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FFR 101: Watchmen Oct 30, 2019

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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/

FFR 100: Alien Oct 23, 2019

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On this week’s episode, Ebony and Carolyn revisit the sci-fi horror classic Alien, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Our conversation attempts to examine some of the film’s many layers—its focus on working-class characters and their concerns, the ways in which H.R. Giger’s design for the alien taps into some of our most primal fears—while also acknowledging the filmmaking elements that help to make it such an enduring landmark of sci-fi cinema.

Time Stamps:

2:00 Alien

43:35 What’s Your FREQ-Out? (Carolyn on Joseph Arthur’s new album Come Back World, Ebony on the documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien)

Relevant Links:

Ebony on Vasquez from Aliens: https://feministfrequency.com/2017/03/28/absolutely-badasses-looking-back-on-vasquez-30-years-later/

FFR 99: Ad Astra Oct 16, 2019

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This week on FFR, we’re joined by science YouTuber Trace Dominguez to talk about the new sci-fi film Ad Astra! Our conversation covers whether or not the movie is any good (and whether or not Brad Pitt is any good in it), what it's really all about, frustration with the fact that the stand-in for humanity in stories striving to be about universal experiences is so often a white man, the film’s depiction of the moon as a place where capitalism runs rampant, and the accuracy (or lack thereof) in some of the film’s scientific ideas and terminology.

Time Stamps:

3:55 - Ad Astra

37:00 - What’s Your FREQ-Out:

Carolyn on End of the Century

Trace on getting things right in his videos

Anita on The Great British Bake-Off

Links:

Follow Trace on Twitter at @tracedominguez

Watch Trace’s YouTube videos at youtube.com/tracedominguez

The trailer for End of the Century: https://youtu.be/tAlBU6IzDHM

FFR 98: Cancel Culture Oct 09, 2019

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We live in an era of oppression, in which powerful tyrants are silencing the voices and crushing the careers of brave men who dare to engage in true creative freedom.
Or maybe, people long accustomed to operating with impunity are now sometimes finding that there are consequences for their actions, and they don’t like it.

This week, we're talking about the much-decried "cancel culture" we're apparently living in right now. Our conversation covers how this term distorts the actual power dynamics at play, how social media has changed the impact of our larger conversations about art and media, the conflation of criticism with censorship, and why, if cancel culture is supposedly such a threat, it doesn't really seem like anyone has been and stayed cancelled.

SEGMENT TIMESTAMPS:

2:00 Cancel Culture

28:20 What's Your FREQ-Out?

Ebony on Kristen Arnett's Twitter, Carolyn on The Overstory, Anita on The Fast & The Furious: A Musical Parody
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FFR 97: Unbelievable Oct 02, 2019

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Based on true events, the new Netflix series Unbelievable begins with a teenager named Marie Adler in Washington state reporting a rape to the police. The police launch their investigation, but soon, because of Marie’s erratic behavior and an almost complete absence of forensic evidence, they begin to suspect that she made up the attack in a desperate bid for attention. They pressure her to retract her story, and to “confess” that she made the whole thing up. A few years later, detectives in Colorado launch an investigation into a serial rapist whose crimes bear a remarkable similarity to Marie’s rape. Unbelievable looks closely at major structural and systemic flaws in law enforcement that stack the cards against women who experience sexual assault and that often make dealing with police an experience that compounds the trauma they’ve already suffered.

Time Stamps:

03:05 - Entertainment News: Joker
05:58 - Main Segment: Unbelievable
39:41 - What’s Your FREQ Outs: Neo Cab, Apple Arcade, five hundred thousand different podcasts

Links Mentioned:

Ebony podcast list:

Fated Mates
Inner Hoe Uprising
Why are People Into That
Keep It
The Secret Lives of Black Women
Dead Ass
The Adam Buxton Podcast

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FFR 96: Hustlers Sep 25, 2019

