Waiting to X-hale Podcast
A Gen X-themed show with podcast veterans Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson. W2X revisits the pop culture & social issues that defined Gen X from a (queer) woman-of-color perspective in a way that sheds new light on the pop culture from both then, and now.
Recent Episodes
Ep. 101: What Did I Miss? Spare, The Last of Us, M3GAN & More - Plus THE OSCARS
March 17, 2023
Wynter and Karen are back with season 6 to ask each other, “what did I miss?” as they cover some of the notable pop culture moments that went down during their holiday hiatus. Before they get into Spare, The Last of Us a…
Ep. 100: Turning 100 with Bob Odenkirk
Nov. 7, 2022
It’s our 100th episode and season 5 finale!!! To help celebrate the occasion, the one and only BOB ODENKIRK was kind enough to join us for a chat about Mr. Show, comedy in the 90s, and the great Janeane Garofalo. Karen is ca…
Celebrate 100 episodes with us!
Oct. 28, 2022
Head over to w2xpodcast.com and click the blue button on the right side to leave us a voicemail!
Ep. 99: Queer for Fear and Our Horror Recommendations
Oct. 24, 2022
Wynter & Karen dive into the new Shudder documentary series, Queer for Fear: The History for Queer Horror, and are inspired to make some of their own queer horror recommendations for the spooky season. Wynter considers w…
Ep. 98: Too Much Too Crime? Dahmer, The Gabby Petito Story and Blonde
Oct. 10, 2022
Wynter assigns Karen a range of true crime offerings with varying degrees of budget and prestige, from Lifetime’s The Gaby Petito Story, to Netflix’s limited series, Dahmer and the cinematic offering, Blonde. The two discuss…
Ep. 97 WRESTLING with GENX’s ANGLOPHILIA
Sept. 26, 2022
The end of the Elizabethan-era (part II) prompted us to reflect on how British pop culture has dominated GenX’s imaginaries, from new wave and the new romantics, to Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, to iconoclasts like Bowie a…
About the Hosts
Karen Tongson
Cultural critic, writer and queer studies scholar
Karen Tongson is the author of Why Karen Carpenter Matters and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. In 2019, she received Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for her body of writing. She is Chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of gender & sexuality studies, English and American studies & ethnicity at USC.
Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh
Content strategiest, writer and podcaster
Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh is a content strategist, writer and podcaster. Through her company Pablo Jobs, she has contributed her decades’ worth of journalism and social media experience to campaigns and strategies for well-known brands, celebrities and influencers.