The Pop Culture Papers: Recent Episodes
Zoe Brynn Miguel-Nixon
Welcome to The Pop Culture Papers! I have dug up 23 papers I wrote throughout undergrad (and maybe even high school) on the music, films, and television I was consuming at the time and analyze their history, context, and how things have changed, both personally and with each piece of art, since writing it, as well as the paper itself.
Welcome back! For another Dark Side paper, I talk about the deception portrayed in Panic! At The Disco's "But It's Better If You Do" music video, made-up words in the Comm major, and clock in at my shortest episode in over a year.
In honor of me seeing 5 Seconds of Summer again tonight for the first time in 5 years, I'm taking you on a walk down memory lane in one of my Public Speaking presentations where I fervently beg people not to call 5SOS a boy band in 2015. It's a lot of rambling about how much I love my friends and why it's probably a good thing not to have a direct deposit option to your favorite bands as a 17-year-old.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
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Welcome back! In this episode, I talk about the haze of Fall 2018, World War II films, and obviously, Harry Styles. It's nice to be back to the regularly scheduled programming, lol.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
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Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
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Welcome back! In one of my favorite papers to write for "Writing About Music," I discuss the history of girl groups and female-fronted bands, heartache versus heartbreak, and get maybe a little too vulnerable about the state I'm in right now. Anyway! I hope you enjoy this.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
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Welcome back! In a surprisingly angry past paper, I discuss one of my favorite country hits, "Girl in a Country Song," what it meant to me, and as you can tell one of my favorite topics by now, women's agency. Hopefully, my sunshine-y demeanor remains intact in your mind because I felt meaner than usual, lol.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
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Welcome back! Today, you get to hear me gush about Sara Bareilles, lightly rage over the gender inequality in music, and analyze the album cover for 2007's "Little Voice."
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Welcome back! Hot on the heels of the incredible Spider-Man: No Way Home and Christmas, I thought we'd talk about religion in the superhero space. Barring the technical difficulties, I go into my background with Christianity, why I wrote this paper, and where the genre is today with its religious content. Content warnings for mentions of religious trauma, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
WE'RE BACK! (Or trying to be at the very least.) This week, we are talking about how The Beach Boys revolutionized rock music forever with their album "Pet Sounds," the way I shoe-horned 5 Seconds of Summer into everything when I was 18, and what happened in the past 8 months.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Today, we are discussing Gilmore Girls with special guest, Julia Darling! Through her Communication Theory paper, we talk about the questionable economy of Stars Hollow, the struggle between Emily and Lorelai as a class war, and why Rory should probably date outside of the three guys she knew between 18 and 22 (or be alone! That's cool too.)
You can find Julia's work here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MsJuliaDarling
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MsJuliaDarling/
Darling Live Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darling.live/
Books: https://smile.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJulia+Schemmer&s=relevancerank&text=Julia+Schemmer&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Welcome back! We're bi-weekly now and talking about Black Mirror, specifically the first episode I ever watched, "The Entire History of You." Another dark side paper about relational transgressions, so buckle up because we lay down quite a few rules and I make a lot of recommendations.
Today, we're talking about pop-punk, 2004 classic, "Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard and how this song brought up a whole lotta firsts for me. I would detail it here, but as heard in the episode, younger me lived for the drama of it all.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Today, I share the very last thing I did as a messy undergrad the night before graduating: a video project?! Big change of pace, but Wong Fu and their shorts have meant a lot to me over the years and I wanted to honor that. Plus, 'The Last' is just a great short.
Resources to #StopAsianHate:
Volunteer / Donate:
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Apex for Youth: https://www.apexforyouth.org/
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Oakland Chinatown Coalition: https://www.facebook.com/chinatowncoalition/
Asian Creatives I Love:
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gicatam.com
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theduskykitchen.com
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instagram.com/parya.comic
Looking at Wong Fu's 'The Last' Through Feminist and Race Theory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtkOoRZNXhM&t=1s
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Welcome back! HAPPY "TO ALL THE BOYS: ALWAYS AND FOREVER" EVE! Today is another lovefest for my favorite young adult series, "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" by the incredible Jenny Han. I share what this series has meant to me as a Hapa girl, present the poem (a loose term) I wrote about it for Reading Cinema, and encourage you all to watch the new movie with me at midnight. (Okay, maybe a more reasonable hour for all of you, but soon, please.)
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
I thought we'd kick off February with a little bit of love from a young adult favorite of mine, the novel, "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon! I promise this is the last Dark Side paper for a few weeks, but this was just such a good example of equivocation and I wanted to gush about Nicola's work for just a little bit.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Welcome back! This week is another Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication paper as we discuss NBC's hit show, "This Is Us," specifically the second episode of the first season, "The Big Three." I discuss Jack and Rebecca's issues in their parenting as the "dark side of family interaction," come up with a definition of "dearth of companionate talk," and share my affection for everyone's favorite show to cry to.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song and Outro: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
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Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
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Welcome back! We've got another Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication paper, this time about the interactional paradoxes of The Maine's 2016 single, "Bad Behavior." Come listen as I try to define interactional paradoxes without sounding very pretentious and gush about how much I freaking love The Maine.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Welcome back! Today, we're reading TWO papers because my broken brain didn't realize I had written about 2016's La La Land before for a different class. We decode the dinner scene and ending through the lenses of hurtful messages and New Criticism, respectively. The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication and Reading Cinema classes really had me even more emotional over this movie.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Welcome to the first episode of the Pop Culture Papers! In this one, I revisit my 2016 Gender and Communication paper (and also my longest of the series, so I promise you won't have to hear me ramble as long soon) on Halsey's two music videos for "Ghost" and boy, did I have some notes for myself. Also, these videos hold up.
Written, Edited, Produced, and Artwork by Zoe Miguel-Nixon
Theme Song: "She Don't Mind" by Mandala (@mandalact)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/popculturepapers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/popculturepaper
Email: popculturepapers@gmail.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popculturepaperspod
Introducing a limited series run of 23 academic papers written by me, Zoe Miguel-Nixon, based on the music, films, television, and basically any other media I was interested in, their histories, contexts in which I wrote them in, and how things have changed since.