Sinopsis
Feminist Frequency Radio is coming for your media. Each week, Anita Sarkeesian, Carolyn Petit, and Ebony Aster bring you dispatches from the pop culture wars and invite you to listen in on their entertaining, stimulating, take-no-prisoners conversations about the latest films, games, and tv. Theyll be bringing their distinctly different feminist perspectives to the mix as they celebrate and critique it all. With special guests from all over the feminist media sphere, an assortment of great bonus segments, and your questions keeping them on their toes, Feminist Frequency Radio is there to help you dig deeper into the things you love. Warning: Feminist Frequency Radio may significantly enhance your media experience.Join our community at Patreon.com/femfreqFeminist Frequency Radio is powered by Simplecast
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FFR 145: Entertainment News
18/11/2020 Duración: 53minWelcome to the third installment of Feminist Frequency’s entertainment news round up; a semi-regular series where we share our thoughts on all the media and pop culture news that crawled from the depths of 2020 to illuminate our screens (and mostly dampen our spirits). In this episode we’re: (still) looking forward to the release of Cyberpunk 2077; being disappointed by prominent voices who should really know better; and being as jazzed about a certain rock star in a couture gown as we are unsurprised by the people who have a problem with it.Time Stamps:6:33 - David Fincher: “cancel culture” miniseries - https://news.avclub.com/david-fincher-wants-to-do-a-miniseries-on-sigh-cancel-184567591714:15 - Cyberpunk 2077 delay - (Jim Sterling Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtrrlD8aTc24:10 - Ubisoft Montreal swatting - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-ubisoft-1.580123629:08 - Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie thinks JKR’s anti-trans essay was “perfectly reasonable” - https://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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FFR 144: Proxima
11/11/2020 Duración: 01h03minIn Alice Winocour’s new film Proxima, astronaut Sarah (played by Eva Green) faces challenges her male colleagues do not while making preparations to depart for a year aboard the ISS. As Sarah tries to balance the personal and professional, her daughter Stella goes on an emotional journey of her own, struggling with the consequences of her mother’s work. Join us as we discuss how the film presents the familiar misogynistic complications presented by “the work/life balance” in the Earth-side life of an extraordinary human headed for the stars.Time Stamps:8:19 - Main Discussion on Proxima43:31 - What’s Your Freq Out?Anita on the novel Axiom’s End by Lindsay EllisCaro on Dems’ call for CentrismEveryone on Election resultsFollow Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe to FFR on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to our Star Trek PodcastTwitterInstagram
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FFR 143: First Cow
04/11/2020 Duración: 01h01minOn the cusp of the 2020 US presidential election, we’re taking a look at a film set in 1820s Oregon Territory, telling the story of two men trying to make their way in the harsh frontier of the burgeoning American West. Join us on this week’s podcast, as we sink our critical teeth into this sweet cake of a “Caro film”: Director Kelly Reichardt’s 2019 film First Cow, exploring friendship, masculinity and the consequences of capitalism in a deliberately paced story filled with bright spots of light, sweetness, and memory.Time Stamps:13:17 - Main Discussion on First Cow45:37 - What’s Your Freq Out?Caro on the film On the Rocks (2020), directed by Sofia CoppolaAnita on the book The Library Book by Susan OrleanLinks Mentioned:Recipe for oily cakes - https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/first-cow-oily-cakes-recipe.htmlFollow Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe to FFR on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to our Star Trek PodcastTwitterInstagram
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FFR 142: The Witches of Eastwick
28/10/2020 Duración: 01h02minToday’s episode of the podcast finishes up our spooky season series on occult-themed nostalgia watches with 1987’s The Witches of Eastwick, starring Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Cher, adapted from the John Updike novel. Join us as we try to figure out how we feel about this movie including big 80s perms (great), Cher (even better), and Jack Nicholson’s diabolic sex appeal (not good). Made at the height of Reagan’s America, does the film have something insightful to say about gender inquality, or like the devilish Daryl, is it in the end all about reinforcing the Patriarchal status quo?Time Stamps:8:18 - Main Discussion on The Witches of Eastwick42:52 - What’s Your Freq Out?Ebony on the Starz documentary, Seduced: Inside the NXIVM CultFollow Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe to FFR on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to our Star Trek PodcastTwitterInstagram
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FFR 141: Blade
