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 189: FFR 189: Legend with special guest Charlie Jane Anders
An episode for Tim Curry fans, and Tim Curry fans only! Today on the FFR podcast we are revisiting one Ebony’s childhood favorites, Ridley Scott’s 1985 glorious, florid, Baroque banquet of a film: Legend. Writer Charlie Jane Anders returns as special guest for this fantastical trip down memory lane. Does Legend hold up after all these years?
Time Stamps:
43:43 - What’s your Freq Out?
- Ebony on the series (based on book by Emily St. John Mandel) Station Eleven
- Anita on the film Aniara (2018)
- Charlie Jane on the novels She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan and The Unbroken by CL Clark
- Submit your own FREQ out at feministfrequency.com/FREQOUT
Links Mentioned:
- Robert Picardo on playing Meg Mucklebones - https://youtu.be/rNgiowZyF3g?t=165
- Ebony’s piece for feministfrequency.com - Senior Citizen: Gender, Infirmity and Horror
- “Shine on Me”
Follow Charlie Jane:
- Preorder Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak - netgal.ly/ImrrPJ
- ouropinionsarecorrect.com
- twitter.com/charliejane
- charliejane.com
- instagram.com/charliejaneanders
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