#14 Mean Girls & Framing Britney Spears w/ Emilly Prado

This week Megan and Rob take a trip down memory lane to reflect on the legendary 2004 time capsule, Mean Girls (dir. Mark Waters, written by Tina Fey), and then in a similar vein, chat about Samantha Stark's Framing Britney Spears (2021).

Our guest host is none other than the incredible Emilly Prado!  Emilly made her radio debut a few years back with our own Megan Hattie when they hosted an advice and music show together on Portland's XRAY FM called "Is Butter A Carb?"

We discuss how Mean Girls holds up years later, and remember with horror Britney's awful treatment by the relentless paparazzi and the media at large. Has teen cinema gotten any better since the aughts? Are the tabloids less gross now? Is Never Been Kissed more problematic than Mean Girls? Will this be the last time Megan brings up her love for Tim Meadows? What advice did Rob ask Megan and Emilly for back in their radio days? Listen for all of this and more!

About Emilly:
Emilly Giselle Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. As an award-winning multimedia journalist, Emilly spent half a decade independently reporting on a wide range of topics, most often centered on amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have been published hundreds of times, appearing in 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, Oxygen, The Oregonian, Portland Monthly, The Stranger, Remezcla, and Travel Oregon.

Emilly is the author of youth non-fiction title Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019) and the forthcoming essay collection, Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, July 2021). She is a Blackburn Fellow and MFA candidate at Randolph College, a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas Workshop alumna amongst others, co-founder of Portland in Color, and the Director of Youth Programs at Literary Arts. Emilly also moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Learn more at www.emillyprado.com and find her on social media @emillygprado.

Pre-order Emilly's forthcoming debut essay collection Funeral for Flaca here! Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found—love, identity, family—and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations.

For those in the Portland, OR area, come to Emilly's official in-person book launch party on July 8th!

If you aren't in PDX, check out the official online launch party via Zoom hosted by Literary Arts! Follow Emilly on social media for updates.

"Is Butter A Carb?" theme song by Emilly Prado.
"I-5 Cinemabound" theme song by Megan Hattie.

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