This week’s episode is (maybe) our one year anniversary and Ebony eats cake in celebration. This week’s discussion surrounds the most recent remake of A Star is Born, directed by and starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. As usual, we are a group divided on these tortured love stories but it might not be what you expect. Ebony […]
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This week’s episode comes to you from two new satellite studios in the Keanu Reeves Memorial Complex! Anita has moved to L.A. and reports in from Johnny Utah HQ; Caro has started phoning in from the Johnny Mnemonic Wing; and Ebony continues to keep it buck at the Johnny Wick Workshop. Our discussion this week centered […]
November 7th, 2018
Tagged: feminist frequency radio
GeekGirlCon is one of the highlights of each year for the Feminist Frequency crew, and this year was no different! We had a phenomenal time connecting with all the amazing artists, game creators, cosplayers, and just our fellow wide-eyed pop culture fanatics! Take a look through our album of photos to get a sample of the […]
November 5th, 2018
Tagged: Geek Girl Con
On this week’s brand new FFR, we’re live at GeekGirlCon ’18 to talk about the ongoing trend of gender swaps in movies and television, whether it be specific characters who are reimagined as women (a la Starbuck in the Battlestar Galactica reboot) or a franchise that has historically centered men now centering female characters (as we […]
October 31st, 2018
Tagged: Gender Swapping
What happens when the misogyny is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE?! Often, when feminists raise the issue of internalized misogyny, we’re berated as sex-negative prudes who just want to oppress women all over again. But that’s hardly the case. In this episode of The FREQ Show, we break down exactly what we mean–and what we DON’T […]
October 25th, 2018
Tagged: Internalized Misogyny
On this week’s very special episode of Feminist Frequency Radio, Anita and Carolyn chat with Anna Sale of WNYC’s Death, Sex, and Money podcast about unethical labor practices in the video game industry, hot dads, and what makes a movie “a very Caro film.” Segment timestamps: 0:00 Introductions 1:55 Pop Culture News: Daniel Craig toting his […]
October 24th, 2018
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On this week’s FFR, Ebony and Carolyn chat with the author of Texts from Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Daniel Ortberg. But before that conversation kicked off, Carolyn dumped a giant bucket of disappointing entertainment news in the studio, including Johnny Depp’s continued appearance as Grindelwald in the third Fantastic Beasts […]
October 17th, 2018
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On this week’s FFR, we fly into the danger zone with Maverick, Iceman, Goose and the rest of the best of the best with the cultural juggernaut that is Top Gun. Is it a film carefully calculated to represent masculinity in such a way as to maximize navy recruitment efforts? Is it a film dripping with […]
October 10th, 2018
Tagged: Top Gun
On this week’s episode of FFR, we discuss the new film Monsters and Men, a drama loosely inspired by the 2014 murder of Eric Garner by officers of the NYPD. The film follows three men of color, one of them a cop himself, whose lives are impacted in different ways when police murder an unarmed black […]
October 3rd, 2018
Tagged: Monsters and Men
On this very special episode of Cinemaball, we celebrate Ebony’s achievement of scoring the first proper goal in the history of the game with an examination of her goal film, the overlooked 1985 teen power ballad of a movie that is The Legend of Billie Jean. Our conversation covers the film’s noteworthy respect for its young […]
October 1st, 2018
Tagged: The Legend of Billie Jean
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