Disney Deviants

Taiwo and Adaeze read bell hooks. ever popular All About Love and discuss the things they love, the things they disliked, and how this book just may change their lives.

This week, we took on the biblical...satire? Parody? Recreation? Reflection? We were so committed to the bit that we decided to bring it to you on a Sunday.  

Come with me and you'll be in a world of Pure Imagination!

Or at least a world of Timothee Chalamet and a host of other stars! Join us as we walk the streets of *insert generic city* in .....Europe and discuss Wonka and all its whimsy...or perhaps lack there of?

It's the first full episode of The Deviants and this time we're bringing you the first installment in the Battle of the Movie Musicals!

This week we watched The Color Purple starring Fantasia, Halle Bailey, Taraji P. Henson and *checks notes* Ciara???? Join us and special guest/ resident The Color Purple Historian (and conspiracy theorist) Jess Money as we discuss the ins and outs of this film adaptation of the musical adaptation of Alice Walker's tragically triumphant tale. 

NEW EPISODES OUT OF FRIDAYS!!!
It's the new year, that means it's time for a rebrand. Right? That's what that means...RIGHT? Welcome to the beginning of the next chapter of the podcast. Hopefully it's our best one yet. We continue to be a work in progress, and we hope you stick with us as we continue to grow. In this new era, we are allowing ourselves the freedom to watch and read whatever moves us. As always, we will be taking recommendations. So, feel free to send us your suggestions.

This. Was. Unhinged!

Listen to us try to muddle through the plot of this Brandy (and Heather Graham) Christmas vehicle. 

This movie has everything!

1. Christmas Newsletters
2. Three precocious kids
3. Clingy college ex
4. Freaky Deaky Sex
5. A barely discussed dead son
6. A solar powered hot air balloon
7. and Last but not least Santa hijinks involving previously stated balloons

We are coming at you on this Christmas morning with Candy Cane Lane. This wacky and (family friendly?) Christmas movies has us asking questions like

Why is Nick Offerman British?
Is counting calculus?
Whose fetish did this movie satisfy?

Listen to this episode to find out if any of these questions get answered.

And now we're back! From outer space!

Woops I meant from our regularly scheduled break! (Plus a day or so).

The second book we ever read and discussed for the podcast was A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins when it was released in 2020. So of course, we had to watch the movie now that it's out in theaters! Thank goodness the strike is over huh? 

Join us as we discuss the similarities and differences between the book and movie and the merit of the movie itself. And as we ask the question only you, our loyal listeners can answer; Does this count as a sequel?

Happy Thanksgiving Deviants!

And this Thanksgiving we are grateful to be back and for authors highlighting the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.

This week we read and discuss Susan Abulhawa's 2019 Novel Against the Loveless World.  A poignant story about a Palestinian woman held as a prisoner in an Israeli prison and how she got to be there. Join us as we discuss the beauty of the novel and share our thoughts on the current conflict. 

Palestine will be free. 

The week we are once again taking up the mantle as the C-Presidents of the Tiffany D. Jackson Fan Club! And as Co-Presidents, this October we are bringing you Tiffany's (yes we are on a first name basis!) spookiest read to date, The Weight of Blood.

Join us as we read this Carrie retelling and discuss all things Maddy, Kendrick, Wendy, Jules and the rest of the headline making events in the small town of  Springville, Georgia. And find out why Racism (tm) might just be the scariest part of all.

In our official Spooky-Oooky Halloween kickoff episode we discuss LAna Harper's sapphic, magic novel Payback's a Witch!

The one where the gang finally talks about Legendborn by Tracy Deonn! 

It took a couple of weeks (and a surprise episode!) but we finally got to discuss all of our thoughts about Legendborn!

Did we hate this book? Did we love this book?  Was this book a warm hug? Who did we want Bree to end up with? Did those within The Order like to live? Did we make the crazy choice to record this AFTER a bonus Jonas episode (yes!)? For all other answers, and for questions you didn't even know we had, you're gonna have to listen to us break down this book intrigue by intrigue. (Like you weren't already going to?)

Check your local podcast listening app for our discussion of Legendborn in this week's episode of Textual Deviants (brought to you by the strike supporters of Disney Deviants)!

Love is patient, love is blind, love is toxic, and unkind...that's how that goes right? This we bring you a bonus episode so long, it MUST be the director's cut. This week, we bring you 2 episodes for the price of one. We are deep diving into the first episodes of Netflix's Love Is Blind. And we have important questions like...
1) You know it's still yelling even though you're keeping your voice down right?
2) What exactly is the current state of heterosexual love?
3) Are solo cups the champagne flutes of gym bros?

All this and more

We're back with a special announcement episode of Textual Deviants!

Join us as we discuss our spooky-ooky and spooky-lovely(?) October reads, Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper and Weight of Blood by podcast Author fave Tiffany D. Jackson! 

Oh. You thought we were going to be discussing Legendborn? If there's one thing we've told yall, it's that we are a liars and frauds. And also, WE ARE SO SORRY BUT LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT AS ACTORS TRYING TO NAVIGATE THE STRIKE AND FIND A NEW JOB POST GRAD.

We hope we can make it up to y'all by bringing some of the juiciest Booktok drama straight to your ears! *Best Desi Arnaz impression* Nate Lemcke you've got some 'splaining to do! on this week's episode of DD's Textual Deviants!

It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's the Return of Them Bitches That Read a.k.a Textual Deviants!

Now let me tell you a little about two girls who are in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Yes, the industry is still on strike and so are we. So we are back with our first read in a long time and we're not sure if we remember how we used to do this, but we sure as hell are gonna have fun trying to figure it out!

For today's episode we read Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie and the description is as follows:  A mysterious disease claims the world's children before bringing them back. To continue surviving, however, they need to ingest human blood. As you may guess from this synopsis, this horror fiction left us with many many feelings. Join us as we discuss our first impressions, a.ka first anxiety, existential dread, how Mr. Craiggory DiLouis had us questioning whether or not we want to be parents nd much more!  Mister Craiggory DiLouis, you have some 'splainin' to do!

Hello again everyone!

We're back from an unannounced hiatus that was necessary for many reasons! Travel, family, and the havoc that general late-stage capitalism is wreaking on our chosen industry!

As the title has probably made you aware, SAG and the WGA is on strike! Now what does that mean for us? You'll have to listen to find out!

Join us as we talk through reasons for the strike, where we stand (hint hint: we ain't no scabs), and a pivot or maybe rather a return to our roots! Plus bonus content if you make it all the way to the end!

Can't wait to hear from all of you once you listen to this weeks episode of Disney Deviants(?)!