Feminist Frequency Radio is coming for your media. Each week, Kat Spada invites you to listen in on entertaining and stimulating conversations about films, games, and TV... from the latest blockbusters to classic hidden gems, and more. With special guests bringing their distinctly different feminist perspectives to the mix as they celebrate and critique it all—including media critics, entertainers, academics, and everyone in between—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. Created by Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency ran as an organization from 2009–2023, providing video commentaries exploring gender representations, myths, and messages in popular culture media. Now, host Kat Spada continues Feminist Frequency Radio's legacy as an independent podcast, with fun new conversations about entertainment that asks you to be critical of the media you love.
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episode 16: 16 All the Hollywood Not-Gay Gay People
In this episode, Anita and Carolyn are joined by special guest, comedian Irene Tu! We all endured the epic Oscars ceremony last weekend to discuss our favorite moments, our reactions to the winners, and whether or not things in Hollywood are actually getting better. Then, in keeping with the cinematic theme, we recount our disorienting experiences in the shimmer after seeing Annihilation. What does it all mean? Was it any good? What’s with making the main character a white woman? Finally, we each share something we’ve been thinking about in What’s Your FREQ-Out, which gives Irene a chance to talk about just why people have been showing her so many drugs lately.
Segment Times:
0-1:10 Ebony’s special intro
1:11-2:28 welcomes and introductions
2:29-5:10 Anita’s Trust No Man banner and Irene’s Man-Haters Comedy show
5:15-27:10 The Oscars
27:15-47:17 Annihilation
What’s Your FREQ-Out?—
47:30 Carolyn on the Her Head in Films podcast
49:40 Irene on people showing her various drugs
53:38 Anita on Godless
58:27 wrap-up
Relevant links:
How Mad Should I Be About the Whitewashing in Annihilation? by E. Alex Jung: http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/whitewashing-in-annihilation-starring-natalie-portman.html
How Annihilation Nails the Complex Reality of Depression by Angelica Jade Bastién: www.vulture.com/2018/03/annihilation-movie-depression.html
Her Head in Films podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/her-head-in-film/id1355929182
Man Haters Comedy, co-hosted by Irene Tu: http://www.manhaters.org/