Podcast alert!
Wanna hear what I've been up to?
Hey everyone! I’ve got some exciting news!
My good friend Tasha and I have been working on a … podcast! Our goal is an irreverent, weirdly serious, wildly speculative deep dive into how power acts invisibly in our own lives.
It’s about how all the -isms fold neatly under the umbrella of white supremacy and how we’ve been affected, in different ways, by how we were taught to exist in our world. What we absorbed either directly or indirectly from our society, our families, and our friends.
It’s about recognizing the assumptions we make (often unconsciously!) about ourselves and others. It’s about being honest about the harm those assumptions have caused us, and how those assumptions have caused us to harm others. Most importantly, it’s about what we can do better to show up for ourselves and our communities.
But we want to make this very serious topic…fun? Because life is absurd and if we don’t laugh we cry. Not that crying is bad, but part of the point of this podcast is to try to break down some of our cultural assumptions about shameful topics. Most of us are assholes or do asshole things for really good reasons—these actions or attitudes saved us in the past. They were coping mechanisms. Or we absorbed ideologies that encourage or even necessitate asshole behavior. We might even suspect, deep down, that some stuff we do is kinda assholey, but confronting that, confronting ourselves, is so scary! Admitting we might be wrong might mean admitting we’re bad, and what do we do with ourselves if we’re bad?
This podcast is trying to figure out what happens if we flip that shame script and assume we fuck stuff up, and that it can be exciting to figure out how we’re fucking up, so that we can fuck up less. And that this process of fucking up less can actually lead to ……… liberation????
Welp, Tasha and I are masochistic enough that what we’ve fucked up in the past, are currently fucking up, or probably will fuck up are some of our favorite topics of conversation. We’re both kinda weird, and we both approach life a little slantwise, in the eyes of society. Does that make us wiser? Absolutely not. But it does mean we’ve been our own lab rats, examining our lives for the stains of power and wondering what they mean.
At this point you’re probably like, um, Nicole, what is this podcast, exactly?
(drum roll please)
Let me introduce our new, Neck-Deep Media Production…
Neck-Deep in the Dicksand! We called it this because we like saying “dicksand” and the concept of the dicksand is a fun way of talking about the patriarchy, which can be a good launchpad into the other -isms. It’s also about how Tasha and I have both experienced things that we look back on and realize that we were, indeed, neck-deep in the dicksand.
So what’s next?
First off, we won’t exist without listener support, so we’d love your help.
Please listen to our trailer, and rate/review/follow!
Follow us on social media:
Check out our website and peruse our sponsors!
At our website you can sign up for our “news” letter, alerting you of new episode drops, etc. You can also peruse our sponsors and show them our listeners mean LITERAL business.
Be a Part of the Podcast!
Another HUGE way to help is to share your stories with us! Follow this link for how you can help and how you can leave a voicemail. We would love to feature your stories!
Read along with us!
Peruse our nonfiction and fiction bookshelves and read what we’re reading. A portion of your purchases goes toward supporting the podcast.
Finally, share with your friends!
We’re not celebrities and we’re not talking about ladies getting murdered so we’re relying on word of mouth to get this lil podcast that could out there.
Secondly, when will the first season air and WHAT IS IT?
Because you’re special friends I’ll give you a spoiler …. the first season’s theme is ANGER. Here are some of the things we’re thinking about: What is anger, really? How are we raised/acculturated to understand and experience anger depending on the sex we were assigned at birth? What about how racial categories define how people are “allowed” (or not) to experience anger? How do we internalize anger? How do we externalize it? Can anger be positive?
We’d love to hear your experiences with anger at this link OR any questions you have about anger, that we might be able to answer. And by answer, I mean ask people smarter than us what they think. Because we’re not experts; we’ll be learning alongside of all of you.
As for when it airs, we’re hoping early January! But we’ll be posting sneak peeks, fun clips, thoughts, exasperations, and other random shit on our socials. And in the meantime, if you need something to listen to, check out my friend (and fellow League of Reluctant Adult-er from what now feels like eons ago) Mark Henry’s new podcast about women who make horror, Terrifying Women. It’s GREAT and you don’t have to love horror movies to enjoy their take on the important themes these films explore.