21/10/2020 Duración: 59minWelcome to the second episode in our spooky season series, revisiting classic, cult or nostalgic witch and vampire movies as chosen by our patrons. Today we’re traveling back to 1998, when Wesley Snipes starred as the titular vampire hunter, Blade. 9 years after Tim Burton’s Batman, and 20 years before the MCU’s Black Panther, Blade was the first Marvel Superhero theatrical release, the grandfather of every Marvel Superhero movie to follow. Join us as we dive into a grimdark version of LA, populated by blood and power thirsty vampires that can only be stopped by a stoic vampire/human hybrid seeking revenge.Time Stamps:5:52 - Main Discussion on Blade46:10 - What’s Your Freq Out?Carolyn on the game Hades from developer Supergiant GamesAnita on the novel The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire NorthLinks Mentioned:Roger Ebert’s review of Blade when it came out in 1998 - https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blade-1998 Follow Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe to FFR on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to our
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FFR 140: Hocus Pocus
14/10/2020 Duración: 55minIn celebration of the spooky season, we’re looking at media depictions of witches and vampires, starting with Hocus Pocus. Starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker, this 1993 Disney classic sparks a feeling of campy nostalgia for many, but how did it hold up for us and what does an almost 30 year old children’s Halloween movie have to say to a modern audience?Time Stamps:6:38 - Main Discussion on Hocus Pocus41:20 - What’s Your Freq Out?Guest Freq Out from listener Helcio on gendered languageLinks Mentioned:Jessica Zollman’s 30 Days of Horror - www.instagram.com/jayzombieFollow Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe on to FFR on Apple PodcastsTwitterInstagram
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FFR 139: Enola Holmes
07/10/2020 Duración: 01h10sThe Netflix film Enola Holmes introduces us to the much younger (and perhaps more brilliant) sister of the infamous Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. The film is based on a series of YA detective novels by author Nancy Springer, and our heroine (played in the film by Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown) is a quick-thinking and fearless young woman who frustrates and amazes everyone around her in equal measure. We discuss who we think the intended audience is, and whether the film succeeds in delivering a feminist-minded moral to a younger audience. We also discuss casting choices for Mycroft and Sherlock, held up against Arthur Conan Doyle’s source material, and offer up some opinions on other recent adaptations.Time Stamps:3:37 - Main Discussion on Enola Holmes42:04 - What’s Your Freq Out?Carolyn on the film A Hidden Life (2019) directed by Terrence MalickAnita on Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and AzerbaijanLinks Mentioned:“Is Henry Cavill Too Hot to Play Sherlock Holmes in ‘Enola Holmes’? An Investigation” by Emma
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FFR 138: The Matrix
09/09/2020 Duración: 59minThis week, by popular demand, we're talking about The Matrix, a film once co-opted by the online right that has in recent years seen a kind of reclamation as an explicitly queer, trans text. Carolyn kicks things off by telling us about a 20th anniversary screening of the landmark film that she attended last year which illuminated some aspects of the film that contribute to its reading as a queer work. From there, we talk about the film's systemic perspective, and reveal who among us would take the blue pill. We talk about the challenge of doing the actual work of resisting the cisnormative heteronormative white supremacist patriarchy, and express frustration with some of the film's more conventional aspects, including the role Trinity is wedged into. Carolyn does her best Agent Smith impression, Ebony raises an important point about what it means if humanity only accepts the simulation if it replicates certain forms of oppression, and we talk about finding joy in the struggle. PLEASE NOTE that this is our fin
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FFR 137: I May Destroy You
02/09/2020 Duración: 59minWe begin this week’s episode by acknowledging the passing of Chadwick Boseman, talking a bit about his impact, his legacy, and the grief so many of us have felt in response to the loss.Our main topic this week is the incendiary series I May Destroy You, written by and starring the staggeringly talented Michaela Cole. Our conversation covers the revelatory way in which the show frankly and honestly confronts so many forms of rape and sexual assault, and a larger culture that normalizes and perpetuates them. We also discuss the remarkable complexity of the show’s central characters, as they often make choices that we as viewers may strenuously object to, but never in a way that reduces them to villains or makes them seem worthy of being written off as people. Time Stamps:1:40 - Reacting to the Passing of Chadwick Boseman8:50 - I May Destroy You46:45 - What’s Your FREQ-Out: Carolyn on Episode 3 of Lovecraft Country, Ebony on P-Valley, Anita on Semiosis by Sue BurkeFollow Us:Join our Patreon Our WebsiteSubscrib
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FFR 136: Lovecraft Country
26/08/2020 Duración: 53minOn this week’s FFR we discuss the first two episodes of HBO's Lovecraft Country, a show that blends horror elements into a tale about racism in 1950s America, but first we talk about how the horrors of anti-Black racism remain so inescapable in America today, where police have once again exacted brutal violence on a Black man. Our discussion of the show touches on the ways in which it draws from pulp fiction and acknowledges the complexity of our relationship to tales that we love even if they don’t love us back, its subversion of classic Americana and fascinating use of audio, and the experience of watching this show right now, while living in a world in which some of us are exhausted from the experience of constantly being dehumanized and endangered.Time Stamps:1:45 - The shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin8:20 Lovecraft Country43:15 - What’s Your FREQ-Out: Carolyn on the Criterion Channel and three films by Mia Hansen-Løve, Ebony on Rust by Christopher Ruz, Anita on Gods of Jade and Sha
