Well, it’s the first Sunday without a new ep of #LeftistTeenDrama, so it’s about time to say: that’s a wrap on Leftist Teen Drama’s 2025 run! Check out our IG post for a roundup and reflection on this year's 16(!) eps! we'll see y'all with new eps in 2026 <3 www.instagram.com/p/DS0BZ8vkSx...

My 2025 film journal entry for Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, the latest #LeftistTeenDrama movie special w/ @mariadip.bsky.social feat Mo and Christina from Movies That Raised Us! (now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!)

💗MOVIE SPECIAL CLIP💗 Samantha Parkington’s speech bringing attention to child labor in American factories? An absolute slay! Our latest #LeftistTeenDrama Movie Special on Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, with @mariadip.bsky.social feat Mo & Christina from Movies That Raised Us, is now streaming!

#LeftistTeenDrama Episode Guide: Holiday Edition We updated our guide from a couple years ago for your binging pleasure: www.instagram.com/p/DSkRSqAkbq... Which teen drama holiday episode your favorite? (Including any we may have missed?!)

✨MOVIE SPECIAL OUT NOW✨ Welcome back to our series of special eps covering political moments in teen movies! To close out 2025, Maria is joined by Mo & Christina, the hosts of the Movies That Raised Us podcast, to dive into the American Girl cinematic universe via Samantha: An American Girl Holiday!

🚨TRAILER DROP🚨 The fifth #LeftistTeenDrama Movie Special covering 'Samantha: An American Girl Holiday,' with @mariadip.bsky.social feat Mo and Christina from the Movies That Raised Us podcast, premieres Sunday, December 21, 2025, everywhere you get your podcasts.

MOVIE REVEAL: our last #LeftistTeenDrama Movie Special of the year is…Samantha: An American Girl Holiday! Our holiday special with @mariadip.bsky.social featuring Mo and Christina from Movies That Raised Us premieres on Sunday, Dec 21!

✨EP 44 OUT NOW✨ In the #LeftistTeenDrama Season 5 finale, Maria is joined by twins Kelly Gilbert and Mick Gilbert to contrast the experiences of Catholic teenage girls coming of age in Belfast and Derry during The Troubles on Say Nothing and Derry Girls.

💖TRAILER DROP💖 The Politics of Coming of Age in Northern Ireland During the Troubles as a Catholic Teen Girl, As Seen On ‘Say Nothing’ and ‘Derry Girls’ | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Kelly Gilbert and Mick Gilbert Episode #44 of #LeftistTeenDrama – our Season 5 finale – premieres Sun, Dec 14!

✨EP 43 OUT NOW✨ In the penultimate episode of #LeftistTeenDrama Season 5, @mariadip.bsky.social is joined by fellow union comms girlie @dianah.bsky.social to dive into the #SavedByTheBell Teachers’ Strike episode.

💖TRAILER DROP💖 Bayside Teachers Deserve Better: The ‘Saved By The Bell’ Teachers’ Strike Episode | @mariadip.bsky.social feat @dianah.bsky.social Episode #43 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Dec 7, everywhere you get your podcasts!

Happy #CampRock3 Teaser Day to all who celebrate, from your #LeftistTeenDrama host @mariadip.bsky.social and #CampRock correspondents Kelly and M Gilbert!

Forget about my personal Spotify Wrapped — the #LeftistTeenDrama #SpotifyWrapped is what I truly look forward to every year! Absolutely in awe of the growth our little podcast has experienced in 2025. From the bottom of my heart, thanks for listening 🥹 [email protected]

💗EP 42 CLIP💗On the latest episode of #LeftistTeenDrama, Maria and Dondré break down the short-lived student protest movement on #ADifferentWorld Season 2, Episode 10, “Radio Free Hillman.”

✨EP 42 OUT NOW✨ Maria is joined by Dondré Taylor-Stewart for Leftist Teen Drama’s first episode covering #ADifferentWorld – but it certainly won’t be our last. Once Debbie Allen took the helm in Season 2, she made HBCU politics a cornerstone of the show...

💖TRAILER DROP💖 ‘They Censored His Radio Show!’: Hillman College Students Stage a Sit-In on ‘A Different World’ | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Dondré Taylor-Stewart Episode #42 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Nov 30, everywhere you get your podcasts! #ADifferentWorld

#LeftistTeenDrama Episode Guide: Thanksgiving Edition Fuck a colonial holiday, but we love a chaotic teen drama Thanksgiving episode! (Watch My Life with the Walter Boys 1x05 to learn more about why our Native comrades call it a Day of Mourning!)

Not so hot take: neither #TheSummerITurnedPretty nor #WeWereLiars are “silly little summer shows.” On both #LeftistTeenDrama Ep 39 and Ep 41, Maria and guests Jillian, Abir, and Kelly went on tangents about some of the teen drama discourse from Summer 2025!

