure to address the topics important to the militia! Twitter: @MisandrywithMR Facebook: MisandrywithMarciaandRae & our new GROUP for the militia. Insta: @misandrywithmarciaandrae E-mail: misandrywithmarciaandrae@gmail.com #MisandryWithMR THIS WEEK IN THE FINAL WAVE OF FEMINISM, BEFORE WE FORCE THE MEN UNDERGROUND: The militia is coming to middle America. The hyper manic news cycle. #Charlottesville. Heather Heyer. Confederate statues. #RAEVERSERACISM White people "other"-izing white supremacy in order to distance themselves. #ThisIsNotUs... Doreen St. Felix: https://twitter.com/dstfelix/status/896744911848058880 "He had an African American friend." #CRUSHMENMONDAY: the Google Manifesto dude. The myth of Robert E. Lee. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ TUNE IN FRIDAY FOR OUR FIRST FEEDBACK EPISODE! BROADCAST TO YOU LIVE FROM A MILITIA IN THE WOODS.
Doreen St. Félix is only 25 but she has made a name for herself in the New York media scene. After graduating from Brown she started her career at "Lenny Letter", Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's digital, feminist publication. While doing this, she was also freelancing for places like Pitchfork, New York Magazine, and The Fader. Now, she is a contracted writer with the New Yorker (at only 25!). She and Sam talk about her successes, today's media scene, and how she really loves the show Chopped. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music for the show is by Dylan Peck. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: www.krishnabalashenoi.com. Learn more about Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso at www.talkeasypod.com
This week, we invite writers Doreen St. Felix and Durga Chew-Bose to join us for a playful and pensive round of PewPewPew with Friends! We talk about Doreen’s New York Magazine cover story on Kara Walker (read it if you haven’t already!), and Durga’s new book, Too Much and Not the Mood (it's exquisite). We study Heben’s perfect laugh, celebrate porch life, and figure out why white girls in the 90s all wanted to be marine biologists. Plus we might even learn you a Gmail hack that will change your life…! ALSO: get tickets to see our podsiblings from BuzzFeed News and See Something Say Something at the Northside Festival!! Tickets here: northsidereport2017.eventbrite.comAnd don't forget: our next live show is in Chicago - June 21st at 8pm at Thalia Hall. Get your tickets at wbez.org/events.Follow Doreen St. Felix at @dstfelix.Follow Durga Chew-Bose at @durgapolashi. Follow us: @heavenrants and @brokeymcpovertyEmail us: anotherround@buzzfeed.comSubscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter.Merch is back! Tees! Totes! They're so cute: shop.buzzfeed.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Upworthy writer Parker Molloy has been unapologetically out and feisty as both a trans person and someone who struggles with depression and anxiety; we chat about why she’s chosen that path and what it means for her in real life. (Next time she’s on we will talk about the Cubs.) Doreen St. Felix of MTV News joins the show to discuss the latest in Clinton campaign autopsies, and the aesthetics of the Trump presidency (and why it’s so important that Michelle’s not wearing J. Crew anymore).
This week on “Lady Problems,” the MTV News podcast dedicated to pop culture’s treatment of women, Hazel Cills and Rachel interview Brit Marling, the genius behind and star of Netflix's The OA. We talk to Brit about the innumerable interpretations of the show, her research on near-death experiences, her adoration for Maggie Nelson, choreographing The OA's "movements" with Ryan Heffington, and walking that fine line between vulnerability and schlock. Later, Teo Bugbee and Doreen St. Felix join Rachel and Hazel to very seriously discuss the most important question of the holiday season: Is Christmas Feminist???????
Hello Speeddialers! Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix return with another episode of ‘Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen,” MTV’s bicoastal podcast about music, pop culture, sex, and race. This week is all about movies. But before Ira and Doreen get into a Keep It segment about the Golden Globe nominees, there's a quick rundown of their respective weeks. Ira's in La La Land since taking percocet for a muscle he pulled getting swole, and Doreen is still in awe after witnessing how hard parents go at parties when they can get a babysitter. Your Speed Dial hosts decide that nominations for Moonlight, Insecure, and Fences are iconic. But Casey Affleck and Mel Gibson? Keep it. Next, a conversation about Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, which Ira argues is a whiteface Tyler Perry movie. Finally, a voicemail from a listener who's caught in a messy love triangle. Call in to “Feedback,” Speed Dial’s advice hotline! Have a question you want Ira and Doreen to answer? Leave them a voicemail at 424-354-9335.
