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 17: 17 You Both Were in My Dreams as Puppies
In this week’s podcast, Anita opens the door on some of the strange imagery from her dreams. Then, we work through our feelings about Ava DuVernay’s film adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s children’s classic, A Wrinkle in Time and discover that maybe how you feel about this movie depends on how in touch you are with your inner child. Also, because so many people seem to wrongly think that we “agree” with the ways in which the current administration is scapegoating video games, we dive into the White House’s tactics and what our critiques of games and media in general are actually saying. Finally, we wrap things up with some cheers and recommendations in What’s Your FREQ-Out?!
Segment Timestamps:
Start: Ebony and Phil announce the winners of our book giveaway
1:00 introductions
2:45 Anita’s weird dreams
4:08 pop culture news (box office milestones and Ready Player One’s premiere)
8:10 A Wrinkle in Time
27:10 The Trump administration’s scapegoating of video games
44:10 What’s Your FREQ-Out?!
Ebony on Bodyminds Reimagined by Sami Schalk and on Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga
47:15 Carolyn on Radiant Historia
49:30 Anita on Anxy Magazine
52:15 wrap-up
Relevant Links:
Anxy Magazine: https://anxymag.com/
Lois McMaster Bujold and the Vorkosigan saga http://www.dendarii.com/
Bodyminds Reimagined by Sami Schalk https://www.dukeupress.edu/bodyminds-reimagined
Brie Code’s Tru Luv Media (tend-and-befriend games): http://www.truluvmedia.com/
Tom VanDerWerff’s piece on A Wrinkle in Time: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/12/17098464/a-wrinkle-in-time-ava-duvernay-review-storm-reid-christianity
Cited pieces on video game violence:
By Simon Parkin: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/donald-trump-takes-on-the-nonexistent-link-between-violent-video-games-and-mass-shootings
By Tom Bissell: http://grantland.com/features/line-explores-reasons-why-play-shooter-games/