Introducing: Leftist Teen Drama Season 4

We are so back. Our 2024 season includes a lot of discourse about class conflict, abundant “the personal is political” moments, and of course, two different civil disobedience plotlines (though one is truly our weirdest sit-in plotline yet!) Check out a little teaser of Leftist Teen Drama Season 4, premiering on Sundays, starting on November 10, 2024 through the end of the year. XOXO, Free Palestine 

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ABOUT US:

MARIA DIPASQUALE (she/her; host/editor) is a Brooklyn-based union communicator, organizer, and writer who watches too much TV. She splits her free time between devouring teen dramas, creating this podcast, tenant organizing, and writing and reading (fan)fiction. Follow Maria on Twitter @Maria_DiP26, IG @mdzip, and tiktok @marialovesunions. 

JEFF MCHALE (he/him; producer) is an extremely online guy who plays games, works in the cannabis industry, and loves talking old TV.

CHARLES S. O’LEARY (they/them; art) is a “writer,” “designer,” and “content strategist” based in Brooklyn, NY. A survivor of the 2010s Tumblr wars, leftist media criticism is all they know. To learn about them professionally, visit charles-oleary.biz. To learn about them personally, visit their Instagram at @c.s.0.l.

intro song: Stomping the Room by Delicate Beats

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, political teen drama girlie. Maria here. Can you even believe that I'm about to introduce season 4 of Leftist Teen Drama? Well, we're back, and we're ready to close out this wild year with another full season of political teen drama content. Our 2024 season includes a lot of discourse about class conflict, abundant, the personalist political moments, and, of course, 2 different civil disobedience plot lines, though one is truly our weirdest sitting plot line yet.

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We go all the way back to 1994, reflecting on the politics of the foundational yet short lived teen drama My So Called Life, and go back as recently as 2020 era youth dramas that ended their runs this year, like Young Royals and All American Homecoming. We delve into depictions of South Asian teenagers on British teen dramas and finally tackled class dynamics on the much requested, Gulf of Girl. So buckle up, babes, and check out a little taste of Leftist teen drama season 4. One of the key takeaways from these episodes is that protest strategies on both, like, a macro and micro level are rarely unanimously endorsed by supporters of the movement. That's, like, the true power of friendship, the way that it takes a community to help her get on track in a way.
Yeah. I'm gay. I just don't usually say it like that. How do you usually say it? I don't usually say it.
That human connection is so important to any type of, like, political movement or social movement, and, like, you often do find it in inconvenient areas. Walking around and kind of, like, sharing what you see is so cool. And then to have these guys challenge her subjectivity and try to make her an object, and she's like, fuck you. No. We will end our occupation in this call and with the following demands, Amit.
Yeah. I think you did a really great job of, like, showing how anorexia impacts people that that love that person, how that plays out for them. We're going on strike, and we ask all of you to join us. They've been mocking me every day, and now they've been demonstrating. You've been talking about solidarity.
You guys are occupying a school right now. Like, fucking reach for the stars. Like, imagine the school you want because you're doing the most insane thing right now to try to get it, so you might as well go for it. Right? And I also just think that it's an important lesson in movements in general to just be, like, really, like, creative and imaginative about, like, the world we wanna see.
Leftist teen drama season 4 premieres on Sundays starting November 10, 2024 through the end of the year, wherever you get your podcasts. XOXO, Free Palestine.