GRIEF AND MEDIA

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss graduating, turning 30, the biggest lessons I learned in my 20s, 13 Going on 30 , and answer the following advice questions: ★ What do i do if my friend is in a bad relatio...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week we had a very special guest: Bella Mayer! She is a disability and media studies scholar, media archivist, and one of my good friends. We discuss physical media and its importance, Su...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss defending my thesis (spoiler: I passed!!!!), graduating from my master’s degree, teen dramas (again LMAO), and answer the following advice question: ★ I moved out of my hom...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week we had a very special guest: husband of GRIEF AND MEDIA Jack Molmud! We discuss our anniversary (on 4/20), Netflix’s Something Very Bad is Going to Happen and its themes of relations...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss my presentation at the Popular Culture Association conference, Justin Bieber’s Coachella performance, rejecting the concepts of “content” and “consumption,” what grief lite...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss the Ciara-Amanda-West Summer House scandal, our use of celebrity culture to make sense of our value systems, using teen dramas to interpret grief in real life, and answer t...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss the misogyny on Survivor 50, my thesis update, watching teen dramas in emerging adulthood, and answer the following advice questions: ★ Would you ever invite an ex to weddi...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss bringing back the flip flop (it’s Spring after all!), Age of Attraction and why I will not be watching that shit, my thesis update, the appeal of teen dramas, and answer th...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss the power that comes with a 7:30 p.m. sunset, my thesis update and why fans understand grief through a character’s perspective (team Conrad stand UP!), Pet Sematary and the...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss combatting social anxiety, Survivor 50, the latest on my thesis, thoughts on the portrayal of grief + emotions in young adult books, and answer the following advice questio...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss feeling misunderstood in my grief, needing $8 Chipotle right about now, the Survivor season 50 premiere, and answer the following advice questions: ★ I’ve finally become ex...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss my BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!, the Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model documentary, share research updates, and answer the following advice questions: ★ I met a guy th...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss Valentine’s Day being for friends and family, the book No Death, No Fear , The Summer I Turned Pretty and the symbol of the wave, and answer the following advice questions:...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss feeling in ~the unknown~, missing my mom, immortality projects, my thesis update (good!), and answer the following advice questions: ★ How do you have a roster while dating...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss my mom’s death ‘anniversary’ this week, taking a class on death and dying, my new barrel pants (why is my ankle showing), The Traitors , and answer the following advice que...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss 2026, the importance of physical media, how The Traitors normalizes conversations about death, and answer the following advice questions: ★ My boyfriend of two months recen...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. Happy birthday to my mom! This week I discuss the impact Sex and the City and other women-centered stories had on me, why Love Island made me delete Instagram, and answer the following advice...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss grieving (and healing?) during the holidays, the portrayal of grief on Survivor , and answer the following advice questions: ★ How do you tell your classmates they are not...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss defending my thesis proposal and the griefy teen dramas that got me here, applying for PhD programs, and answer the following advice questions: ★ How to not be annoyed with...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. I’m back from Rome with a special Italia + holiday show! This week I discuss my honeymoon in Italy (and all the guanciale I ate), a thesis update (finally a good one!!), the incredible Moonstr...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss taking my honeymoon in Italia (finally!!), the new Colleen Hoover book-to-film adaptation called Regretting You and why it sucks at representing grief, and answer the follo...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss missing my mom, the concept of being friends with exes, earnestly dating, and answer the following advice questions: ★ Can you please give advice on how to navigate this si...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss my Saturn return (help LMAO), the importance of telling stories about grief in media, and answer the following advice questions: ★ How do you react to past situationships t...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss being creative while emotional, an aesthetic analysis of the portrayal of grief in Never Have I Ever and The Summer I Turned Pretty , and answer the following advice questi...

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions. This week I discuss seeing images in your mind (which I can’t btw), discuss the latest on my thesis exploring grief in teen television fandoms, talk Desperate Housewives and how it portrays de...