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Feminist Frequency RadioFFR 200: The Big Lebowski with special guests Ebony Adams & Carolyn PetitFor our 200th(!!) episode of Feminist Frequency Radio, Anita, Ebony, and Carolyn reunite to discuss the Coen brother’s infinitely quotable, The Big Lebowski. Since its 1998 release, the film has earned cult classic status, spawning festivals, conferences, and even a religion: Dudism. Does our original FFR trio abide? Listen in as we revisit The Dude on his hapless, meandering odyssey through LA to find out.Time Stamps:6:00 - Main discussion on The Big Lebowski41:49 - What’s your Freq Out?Carolyn on the book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and...2022-05-1156 min
Feminist Frequency RadioFFR 187: Benedetta with special guest Carolyn PetitIn our final episode of 2021, we welcome a very special guest: Carolyn Petit herself! Along with Anita and Ebony, the original FFR trio are discussing Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta—the premiere of which faced protests by Catholics upset with the film’s depiction of illicit attraction between 17th century nuns. Does this ecstatically portrayed story of Sister Benedetta—a fervently devoted Renaissance nun consumed by the force of her transcendent visions—qualify as a Very Caro Movie? Listen in to our lively discussion to find out.Make a Donation for our end of year campaign at Givebutter.com/femfre...2021-12-2255 min
Feminist Frequency RadioFFR 181: Dune with Special Guest Jordan CrucchiolaDenis Villeneuve’s take on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic has finally hit theaters and HBO Max. Anita and Ebony are on hand with special guest—writer, producer, and Lynch-Dune-stan—Jordan Crucchiola to take it apart. There have been several film adaptations of Dune, and Villeneuve’s version has a lot going on that we are excited to discuss. Let’s get to it! Time Stamps:50:28 - What’s your Freq Out?Jordan on the series I Know What You Did Last Summer and the film The Voyeurs both on Amazon Prime VideoSubmit your own FREQ out at...2021-11-041h 03
Feminist Frequency RadioFFR 100: AlienOn 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 Alien43:35 What’s Your FREQ-Out? (Carolyn on Joseph Arthur’s new album Com...2019-10-2352 minFeminist Frequency RadioFFR 94: Life Is Strange 2, Episode 4 - FaithOn 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.
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2:50 A note from Carolyn about recent events
4:30 Entertainment News: Walter Mosley leaves Star Trek: Discovery Writers Room, Crazy Rick As...2019-09-1153 minFeminist Frequency RadioFFR 92: The Last Black Man in San FranciscoOn 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.
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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...2019-08-2852 minFeminist Frequency RadioFFR 91: The Art of Self DefenseThis week, we're going toe-to-toe with writer-director Riley Stearns' new dark comedy The Art of Self Defense, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Alessandro Nivola. We talk about how the film brings a critical lens to the socially constructed "rules" of manhood, and to the ways in which men are pressured to perform masculinity among other men in the establishment of a kind of hierarchy. We also discuss how the film works as a kind of response to Fight Club.
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2:10 The Art of Self Defense
33:45 What's Your FREQ-Out?
Ebony on holding it...2019-08-2144 minFeminist Frequency Radio83: Life Is Strange 2: Episode 3 - Wastelands with Tevis ThompsonOn this week’s episode, Carolyn and Ebony continue their conversation about Life Is Strange 2, a conversation that started back in episode 63. Today, we’re talking about Episode 3: Wastelands, and we’re joined for our conversation by the writer and critic Tevis Thompson. Our discussion explores the ever-increasing political relevance of the series, the game’s noteworthy sincerity, the unconventional way in which it casts you as the character without the gimmicky powers, the specific impact of Cassidy and other characters, and much more. Also, Carolyn and Tevis talk about their admiration of Fortnite, and Ebony and Carolyn talk about th...2019-06-261h 06Feminist Frequency Radio82: BooksmartThis week, Anita plays hooky so Carolyn and Ebony are responsible for keeping the student body on track. Classic nerds! Our topic this week is Booksmart, Olivia Wilde's feature debut about two young overachieving women on the cusp of graduation. Tune in for a discussion of the way the film empathizes and delights with its multiplicity of characters, centers the teen girl experience, and is delightfully, unapologetically queer. Plus, we ask the question: how do we talk about films about teens versus films for teens?
