GRIEF AND MEDIA

Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. On today’s episode, I discuss the film of the year You Can See Everything and how there are 100s of Billy Evans in San Diego, the art of an unreliable narrator, being infected with the need to daydream on Caltrain while playing Worth It by RAYE on repeat, and...

Welcome to the GRIEF AND MEDIA PROJECT. 🪩 This is the show where I interview people on the media that helps them understand and cope with grief. On this episode, I am joined by Dr. Wayne Jopanda, aka Pokémon Professor Jopanda , an Asian American Studies Assistant Professor at San José State University. We discuss his research on Pokémon cards as a space to connect with one another, the power of n...

Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. On today’s episode, I am joined by moreNOISE’s Isa and fellow Ariana Grande fan. This episode was a longtime in the making, because I knew I wanted to talk about petal and I knew there was no one better to discuss it with than Isa. We talk the death motifs in...

Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. On today’s episode, I am joined by husband of GRIEF AND MEDIA Jack Molmud! We discuss how the film Primetime (based on the show To Catch a Predator ), Big Brother , and social media impacts the ways we view and understand surveillance. We also talk about the...

Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. On today’s episode, I discuss the Peacock show The Five-Star Weekend and how it portrays different types of grief, wanting to archive my mom’s old texts, fall movies ( Resident Evil was WILD), how the act of forgetting is a beautiful thing, and more. I also a...

Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. On today’s episode, I was joined by Jack Molmud, who you may also recognize as husband of GRIEF AND MEDIA! We did a ~thematic analysis~ on the movies we saw this summer (is this what y’all talk about when your partners drive you to Caltrain too?) and noticed...

Welcome to the Grief Support Group 🪩💌🍒. This is the show where I examine how pop culture helps us cope with love, life, death, and grief. We are back for a new season!!!! You may notice an ~official~ podcast name change. This episode serves as a re-introduction to the podcast in which I discuss what I’ve been up to, how turning 30 made me realize I don’t actually want to wear crop tops to work,...

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...