Sarah tells Mike how pop culture created a two-decade-long obsession with multiple personality disorder and repressed memories. Digressions include Dead Poets Society, restless leg syndrome and the low editorial standards of the American publishing industry. The Satanic Panic makes a cameo appearance.
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Sep 1
Ballet with Megan Burbank
Megan Burbank’s gotta dance. The centuries-old dance style known as ballet has been stereotyped in our modern world with images of refined, wispy, frighteningly disciplined young women fighting viciously for roles in ethereal productions. For this episode, Adult Dance Corresponde ... Show More
1h 12m
Aug 11
"Heaven is for Real" with Adrian Daub
If your four-year-old told you about a trip to heaven, would you believe them? For a pastor named Todd Burpo, the answer was yes. In 2010, his book Heaven Is For Real—co-authored by Lynn Vincent—became a runaway bestseller. This week, Sarah tells In Bed with the Right co-host Adr ... Show More
1h 25m
Jun 2024
stigma & self-diagnosis: the spectacle of mental illness
<p><strong>podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat:</strong> spiralling on the misrepresentation of mental illnesses, insincerity, shame, and spectacle. ✷</p><br><p>see more ✷ <a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/61b9f3e533f31d0014e4335e/shows/5f905039a052757f216a7fca/epis ... Show More
50m 23s
Oct 2020
Satanic Panic Pt. 2: Serial Killers
In the 1980s, “Satanic Panic” was a mass hysteria that consumed communities and ruined lives—all over things that never even happened. In this new five-part series, we’re examining the origins of the panic, tracing back through the decades to see how the fear of Satan’s influence ... Show More
42m 13s
Mar 2024
off the record: misogyny bias, maternal instincts, & the eras tour
<p><strong>podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat:</strong> spiralling on the gamer girl to rotting depression pipeline, our friendship, everyday sexism, maternal instincts, empathy, taylor swift, and the dehuminisation of pop-culture spectacles. ✷</p><br><p>shop ✷ <a href="h ... Show More
29m 42s
Apr 2024
avoidant maneaters & daddy issues: fleabag era
<p><strong>podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat:</strong> spiralling on the psychology of romantic types and tropes, attraction and desire, daddy issues, joe keery and jacob elordi. ✷</p><br><p>shop ✷ <a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/61b9f3e533f31d0014e4335e/shows/5 ... Show More
35m 59s