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Camp (Not Sontag's), Part 2

Camp (Not Sontag's), Part 2

FromAll Each Other Has


Camp (Not Sontag's), Part 2

FromAll Each Other Has

ratings:
Length:
85 minutes
Released:
Jul 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In part two of “Camp,” Ellie and Carrie apologize for being “pick me” girls in their previous discussion of Camp Vega, recall socials (the Cedar Bowl) and the horror of grinding culture, and explain outlets for hormonal urges (the Bunk 7 casino, the removal of the tetherball pole). They explore camp as a total environment apt for trying on new versions of themselves, the liberation of skinny dip, camp as a sapphic eden (where one might fall in love with the lead in a 2005 production of “Bye Bye Birdie”), the camp bubble bursting when news broke that Michael Jackson died, grieving the end of childhood, and squaring personal politics with the prohibitive privilege of a place that made them who they are.
Released:
Jul 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (26)

Two sisters Ellie and Carrie Monahan (the former a millennial, the latter on the Gen Z cusp) analyze topics like fame by proxy, sleep-away camp in the American imagination, their adolescence of Carnegie Hill etiology, Sontag's portents of the influencer economy, dialectical thinking, cyberbullies, the enduring power of Madame Alexander dolls, and more. Done through a sometimes academic, often solipsistic lens. They love each other, and love you for listening.