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FFR 135: Perry Mason
19/08/2020 Duración: 55minThis week, we explore the seamy underbelly of 1932 Los Angeles with HBO’s exciting revisionist take on the character of Perry Mason. In HBO’s series, crucial supporting characters have been reimagined--Della Street is now a queer woman, Paul Drake is a Black man--in ways that inform the series’ systemic perspective and help it avoid some of the ideological pitfalls that much hard-boiled crime fiction of the past falls into. As a result, this is a Perry Mason that grapples both with our actual history and with the narrow lens of the classic CBS series, and in so doing, demonstrates how TV and film can use familiar formats and genres without just telling the same old stories. Time Stamps:4:00 - Perry Mason45:15 - FREQ-Outs: Carolyn on current political issuesFollow Us:Join our Patreon Our WebsiteSubscribe on Apple PodcastsTwitterInstagram
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FFR 134: Entertainment News--Mulan, Trump's Tiktok Crackdown, Ellen's Empire of Niceness, and More
12/08/2020 Duración: 01h02minThis week, we dive back into all the wild ups and downs of entertainment news to bring you our reactions to some of the biggest and most politically resonant stories of recent weeks! We discuss Disney’s decision to release Mulan on Disney+ for beaucoup bucks and the larger matter of what it means that some films are going to VOD while others are holding out for theatrical release. We talk about the white fragility of reactions to a recent Six Chix comic, Trump’s Tiktok crackdown, and the encouraging news that Nia DaCosta will be helming the Captain Marvel sequel. Also, how some celebs are closing ranks around Ellen as allegations about the toxic culture of her daytime talk show gain attention, and Bon Appetit’s brazen exploitation of people of color.Time Stamps:04:00 - Disney’s online release of Mulan: pricing, the implications of which films get released online and which films are being held for theatrical release, etc.10:25 - The racist response to Bianca Xunise’s Six Chix comic17:00 - Trump cracks down on
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FFR 133: 9 to 5
05/08/2020 Duración: 53minThis week, we revisit the classic 1980 comedy about sexism in the workplace, 9 to 5. We discuss all the ways in which the film still rings true, the insight with which it depicts women trying to navigate multiple manipulative sexist behaviors of men in positions of power, and how it doesn't lay the blame at the feet of one bad boss but acknowledges that these are systemic issues that necessitate structural change. We also talk about what it's like to watch this film some 40 years after its release, when we seem to have made little progress with addressing these kinds of abuses and power imbalances. At the same time, the film now captures a bygone era of American employment before the days of the gig economy, when it was easier to find jobs that were just jobs and not things we brought home or that absorbed our entire identity. Also, we talk about the one scene that made Ronald Reagan mad.Time Stamps:03:00 - 9 to 538:00- What’s Your FREQ-Out: Ebony on The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Carolyn on I Know This Much Is
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FFR 132: Palm Springs
29/07/2020 Duración: 54minThis week we're off to Palm Springs via the new time-loop rom-com on Hulu starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milotti. We discuss how Palm Springs tweaks the familiar structure of films like Groundhog Day in some significant ways to serve up something fresh, while also acknowledging that it can't entirely avoid some of the troubling matters of consent that often seem to come with the time-loop territory. We also talk about how the film explores questions of what it means to live ethically when every day is the same as the previous ten thousand days, and the surprising sweetness of its love story.Time Stamps:02:10 - Palm Springs37:55 - What’s Your FREQ-Out: Carolyn on I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Ebony on P-Valley, Anita on Carrion and A Mortician’s Tale, Listener Chelsea on The Babysitter’s Club (Netflix)Links Mentioned:In Palm Springs, Consent Is a Murky Line by Sarah Jae LieberFollow Us:Join our Patreon Our WebsiteSubscribe on Apple PodcastsTwitterInstagram
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FFR 131: The Old Guard
22/07/2020 Duración: 57minAfter a brief detour into recent events in Portland, we get into Netflix's hugely successful new action flick, The Old Guard, featuring Charlize Theron as the de facto leader of a group of immortal mercenaries as they welcome a new member and face a new adversary. Our conversation touches on the strength of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s direction, as well as the makeup of the crew, with its international membership that includes two gay men whose fierce devotion to each other melted even Anita's heart. We discuss how the identities of the main characters feel central to their stories and their experiences. Additionally, concerns are raised about the “strong female character” trope, we talk about the loneliness that comes with immortality, and mention some of the fun questions that the premise of a movie like this raises.Time Stamps:02:00 - What’s Happening in Portland07:40 - The Old Guard48:10 - What’s Your FREQ-Out: Ebony on artists Jessica Spence and Frank Morrison, Carolyn on First Cow, Anita on BettyLinks Ment
