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Paperback Cabaret
by Paperback Cabaret
Sassy, smart, and subversive; this fun mix of gals tackle social issues through books and music. A blend of ages, educations, and life experience fuel these insightful, frequently raucous and sometimes weepy conversations.
Episodes
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E27 - “You won't find what you're looking for if you're hiding from yourself”
Mary says the best things and this just rang so true for what we have all been working through these past months. We know it’s been a minute since you’ve heard our voices but sometimes all the life things just take over and we have to take a step back. But, we are always poised to pick this…
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E27 Move over FOMO - The FODO episode
FODO = Fear of Disappointing Others. For Traci and Lisa this episode could also be titled “Relatable”, because, man, do we feel this one. Traci’s therapist has been helping her with this particular struggle and shared a super helpful article that we are now covering for the pod. If you want to…
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E26 Bath rituals, you don’t have to be pretty, and celebrating the end of relationships that needed to end
Post wrap up from our previous book, we are taking time to purge before we start a new book. Lisa starts us off with a talk about the benefits of establishing bath rituals, Traci is still in happy pre-party baker mode, and Tori shares the growth that comes along with ending a relationship that...
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E25 Paperback Cabaret: Nights! Mediocre - Conclusion
We get a little extra loose when we have night time recordings. Before we jump into the conclusion for this amazing book, we gave Tori the room she needed to vent about her deep hatred of American football, especially since she wasn’t with us for the chapter that covered this topic. Once we’re in...
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E24 Mediocre Chapter Seven - Go Fucking Play: Football and the Fear of Black Men
And here we are at the last chapter of Mediocre, but the pace and punch of the book hasn’t slowed any. Oluo hits hard with imagery of American football players, overwhelmingly young Black men, as being seen as something between “a god and chattel.” Heartbreaking, but when the facts are examined,...
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E23 Mediocre Chapter Six - Socialists and Quota Queens: When Women of Color Challenge the Political Status Quo
Oh man, we hit one issue after another during this recording! Like the champs we are, we’ve managed to redeem our conversation and feel it’s worth it for you to give it a listen. We didn't make it out of our music choices for the week before the conversation started touching on more vulnerable...
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E22 Mediocre Chapter Five - Fire the Women:The Convenient Use and Abuse of Women in the Workplace
We are lucky to have our own passionate political science major in our midst and Tori’s got some of her research to share with us regarding women and the draft, in addition to the topic of the truly unjust world of women in the workforce. Just a little something spicy to add to yet another…
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E21 Pure Purge Two: Spirituality, Abortion, and Little Circles
What happens when we take a pause from the book to just sit and chat? A pure purge episode, of course! Lisa kicked us off with a discussion around spirituality which morphed into a discussion around the importance of speaking out, if you feel safe to, about your abortion, and Traci did. We…
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E19 Mediocre Chapter Three - The Ivy League and the Tax Eaters: White Men’s Assault on Higher Education
Bizarre how our universities have frequently been built as havens of the elite to increase their ranks. Please note this statement is filled with sarcasm. While some of us had truly lovely experiences while working on a degree, difficulties still abound for many. Chapter four in Ijeoma Oluo’s...
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E18 Mediocre Chapter Two - For Your Benefit in Our Image: The Centering of White Men at the Center of Social Justice Movements
If he wears a t-shirt saying “this is what a feminist looks like” there’s a good chance he’s still going to think he knows more, deserves more, and can take more than the people he claims to help. Just one more hurdle on the path for basic human rights for everyone. Off we go with chapter two in...
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E17 Mediocre Chapter One - Cowboys and Patriots: How the West Was Won
Myths and legends, genocide and lies. The push to claim land in the West has been glorified with words like “manifest destiny” while the truth of the matter, no shocker here, is far crueler. Off we go with chapter one in Ijeoma Oluo’s much needed book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male...
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E16 Mediocre Introduction: Works According to Design
When we ask ourselves the big question: How did we get here? Ijeoma Oluo offers an elegant and disturbing answer: It works according to design. Today we begin discussing this much needed book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Join us next week for Want to listen to full...
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E15 Pure Purge - The first, but certainly not the last
We take a brief pause before starting our next book to do a little purge with Traci and our newest host, Lisa. No outline, no music choices, just right down to what made you mad, sad, and glad this week. From health, to social concerns, to sex toys - we touched on several topics of importance and...
