Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Gail Carriger on comedy in SFF and the heroine’s journey
This week, Charlotte interviews Victorian steampunk/alternate history/comedy/gothic/romance/surrealist/urban fantasy writer Gail Carriger. This is on…
9 years, 5 months ago
S02, E11: Gail Carriger on comedy in SFF and the heroine’s journey
Charlotte interviews Gail Carriger about her disregard for genre constraints, the joys of making readers laugh, and whether you should put the milk o…
9 years, 5 months ago
Ytasha Womack on Afrofuturism
Genre fiction explores different possibilities of all kinds – what life might be like with the invention of new technologies, other worlds completely…
9 years, 5 months ago
S02, E10: Ytasha Womack on Afrofuturism
Megan talks to Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture about the origins, values, and art of the movemen…
9 years, 5 months ago
Maiden, mother, and crone: Ageism in genre fiction
Wanting to see equal representation in genre fiction doesn’t stop at gender. We want to see all kinds of people represented across gender, creed, sex…
9 years, 6 months ago
S02, E09: Maiden, mother, and crone: Ageism in genre fiction
Wanting to see equal representation in genre fiction doesn't stop at gender. We discuss the lack of 'older' protagonists in genre fiction and the pro…
9 years, 6 months ago
Fight scenes and women warriors with Juliet McKenna
As Kameron Hurley discusses in her Hugo Award-winning article, ‘We Have Always Fought‘, women have always fought. So why don’t we see more women warr…
9 years, 6 months ago
S02, E08: Fight scenes and women warriors with Juliet McKenna
Writing fight scenes is a tricky business, there are a lot of factors to keep in mind and elements you must get right or risk alienating the reader, …
9 years, 6 months ago
Disney Princesses
It isn’t possible to be too old for Disney films. You might go through that contrary teenage phase of claiming to have outgrown them, but we all know…
9 years, 7 months ago
S02, E07: Disney Princesses
How feminist are the Disney princesses? Have we seen a positive trend in the modern examples? What else does Disney need to do to create positive rol…
9 years, 7 months ago