Party Girls

America has spoken, and there are now only 77 days left until Donald Trump is the president of the United States….again. Jamie and Sam reflect on this week's electoral results. Why did the democrats get swept and who is to blame? How can we trust our fellow man when 72,000,000 of them literally just voted for fascism? How did Americans resist the orange man the first time, and what ought we do now to prepare for his second term? All this and more in this week's Special Electoral Coverage. SIGN UP NOW at Patreon.com/partygirls to support Party Girls, get access to regular bonus content, the community Discord, and a shout out on the pod! Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod

In a rare look behind the paywall, this week’s Bonus episode has been jailbroken and unleashed to the insatiable culture-hungry masses as a FREE EPISODE! Jamie and Sam are joined by Super Deluxe VIP Friend-of-the-Pod Fellatia G (AKA Lena NW), a multidisciplinary artist and all around deviant. The three of them dive into a collective criticism of Joker: Folie à Deux, the highly controversial sequel to the smash blockbuster hit Joker (2019). A freshly (?) Jokerfied Fellatia G comes hot-and-heavy as she describes just what about that rather peculiar musical floated her boat. Jamie, perhaps not as sold on the direction of the film, offers some scathing rebukes of its attempt at artistry. And Sam, as per usual, cannot help but condemn Arthur Fleck’s nihilist political frame as a dead-end, utterly devoid of all potentiality. All this and more in this week's Cultural Marxism: Joker 2. SIGN UP NOW at Patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Follow Lena on Twitter: @FellatiaG Check out Lena's music and video games: patreon.com/fellatiag Check out Lena's many cool projects: fellatiag.com Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

In this Party Girls Zine Club Spooktacular Halloween Special Jamie and Sam dive into The Devil's Night: On the Rebellious Spirit of Halloween, which traces the history of the holiday back thousands of years to its proto-Pagan roots. Where do our Halloween traditions come from? How did its supernatural roots morph into a storied history of rebellion, rioting and arson that swept American metropolitan cores year after year? How did the forces of counterinsurgency specifically target Halloween in order to snuff out its ungovernable potential? What is Jamie’s costume this year? All this and more on the second installment of the Party Girls Zine Club. This Zine was anonymously authored and published in Mask Magazine in 2015. A few years later it was revised and re-published by Ill Will Editions. Print version can be found here: https://ruinsofcapital.noblogs.org/files/2016/10/devils-night-final-for-online.pdf Screen Reader Version: https://illwill.com/devils-night Sign up as a supporter at Patreon.com/partygirls to get access to our Discord, a shout out on the pod, and all bonus content. Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

Writer, theorist, and UC Berkeley professor (and communist) Jasper Bernes joins us for a discussion of the life and work of Fredric Jameson, an absolute beast of Marxist philosophy and cultural critique who passed away last month following a long and illustrious life. Following a summary of Jameson's career and a discussion of his epistemological approach, the crew digs into some of his ideas. What is it about the postmodern/neoliberal era that simultaneously creates amnesia and nostalgia? How are humans more atomized than ever, yet losing any real sense of individuality? What purpose can utopian science fiction, like that of Jameson protege Kim Stanley Robinson, serve as we try to find a way out of this exhausted system called capitalism? And, in this era in which nothing is shocking, can there be such a thing as truly radical art? "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," Fredric Jameson: https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization, Jasper Bernes: https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/work-art-age-deindustrialization Sign up as a supporter at Patreon.com/partygirls to get access to our Discord, a shout out on the pod, and all bonus content. Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

Jamie and her pal Lena NW a.k.a. Fellatia G discuss Coralie Fargeat's feminist(?) body horror flick "The Substance" (2024), which stars Demi Moore as an actress/TV exercise instructor who goes to extreme lengths to preserve her youth with a shady beauty treatment. SIGN UP NOW at Patreon.com/partygirls to get the full version of this episode, all other bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Follow Lena on Twitter: FellatiaG Check out Lena's music and video games: patreon.com/fellatiag Check out Lena's many cool projects: fellatiag.com Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

This is the inaugural episode of a brand new Party Girls series—Global Uprisings—where Jamie and Sam dive into revolts, revolutions and insurgencies as they spring forth around the planet. We are living through an unprecedented wave of uprisings and rebellions that have been sweeping the globe for the past 15 years, tune in to Party Girls - Global Uprisings to stay in the know. In this episode Jamie and Sam explore the unfolding revolution in Myanmar, shining a light on the pro-democracy movement that has taken the country by storm in the wake of a 2021 military coup. Using "The Revolution in Myanmar," an interview conducted between Ill Will Editions and Azad, a freedom fighter in Myanmar, as its primary source, this episode also provides historical context and analysis of the dynamic and unfolding situation. What is the role of the revolutionary Organization in all of this? Why should communist partisans take an interest in a revolution if, at the end of the day, it is essentially fighting for bourgeois democracy? All of this and more on this weeks episode of Party Girls. Contribute to Stop Cop City organizer Jack Mazurek's legal fees: https://givebutter.com/tLAvDE Sign up as a supporter at Patreon.com/partygirls to get access to our Discord, a shout out on the pod, and all bonus content. Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

For this patrons-only BONUS episode, Sam and Jamie watched the stupid ass VP debate and shared their thoughts on it. Sign up now at Patreon.com/partygirls to get the full version of this episode, all other bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

The PG crew tackles ever so much news, including: Eric Adams indicted for cartoonish corruption. Free birth control for rats (what about us?). Report back from a mass fare evasion in NYC. The longshoreman's union goes on strike. Is labor organizing still relevant to the Real Movement™? Hurricane Helene. Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks out on Palestine. Contribute to Stop Cop City organizer Jack Mazurek's legal fees: https://givebutter.com/tLAvDE Sign up as a supporter at Patreon.com/partygirls to get access to our Discord, a shout out on the pod, and all bonus content. Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

Remember the (bad) far-right UK Race Riots that happened this past summer? Justin, a fellow traveler and Party Girls listener, offers a well researched account of what happened and why. In this special listener-submitted reading, Sam dives into Justin's report, which includes some key takeaways and conclusions that we should hold close as we move deeper into our very uncertain 21st century. Sign up as a supporter at Patreon.com/partygirls to get access to our Discord, a shout out on the pod, and all bonus content. Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)

Jamie and Sam discuss the mass shooting committed by the NYPD in the New York City subway this past Sunday. In pursuit of an alleged fare jumper, the cops wound up shooting the suspect, two random people, and one of their own. The city of New York spent $150 million in extra overtime last year in order to apprehend $104,000 worth of fare jumpers. The answer is clear: defund and abolish the NYPD. Also: fare strike! The PG crew also gives updates on a pro-Palestine action in Richmond, VA, as well as some good news from the Sol Fund 3 trial in Atlanta. Contribute to Stop Cop City organizer Jack Mazurek's legal fees: https://givebutter.com/tLAvDE Sign up as a supporter at Patreon.com/partygirls to get access to our Discord, a shout out on the pod, and all bonus content. Follow us on Instagram: @party.girls.pod Leave us a nice review on Apple podcasts if you feel so inclined :)