Episode 06: Toxic Celeb Culture with Stacy Lee Kong

 

Off the top, Ama & Danita share another hopeful #FreeBritney update before taste testing Paris Hilton's new Netflix show, Cooking With Paris.

Then, Ama is joined by Stacy Lee Kong, writer, editor, cultural critic, and founder of Friday Things to examine our complicity in the media's victimization and villainization of young female celebrities in the 90s and early 00s.

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Further Reading

Cooking With Cooking With Paris
‘Reading the story today makes me cringe’: Female stars and the media machine of the early 2000s
Speaking of Britney … What About All Those Other Women?
The Biggest Moments in xoJane History

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