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FFR 130: Hollywood Scrambles
15/07/2020 Duración: 58minCartoon voices have been recast, episodes of 30 Rock have been pulled, and Gone with the Wind has been recontextualized. In this week’s episode of FFR, we discuss the many ways that Hollywood has scrambled in recent weeks to respond to the current conversation about racial justice, and whether any of the actions being taken are actually meaningful, or are just meant to convey the appearance of meaningful action. We ask how, moving forward, we can disrupt white supremacy’s hold on the media we create, and what do we do with the sometimes-oppressive media of the past as we seek to build a better future.Time Stamps:2:55 - Hollywood “Responds” to Conversations About Racial Justice44:50 - FREQ-Outs: Carolyn on Hannibal, Ebony on Mucho Mucho Amor, Anita on Sludge LifeLinks Mentioned:Imran Siddiquee’s tweet on 30 RockDr. Jason Dorwart’s thread on Come As You Are and disability representationHannibal reunionSludge Life, free on the Epic StoreFollow Us:Join our Patreon Our WebsiteSubscribe on Apple PodcastsTwitterInst
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FFR 129: The Last of Us Part II
08/07/2020 Duración: 01h20sIn this week’s episode, Anita and Carolyn embark on a grim and arduous journey through the discourse over The Last of Us Part II. We share our personal reactions to the game’s cast of characters, talk about its view of humanity and its use of violence, discuss the game’s narrative structure and themes, and ultimately answer the question of whether or not we found the grueling quest it takes us on to be worthwhile. Join us! Time Stamps:3:45 - The Last of Us Part II (Yep, this episode is pretty much ALL Last of Us talk.)Links Mentioned:Broken People, Broken Worlds: Carolyn’s piece on The Last of Us Part IIFollow Us:Join our Patreon Our WebsiteSubscribe on Apple PodcastsTwitterInstagram
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FFR 128: I Am Not Your Negro
10/06/2020 Duración: 48minEbony hosts this episode of Feminist Frequency Radio to discuss the James Baldwin documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, with very special guest, the prolific and award-winning writer, scholar and activist, Dr. Taiyon J. Coleman. Together, they examine the 2016 film, directed by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, and the legacy of Baldwin’s work against the backdrop of ongoing global protests of police violence against black people and the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Follow Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe on to FFR on Apple PodcastsTwitterInstagramFollow/Contact Dr. Coleman:TwitterEmail: tjcoleman@stkate.edu
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FFR 127: Police Brutality and Black Lives Matter
03/06/2020 Duración: 51minThis week’s podcast was recorded on May 31, 2020. We won’t be discussing a new piece of media; we’re discussing a nation at war. Over the past week, we have watched as righteous protests rise in the wake of the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd—and the deaths of many other black people including Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade. In response, the white supremacist American state apparatus has activated violently. Today, we want to share with you some of what we’ve seen, resources that might help you take action, and ways to make sense of some of the conflicting narratives we’re being fed. #blacklivesmatter RESOURCE LIST: PETITIONS, DONATE, CALL AND EMAIL TO DEMAND JUSTICE AND SHARE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0KC83vYfVQ-2freQveH43PWxuab2uWDEGolzrNoIks/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR0zIYlxvOAQh6LDych9e3LCZ8nf2I43gPzEnfWCeYMAe1zB00tTv0PEHZs ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT (but please do your own research):List of BLM suggested ways to support: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/Reclaim The Block
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FFR 126: Entertainment News II - The Reckoning
27/05/2020 Duración: 01h01minAnita, Ebony and Carolyn are back with another Entertainment News roundup. What’s up for discussion today? The Snyder Cut of Justice League is coming (yikes)! E3 is cancelled, but do we even need it anymore? And Joe Biden is taking the black vote for granted. Commiserate with us as we wade through the mostly bad (and somewhat absurd) of recent news, with at least one bit of good news for fans of a particular cancelled Netflix favorite. CW: discussion of suicide during segment on Hana Kimura’s recent death. Time stamp located below. Time Stamps:5:51 - The Snyder Cut of Justice League is coming - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/justice-league-snyder-cut-plans-revealed-it-will-be-an-new-thing-129510217:28 - The deathbed confession of Norma Corvey aka Jane Roe of Roe v Wade - https://www.vox.com/2020/5/22/21267493/aka-jane-roe-norma-mccorvey-deathbed-confession22:35 - Joe Biden interview on The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne tha God - https://youtu.be/KOIFs_SryHI33:36 - Hana Kimura has died at 22;