2020 is a strange year in so many ways! This year represents our sixth year doing a statistical breakdown of gender representation in games and while historically we included games announced at the E3 press conference, with the cancellation this year we had to figure out how to continue collecting this important data. As game studios […]

We’re so excited to announce that the Games and Online Harassment Hotline is officially launching on August 3, 2020. The Hotline is a brand new, free, confidential, emotional support resource for people who make and play games. As we’ve seen over the last month (and beyond), our communities are in desperate need of more tools and […]

Blend yourself a frozen marg and buckle up for this week’s episode of Feminist Frequency Radio, in which your Southern California stalwarts cruise up the 101 for a journey into Hollywood Past. This week, we discuss Quentin Tarantino’s 9th feature film, an epic* ode to manly men and one uncomplicated babywoman. Two of your hosts left […]

This 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 with and delights in its […]

2019 represents our fifth year doing a statistical breakdown of the games featured at E3, and analyzing what the data tells us about the representation of women in video games. This year, we ran the numbers on E3 events from Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft, EA, Bethesda, and Square Enix, as well as the annual PC Gaming Show, […]

It’s finally here! We made it! We have finally arrived at our John Wick 3 episode. Carolyn and Ebony can finally calm the hell down (not bloody likely). Tune in for a discussion of the assassin economy, visual style vs narrative coherence, fairytale logic, and really digging movies that also maybekindasorta feed our most problematic desires. […]

Hey, Feminist Frequency Listeners (all 3 of ya!) We had a fantastic discussion about the new Netflix documentary Knock Down the House, which documents the thrilling challenges posed to the political establishment  by the record numbers of women and people of color looking to unseat long-time incumbents in 2018. In addition to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New […]

On this week’s FFR, our 75th episode, it’s a spoilerific conversation about the latest MCU crossover epic, Avengers: Endgame. First we talk about whether or not the film worked for us purely on the level of being an enjoyable superhero film that offers a satisfying conclusion to the cliffhanger of Infinity War, before delving into deeper […]

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 […]

We’re so close to the end of Star Trek Discovery’s second season, but before we press the self-destruct button on the Recap FREQcast, let’s race through some space corridors and figure out what happened in this week’s episode! Anita is off taking time suit flying lessons, so Ebony was joined in the Keanu Reeves Memorial Studio […]