Today's bonus episode is brought to you by the letters C, E, & R. It's Representation in Children's Educational Media with Aria Gaston-Panthaki!

Aria is pursuing a PhD in Educational Media & Child Development at UC Irvine, & spoke with us regarding their expertise on these topics academically, and as a QBIPOC & autistic person speaking to their own lived experience. We had a SUPER FUN, QUEER NERD CONVO & we know you'll love it!!!

Link to Aria's article about the child development value of Bluey: https://tinyurl.com/2hwwtaj5

Link to Aria's Bluey podcast appearance, also discussing the awesome developmental value of same: https://tinyurl.com/yp6bt8y3

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It's ROUGH to run out of gas in Death Valley! Or, if you're in a sci-fi genre show, a hauntingly desolate "crystal planet" that appears suspiciously devoid of crystals. But FEAR NOT, newly reunited best pals of ours! There are some hot queer sibs just around the corner who would probably love to team up, if you can get your messy lesbian drama together, Adora, & just do your thing! AND if Bow & Glimmer can have five freaking minutes of peace to talk about their feelings & healthy boundaries?? AAGGHH CRYSTALS!!!

(...Also, that's ice. That's Swifty being the sound of ice).

Link to our listener Mari's podcast, Genderfork (the Catra episode!): https://tinyurl.com/2rxm95b5

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Part 2 of our heartbreakingly, wholesomely, therapeutically gay discussion of Corridors with Sar from Five by Five Takes. Sweet Baby Catra, we're coming for you!!!

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Five by Five Takes on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/6zfey3bt

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In honor of the first MAJOR GAY SCREAMING EPISODE of Season 5, we've brought back a fan favorite (and host favorite) guest for your queer nerd delight-- it's Sar from Five by Five Takes!

Listen to the three of us talk SO MUCH about Catradora, heavy symbolism, ride or die with Glimmer, and say the word CORRIDORS a lot!

This is part 1 of a 2 part episode-- stay tuned for the exciting conclusion in the next installment!

(Playlist will be included in part 2)

Find Five by Five Takes here: https://tinyurl.com/6zfey3bt

Our ANCIENT SPACESHIP is finally repaired, and we are ready to LAUNCH into SPAAAACE!!! ...As soon as Adora gets that mandatory nap due to no longer being part Valkyrie, and the rest of our princess pals work together to hack Horde Prime's comms & figure out Glimmer's location IN SPACE, which will probably be SUPER EASY and not put a strain on ANY RELATIONSHIPS AT ALL. Plus, the faint stirrings of  SparkleKitty shenanigans, maybe? (IN SPAAAAACE!)

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HOLY SHITBALLS IT'S SEASON 5!!! Our buddies are LEVELING UP for the final battle for the fate of the world, or, perhaps, the entire universe. (If you think that's scary, check out Project 2025-- the GOP's plans for the US after the next election! This is some end-times shit, y'all).

Meanwhile IN SPACE, Glimmer & Catra are trapped on Horde Prime's mothership, aka Our Lady of Perpetual Death Star; will their journeys finally align to the supremely badass sparklekitty duo we're all rooting for? Will THE SHE-RA ever be returned to us? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! IT'S SEASON FIVE BY FIVE, YEEAAHHHHH!!!!!

Link to Princess Jenny's pics from Stonewall 25 (her 1st Pride March)-- 30 freaking years ago!!!

https://tinyurl.com/ysb3fm43

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Our destinies, collective & individual, are hurtling toward us in this penultimate episode of Season 4! Glimmer entreats Scorpia to reconnect with the Black Garnet so they can save the world together; meanwhile on Beast Island, Entrapta reveals the scariest details yet about the apocalyptic end game of the Heart of Etheria. Hold on tight, gentlequeers, cuz it's a cliffhanger!!!

(No playlist this week-- it's a double episode! An EPIC PLAYLIST for Destiny parts 1 & 2 will drop with the next ep).

Links:

What is Restorative Justice? (From The First Step Alliance): https://tinyurl.com/46ze5t5w

What is the Jewish interpretation of "an eye for an eye?" (From the Talmud, Bava Kamma 83b:1): https://tinyurl.com/yr2fch68

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So this one time in the 80's, a fantasy hero child and his white horse bff went on an epic quest that took them to a landscape that was the literal embodiment of depression and hopelessness; and then that landscape of depression SWALLOWED THE HORSE WHOLE IN FRONT OF HIS LITTLE KID BFF'S EYES, leaving a generation of kids wicked traumatized.

Now it's time for ANOTHER white horse (pegicorn, ok) to visit ANOTHER landscape of depression and hopelessness with his human hero bff... but this time, they won't be alone! Because if there's one thing we know as queer folks, it's that the way to survive all the Swamps of Sadness, in this or any world, is through the power of COMMUNIITY.

Hold on to each other, queerlings. We're damn well gonna win in the end!

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