#LeftistTeenDrama is a podcast celebrating political moments on TV teen dramas, hosted by @mariadip.bsky.social (hi, I made this collage in my new junk journal!) Season 5 of the pod is currently airing with new eps streaming on Sundays thru Dec 14, 2025! Listen wherever you get podcasts✨ #collage

✨EP 35 OUT NOW✨ In the #LeftistTeenDrama Season 5 premiere, @mariadip.bsky.social is joined by Kelly Diaz to discuss one of the most comprehensive student protest movements that Kelly analyzed in her dissertation on depictions of youth activism on television.

💖TRAILER DROP💖#Starving4Change At UMKC: The Black Student Union Protest Movement in ‘Switched At Birth’ Season 5 @mariadip.bsky.social feat Kelly Diaz Episode #35 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Oct 12, everywhere you get your podcasts!

🎀 #LeftistTeenDrama Season 5 ⭐TRAILER DROP⭐ Season 5 is filled with a stacked cast of new and returning guests, and I’m happy to announce that, for the first time since 2022, this season has been extended to 10 episodes!

💗SEASON 5 SHOW REVEAL💗 Here’s our annual reveal of the shows we’re covering this season on #LeftistTeenDrama! Trailer drops Sunday, Oct 5, so stay tuned!

that moment while recording #LeftistTeenDrama season 5 earlier when we realized all of our favorite movies are teen movies 🫡🤝 Maria: Heathers Abir: High School Musical 3 Jillian: Mean Girls

Right after I posted this, I tried to start the new ep for a sixth or seventh time and it worked! COMPLAINING WORKS 🫡 #TheSummerITurnedPretty

✨MOVIE SPECIAL OUT NOW✨ Welcome back to #LeftistTeenDrama's series of special episodes covering political moments in teen movies! Maria is joined by twins and self-professed “camp freaks” Kelly and MG Gilbert to break down all the class conflict inherent to the plot of Camp Rock!

🚨TRAILER DROP🚨 The fourth Leftist Teen Drama Movie Special covering ‘Camp Rock’ with @mariadip.bsky.social feat Kelly and MG Gilbert premieres Sunday, August 10, 2025, everywhere you get your podcasts. #LeftistTeenDrama

MOVIE REVEAL: our fourth Leftist Teen Drama Movie Special is…2008’s Camp Rock! Self professed camp freaks Kelly Gilbert and MG Gilbert join @mariadip.bsky.social for this fun summer romp feat. a ton of class anxiety. Trailer coming this week, episode dropping August 10! #LeftistTeenDrama

forgive me, father, for i have sinned (peeked at the summer i turned pretty spoilers during the work day)

🗣️Hot girls are getting out there and ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 for NYC Mayor – and we’re not ranking Andrew Cuomo AT ALL! 💅

🗣️One week till the NYC primary! Hot girls are ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 for NYC Mayor – and we’re not ranking Andrew Cuomo AT ALL. 💅

🗳️Early voting starts this weekend on June 14 and runs through June 22! Hot Girls are ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 for NYC Mayor – and we’re not ranking Andrew Cuomo AT ALL! Find your polling location at findmypollsite.vote.nyc 💅

Samplings of plotlines @mariadip.bsky.social has covered on #LeftistTeenDrama, pt. 2

✨Hot Girls are ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 for NYC Mayor – and we’re not ranking Andrew Cuomo AT ALL. 💅 Hot Girl 4 Zohran Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell are supporting Zohran Mamdani because of his policy proposal to open city-owned grocery stores!

✨Hot Girls are ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 for NYC Mayor – and we’re not ranking Andrew Cuomo AT ALL. 💅 Hot Girl For Zohran Brooke Davis is supporting Zohran Mamdani because of his proposal for a $30/hour minimum wage by 2030!

Woke up to a pretty cool email this morning!!!! Thank you to all my listeners and collaborators for making 5,000 downloads of #LeftistTeenDrama possible!

✨SPECIAL EP OUT NOW ✨In our third Special Episode of #LeftistTeenDrama featuring a writer talking about her related body of work, @mariadip.bsky.social welcomes pop culture writer Thea Glassman to discuss her 2023 book, Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television!

💖TRAILER DROP💖 Pop culture writer Thea Glassman joins @mariadip.bsky.social on #LeftistTeenDrama to chat about her 2023 book Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television. Our next Special Ep premieres this Sunday, May 11, 2025, everywhere you get your podcasts!

Happy 1st of May aka May Day aka International Workers’ Day! (As explained by our socialist king Simon Eriksson on Young Royals.) Get out there and demonstrate with workers today! (And #LeftistTeenDrama Season 4, Ep #30 on Young Royals is now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!)

Happy 4/20! It’s time for a Jamal & Abuelita smoke and yap and snack sesh 🫡 listen to our #OnMyBlock ep (Season 2, Ep #16) to hear @mariadip.bsky.social & Xiomara Loarte talk about this dynamic and so much more! Enjoy the holiday, teen drama stoner girlies!!!