In this episode, Ya Girl Brittney (@xobritdear) joins dap (@dapisdope). The first half of the show covers Brittany's awesome self and her work in the tech/web design space. Other topics include being black in the tech space, Brittany's many self-help offerings, her love of Miyazaki films, and her creative inspirations. Interlude at 24m24s. The second half of the show covers the politics of "Black Girl Magic" + "Carefree Black Girls." Discussion includes Alicia Keys' recent "no makeup" fiasco, the struggle for black women to just be human, and Mary J. Blige's rise to permanent auntydom. REELYDOPE Recommendations are at 42m30s. Intros and interludes by Shruggs. (soundcloud.com/shrggs) Find Brittany's shenanigans, podcasts and work at: https://www.xobritdear.com/ Folks mentioned + articles: Amy Porterfield Melissa Kimble + #blkcreatives Doreen St. Felix article - www.mtv.com/news/2936762/on-carefree-black-boys/
Doreen St. Félix is a writer at MTV News. “It feels like there are images of black utopias that are arising. And you can’t—even if you’re not as superstitious as me—you can’t possibly think that that doesn’t have to do with the decline, the final, to me, last gasp of white supremacy. It really does feel like we’re approaching that, [but] that approach might be a thousand years.” Thanks to MailChimp, Texture, Harry’s, and HelloFresh, for sponsoring this week's episode. @dstfelix [7:45] "'Empire’ Season 2, Episode 8: Hakeem, No Lyon" (New York Times • Nov 2015) [10:30] "Jennifer Lawrence: 'Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?'" (Jennifer Lawrence • Lenny • Oct 2015) [11:30] "Out of Print: The Fultz Quadruplets" (Lenny • Feb 2016) [16:15] "The Prosperity Gospel of Rihanna" (Pitchfork • Apr 2015) [18:30] "On Carefree Black Boys" (MTV News • Sep 2016) [22:00] "In Solange’s Room" (MTV News • Oct 2016) [23:30] "The Ecstasy of Frank Ocean" (MTV News • Aug 2016) [24:30] "A Love Profane" (MTV News • Apr 2016) [26:00] The Birth of a Nation [30:00] Atlanta [30:00] Moonlight [31:00] Queen Sugar [35:30] "An Honest Conversation with Solange Knowles" (Anupa Mistry • Fader • Sep 2016) [36:00] "Filmmaker Letter: Moonlight" (Barry Jenkins • Landmark Theatres • Oct 2016) [40:30] "The Gospel According to Kirk Franklin" (MTV News • Oct 2016) [40:45] "Ratology" (New Yorker • Nov 2015) [48:00] "The only thing ‘uncivilised’ about Ray Kelly’s talk at Brown was inviting him" (Guardian • Oct 2013) [54:00] "North West and Blue Ivy Carter Have Never ‘Played Together,’ Says Kanye West" (Josh Duboff • Vanity Fair • Oct 2016) [1:00:00] Speed Dial
Hello Speeddialers! Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix return with another episode of “Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen,” MTV’s bicoastal podcast about music, pop culture, sex, and race. 2016 is a renaissance year for black television. This week, Ira and Doreen talk about Issa Rae’s Insecure and the legacy of black female comedians in television. Comedians like Rae, Jessica Williams, and others are carving out new spaces for smart stories to thrive, much like the trailblazers of the ’90s sitcom era. Next, a necessary rant about about the GoFundMe account Democrats set up to rebuild a GOP building in North Carolina. Your “Speed Dial” hosts discuss how “niceness” isn’t going to fix white supremacy. Ira and Doreen also talk about the tragic death of Venida Browder, mother of Kalief Browder, and the ways mass incarceration destroy families. Finally, they answer a Feeback call from a black woman listener who constantly gets asked if she works at Nordstrom Rack when she’s shopping there. Call in to “Feedback,” Speed Dial’s advice hotline! Have a question you want Ira and Doreen to answer? Leave them a voicemail at 424-354-9335.
Hello Speeddialers! Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix return with another episode of ‘Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen,” MTV’s bicoastal podcast about music, pop culture, sex, and race. This week, karma ruled her beautiful head not once, but twice! First, your Speed Dial hosts track the reckoning of Billy Bush, the former Access Hollywood host who was caught kiki-ing over sexual assault with Donald Trump. Al Roker, who warned everybody about Bush back during Lochtegate, got to announce the separation on the Today Show this week and it was *chefs kiss*. Next, Ira and Doreen get into a discussion about two films that premiered this week, Birth of a Nation and 13th. They discuss all the storytelling flaws of the former, and all the cinematic triumphs of the latter. This week's episode ends with songwriter and producer Brett McLaughlin, aka Leland. McLaughlin has written dozens of songs for singers like Troye Sivan, Daya, and Kat Graham. He talks to Ira and Doreen about everything from what it's like to write a hit song to his early days catering for celebrity events in L.A. like Kim Kardashian's (2nd) wedding. Call into ‘Feedback,’ Speed Dial’s advice hotline! Have a question you want Ira and Doreen to answer? Leave them a voicemail at 424-354-9335.
Aminatou chats IRL with Doreen St. Félix, brilliant MTV News writer and co-host of the podcast Speed Dial to discuss black excellence, the beautiful upcoming film, Moonlight, their real ages, and the many TV shows they're watching this fall.
