We have a Summer Break Flashback this week! This felt important given all the information I've been seeing on how tariffs will affect indie boardgame publishers.

Kervin of For Why Games joins Natalie to talk about his experiences advocating for diversity within board game development. He explains the steps and measures he took to create his first game, Allow Me to Mansplain and the ways he intentionally crafted rules and gameplay to foster discussions around the concept of mansplaining. The episode also dives into what is currently taken into consideration when it comes to diversity in game creation and where we need to head next to make sure gaming is a welcoming place for everyone. Natalie and Kervin also share their personal experiences of wanting a safe, diverse community to play games with and what it's like when you’re having a hard time finding it or you’re not being heard when explaining why the current situation isn’t making you feel safe and welcomed.

Make sure you have subscribed to us on Patreon! (currently running a free trial on all tiers) It is the only place where you can find our new variety series, The Misogyny Meltdown! There will be comedy, creativity, and a lot of melting down in each episode. January covered the Misogynist of the Year award ceremony, February is all about love.

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Purchase Allow Me to Mansplain: https://www.forwhygames.com/
Follow Kervin on Tiktok: @forwhygames.flan

Hey Team Tolerator! We are officially on our summer break for 2025 and will be returning with new episodes in the fall. This week, we are giving you a sneak peek of our Misogyny Meltdown series! In this excerpt, Julia Washington and Alrinthea Carter joined us to talk about the women in historical film that just deserved better. You can see the video for this interview, as well as the rest of the fun we had, on Patreon!

This year marked ten years of Bravo’s Southern Charm, where we get a glimpse at the lives of southern gentlemen and their ever present Peter Pan Syndrome. Annie Sieg returns as our reality tv historian to break down all the ways the men of Southern Charm reflect the misogyny we experience in our culture. The episode will cover Katherine Dennis, southern culture, Shep finally getting told he gives someone the ick, Craig and Paige’s breakup, and all the discourse Bravo fans are having in the comments.

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Julia Washington (Prose and Glow) and Natalie are dissecting their complicated feelings on Best Picture winner, Anora. Anora is written and directed by Sean Baker and tells the story of an exotic dancer named Ani who after a whirlwind couple of days finds herself married and then divorced by a Russian wealthy man named Vanya. This episode will cover what fell flat for both women when it came to Ani’s character development, the worldbuilding, and whether or not Anora really deserved all the praise it was getting for being a movie about an empowered woman and a statement against how wealthy people in an Oligarch treat the working class. And we will return to our prevalent question of who is actually qualified to write stories about the feminine experience.

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Find Julia:
On instagram: @popculturemakesmejealous and @thejuliawashington
Shop Prose and Glow: https://www.juliawashingtonproductions.com/
Podcasts: Pop Culture Makes Me Jealous and Jelly Pops Book Club

Toni Powell is a music composer who just released her classical music composition, The Mourning After. She and Natalie will discuss misogyny’s effect on the art of music as well as the classical music genre. Discussion points will include the way people talk about creative pursuits, capitalism’s effect on art, how colonization and white supremacy affected art and culture, and what it is like for Toni to navigate the music business and the idea of genre as a woman of color.

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Instagram- @iamladyleidel
Tiktok- @iamladyleidel

Hi Barbie!This week Natalie and Julia Washington are combining their forces to talk about The Barbie movie. Each woman delves into their special relationship and memories they have with Barbie. They then decide it is time to come out of hiding and join the discourse and discussion following Greta Geriwg’s film. The episode will revolve around the movie serving as an awareness piece on everyday misogyny, the roles Ken played in the movie, Barbie’s journey to becoming a human, and more! This episode is more than Kenough!


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Podcasts: Pop Culture Makes Me Jealous and Jelly Pops Book Club

Hassan Khan joins Natalie on the show to talk about growing up as a queer person in a Muslim household. Natalie and Hassan will share experiences of growing up in a time where homophobia was more insidious in schools and homes, even when it was subtle. They will speak on how their families shaped their experiences and viewpoints on things like queer culture and how they still found ways to learn about the queer community. Other topics will include emeigrating to the United States, how religion plays a role in how you identify yourself, how religion and family structure play a role in how you view yourself as an artist, and more.

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Alrinthea Carter and Natalie have two huge things in common, they are both eldest daughters in their families and capricorns. Eldest daughters are known for having a high sense of responsibility and a need to please those around them. Capricorns are the astrological signs that are most known for being loyal, ambitious, and hardworking. Natalie and Alrinthea will go through key moments in their lives where being either an eldest daughter or Capricorn shaped their experiences, identities within their families, and their viewpoints on who they are as people.

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Website: https://www.alrintheacarter.com/

Natalie is joined this week by Shohreh Davoodi, author of the weekly newsletter The Queer Agenda, self-trust coach, and host of Conjuring Up Courage. The women have a heartfelt conversation on all the ways women were conditioned to not listen to their guts or trust what their bodies were thinking, their hearts were feeling, or their brains were thinking. Shohreh will go through her experience with discovering her sexuality and identifying as a lesbian. This hits home with Natalie as she grapples with what dating and her own romantic life may look like in the future as she re-examines who it is she is actually attracted to and interested in, The women will dive deep on how it is okay to experiment, what it means to take chances even if they may be wrong, and how we deserve a society that gives us a safe place to try new things if that’s what we need to do.

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