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Poptarts Episode 60: Graffiti Queen Claw Money! Jul 12, 2019

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Through the late 80s and early 90s, graffiti goddess Claudia “Claw Money” Gold was leaving her signature, a paw with three claws, all over New York City and you can still find her iconic tags all around the Lower East Side. After making her mark with graffiti, she became the fashion editor at Swindle Magazine and then broke out as a fashion designer in 2002, launching her own signature clothing line that later led to Claw Money collaborations with Calvin Klein, Marc Ecko, Rag & Bone, and Nike. Her gear has a huge celebrity following, including one-name-wonders like MIA, Kanye, and Rihanna. She’s an outlaw and a trendsetter and in this episode of BUST’s Poptarts podcast, she lets us into her secret world of spray paint.

Poptarts Episode 59: L7's Donita Sparks! Jun 28, 2019

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If you were a feminist and a fan of hard rock in the 90s, you are probably still obsessed with Donita Sparks. Donita formed the band L7 in L.A .with her friend Suzi Gardner in 1985 and through various lineups, they toured the world with heavy, head-banging bravado for the next 16 years. During that time, they released five furious albums, including the amazing Bricks Are Heavy. And when the band broke up in 2001, punk girls everywhere shed bitter tears. But in 2014, Donita and Suzi, along with longtime bandmates Jennifer Finch and Demetra Plakas, got the band back together and they are currently rocking out harder than ever. In this episode of BUST’s Poptarts podcast, Donita gets real about music biz sexism, rocking for choice, and the “code of the road.”

Poptarts Episode 58: Doing Standup Over 40 with Carolyn Castiglia & Shalewa Sharpe! Jun 14, 2019

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Carolyn Castiglia and Shalewa Sharpe are standup comedians in NYC and co-hosts of the monthly comedy show Laying It Down with Carolyn & Shalewa—a glamorously exhausted showcase of life after 40 featuring standup from the city's finest talents, performed at Madame X in Soho. Carolyn has appeared on VH1, MTV, Comedy Central, and all over the New York club scene. And Shalewa has performed on HBO’s 2 Dope Queens and Comedy Central’s “The New Negroes,” she has a new comedy album out this year on Little Lamb Recordings, and she also performs and hosts all over New York City. In this episode of BUST’s Poptarts podcast, the two powerhouses open up about how doing standup over 40 has effected their careers, their relationships, and their hopes and dreams for the future.

Poptarts Episode 57: Pose's Our Lady J! May 31, 2019

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POSE returns to FX on June 11 and we are OBSESSED. Helping us to talk about this amazing show on this episode of BUST’s Poptarts podcast is Our Lady J! She is currently a writer and producer on Pose and was previously writing and producing on Amazon’s groundbreaking show Transparent. Before becoming the first out trans writer to be hired in a television writers’ room, she made a name for herself as a pop and classical pianist, working with Sia and the American Ballet Theatre and was the first out trans woman to perform at Carnegie Hall. Our Lady J is a true trailblazer and we were so honored to have her here with us at BUST HQ!

Poptarts Episode 56: White House 2020 Smackdown! May 17, 2019

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The U.S. government has somehow become the world’s worst reality show. And with a jillion democrats vying for the 2020 nomination, following it all can be dizzying. Helping us tackle this crazy topic on this episode of Poptarts, are comedian Lizzie Stewart and campaign staffer and political strategist Arden Walentowski. Together, Lizzie and Arden are the hosts of Let’s Get Civical, a funny and very feminist podcast that unpacks government structures in a way we can all understand and that makes us all more informed citizens as a result.

Poptarts Episode 55: Karen Finley! May 03, 2019

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Karen Finley started out performing feminist monologues full of vitriol and fury in the punk clubs of the Bay Area in the late 70s. By the 80s, she’d moved to New York where she was a regular at legendary performance venues like Danceteria. And then in 1990, she became a household name as part of the NEA FOUR—a group of four performance artists whose National Endowment for the Arts funding was revoked because conservative Senator Jesse Helms had a hissy fit about decency. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1998 in National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley and Karen Finley became an icon of the struggle for free speech. She’s a professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and in this episode of BUST’s Poptarts podcast she unleashes on the current administrations and provides creative guidance for feminists trying to keep our heads up in the time of Trump.

Poptarts Episode 54: Jenna Wortham! Apr 19, 2019

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Jenna Wortham is a technology reporter and staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. She co-hosts the New York Times podcast Still Processing with Wesley Morris, and just before her rise to fame at the Times, she was one of BUST’s superstar freelancers, interviewing Diablo Cody, Solange Knowles, and Sarah Silverman for us all in 2008 alone. We are so thrilled by her success and in this episode of BUST’s Poptarts podcast, we chat with her about Black excellence in pop culture, the importance of self-care while covering the news, what it means to cancel our heroes, and more.

Poptarts Episode 53: "Guys We F****D!" Apr 08, 2019

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Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson are the hosts of the super popular Guys We F****d: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast, and they co-wrote the companion book F****D: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed in 2017. Corinne and Krystyna have also been performing since 2011 as the comedy duo Sorry About Last Night, and they have made it their mission to make the world a more sex-positive place. In this candid interview on BUST’s Poptarts podcast we talk about trying to have healthy boundaries when talking about sex is your job, creating the perfect online dating profile, why they are now both having the best sex of their lives, and more.

Poptarts Episode 52: Slutever's Karley Sciortino! Mar 19, 2019

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Karley Sciortino is the creator and host of the hit Viceland show "Slutever," now in its second season. On the show, Karley navigates the world of sex, love, hookups, open-relationships, sex parties, sex work, sexual technology, and more in a way that is brave, surprising, and very feminist. She’s also the co-writer of the new comedy series "Now Apocalypse" on Starz, she wrote a book called "Slutever: Dispatches from a Secxually Autonomous Woman in a Post-Shame World," and she writes a sex and relationship column for Vogue.com. On this episode of BUST’s Poptarts podcast Sciortino reveals what her mom’s reaction was to her becoming a sexspert, what it’s like to work for Vice, and how she maintains her high feminist standards while covering the sex industry.

Poptarts Episode 51: Girl Groups! Mar 08, 2019

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This episode is all about girl groups! And joining us to tackle this tasty topic is one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject. DJ Sheila B hosts "Sophisticated Boom Boom" on WFMU, an amazing radio show that celebrates female-fronted pop from the past, present, and future, and from all over the globe. She’s brought her legendary record collection to girl pop dance parties from New York to London to Tokyo, was recently featured in the book, "Dust & Grooves," about hardcore vinyl collectors, and she’s also a longtime friend of BUST magazine!

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