Season 3, E11 ~ The Unseen Side of Fashion: Size Representation & Beyond with Model & Influencer Lydia Okello

Our guest, Lydia Okello, is joining us on the podcast this week; they are a non-binary, unapologetic plus-size fashion and lifestyle creator based out of Vancouver, Canada. You may know them from their Instagram handle, StyleIsStyle, or have read some of their work in Vogue or Fashion Canada, where they have discussed everything from plus-size fashion to sustainable plus-size fashion. We're laughing, crying, and throwing up talking about everything plus-size fashion

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Season 3, E9 ~ Exploring the Impact and Evolution of Stan Culture: From Politics to Entertainment with feminist culture critic Roslyn Talusan

Our guest this week is feminist culture critic, author, and anti-rape activist Roslyn Talusan. In this episode, we share some laughs and reflections on Stan Culture. We explore the evolution and impact of this phenomenon, and Roslyn shares with us her brushes with stan culture (ahem, Ariana Grande, anyone?) while delving into the darker side of fandoms and how social media plays a massive part in it.

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Season 2, E11: Unpacking Why Copaganda is Dangerous with Journalist Reina Sultan

Media featuring cops has been a staple of North American film and television culture. Heck, who didn't grow up watching Law and Order on A&E? However, during the George Floyd protests, copaganda was identified as a widespread tactic of the police and media. For this week's episode, we have invited Reina Sultan, a Lebanese-American Muslim freelance journalist and one of the co-creator of 8 to Abolition to chat about what the hell is copaganda and how we can be more critical of the media we consume.

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Season 2, E10: How Memes Became A Love Language with Content Creator Thea from @YourMomsAreWatching

Throughout the pandemic, many people used memes to cope with the world's heaviness, as they're an undeniably fun way to express one's emotions and feelings. But they are also a great way to connect with others in so many things, including pop culture, reactions, and the news. ✨So for this week's episode, we decided to sit down and dig into memes as a love language and we invited Thea D'souza from the wildly popular Instagram account @YourMomsAreWatching to chat with us. Her account uses a mixture of humorous memes, serious analysis, and personal stories to analyze the Bravoverse, so tune in!

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Season 2, E9: Is There A Reason Why Millennials Are So Obsessed with Astrology with Writer + Astrologer Jeanna Kadlec

This week's episode focuses on why millennials (specifically queer millennials) are so obsessed with astrology. We decided to invite to High Low Brow one of our favourite writers and astrologers, Jeanna Kadlec. The creator of the newsletter, Astrology for Writers, and author of the upcoming novel, Heretic (to be released in October 2022) - we chat with Kadlec about astrology as a form of social, cultural currency in the queer community.

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Season 2, E8: F*ck Rainbow Capitalism with Journalist Niko Stratis

June is Pride Month – a chance for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate the progress that's been made. For our very first Pride-related episode, we're exploring how corporations prioritize profit over the LGBTQ+ community in our exploring Rainbow Capitalism with Toronto-based sober trans journalist Niko Stratis.

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Season 2, E7: The Art of the Thirst Trap with writer, performer, and sex worker advocate Andrea Werhun

The summer is here and things are starting to get hot 💦 For our seventh episode of the season, we were so happy to chat with Toronto-based writer, performer, and sex worker advocate Andrea Werhun about the art of thirst traps. These sexually suggestive selfies are posted on social media by celebs and everyday folks to attract attention.

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Season 2, E6: The Realities of Parody Life with Nori's Black Book and Jordan Ross Meyer, creator of the Donn Gunvalson Twitter handle

Not only has another two weeks gone by (so quick!) but we're happy to be celebrating our 1 year anniversary of podcasting! 🥳 For our sixth episode of the season (and our mid-way point of season two), we're happy to bring on two guests we've been looking forward to all season: Natalie Franklin of everyone's favourite Instagram parody account, Nori's Black Book. But if we were getting into who is behind the curtain of these parody accounts and making a living from living and having a blast living the life of these "celebs", we had to ask the one and only Jordan Ross Meyers behind the Twitter handles of Donn Gunvalson and Lee Radziwill and co-host of the Pretty Corrupt podcast.

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Season 2, E4: What The Hell Is Up With Parasocial Relationships - Healthy or Weird with Journalist Sadaf Ahsan

We're back for our fourth full-length episode of S2! For this week's episode, we get into one of the hottest trends of 2021: parasocial relationships with arts and culture journalist Sadaf Ahsan. No matter where you go on the Internet, it's all everyone is talking about. From the social and entertainment-kind, intense-personal, and borderline-pathological.

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