We See Dead Girls
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re bringing out the dead girls. Everywhere you look in popular culture there seems to be a new movie, TV show or true crime documentary detailing the mystery of yet another woman’s death. At least, that was how author and guest Alice Bolin saw things when she wrote her book Dead Girls in 2018. She sits down with Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth to unpack what has - and hasn’t - changed in dead girl culture (from Twin Peak’s Laura Palmer to our persistent obsession with Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia) and what this fixation says about all of us.
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the waves, |
| 1:02.0 | slates podg Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and America's favorite |
| 1:08.7 | trope. Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds, and today you've got me, Shaina Roth, I'm a senior producer at Sleet. |
| 1:19.0 | I remember my first dead girl. I was eight years old. I was in the grocery store of my mother and |
| 1:27.2 | it was one of those big shops where it's groceries for the family for the week and |
| 1:31.7 | then some. |
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