From rebellion leaders to scream queens and everything in-between, women have shaped sci-fi and fantasy since its inception. Each week Fangrrls founder & managing editor Cher Martinetti, contributing editor and author Preeti Chhibber, and associate editor Courtney Enlow celebrate the countless badass women in geek culture through funny, witty, and unfiltered deep dives into the nerdverse.
Author Gwenda Bond joins Cher & Preeti to celebrate our favorite comic book journalist's 80th anniversary, debate Lois & Supes as a couple, and go on weird tangents about cults and magical sex with Constantine. It's literally a party, ya'll. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Cher & Preeti plot ways to score invites to LA's Magic Castle. Producer & magician David Kwong talks to Preeti about magic, how to pull the ultimate illusion, and the need for more women magicians. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Cher and Preeti talk about zombies and Timothy Olyphant. Author Justina Ireland joins Preeti to discuss her new book Dread Nation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Cher & Preeti talk about midlife crisis earrings, the lack of female protagonists in video games, and have a thoughtful conversation with Oliver Stark (Into the Badlands, 911) about feminism and allyship. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Just like Beyonce, Cher and Preeti refuse to let a series of unfortunate events stop them from recording this ep. They even climbed uphill both ways and battled dragons to make this week's episode happen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Shakina Nayack joins us to talk about her role on Jessica Jones, trans representation in genre, and feminity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Author fan Sarah Kuhn joins us to talk about the unfair rep the romance novels get & our favorite love stories in science-fi and fantasy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, joins us to talk about beauty as a commodity and how race and class define our beauty standards in genre and real life. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
April Reign joins us to talk about the Black Panther premiere, opportunities afforded to non-white journalists, and #OscarsSoWhite. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
We explore the limited history of female explorers in genre & Blue Planet II's Orla Doherty guests. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Brianna Wu joins us to talk about women in tech, stripper robots, and online harassment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
We recap the trash fire of 2017, discuss the Golden Globes and break down what we're looking forward to in 2018. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
i09’s Charles Pulliam Moore joins us to talk about gay icons in genre, fandoms favorite new Star Wars ship and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Film critic Jen Yamato from the Los Angeles Times joins us to talk about The Last Jedi, thirst over Kylo Ren, and discuss representation in the Star Wars franchise. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Marvel’s best scientists are 2 WOC. Guest: Powtawche Valerino from NASA’s JPL See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Episode 2 - We look at the many (bad) iterations of Cat Grant, wonder if Rita Skeeter got a raw deal in Harry Potter and breakdown the feminization of gossip with Lainey Gossip’s Elaine Lui. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Episode 1- Female supers & politics. Guest: Crooked Media's Ana Marie Cox. We examine how comic creators write political storylines for their female supers, then find the eery similarities with where we are now 1 yr after the presidential election. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
A preview of Strong Female Characters coming on December 5th 2017. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
