What's With All This Eldest Daughter Discourse?
Culture Study Podcast
Culture Study Podcast
4.5 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm ephomozoma and I'm the eldest daughter of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter. |
| 0:17.4 | Oh, and the mom of an only daughter. |
| 0:22.6 | So the genesis of this is that Melody and I were riffing on the new Taylor Swift album, and we were like, |
| 0:31.5 | eldest daughter, what a disappointment. |
| 0:34.5 | Like, and some people really like it. |
| 0:36.2 | But anyway, we both thought, what a disappointment. |
| 0:39.1 | There was a lot of potential there because I'm an eldest daughter and Melody is an |
| 0:44.4 | eldest daughter. |
| 0:45.0 | And we have been, I think, surrounded, I think more recently by a lot of eldest daughter |
| 0:51.8 | discourse, memes, Instagram accounts, posts, just generally. |
| 0:59.0 | And if we're going to do an episode, though, I wanted to have this like intersection, |
| 1:03.3 | which I see as like eldest daughter to the eldest daughter power, which is immigrant |
| 1:09.6 | eldest daughter. So I said on Instagram, okay, who should I have be my co-host? |
| 1:15.7 | And you DMed me and we're like, hello. |
| 1:19.0 | So what are your eldest daughter credentials? |
| 1:22.6 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:23.7 | So I am the eldest daughter of two of an eldest daughter from Nigeria who was the eldest of |
| 1:31.8 | eight and who is also the eldest daughter of an eldest daughter. |
| 1:37.8 | Wow. |
| 1:39.2 | Eldest daughter lineage. And I think that that actually, like, there's something going on there. |
| 1:43.7 | I'm the eldest daughter of a middle daughter. Oh, interesting. The way that I've seen it play out in my |
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