Material Girls

Welcome back to The Vampire PodCAST!

This week we’re going on an Oedipal journey, so buckle up. Hannah, Zoe, and Gaby dig into episode 2 of the Vampire Lestat and discuss the "complicated" relationship between Lestat and his mother, Louis and Lestat’s reunion, and Louis and Daniel’s first time meeting face-to-face after Daniel published his book. They also talk a lot about wigs and Baudelaire.

We’ll be back next week to talk all about episode 3.

Music Credits:
“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020

Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”.
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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 Exceptionalism
Barbie x Petro-Capitalism
Sweet Potato Fries x Food Imperialism
Witch, Please: Book 1, Ep. 2 | Orientalism

Works 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.

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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 ©2020

Used 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.

The first episode of The Vampire Lestat premiered last week, so the first REAL episode of The Vampire PodCAST is out and ready to rock!

Hannah, Gaby, and Zoe dig their fangs into the season premiere of The Vampire Lestat, "Detroit." They cover everything from their favorite line reads, their least favorite lyrics, the logistics of elevator orgies, and much more!

We'll be back next week to talk all about Episode 2!

Music Credits:

“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020
Used 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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time for another episode of Material Concerns! Hannah, Marcelle, and Gaby debrief conferences that could have been an email, Gaby's trip to Spain, and learn what chromatin means. Tune into Part II on Patreon for a BRAND NEW segment and learn the origin of their new motto, Jacked Slug Summer.

Support Material Girls
To 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 ©2020
Used 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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the first episode of the Vampire PodCAST, a recap show all about season three of Interview with the Vampire — aka The Vampire Lestat.
In this introductory episode, Hannah, Gaby, and Zoe give a very brief overview of the first two seasons of the show, discuss their favorite characters, and dig into what they’re excited about for this new season.

We’ll be back next week to unpack the season premiere of The Vampire Lestat!

Hannah and Gaby’s Making Worlds episode about Interview with the Vampire
Season one recap
Season two recap

Music Credits:
“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020
Used 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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.