Actress, writer, and podcaster Janie Haddad Tompkins joins Kat Spada for a literary journey through their favorite memoirs ranging from coming-of-age and adventure to celebrity juiciness. Tune in for a Feminist Frequency Radio AMA with Kat on Sunday, October 1 at 10am PT in the Feminist Frequency Discord!

Links Mentioned:
- "Celebrity Book Club" podcast: https://www.chelsearosedevantez.com/celebrity-book-club

Find Janie:
- twitter.com/janiehaddad
- instagram.com/lebaneselooker
- Podcast: Stay F. Homekins – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stay-f-homekins-with-janie-haddad-tompkins-paul-f-tompkins/id1503706010
- Newsletter: Weekend Water – https://weekendwater.substack.com/

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- twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

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A HurriQuake can't stop Kat Spada from bringing you brief reviews and industry news. On this Fortnightly Freq-out, she shares her thoughts on media and events viewed from the safety of her own storm-ready home, including Every Body, a documentary on intersex lives.

Links Mentioned:

• “Strike Talk” and Ethical AI: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/week-fifteen-with-guests-todd-garner-and-frank-correa/id1686019933?i=1000624166897
• General Strike Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackmask/general-strike-calexit-and-other-tales-of-the-good-fight

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• twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

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Feminist Frequency alumnus Ebony Adams joins Kat Spada for a look at Triangle of Sadness director Ruben Östlund’s 2014 film, Force Majeure. The film is a darkly comic peek into a troubled marriage pushed to the edge on a ski trip after the threat of an approaching avalanche results in a moment of profound cowardice.

Links Mentioned:

• FFR ep 23, Triangle of Sadness: https://feministfrequency.com/video/triangle-of-sadness-with-karen-tongson-eat-the-rich-episode-1-ffr-223/
• @sunglasseskidmusic on TikTok

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• twitter.com/ebonyaster

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Kat’s back with more brief reviews and industry news from the last two weeks in our ongoing “Fortnightly FREQout” series. Today she shares some thoughts on the latest installment to the MCU—Secret Invasion—as well as recent seasons of Hulu series The Bear and This Fool. She also gives her impression of the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise entry—TMNT: Mutant Mayhem.

Links Mentioned:

• https://www.polygon.com/23814201/feminist-frequency-shutting-down-anita-sarkeesian

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• twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

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Following this week's announcement about the closure of Feminist Frequency, Executive Director Anita Sarkeesian and the Games and Online Harassment Hotline Director Jae Lin chat more about what this means for our work as the organization sunsets.

Links Mentioned:

• Some books about burnout, rest, and worth:
• Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
  https://www.burnoutbook.net/
• Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry
  https://thenapministry.com/
• How to Keep House While Drowning, by K.C. Davis, founder of Struggle Care
  https://www.strugglecare.com/book
• Jae Lin’s Heartwork deck: https://www.patreon.com/doodlemealive

Find Anita:

• twitter.com/anitasarkeesian

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• twitter.com/enviplaysgames
• instagram.com/doodlemealive

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• twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

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Feminist Frequency Radio presents the second mini-episode in our Fortnightly FREQouts series. Kat’s back with more brief reviews and industry news from the last two weeks, along with her reactions to the opening weekend event of the summer: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Links Mentioned:

• Support workers affected by the Hollywood work stoppage: Bid on the WGA Garage Sale auction or donate to the Entertainment Community Fund; Bid on the TUSC auction or donate to the Union Solidarity Fund.
• Kat’s review of Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns on Letterboxd
• Women’s World Cup: French deep fake commercial, Netherlands news, and Haitian team history
• Greta Gerwig interviewed for Letterboxd: https://youtu.be/s2rNnOGfmv0

Find Kat:

• twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

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The cultural phenomenon that is Sex and the City continues with the second season of And Just Like That… where 50-something, wealthy Manhattanites Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda return to navigate life, love, and loss, joined by new friends and lovers. Joining Kat to discuss the series is her good friend, licensed mental health counselor and screenwriter, Pallavi Yetur.

Links Mentioned:

• Kim Cattrall’s 2005 documentary Sexual Intelligence: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/sexual-intelligence/umc.cmc.1ny2dka7n1021smgmks7k2tov
• Kim Cattrall jazz performance: https://youtu.be/XcEKtVZ0XX4
• And Just Like That… interview with Samantha Irby - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/18/magazine/samantha-irby-interview.html

Find Pallavi:

• twitter.com/pallaviyetur
• https://pallaviyetur.com/

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• twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

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Welcome to the first of a series of bonus mini-episodes we’re calling “Fortnightly FREQouts,” where our host Kat Spada walks us through what’s been thrilling, moving, upsetting, or infuriating her in recent weeks. Today’s Fortnightly FREQout features special guest A.C. Lamberty to discuss the new documentary on Max, Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed.

Find A.C.:

• Website: https://www.aclamberty.com/
• On Instagram and Letterboxd at @aclamberty

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• twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

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Welcome to a new season of feminist media criticism goodness! Today Kat and Anita are discussing the 1989 action classic Road House, starring none other than our beloved Patrick Swayze. Listen in for a nostalgic stroll through the absolutely bonkers landscape of this corner of the Dirty Dancing/Point Break/Road House Swayze trifecta.

Links Mentioned:

• FFR 203, 1940s Hollywood: https://feministfrequency.com/video/femme-fatale-1940s-hollywood-film-noir-with-julie-grossman-ffr-203/

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This past season of Feminist Frequency Radio co-hosts Kat Spada and A.C. Lamberty investigated masculinity in movies and TV on our “Machos: Fully Loaded” series.  On this final bonus wrap-up episode, Anita Sarkeesian returns to strap in, strap on, and weigh in on all our most-loved machos.

Links Mentioned:

• Machos: Fully Loaded film list - https://letterboxd.com/aclamberty/list/machos-fully-loaded/
• Political (?) Twitter thread about menswear tailoring - https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1658561021160865794

Find A.C.:

• Website: https://www.aclamberty.com/
• On Instagram and Letterboxd at @aclamberty

Find Kat:

• twitter.com/kat_ex_machina

Find Anita:

• twitter.com/anitasarkeesian

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