Disney x Pinkwashing

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Vanessa Zoltan, Arts, Harry Potter, Books, Aubrey Gordon, Hannah Mcgregor, Pop Culture, Cultural Cricism, Society & Culture, Feminism, Witch Please, Marcelle Kosman, Tv & Film, Fantasy, Not Sorry

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What drove Hannah and Marcelle to go to Disneyland? And what is with all the rainbow Mickey ears? And where does pinkwashing end and real change begin? Tune into this episode about the happiest place on earth to find out! In this episode, Marcelle leads Hannah through a history of the term pinkwashing. She then draws on an article by Karine Duplan called “Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus,” to better understand what leads to making public spaces inclusive for queer and trans folks. Together, Hannah and Marcelle think through their own pleasure in experiencing Disneyland, while dissecting the tension between corporations' bottom lines and the value of representation and inclusivity. Ultimately, Marcelle and Hannah consider: if pinkwashing is by necessity surface-level public image campaigning that masks ongoing harm, is Disney doing something different?

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Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.

*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment.

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0:00.0	Oh I made a new mind, a new brain.
0:15.0	I want to take a ride on a mini train.
0:19.0	I want to take a ride on a mini train.
0:22.0	You can pop it all
0:25.0	at the showbe.
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to material girls.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Material Girls, of pop culture podcast that uses critical theory to understand the zeitgeist.
0:38.0	I'm Marcel Kossman and I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm here to confess that Marcel has absolutely broken me and I'm
0:46.3	fully prepared to become a Disney adult. Marcel, why would you do this to me?
0:50.5	It's an exact quote people. I quoted Hannah McGregor's text to me. It's an exact quote people. I quoted Hannah McGregor's text to me word for word.
0:58.4	We are obviously going to talk about Disney in this episode, but I thought that it would be helpful if in the introductory
1:06.2	segment we just get off our chest the reasons why we might be compelled to become Disney adults having just returned from a trip to the
1:17.2	happiest place on earth. So yeah, Hannah, you tell me why did I do that to you?
1:23.0	What a good question.
1:25.0	Well, you, so Marcel, I've known about your deep love for Disney since 2017, is that the first year you went? I think it's 2018.
1:35.0	2018. It was the same trip that you and I went to the
1:39.2	Wizarding World of Harry Potter which was the first and until recently last theme park I'd ever been to, and you were coming
1:48.4	off a Disney trip and you were changed. You were changed.
1:54.0	You kept talking about how like you couldn't wait to get back to Disney.
1:57.0	And then you went back to Disney again.
1:58.0	And then through the pandemic, like you kept talking about how all you wanted to do is go back to Disney.
2:04.0	And truly, I just was like, well, whatever makes Marcel happy, that's fine.
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