Hello Speeddialers! Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix return with another episode of ‘Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen,” MTV’s bicoastal podcast about music, pop culture, sex, and race. This week, Ira and Doreen take stock of the black shows that have premiered to rave reviews this season: OWN's Queen Sugar and FX's Atlanta. They talk about the cinematographic beauty of all of Ava Duvernay's films, and the ease with which she translates that on the small screen. They also get into a deep conversation about how Atlanta fits into a lineage of black sitcoms. Make sure you read Ira's marvelous piece about that here. Next, Doreen gets surprised when Ira tells her white women on the internet think she's sexist because she *may or may not have* cracked a joke about model Kate Upton, who, if you missed it, criticized black football players for taking a knee during the anthem on 9/11. Then, Ira regales us about the Tidal listening party for Usher's new album. Finally, your hosts answer a Feedback question from the great Kyle Turner: what to do with wild white people on the internet Call into ‘Feedback,’ Speed Dial’s advice hotline! Have a question you want Ira and Doreen to answer? Leave them a voicemail at 424-354-9335.
On the occasion of Knockdown Center's MAMI exhibition and market, Top Rank Podcast co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower talk intersectional identity with journalists Jenna Wortham (NYT Magazine) and Doreen St. Félix (MTV News), Brujas skate crew leader Arianna Gil, and Bklyn Boihood founder Ryann Holmes. Available here as the Top Rank Podcast’s 4th episode, their conversation addresses the promises and pitfalls of digital media as a tool for social change, the importance of fostering self-affirming environments that prioritize self-care, and, more generally, how Mami Wata’s hybrid identity serves as a framework within which we can question conventional binaries and locate strength in paradox, contradiction, and multiplicity. You can find us online at toprankmagazine.com and on Instagram @toprankmagazine. A special thank you to Red Bull Studios New York, and to each of our wonderfully generous participants. Isabel and Marcel welcome input for future content. You can reach us at marcel@toprankmagazine.com and isabel@toprankmagazine.com.
Doreen St. Felix of MTV News joins B & E as they talk Tyler Perry, Kanye West, and Spike to see if the enduring Tyler Perry hate is deserved. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week, Ira Madison III schools Doreen St. Félix on the world of comics, and their first celebrity guest, X-Men: Apocalypse’s very British Ben Hardy, leaves a voicemail about his favorite superhero. Also discussed: Madonna’s pimp cane at the BBMAs and Tamar Braxton’s exit from ‘The Real’
It's time to ring up 'Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen' again, MTV's bi-coastal podcast that tackles music, pop culture, sex and race. This week Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix discuss how Chance the Rapper's third mixtape, "Coloring Book," is rooted in the aesthetic of the black church. Also ahead: They discuss producer Kaytranada's debut album and talk about the History Channel's reboot of "Roots," featuring T.I. of all people.
It's time to ring up 'Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen' again, MTV's bi-coastal podcast that tackles music, pop culture, sex and race. This week: Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix talk about Bell Hooks' favorite feminist Emma Watson and her secret offshore bank accounts. Also ahead, Rihanna's cinematic and afrofuturistic Anti Tour, Blac Chyna's feud with the Kardashians, and how Madonna scammed her way into the Prince tribute at the Billboard Music Awards.
You heard the preview, now here’s the official premiere episode of ’Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen,’ a bi-coastal podcast that tackles music, pop culture, sex and race. This week Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix talk about why the hell Drake thought we needed Views so soon after Lemonade, how Beyoncé’s new music fits into her previous catalog, and Steve Harvey’s credibility. Plus: join them as they dive into the world of hip-hop sagas in an attempt to unravel the Jay Z and Dame Dash Roc-a-Fella Records drama.
Katie and Ryan are joined by Doreen St. Felix and Niela Orr to talk about how race and cultural appropriation play out as memes spread. And our favorite scammer, Joanne, aka Branden Miller was scammed himself and Katie has an update. Read up on Doreen and Niela's great pieces: Doreen St. Felix, at The Fader: http://www.thefader.com/2015/12/03/on-fleek-peaches-monroee-meechie-viral-vines Niela Orr, on BuzzFeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/nielaorr/black-trauma-remixed-for-your-clicksLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ira Madison III and Doreen St. Félix became friends on Twitter, and kind of secretly thought they could be best friends. Now they work together IRL. Well… they're still on opposite coasts, but they've got each other on speed dial. In this preview, Ira and Doreen go in on upcoming Billboard Music Awards hosts Ciara and Ludacris. When presenting the nominees for the awards, Ciara hilariously refused to say Future's name — but if she hates him so much, what does she call her son who is also named Future? Ira and Doreen investigate.
Dayna Tortorici is the editor of n+1. “You can't fetishize conflict so much. Because conflict does generate a lot of good work, but it also inhibits a lot of good work. I think people do their best work when they feel good. Or at least don't feel like shit. ... So I've tried to create a culture of mutual encouragement. Especially when you're not paying anybody, that's all you can really offer.” Thanks to TinyLetter and Wealthfront for sponsoring this week's show. Show Notes: @dtortorici nplusonemag.com [2:00] Longform Podcast #30: Keith Gessen [19:00] "Hands Up: A Roundtable on Police Brutality" (Cosme Del-Rosario Bell, Elias Rodriques, Doreen St. Felix, Dayna Tortorici • n+1 • Nov 2014) [19:00] No Regrets [25:00] "Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America" [39:00] What Was the Hipster? [51:00] Subscribe to n+1
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