On the sweetest episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica tells Shannon a heartwarming story about Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, and the political aspirations of America's longest-running children's TV show, Sesame Street.

Big Bird loves his best friend, Aloysius Snuffleupagus and all he wants to do is introduce him to his grownup friends on Sesame Street. There's only one problem. No one believes him. This story is about what happens when adults don't trust children and how they can practice accountability and repair to create healthier, safe(r) relationships in the future.

Listen in as we learn more about how and why the show's creative team taught adults to say, "I believe you, Big Bird."

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This week's Pop Culture Homework is the documentary Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street.

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Sponsored in part by: The Accountable Communities Consortium and The Firecracker Foundation.

Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts

Content Warning: The Popaganda Podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice, prison abolition, and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic violence, sexual violence, and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season. In this episode in particular, we will be talking about these themes and our own survivorship. We will not be talking in high levels of detail about specific experiences of violence. We invite everyone to use this information to make choices about what is right for you.

The Popaganda Podcast is an award-winning social justice podcast that explores the pop culture we love and how it inspires us to build a safer, more just world for everyone. Hosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok are lifelong survivor activists and pop culture besties who use elevated unscripted commentary to normalize transformative justice practices and prison abolition strategies by amplifying one culture-shifting truth – we keep us safe.

Episodes drop monthly. Listen everywhere you get your podcasts. Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition.

You can learn more by visiting www.popagandapod.com.

Sponsored in part by: The Accountable Communities Consortium and The Firecracker Foundation.

Access: Transcript now available on Apple Podcasts

Content Warning: The Popaganda Podcast explores the intersections of transformative justice, prison abolition, and pop culture. We will be talking in general about the existence of domestic violence, sexual violence, and state violence and our experiences with these forms of violence throughout the season. In this episode in particular, we will be talking about these themes and our own survivorship. We will not be talking in high levels of detail about specific experiences of violence. We invite everyone to use this information to make choices about what is right for you.