When he encourages the love of his life to be the movement leader he knows she can be??? That’s true teen drama ROMANCE, people! Listen to us talk about the Dawson’s Creek protest plotline on Ep #9 of #LeftistTeenDrama, now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

Samplings of plotlines @mariadip.bsky.social has covered on #LeftistTeenDrama, pt. 1

✨MOVIE SPECIAL OUT NOW✨Welcome back to Leftist Teen Drama’s series of special episodes covering political moments in teen movies! @mariadip.bsky.social is joined by childhood friends Rosalie Murray and Dondré Taylor-Stewart to break down the teen feminist film Moxie. #LeftistTeenDrama

🚨TRAILER DROP🚨 The third Leftist Teen Drama Movie Special covering ‘Moxie’ with @mariadip.bsky.social feat childhood friends Rosalie and Dondré premieres Sunday, March 23, 2025, everywhere you get your podcasts. #LeftistTeenDrama (Full trailer on our Instagram)

MOVIE REVEAL: our third #LeftistTeenDrama Movie Special is…the 2021 teen feminist film Moxie! @mariadip.bsky.social, Rosalie Murray, and Dondré Taylor-Stewart revisit our high school feminist activism days. Trailer coming this week, episode dropping Sun, March 23!

"Marked annually on March 8, the day was originally known as International Working Women’s Day. It was and remains a call for change that was rooted in the labor movement’s struggle for social, political, and economic rights of working class women."

Honored and sad to contribute to this

#LeftistTeenDrama EMERGENCY SPECIAL EP OUT NOW in which @mariadip.bsky.social honors the life and work of millennial teen drama icon Michelle Trachtenberg, who sadly passed away on February 26, 2025 at the age of 39.

We are so fucking sad. What an icon of the teen drama genre. RIP queen

#LeftistTeenDrama: a podcast celebrating political moments on TV teen dramas! We’ve covered 33 shows in our first four seasons and will be covering even more this year! Which teen drama haven’t we covered that you need to hear us talk about?

I mean fuck, I like tropes, I like ships I like occupyin’ spaces, I like strikes, I like to protest I like chantin’ and student sit-ins and class analysis I like celebratin’ teen dramas, podcast it, probably would

#LeftistTeenDrama: a podcast for the girlies who know that "OC" is both shorthand for an organizing committee and an iconic early 2000s teen drama. Seasons 1-4 now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

Learn about the Dawson’s Creek J. Crew catalog, Y2K Era teen activists, and more!

✨SPECIAL EP OUT NOW ✨ @mariadip.bsky.social welcomes @coletteshade.bsky.social to #LeftistTeenDrama to discuss her brilliant book of essays, 'Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was),' just released on January 7, 2025.

This is going to be so good🤍💿👽🫧

💖TRAILER DROP💖 @coletteshade.bsky.social joins @mariadip.bsky.social on #LeftistTeenDrama to chat about her newly released book of essays, Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)! Our next Special Ep premieres this Sun, Jan 19, everywhere you get your podcasts!

Exciting update from me! (As much as I use the royal “we” on here, it’s just me, Maria)

It’s PUB DAY for @coletteshade.bsky.social, which seems like as good a time as any to announce that we’ll be releasing a SPECIAL EP with Colette Shade later this month, talking all things Y2K! Congrats, Colette! Go pick up this amazing book of essays! bookshop.org/p/books/y2k-...

Well, my beautiful political teen drama people, it’s 2025, and I’ve already hit the ground running, sorting through ideas and creating our content schedule for the new year! What are you hoping to see from #LeftistTeenDrama in 2025?

Chill guys listened to #LeftistTeenDrama in 2024. Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a Ryan Atwood running and making it just in time to kiss Marissa Cooper at midnight level good time last night 🎉

Leftist Teen Drama Season 4, Episode 8 #34 - Dan Humphrey, Vanessa Abrams, and A Bunch of ‘Overprivileged, Underparented Trust Fund Brats’ (Analyzing Class Dynamics on ‘Gossip Girl’) feat Laura Marino and strideofpride Closing out Season 4 analyzing a listener-requested show thru a leftist lens!

💖TRAILER DROP💖 Dan Humphrey, Vanessa Abrams, and A Bunch of ‘Overprivileged, Underparented Trust Fund Brats’ (Analyzing Class Dynamics on ‘Gossip Girl’) | Maria feat Laura Marino and strideofpride #LeftistTeenDrama Episode 34 premieres on Sun, Dec 29, 2024! (Full trailer on our Instagram)

The OC Chrismukkah episodes, but especially 1x13 “The Best Chrismukkah Ever”

Leftist Teen Drama Season 4, Episode 7 #33 - The Secret Life of British Teenagers in the South Asian Diaspora, According to ‘Some Girls,’ ‘Ackley Bridge,’ ‘Sex Education,’ and ‘Waterloo Road’ feat. Abir Mohammad We explore South Asian teens living in all their complexities on these 4 teen dramas!

💖TRAILER DROP💖 #33 - The Secret Life of British Teenagers in the South Asian Diaspora, According to ‘Some Girls,’ ‘Ackley Bridge,’ ‘Sex Education,’ and ‘Waterloo Road’ | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Abir Mohammad Episode #33 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Dec 22! (Full trailer on our Instagram)

🚨 DREW STARKEY IN TEAMSTERS UNION DRIP🚨 @uniondrip.bsky.social

Leftist Teen Drama Season 4, Episode 6 #32 - Simone Hicks, HBCU Athlete-Activist: Black Trauma, Resilience, and Protest on ‘All American: Homecoming’ feat Dondré Taylor-Stewart A bomb threat, a cop stop, and a show centered on community, mental health, and a badass leader named Simone Hicks!

💖TRAILER DROP💖 Simone Hicks, HBCU Athlete-Activist: Black Trauma, Resilience, and Protest on ‘All American: Homecoming’ | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Dondré Taylor-Stewart! Episode #32 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Dec 15! (Full trailer on our Instagram)