About the Podcast
Come for the pop culture, stay for the abolition
Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of harmful state systems? Do you struggle to reconcile the two? Join Tashmica Torok and Shannon Perez-Darby on Popaganda, as we dive deep into our love of transformative justice, pop culture and where the two meet.
Who We Are
Tashmica Torok
Tashmica Torok is a queer, Black woman who centers her work around connecting dope ass people to liberatory ideas so that we can all get free. As an abolitionist, Tashmica is cultivating her community’s ability to imagine, build, and maintain ways to intervene on acts of violence without relying on police, prisons, or other state institutions as a path towards ending state-sanctioned violence against Black and brown people. She is also the founding CoDirector of The Firecracker Foundation, a healing community working to end child sexual abuse based in Lansing, MI.
Shannon Perez-Darby
A founding member of the Accountable Communities Consortium, Shannon Perez-Darby is a queer, mixed Latina, anti-violence advocate, author, activist, and consultant working to create the conditions to support loving, equitable relationships and communities. Shannon Perez-Darby centers queer and trans communities of color while working to address issues of domestic and sexual violence, accountability and abolition.