Sistas With Sabers is a podcast made for and by black female fans of Star Wars, designed as a safe space to connect, support each other and share their experience with the world. Two of it’s founders, Maria and Rayven joined us to talk about Star Wars in the current state of politics, finding lessons in the saga and discuss what balance means in Star Wars and in our real world.
1:00 - What is Sistas with Sabers
2:30 - Rayven
4:30 - Maria’s intro to Star Wars
6:30 - Disney doorways
9:00 - Reacting to the Prequels
10:45 - Obi-Wan
15:00 - End of Clone Wars and Ahsoka
21:00 - The Martez Sisters
23:00 - State of Fandom for Women and POC
31:00 - Disney: Take Diversity more seriously
34:30 - Did The Rise of Skywalker give in to the Fandom Menace?
40:00 - Lessons from Star Wars for today
51:00 - Shout out to Sistas
60:30 - Ten Questions
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