#193 Badges Not Welcome Here: On Refusing Service to Law Enforcement, “Blue Lives,” Resistance, Self-Care, and Punching Up

This week we talk about Rocky Coronado’s refusal to serve law enforcement from her food truck in Detroit, and thoughts it raised for us around authority, compliance, cops’ right to kill when feeling threatened, and much more.

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192 All News: Nike’s Kaepernick Ad Campaign, The Kavanaugh Hearings, and The White House “Insider”

Today we’re doing a news-only episode, talking about our thoughts and feelings around the recent Nike campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and the anonymous White House “insider” who posted an opinion piece in the New York Times last week.

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190 Advice Episode! B12 Supplements, Sex-Shaming, Imposter Syndrome, and more!

We’re here for another round of advice! We received amazing questions from our listeners that cover a wide range of topics, including supplementation, activism that avoids triggering others, and being vegan while struggling with social anxiety.

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189 Bad News: We’re Already Living in a Dystopia. AKA Why Corporations are the Fucking WORST, Part, like, 54 or something

Callie stumbled onto some disturbing articles on The Intercept that sent us down the rabbit hole researching the scary shit that giant companies like Amazon and Google are up to. We realized that we’re already living in a dystopian corporatocracy, which we’re sure is no surprise to anyone. Buckle in, it’s pretty grim.

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188 Thoughts on Get Out, Sorry to Bother You, and Black Panther

We saw Sorry to Bother You this week, per listener request, and we’re here to talk about it! Also pulling in our thoughts about Get Out and Black Panther.

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187 When Victims Attaaaaaack!!! Aka The Dangerous Implications of “Accusation Phobia”

Inspired by a frustrating family dinner conversation, Callie wanted to talk about the dangerous implications of our collective concern for the perpetrator in the era of #MeToo where people wring their hands over “lives being ruined” by accusations for things that “happened a long time ago” or “aren’t that bad” aka what we’re calling Accusation Phobia. Lots of “air quotes” ahead.

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186 Random Thoughts On Dating and Master Chef Junior ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It’s a weird week for us so we’re talking about a mix of things that are kind of weird together! Nichole has some thoughts on Master Chef Junior, and then our main topic covers some thoughts both the Princesses are having around dating as they approach it from different angles.

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185 It’s All About June: The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 Analysis

We’re back to talk about season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale, a season that offered glimpses of brilliance but ultimately doubled-down on the “color-blindness” and white feminism of season 1. We’re totally fired up, proceed at your own risk!

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184 Radical Activism Through Kindness: Our Thoughts on ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’

We were lucky enough to catch a screening of ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ at a local theater last weekend and were quite moved by it. Today’s episode is our thoughts around Fred Rogers’ radical version of activism.

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