Shannon and Tashmica discuss It Ends With Us, a TikTok famous, bestselling romance novel written by Colleen Hoover now adapted into the recently released blockbuster drama.

Based on the relationship between the author's mother and father, It Ends With Us follows the life and love of the fictional character Lily Bloom starting with her childhood experiences of domestic violence. Calling it "the hardest book I've ever written, Hoover delivers a harrowing and heartbreaking story about a future where the violence doesn't end but is carried forward into Lily's adult romantic relationship with the handsome and rich neurologist, Ryle Kincaid.

The novel has sold over one million copies worldwide, has been translated into over twenty languages, and now the film is a box-office success grossing $350 million. It also made us both cry (big surprise). This kind of attention could give book lovers and film buffs alike clues about what community-based responses could be used to intervene on and end intimate partner violence for themselves and maybe even our loved ones.

It ends with us? We sure hope so.

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This week's Pop Culture Homework is It Ends With Us and BEAM's Healing and Accountability Wheel.

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Sponsored in part by: The Accountable Communities Consortium and The Firecracker Foundation.

Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts

Content Warning: The Popaganda Podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice, prison abolition, and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic violence, sexual violence, and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season. In this episode in particular, we will be talking about these themes and our own survivorship. We will not be talking in high levels of detail about specific experiences of violence. We invite everyone to use this information to make choices about what is right for you.

On the sweetest episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica tells Shannon a heartwarming story about Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, and the political aspirations of America's longest-running children's TV show, Sesame Street.

Big Bird loves his best friend, Aloysius Snuffleupagus and all he wants to do is introduce him to his grownup friends on Sesame Street. There's only one problem. No one believes him. This story is about what happens when adults don't trust children and how they can practice accountability and repair to create healthier, safe(r) relationships in the future.

Listen in as we learn more about how and why the show's creative team taught adults to say, "I believe you, Big Bird."

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This week's Pop Culture Homework is the documentary Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street.

To learn more visit www.popagandapod.com.

Leave a 5-star review for The Popaganda Podcast and we might feature it in an upcoming episode! You can also send us love or suggest show topics by emailing us at popagandapod@gmail.com.

Sponsored in part by: The Accountable Communities Consortium and The Firecracker Foundation.

Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts

Content Warning: The Popaganda Podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice, prison abolition, and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic violence, sexual violence, and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season. In this episode in particular, we will be talking about these themes and our own survivorship. We will not be talking in high levels of detail about specific experiences of violence. We invite everyone to use this information to make choices about what is right for you.

On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica and Shannon talk with guest Mia Mingus about the post-apocalyptic TV series, The Walking Dead.

Viewers watched in horror as Negan brutally murdered Glen in front of his wife Maggie. None of us knew that we'd be on a Transformative Justice journey with two of the show's most compelling characters up until the final seasons. We watched the drama as characters tried to secure community safety by first recreating policing, jails, and prisons, and then turning towards reformation, and a complex process of accountability and repair.

Tune in now for a conversation about how some fictional apocalypse tales can inspire us to treat everyone - even villains - more humanely.

Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition.

To learn more visit www.popagandapod.com.

Leave a 5-star review for The Popaganda Podcast and we might feature it in an upcoming episode! You can also send us love or suggest show topics by emailing us at popagandapod@gmail.com.

Sponsored in part by: The Accountable Communities Consortium and The Firecracker Foundation.

Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts

Content Warning: The Popaganda Podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice, prison abolition, and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic violence, sexual violence, and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season. In this episode in particular, we will be talking about these themes and our own survivorship. We will not be talking in high levels of detail about specific experiences of violence. We invite everyone to use this information to make choices about what is right for you.