O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill)

Special guest episode with Annie Prafcke, host of Misfits! Annie and I relate to, empathize with, and learn from O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill Vol. 1. Cottonmouth has sliced and diced our minds in more ways than we thought. Wooooeeee. We talk: O-Ren Ishii and identity, violence as a way to maintain power, Tarantino, what our villainous traits are, and much more. At the end, we share haiku and tanka poetry written about and from the perspective of O-Ren!

Annie Prafcke is a writer and podcaster based in Austin, TX. Her most recent podcast is called Misfits, a show about people who feel like black sheep in their communities because of their identities.

Check out the podcast Misfits on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Goodpods, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
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Sources: 
Lucy Liu: My success has helped move the needle. But it'll take more to end 200 years of Asian stereotypes. (2021) 

Katona, Leah Andrea, "The Use of Violence as Feminist Rhetoric: Third-Wave Feminism in Tarantino's Kill Bill Films" (2008). Theses Digitization Project. 2759. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2759

Mattern, E. (2014). Caucasian Girls and Samurai Swords: Dualism in Kill Bill. First Class: A Journal of First-Year Composition, 2015 (1). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/first-class/vol2015/iss1/10