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Fandom Made Me with Sabrina Cartan

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  • Fandom Forward's podcast on fan activism, featuring cozy conversations with activists, leaders, and writers about the pop culture that moves them.

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  • Making Taylor Swift Bracelets to Support Girls’ Rights with Tiny CEO India Abrahams and Her Mom, Tara Abrahams

    Making Taylor Swift Bracelets to Support Girls’ Rights with Tiny CEO India Abrahams and Her Mom, Tara Abrahams
    Apr 2 2024

    How can Swifties change the world? On this episode of Fandom Made Me, host Sabrina Cartan talks to India Abrahams, the 11-year-old CEO and founder of Beads for Good, and her mom, social impact expert Tara Abrahams. Inspired by the Taylor Swift fan tradition of trading bracelets at The Eras Tour concerts, India creates and sells bracelets and donates 50% of sales to She’s the First, a nonprofit organization that makes sure girls everywhere are educated, respected, and heard.


    Sabrina chats with India and Tara about how Taylor Swift inspires them to fight for girls’ rights globally, how India became known as “The Tiny CEO,” and how fandom and social impact has brought them closer together as mother and daughter.


    Follow India’s work at @indiabeadsforgood on instagram.


    Visit India’s shop at beadsforgood.com.


    Learn more about fan activism at fandomforward.org.



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    19 mins
  • How Movies Connect Us to Our Feelings with Kevin Smith Fan and “You Are Good” Co-Host Alex Steed

    How Movies Connect Us to Our Feelings with Kevin Smith Fan and “You Are Good” Co-Host Alex Steed
    Mar 12 2024
    What do movies teach us about our feelings and values? On this episode of Fandom Made Me, host Sabrina Cartan is joined by Alex Steed, co-host of the popular movie podcast “You Are Good.” Alex geeks out about being a Kevin Smith fan as a teen in the 90s, how movies like Clerks and Chasing Amy relate to labor rights and the growing anti-work movement, and how early 90s message boards were a hotbed for early fan activism. Plus, a side rant about what Stranger Things gets wrong about 80s nostalgia (even though we love it).

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    33 mins
  • Can We All Be Philanthropists? with Mariah Carey Fan Amy Schiller

    Can We All Be Philanthropists? with Mariah Carey Fan Amy Schiller
    Feb 27 2024

    We are so back! On the season 2 premiere of Fandom Made Me, Sabrina Cartan talks about fixing philanthropy with Amy Schiller, author of The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong–and How to Fix It. Known on the Internet for her pop culture takes such as “Beyonceder” and a viral Atlantic essay on American Girl dolls, Amy answers some of our most pressing questions, namely, why don’t average and working class Americans consider themselves philanthropists? Together, they delve into the little-known history of working class philanthropy and how small dollar donations funded the Statue of Liberty, ensuring the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, and how a “giving wage” can change the way we live. A devoted Mariah Carey fan, Amy proposes a special Christmas-themed philanthropy project for Her Majesty, the Queen of Pop.



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    34 mins
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Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and cozy

Listening to this podcast feels like being at a party, meeting a friend of a friend, and finding out you have a lot in common.

On the activism end, the guests aren't presented as paragons, but as people doing their best. On the fandom end, you get a lot of insight into what inspired the guests to take up their causes, without shying away from the problems in the media that inspire them. The message is very much "let's all drink tea and try to make the world better." It's a really interesting format that makes the activists feel really approachable and makes activism feel achievable.

Sabrina (the host) does a really good job of balancing the discussion between problems and solutions-in-progress. She asks really insightful questions and the guests are very open about their experiences, so even for episodes where I'm not in the Fandom, I'm very engaged. All I want to know is, Star Wars episode when?

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