Material Girls

Welcome back to our final Material Concerns before SUMMER BREAK! Coach is back and she brought Zoe and Gaby with her! Join us for a conversation that includes a lot of interruptions, a very long check-in and a hot tip for removable wallpaper you might like.Support Material GirlsTo learn more about the show, head to our Instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Or check out our website ohwitchplease.ca (you can also find transcripts here!). You can gift a Patreon subscription at this link: https://www.patreon.com/ohwitchplease/gift!Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We can show you the world…of the pervasive colonialism in nostalgic Disney movies! In this episode, Marcelle and Hannah talk all about the Disney classic Aladdin. With the help of Abdul JanMohamed’s manichean allegory—an aspect of Orientalist literature—Marcelle leads us through a conversation that digs into the history of the “Disney vault,” the American values implicit in the movie, the relationship between exploitation and representation, and much, much more!Whether you remember renting the movie on VHS from your local video store or you first watched Aladdin on streaming, this episode is for you.Related listening:Pirates of the Caribbean x American ExceptionalismBarbie x Petro-CapitalismSweet Potato Fries x Food ImperialismWitch, Please: Book 1, Ep. 2 | OrientalismWorks Cited:“Aladdin (1992 Disney Film).” Wikipedia. 2 June 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(1992_Disney_film)#. Accessed 3 June 2026. Cunningham, Andrew. “The Ultimate Collectors Guide To Disney VHS Tapes.” Our Departure Board. March 20, 2025. https://www.ourdepartureboard.com/blog/disney-vhs-ultimate-guide. Accessed 3 June 2026.“Disney Vault.” Wikipedia. 23 April 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault. Accessed 3 June 2026.JanMohamed, Abdul R. “The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature.” Critical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (1985): 59–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343462.Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage, 1979.“VHS.” Wikipedia. 2 June 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS. Accessed 3 June 2026.***To learn more about Material Girls, head to our Instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Or check out our website ohwitchplease.ca. We'll be back next week with a Material Concerns episode!Material Girls is a show that makes sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both.Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Pitty Party!Editor’s note: Gaby misspeaks at one point in the episode and refers to the “slash trach” that Dr. Al-Hashimi does as a “slash crike.” Another reminder that none of us are medical doctors :)It’s another jam packed episode full of “mommy issues” of all kinds, waterslide accidents, a stairwell confrontation between Garcia and Santos (Siri, play “Casual” by Chappell Roan), and our own invented fanfic about Robby, Whitaker, and Robby’s friend Duke. Arguably our most NSFW episode to date, you’ve been warned!We’re coming up on the home stretch here, and we’ll be back next week to talk all about season 2, episode 11, 5:00 PM. To listen to the full episode, head to Patreon.com/ohwitchplease now!Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.