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E14 War on Nature, War on Women - In Defense of Witches Wrap Up!
And we are done! With this book. We have essentialism explained by our gal Mary, discussion around the exclusions of women in education, and the near barbaric treatment still experienced in women’s health care. We are in part four, Turning the World Upside Down: War on Nature, War on Women of…
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E13 Aging Does Not Diminish Relevance
We’ve got laughter and tears aplenty this episode as we reflect on what it means to age in a society that gives women an expiration date. We’re looking at you, Leonardo DeCaprio. We are in part three, The Dizzy Heights: Shattering the Image of the ‘Old Hag’ of Mona Chollet’s brilliant book, In...
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E12 “I didn’t know not having children was an option.”
You may think this is an olden timey saying, but you would be wrong. Mona Chollet takes us through what women who choose to remain childless face, and why the role of mother is still pushed, regardless of women actually want. We are in part two of In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch...
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E11 You don’t have to be mom 2.0
Here we go. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women are Still on Trial. You know you’re intrigued, so join us. This episode covers Part 1, A Life of One’s Own with a look at the fear that seems to surround unmarried women. We are joined this week by our dear friend…
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E10 Pistol Packin’ Mamas - City of Darkness, City of Light part 3
What would you do if your family couldn’t eat? If you had been promised someone would listen to you and you were still starving months, years later? How far do the extremes go when it’s your life on the line? Dire and extreme situations flamed the flames of the French Revolution, and in many…
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E9 A Brick Wall of No - City of Darkness, City of Light part 2
Character wrap-up time before the real shit starts to go down. Marge Piercy sets up our characters in their youth with imaginative glimpses into the earliest moments that may have influenced who they were becoming at the same time the revolution was unfolding. Our current book is City of…
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E8 City of Darkness, City of Light - Cast of Characters 1
E8 City of Darkness, City of Light - Cast of Characters 1 It is the characters of the book that are receiving the majority of our attention in this recording. Marge Piercy sets up our characters in their youth with imaginative glimpses into the earliest moments that may have influenced who they...
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E7 Revolution on the Horizon
For anyone who might not know, the French Revolution was a violent moment for change with a bit of a lackluster wrap up. Before we dove into our current book, City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy, we wanted to circle around some of our thoughts and questions regarding this moment in...
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E6 Let's Talk French Revolution with Dr. Deborah Bauer
I am absolutely thrilled to be joined by Dr. Deborah Bauer, Associate Professor of Modern European History, at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and author of Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State. She has kindly agreed to condense…
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E5 What if we are the backlash? Good and Mad Part 2
Thank you Rebecca Traister for writing this book. We needed it and many, many more people should add this eye opening book to their “must read” list. There are benefits to stoking your anger and keeping it at a nice low burn, ready to roar when the moment calls for it. Our discussion makes the…
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E4 Good and Mad Parts 1&2
If a title ever summed up a topic we hold near and dear, it is Rebecca Traister's 2018 novel Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger. This week we cover Parts 1 and 2 of the book and next week we will be back to wrap it up. Follow us to keep up with all new content and stay angry!...
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E3 The Silence of the Girls part 2
There’s no way we could wrap this up without talking about the pop culture interpretations of the Iliad that definitely took approaches far different than Pat Barker. In particular we talk about the 2004 movie Troy and just a little bit about the new Netflix series Troy: Fall of a City. Spoilers...
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E2 - The Silence of the Girls: Part 1
You will find no glorification of ancient warfare here. This is about the illogical scorched earth policy, the enslavement of women, and the pile of male bodies left behind rampaging war parties in the Bronze Age. Through our conversation we are pulled in the direction of motherhood, enslavement,...
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E1 Reproductive Justice Now
Episode one and this isn’t what we planned for. We had worked out a list of books, schedules for recording and editing, as well as how we would begin promoting the new podcast. But what we don’t plan for is always waiting to pounce and we could not set aside our anger to read or even think about...
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Sassy, smart, and subversive; this fun mix of gals tackle social issues through books and music. A blend of ages, educations, and life experience fuel these insightful, frequently raucous and sometimes weepy conversations.
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