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00:27 - Entertainment News: Gender breakdown in games at...2019-06-1958 minFeminist Frequency Radio73: Shazam!Anita’s off on another one of her globehopping adventures, so Ebony and Carolyn hold it down this week with a look at the latest DC Comics flick, Shazam! There’s a refreshing sense of lighthearted fun to this film, especially in contrast to the grimdark Batman and stuffy Superman of DC’s recent movie output, and a welcome dose of heartwarming sentiment as well. We talk about the way the film contrasts a tough-guy, go-it-alone form of masculinity with asking for help and relying on each other, what it has to say about found families, and the problems with i...2019-04-1756 min
Feminist Frequency RadioFFR 70: GretaThis week on FFR, we’re talking about the new film from Neil Jordan, director of The Crying Game, Interview With a Vampire and others: Greta. Greta is a psychologically terrifying tale of an innocent young woman named Frances (Chloe Grace Moretz) who befriends a lonely, older French woman named Greta (Isabelle Huppert), only to discover that she’s gotten much more than she’s bargained for as Greta’s obsession with her begins intruding on every aspect of her life. Our conversation explores the film’s place in Ebony’s beloved psychobiddy genre, its concerns with loneliness and isolation, a...2019-03-2757 min
Feminist Frequency RadioFFR 67: LorenaIn this episode of FFR, Anita’s off giving talks in different cities so the podcast falls to Ebony and Carolyn this week, who do their best to fill the big Anita-shaped hole in all our hearts. The focus of this episode is Lorena, the new four-part documentary series on Amazon Prime which takes a fresh look at a case that set the tabloid world on fire in 1993: the case of Lorena Bobbitt. The new doc offers a deep, thoughtful examination of all the elements at work in the trial and the public’s perception of it: the nation’s fail...2019-03-0654 min
Feminist Frequency RadioFFR 56: Doctor WhoFFR #56: Doctor Who
At long last, Anita and Ebony finally get around to talking about Doctor Who on the podcast! First, they both share their different relationships with the history of the show, and what they’re bringing with them to the new season, which stars Jodie Whittaker as the show’s first female Doctor. (Please note that this episode was recorded in early November, and only includes discussions of the season’s first five episodes.) We get into the overall political values of the new season under new showrunner Chris Chibnall, and give special attention to the ep...2018-12-1253 min
Feminist Frequency Radio42: Mulholland DriveThis week, Anita’s away so Ebony and Carolyn get weird with a look back at David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, a dreamlike odyssey about female fantasy, the commoditization of women in Hollywood, and—well, what IS Mulholland Drive about, really? We go on a winding journey in search of answers.
We also discuss Louis CK and the enduring lack of real consequences for so many male abusers, the cultural rehabilitation of George W. Bush, and we take a moment to wish a very happy birthday to one of our favorite actors.
We want to hear f...2018-09-0557 min
Feminist Frequency Radio38: Mission: Impossible - Fallout#38: Mission: Impossible - Fallout
On this week’s episode, Anita’s off on a top-secret assignment, no doubt saving the world from the evil forces of anti-feminism, so Carolyn and Ebony hold down the fort at FemFreq HQ by diving into the international intrigue of Mission: Impossible - Fallout. Join us as we discuss hero Ethan Hunt’s moral convictions, the not-so-magical way in which the film makes millions of brown people disappear, how the IMF is both the cause of and solution to the world’s problems, what makes M:I a cinematically interesting franchise as a whole...2018-08-0855 min
Feminist Frequency Radio29: Invest in Sassy DroidsIn this week’s episode, it’s a sci-fi spectacular as Ebony and Caro navigate the asteroid field of a movie that is Solo. We talk everything from Ron Howard’s directing to the squandering of Thandie Newton to the Star Wars series’ gradual shift into a much less interesting approach to storytelling. We reserve particular ire, however, for the film’s treatment of its feisty, politically revolutionary droid L3-37.
From there, we travel back in time to 1984 to revisit the James Cameron classic, The Terminator! In later episodes, we’ll look at other franchise properties, but we wante...2018-06-061h 03