Strong Female Characters

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"Life's too short to spend time on things you don't like" Jan 23, 2018

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We explore the limited history of female explorers in genre & Blue Planet II's Orla Doherty guests.

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"We're using tools that maybe weren't built with us in mind." Jan 16, 2018

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Brianna Wu joins us to talk about women in tech, stripper robots, and online harassment.

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But what we really want in 2018 is Vanderpump Rules but with superheroes. Jan 09, 2018

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We recap the trash fire of 2017, discuss the Golden Globes and break down what we're looking forward to in 2018.

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Emma Frost could easily be on the Real Housewives or Drag Race. Dec 28, 2017

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i09’s Charles Pulliam Moore joins us to talk about gay icons in genre, fandoms favorite new Star Wars ship and more.

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We have very strong feelings about The Last Jedi, aka Forcetiming with Kylo Ren’s manboobs Dec 19, 2017

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Film critic Jen Yamato from the Los Angeles Times joins us to talk about The Last Jedi, thirst over Kylo Ren, and discuss representation in the Star Wars franchise.

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“There’s so much out there” Dec 12, 2017

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Marvel’s best scientists are 2 WOC. Guest: Powtawche Valerino from NASA’s JPL

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"Is this real or is this not" Dec 05, 2017

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Episode 2 - We look at the many (bad) iterations of Cat Grant, wonder if Rita Skeeter got a raw deal in Harry Potter and breakdown the feminization of gossip with Lainey Gossip’s Elaine Lui.

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“ The most meta time to be alive” Dec 05, 2017

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Episode 1- Female supers & politics. Guest: Crooked Media's Ana Marie Cox. We examine how comic creators write political storylines for their female supers, then find the eery similarities with where we are now 1 yr after the presidential election.

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