Hosted by @mariadip.bsky.social, produced by @ducksanddabs.bsky.social, with art by Charles O’Leary, Episode 40 of #LeftistTeenDrama is now streaming everywhere you get your podcasts.

We also analyze all the political themes of Season 1, Episode 17, which features groundbreaking intersex representation in the character of Amy, as well as a vice presidential visit to McKinley High that has all the characters talking politics and gives Lindsay the chance to speak truth to power.

We discuss Lindsay Weir’s journey walking the tightrope between “freak” and “geek,” and the way she tests the waters of finding her political voice; the controversial yet revealing episode “Kim Kelly Is My Friend”; and Bill Haverchuck as a solid representation of the latchkey kid.

Hosted by Maria DiPasquale, produced by Jeff McHale, with art by Charles O’Leary, Episode 39 of #LeftistTeenDrama is now streaming everywhere you get your podcasts.

...including the fact that many LGBTQIA+ millennials came out in college/university, rather than in high school.

We analyze and celebrate the non-linear and unrushed way that Benny’s story begins to unfold, and what we hope to see in the upcoming second season.

The vaguely 2010s campus setting of this show feels all too familiar, providing at times painfully accurate representations of the college experience for the younger end of the millennial generation...

Hosted by @mariadip.bsky.social, produced by @ducksanddabs.bsky.social, with art by Charles O’Leary, Episode 38 of #LeftistTeenDrama is now streaming everywhere you get your podcasts.

...for being visibly queer to Delilah subverting the activist character trope. We talk about Greta’s asexuality, Nathan’s experience coming out as bisexual while having conservative parents, and the cruelty of HBO Max's decision to cancel and pull a show that so many queer teens saw themselves in.

Hosted by @mariadip.bsky.social, produced by @ducksanddabs.bsky.social, with art by Charles O’Leary, Episode 37 of #LeftistTeenDrama is now streaming everywhere you get your podcasts.

Kelly and Maria also generally break down disability representation on the show, as shown through the characters of Isaac Goodwin and Aisha Green, a deaf character introduced in Season 4 who also plays a pivotal role in the sit-in. ♿

We talk about this inspiring direct action and how it parallels the real-life fight to make the New York City subway system fully wheelchair-accessible, a fight of which Sasha is part!

In Sex Education Season 4, wheelchair user Isaac Goodwin disrupts mock exams to protest the chronically broken elevator at Cavendish College, inspiring the entire student body to hold an impromptu sit-in until the lift is fixed.

Hosted by @mariadip.bsky.social, produced by @ducksanddabs.bsky.social, with art by Charles O’Leary, Episode 36 of #LeftistTeenDrama is now streaming everywhere you get your podcasts.