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In December of 2015, an article was published in New York Magazine that told an amazing story. In the wake of the 2008 Wall Street collapse, a group of women who worked at the New York strip club Scores saw the men and the money stop coming in, so they devised a risky, unconventional, and illegal way to make the money come in. Now the true story of these women and their criminal endeavor is the subject of the new film Hustlers. Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, the film stars Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu and charts the spectacular rise and fall of a criminal enterprise that tells us a great deal about wealth and power in the early 21st century.
Time Stamps:
* 03:50 - Entertainment News: Shane Gillis dismissed from SNL for racism, Sam Smith uses they/them pronouns
* 10:09 - Main Segment: Hustlers
* 39:30 - What’s Your FREQ Outs: Fun City Podcast, Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Links Mentioned:
* NY Times Review of Hustlers: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/movies/hustlers-review.html
* The Real Story Behind Hustlers: https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/hustlers-the-real-story-behind-the-movie.html

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Special Episode: Gaming's #MeToo Moment Sep 18, 2019

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This week, we shift away from our usual format for a special bonus episode. Join Anita and Carolyn for a conversation about recent events in the gaming industry that have lead to what many are calling gaming’s #MeToo moment. Our conversation explores the social systems and biases that allow men to routinely commit acts of abuse and then protect them from the repercussions, the far-reaching pain and trauma caused by these acts and the accompanying abuses of power, and what change and justice might look like.

PLEASE NOTE: This episode comes with a trigger warning for discussions of abuse and suicide.

Read Nathalie Lawhead’s blog post at http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/calling-out

FFR 94: Life Is Strange 2, Episode 4 - Faith Sep 11, 2019

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On this week’s FFR, Ebony and Carolyn continue our conversation about Life Is Strange 2 by diving into the recently released fourth episode, Faith. We talk about a particularly challenging scene in which Sean encounters a pair of racists, the different ways in which we approach the game as players, and the way the game continues to give its characters a surprising level of emotional complexity, and to view them through a compassionate lens.

SEGMENT TIMESTAMPS:
2:50 A note from Carolyn about recent events
4:30 Entertainment News: Walter Mosley leaves Star Trek: Discovery Writers Room, Crazy Rick Asians sequel screenwriter pay disparity, the latest on Roc Nation’s partnership with the NFL
17:10 Life Is Strange 2, Episode 4
44:05 What's Your FREQ-Out: Ebony on Dexter’s fascinating badness, Carolyn on Paterson

RELEVANT LINKS:
Walter Mosley leaves Star Trek: Discovery: https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/walter-mosley-exits-star-trek-discovery-writers-room-after-n-word-complaint-1203326990/

Adele Lim leaves Crazy Rich Asians sequels: https://variety.com/2019/film/news/crazy-rich-asians-co-writer-exit-pay-disparity-1203323236/

FFR 83: Life Is Strange 2: Episode 3 - Wastelands with Tevis Thompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVluczkc-Vg
FFR 63: Life Is Strange 2, Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-SO-J-r0UY

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FFR 93: Copaganda Sep 04, 2019

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Anita decided to forego our usual intro banter this week, so we just jumped right into this week's topic: the social impact of our cultural obsession with depictions of policing. From Dragnet to Brooklyn 99, what lies behind our abiding interest in the people and institutions tasked with maintaining “law and order”?

SEGMENT TIMESTAMPS:
1:34 - Anita and Ebony talk about the danger of being the sardonic friend
3:56 - Copaganda
39:51 - What's Your Freq Out?

LINKS
Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins: https://www.mollyivinsfilm.com/
A Short Hike : http://ashorthike.com/
The Raven Tower: https://www.annleckie.com/novel/the-raven-tower/

FFR 92: The Last Black Man in San Francisco Aug 28, 2019

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On this week’s episode, we talk about the beautiful new film The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a deeply personal movie about identity, gentrification, and institutional power. Ebony Adams calls it “simultaneously tactile and dreamlike!” Also, the ramifications of Jay-Z’s new deal with the NFL, and Marvel’s disappointing refusal to publish an anthology introduction that has some (appropriately) harsh words for Donald Trump.

SEGMENT TIMESTAMPS:

2:45 Entertainment News

14:00 The Last Black Man in San Francisco

40:40 What’s Your FREQ-Out? (Carolyn on Eliza, Ebony on One Child Nation, Anita on the power and value of stories)

RELEVANT LINKS:

"Jay-Z Helped the NFL Banish Colin Kaepernick" by Jemele Hill in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/jay-z-helps-nfl-banish-colin-kaepernick/596146/

"Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus, calls out Marvel Comics for its 'apolitical' politics" by Aja Romano for Vox: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/20/20812333/art-spiegelman-marvel-comics-backlash-essay-trump

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