I'll Have What She's Podcasting

Hello and welcome back! We are so glad you came back. This week we continue our deep dive into the holiest of trilogies with the Empire Strikes Back, the second instalment in the original set of Star Wars movies. This is our episode 2, so we are still a little baby newbie podcast. We will drop new epsiodes every two weeks on a Wednesday, meaning Empire has arrived on February 17th, and that we will conclude this dive into Star Wars on March 3rd with a discussion about Return of the Jedi. After that we will be leaving a galaxy far far away and moving onto other content, but the Force will be with us, always.

Finally, in this episode we touch on some issues around racism and representation in film. We have a bit of a chat about how white the Star Wars universe has been up until this point and do our best with the vocabulary we have to address what needs to be done better. However, if two neurotic, white, middle class women clumsily tying themselves in knots trying not to be racist isn't enough for you, and it shouldn't be, see below for a couple of suggestions for other podcasts which are better at talking about racism than we are. As our podcast grows, so do we - we commit to doing better, being better, recognising and challenging our own complicity in matters of inequality, injustice and privilege, and calling out oppressive, white supremacist bullshit whenever we see it. As Yoda says, "Do or do not, there is no try". Thank you for listening!

Specific podcast episodes which cover these issues better than us are:

- Black Men Can't Jump (In Hollywood) - specifically their episodes on The Force Awakens (15 December 2015) AND on The Last Jedi (23 September 2019);

- Buffering the Vampire Slayer - Invisi-BIPOC with Alba Daza and Mackenzie MacDade (20 January 2021). Also, If you visit their website at bufferingthevampireslayer.com you will find some excellent anti-racism reading and resources.

Welcome to the very first episode of your new favourite film and pop culture podcast - I'll Have What She's Podcasting. Hosted by two tired, feminist millenials - Louise Oliver and Jackie Farmer - who give you opinions you didn't ask for about the films and TV shows they love.

We decided to start with one of our all time favourite and formative sets of films; the original Star Wars trilogy. Kicking off, of course, with the first in said trilogy - A New Hope (also known as Episode IV, depending on your outlook).

I'll Have What She's Podcasting is produced and edited by Chris Gorman and will be released fortnightly and on a Wednesday.

About the hosts:

Louise Oliver(she/her) is an actor, screenwriter and producer from Glasgow. She hopes that pub dogs come back into all of our lives soon but in the meantime her interests include pals, podcasting (see our sister podcast Persistent and Nasty), and developing her special brand of hot-intersectional-feminist-takes.

Jackie Farmer really has no business doing a podcast but here we are. She lives in Glasgow and has a normy job in accountancy but promises not to talk about it...much. She loves cats, peanut butter and flawed heroines.

You can follow I'll Have What She's Podcasting on social media:

Twitter @ShesPodcasting

Instagram @ShesPodcasting

We'd love you to follow us and share your thoughts about the podcast and argue with our opinions by using the hashtag #ShesPodcasting.

Welcome to the very first episode of your new favourite film and pop culture podcast - I'll Have What She's Podcasting. Hosted by two tired, feminist millenials - Louise Oliver and Jackie Farmer - who give you opinions you didn't ask for about the films and TV shows they love.

We decided to start with one of our all time favourite and formative sets of films; the original Star Wars trilogy. Kicking off, of course, with the first in said trilogy - A New Hope (also known as Episode IV, depending on your outlook).

I'll Have What She's Podcasting is produced and edited by Chris Gorman and will be released fortnightly and on a Wednesday.

About the hosts:

Louise Oliver(she/her) is an actor, screenwriter and producer from Glasgow. She hopes that pub dogs come back into all of our lives soon but in the meantime her interests include pals, podcasting (see our sister podcast Persistent and Nasty), and developing her special brand of hot-intersectional-feminist-takes.

Jackie Farmer really has no business doing a podcast but here we are. She lives in Glasgow and has a normy job in accountancy but promises not to talk about it...much. She loves cats, peanut butter and flawed heroines.

You can follow I'll Have What She's Podcasting on social media:

Twitter @ShesPodcasting

Instagram @ShesPodcasting

We'd love you to follow us and share your thoughts about the podcast and argue with our opinions by using the hashtag #ShesPodcasting.