✨EP 41 OUT NOW✨ At first glance, #WeWereLiars might seem like any other rich kid teen drama, but this show goes much deeper with its anticapitalist and anticolonial messages than most. Maria and Kelly Diaz break down the entire first season, as the Liars –

💖TRAILER DROP💖 A Summer Romance Teen Drama Set in the Imperial Core: Postcolonial Class Consciousness in ‘We Were Liars’ Season 1 | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Kelly Diaz Episode #41 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Nov 23, everywhere you get your podcasts!

We love @coletteshade.bsky.social! Her book Y2K is the perfect holiday gift for the millennial in your life (and make sure to recommend your loved one listen to our ep with Colette afterwards😉)

My 2025 film journal entry for #CampRock, the latest #LeftistTeenDrama movie special w/ Maria feat Kelly and MG! (now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!)

💗EP 40 CLIP💗 To this day, Amy’s storyline on #FreaksandGeeks remains a groundbreaking depiction of intersex representation. @mariadip.bsky.social and @magsmclaugh.bsky.social break it all down on #LeftistTeenDrama Ep 40, now streaming wherever you get podcasts!

I was on my dear friend @mariadip.bsky.social’s podcast talking about freaks & geeks 🥹 it was so much fun I’ve seen the show like 40 times you should watch it, and if you have, listen to our pod cast!

✨EP 40 OUT NOW✨ @mariadip.bsky.social is joined by fellow union comrade and Freaks and Geeks superfan Margaret McCaughlin to break down the political themes of the show’s one and only season, which is firmly set in the 1980-1981 school year. #FreaksandGeeks

💖TRAILER DROP💖 Inside the Fleeting Yet Inherently Political World of ‘Freaks and Geeks’ | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Margaret McCaughlin Episode #40 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Nov 16, everywhere you get your podcasts!

💗EP 39 CLIP💗 Benny’s queer journey, from reckoning with his identity to slowly beginning to share it with the world, is unrushed and maybe that’s part of why it feels so genuine! @mariadip.bsky.social, Abir, & Jillian break down #Overcompensating Season 1 on #LeftistTeenDrama Ep 39, now streaming!

✨EP 39 OUT NOW✨ @mariadip.bsky.social is appropriately joined by two of her fellow millennial teen drama Internet friends, Abir Mohammad and Jillian Bonanne, to break down the queer college journey of Benny Scanlon on Season 1 of #Overcompensating.

💖TRAILER DROP💖 Benny Scanlon’s Millennial Queer College Journey On ‘Overcompensating’ (So Far) | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Abir Mohammad and Jillian Bonanne Episode #39 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Nov 9, everywhere you get your podcasts! #Overcompensating

Chester Morris 🤝 Rickie Vasquez 🤝 Thoughtful Costume Designers That Authentically Depicted Working Class Queer Teens of Color Episode 38 of #LeftistTeenDrama is now streaming, all about the 2021 HBO Max teen drama Genera+ion with @mariadip.bsky.social feat Dondré Taylor-Stewart!

✨EP 38 OUT NOW✨ In fulfillment of a listener request from @/vanesawye on Tumblr, Maria & recurring guest Dondré Taylor-Stewart break down the HBO Max teen drama Genera+ion. This short but impactful show is packed with political moments, from Chester’s recurring experience of getting dress coded...

💖TRAILER DROP💖 'Genera+ion' Takes On The Messiness and Complexity of Gen Z Teen Politics | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Dondré Taylor-Stewart Episode #38 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Nov 2, everywhere you get your podcasts!

Tag yourself @ the Cavendish College sit-in: I’m Ms. Masters Episode 37 of #LeftistTeenDrama is all about #SexEducation’s Season 4 disability justice plotlines, now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

💗EP 37 CLIP💗 On the latest episode of #LeftistTeenDrama, Kelly Diaz and Sasha Blair-Goldensohn explain the “Curb Cut Effect!” Stream Ep 37 now to hear us discuss wheelchair user Isaac Goodwin’s fight to make Cavendish College wheelchair accessible on #SexEducation Season 4! ♿

✨EP 37 OUT NOW✨ Maria is joined by recurring guest Kelly Diaz and disability rights activist Sasha Blair-Goldensohn to talk about disability justice on both #SexEducation and in real life.

💖TRAILER DROP💖 ‘We’re Not Moving Until It Gets Fixed’: Isaac Goodwin, Aisha Green, and Disability Justice on ‘Sex Education’ | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Kelly Diaz and Sasha Blair-Goldensohn Episode #37 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Oct 26, everywhere you get your podcasts!

✨EP 36 OUT NOW✨ @mariadip.bsky.social is joined by Rosalie Murray and Kelly Gilbert to discuss Paige Michalchuk’s sexual assault plotline as depicted over several seasons of #Degrassi. Similar to Tim Riggins’ arc that we discussed in Episode #7, this plotline begs for an abolitionist reading.

💖TRAILER DROP💖 Paige Michalchuk Is Not Your Poor Thing: An Abolitionist Take On The First ‘Degrassi’ Sexual Assault Plotline | @mariadip.bsky.social feat Rosalie Murray & Kelly Gilbert Episode #36 of #LeftistTeenDrama premieres Sun, Oct 19, everywhere you get your podcasts!

#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)