Feminist Frequency Radio

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 101: FFR 101: Watchmen


This week, Anita, Caro, and Ebony don some cool DIY vigilante masks and go dispense some of that sweet feminist street justice. We run these mean media streets!  Episode 101 of FFR is all about HBO's new series, Watchmen. Tune in to hear us discuss the intricate world-building; the incomparable Regina King; the seductive allure of vigilantism; and the racial mapping of this alternate universe.

 

Timestamps:

0:00 - 3:34: Jibber-jabber and jaw-jackery

3:35: HBO's Watchmen (we're only talking about the pilot in this ep, folks)

39:10: What's Your FREQ Out?

 

Links:

Learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre

Bass Reeves was a real dude: https://aaregistry.org/story/bass-reeves-a19th-century-u-s-marshall/

Peteypedia: https://www.hbo.com/peteypedia

Regina King Finally Gets Her Theme Music: https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/regina-king-watchmen.html

Learning history from Drunk History: Stetson Kennedy infilitrates the KKK: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xd3k6s/drunk-history-stetson-kennedy-infiltrates-the-kkk---uncensored

Early black filmmaking pioneer, Oscar Micheaux: https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-oscar-micheaux/

 


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 October 30, 2019  47m