Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

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Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror episodes

  • Fantasy, nostalgia, and working for hire with David Tallerman

    It is very rare for Charlotte and I to agree. When we do, there’s great celebration over at BtGS headquarters. David Tallerman’s trope-inverting, Dungeons and Dragons inspired series The Black River Chronicles, is one of these rare gems (you can read my review here). So we wanted to get him on the show! Charlotte asks David about […]

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    29 min
  • S03, E06: Fantasy, nostalgia, and working for hire with David Tallerman
    Charlotte interviews writer David Tallerman about writing fantasy and crime, writing-for-hire, Dungeons and Dragons, and the current trend for nostalgia in a lot of genre fiction.
    David Tallerman has written novels, novellas, short stories, and comics. You can find him online at www.davidtallerman.co.uk
    Full episode notes are available at www.breakingtheglassslipper.com
    29 min
  • Where are the tampons? with Tiffani Angus

    In this episode, Charlotte and Lucy talk to writer and lecturer Tiffani Angus. They discussed the estrangement of women’s bodies in apocalyptic fiction and the trends Tiffani discovered in her research on the subject. While there is a lot of genre fiction written about the apocalypse, many would fail a ‘realism’ test when it comes […]

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    53 min
  • S03, E05: Where are the tampons? with Tiffani Angus
    In this episode, Charlotte and Lucy talk to writer and lecturer Tiffani Angus. They discuss the estrangement of women's bodies in apocalyptic fiction.
    While there is a lot of genre fiction written about the apocalypse, many would fail a 'realism' test when it comes to basic bodily functions. Women menstruate. They go through menopause. They suffer from endometriosis. Both men and women urinate, suffer from diseases, age. But apocalyptic fiction would have us think humans do none of the above. It is these practicalities of living through an apocalypse that are hopelessly neglected in our current fiction.
    Full episode notes including a list of the texts mentioned are available at www.breakingtheglassslipper.com
    53 min
  • Violence as climactic conflict

    All stories require conflict of some kind… but does it always need to be violent conflict? There is certainly a trend in fantasy, science fiction, and horror to find narratives driving towards a massive violent conclusion. These have become set-pieces, the very things that sell Blockbuster films to audiences. We expect them in our genre […]

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    1 hr 4 min
  • S03, E04: Violence as climactic conflict
    Do science fiction, fantasy, and horror narratives require violence? Are there other ways of creating conflict and tension in genre stories?
    This week, Charlotte, Lucy, and Megan look at how violence is used in genre fiction as the default approach to conflict.
    Full episode notes including further reading and all texts mentioned can be found at www.breakingtheglassslipper.com
    1 hr 4 min
  • The Bechdel-Wallace test

    Back in 1985, Alison Bechdel had the characters of her cartoon strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, jokingly make a gender equality ‘test’ for films. 33 years later, the Bechdel (or Bechdel-Wallace, to give credit to her friend Liz Wallace for the idea) test is still used to determine whether a film has any claim to […]

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    52 min
  • S03, E03: The Bechdel-Wallace test
    For over 30 years we have used the Bechdel-Wallace test to push for gender equality in film. But does it go far enough?
    The Bechdel-Wallace test should be applauded for getting the conversation started, but we believe it is time to move on. We should be demanding that a higher bar is set and that our media passes more often than not. But what would such a test look like?
    Full further reading notes available at www.breakingtheglassslipper.com
    52 min
  • Christian mythology in fantasy with Jeannette Ng

    Charlotte takes the lead in this episode, where we chat to Jeannette Ng about her use of Christian mythology in her debut novel, Under the Pendulum Sun. From using relatively unknown elements of Christianity to developing alternate patriarchies to highlight the impermanence of our own, Jeannette is as interesting as she is educational. If you take nothing […]

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    1 hr 11 min

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Podcast discussing women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Hosted by Megan Leigh, Charlotte Bond, and Lucy Hounsom. New episodes every other Thursday.