Antimatter Pod

200. Performative Femininity

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It's our 200th episode! A victory for quantity over quality and our small, chill audience of friends!

To celebrate, Anika and Liz are talking about Star Trek: Open A Channel - A Woman's Trek, Nana Visitor's book about women in Star Trek. 

  • Open A Channel is much more substantial than just girl power feminism.
  • How Lucille Ball was erased from Star Trek's narrative
  • The throughline of mentorship
  • We gently interrogate Nana Visitor's second wave biases
  • We also have two separate (but related) rants about Janice Rand and the "glorified secretary" concept
  • Hair Trek
  • Marina Sirtis versus … a lot of people
  • Bodyshaming from fandom. "The idea that fat people should not exist in your utopia is really horrible and RFK Jr coded."
  • The editorial decision to exclude Michelle Hurd
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