HegePod – Details, episodes & analysis

Talking about changes to the show going forward and Athena talks about small things we can do to try and push our way forward.

In this episode, Athena talks about the Kyriarchy and how it relates to Hegemony...I swear it's not as boring as it sounds.

Resources:

Intersectionality - Black Feminists and the Uprooting of Kyriarchy - https://www.secularwoman.org/intersectionality-black-feminists-and-the-uprooting-of-kyriarchy/ 

Kyriarchy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy#:~:text=In%20feminist%20theory%2C%20kyriarchy%20(%2F,domination%2C%20oppression%2C%20and%20submission.

Kyriarchy 101: We’re not just fighting the patriarchy anymore - https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/04/kyriarchy-101/

Kyriarchy Definition: How a Kyriarchy Describes Social Systems - https://www.masterclass.com/articles/kyriarchy
What is The Kyriarchy? - https://thefeministtherapycentre.co.uk/blog/what-is-the-kiarchy

Amid a continuing wave of historic strikes the Hegehogs discuss the conditions behind the impending railroad strike and the skewed media coverage of the event. References: https://labornotes.org/2022/09/joe-biden-thinks-rail-strike-has-been-averted-do-rail-workers https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/coal-industry-profits

The HegeHogs continue their strike with observations and discussions around the death of the queen, the monarchy, and its cultural impact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCnwo1zdlj8

https://truthout.org/articles/queen-elizabeth-is-dead-but-the-bloody-legacy-of-colonialism-lives-on/

https://nation.africa/africa/news/-we-will-not-mourn-queen-elizabeth-colonial-past-divides-opinion-on-legacy-3942724

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoc_mdJe-K4&t=378s (How Britain underdeveloped the Caribbean - book)

The HegeHogs are on strike! Instead of a detailed essay or media analysis, Jack, Nova, and Athena dish about the concept of "The Bystander Effect" in the parking lot of HegePod HQ.

Athena and Nova return to Bob's Burgers for an exciting LARP at stately Winthrope Manor where we learn that the real game is class struggle.

CW: Abuse maybe?

Athena and Nova pick the low hanging fruit of a police procedural sitcom set in the Big Apple, as we examine Brooklyn Nine-Nine and liberal copaganda.

cw: drugs, police, sexism, sexual assault, r-pe

Nova reads a brief essay by Antonio Gramsci on the relationship between capitalist media and the workers, and how workers pay the media to propagandize to them

The HegeHogs discuss what makes us feel so bad when someone doesn't like something you do, or likes something you don't like; and offers some tools on how to enjoy and know when to stop enjoying problematic media.

CWs: Suicide, State violence, Trauma discussion

Lindsay Ellis Game of Thrones Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hys_m3BPTS8

FD Signifire Nicki Minaj Essay: https://youtu.be/bgLD70gPCeI

In this episode, the HegeHogs take a dive into a raunchy fan favorite show about terrible people, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and explore why some people enjoy "cringe porn/shock comedy" and others don't, and why pushing boundaries of acceptable norms is sometimes good and sometimes not so good.

References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcYnswbybM&feature=youtu.be

CWs:Sexual assault/rape, racism (including blackface), islamophobia, violence.