This week we talk about Barbie (2023) — was the endlessly hyped film a feminist masterpiece, or just a massive toy commercial? Or perhaps, something else?

We discuss the history of Barbie, the film’s gender theory and the queerness of Allan, and line it all up against Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble.

Soaliha: @soalihaofficial & Linktree

Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea & Linktree

Email: heresthethingthopodcast@gmail.com

PayPal: PayPal.me/soaliha

Sources:

Mattel, Inc. History

Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl Who Became Barbie

Guys Who Think The Barbie Movie Hates On Men Clearly Didn't Watch It

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1989

Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie

This week we talk about celebrities, PR disasters and the difference between what celebrities give us, and what they owe us.

We talk about the It Ends With Us film adaptation (and the surrounding drama), Blake Lively’s dumpsterfire of a press tour and Chappell Roan’s latest assertion of boundaries.

Soaliha: @soalihaofficial & Linktree

Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea & Linktree

Email: heresthethingthopodcast@gmail.com

PayPal: PayPal.me/soaliha

Sources:

Blake Lively on Fame, Family, Good Fortune—And Becoming a Glamorous Jewel Thief for Baz Luhrmann

Blake Lively's hair care secret is using no conditioner! Should you skip it too?

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively apologize for plantation wedding

https://www.bustle.com/articles/44052-blake-lively-website-preserve-editorial-called-allure-of-antebellum-is-absolutely-inexcusable

Blake Lively says she's 'so proud' of It Ends With Us and that she 'took playing domestic violence victim seriously' amid backlash to her 'tone deaf' press tour | Daily Mail Online

Alcohol/drug-involved family violence in Australia (ADIVA): key findings

Factors associated with FDSV - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Ryan Reynolds and Justin Baldoni’s ‘It Ends With Us’ Drama

The Screenwriter Of "It Ends With Us" Reacted After Blake Lively Said Ryan Reynolds Wrote A Key Scene

This week we talk about ‘tradwives’: what are they, where did they come from, and why is their content so popular right now?

We discuss the ahistorical nostalgia that tradwives are predicated on, the politics of their labor and the neocolonial nature of homesteading. Really, we ask the question: does the ‘tradwife’ as we know her actually exist, or is she a mythic projection?

Soaliha: @soalihaofficial & Linktree

Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea & Linktree

Email: heresthethingthopodcast@gmail.com

PayPal: PayPal.me/soaliha

Sources:

Kamala Harris selects Tim Walz, pro-Israel Minnesota governor, as her running mate | The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

I'm a trad woman. I think other women secretly wish they were too | SBS Insight

From Scratch | Verso Books

'Don't do this to yourself': Meredyth warns young 'trad wives' they could be on a risky path | SBS The Feed

Unpacking The Ballerina Farm Discourse & What it Means For The Tradwife Movement – Centennial World

Far-right 'tradwives' see feminism as evil and push back against what they see as 'the lie of equality' - ABC News