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 117: FFR 117: High Fidelity with Special Guest Nicole He
Carolyn and Anita are joined on the podcast by special guest Nicole He, game developer and creative technologist, to take a look at Hulu’s High Fidelity, originally a novel by Nick Hornby, but probably known by most from the 2000 film starring John Cusack as Rob Gordon, a record store owner and obsessive music fan who takes us through his all-time top-five most painful breakups while trying to reunite with his most recent girlfriend. Hulu’s series swaps out this white dude version of Rob for a queer, woman of color played by Zoe Kravitz. Does the new representation in High Fidelity matter? And what happens to the narrative when this swap is applied to a character who epitomized a new kind of toxic masculinity at the start of the 21st century?
Time Stamps:
1:45 - a little bit about Nicole and how she makes some of the coolest sh*t Anita’s ever seen
7:02 - Main Discussion on High Fidelity
41:20 - What’s Your Freq Out?
- Carolyn on Tevin Thompson’s Fortnite essay
- Nicole on women weightlifting
- Anita on The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Links Mentioned:
- enhance.computer
- Billy Eilish Gets Interviewed by a Robot - https://youtu.be/K0c94ghBS4A
- http://tevisthompson.com/its-not-coming-back/
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- nicole.pizza