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200. Performative Femininity

68 min • 20 maj 2025

It's our 200th episode! A victory for quantity over quality and our small, chill audience of friends!

To celebrate, Anika and Liz are talking about Star Trek: Open A Channel - A Woman's Trek, Nana Visitor's book about women in Star Trek.

Open A Channel is much more substantial than just girl power feminism.
How Lucille Ball was erased from Star Trek's narrative
The throughline of mentorship
We gently interrogate Nana Visitor's second wave biases
We also have two separate (but related) rants about Janice Rand and the "glorified secretary" concept
Hair Trek
Marina Sirtis versus … a lot of people
Bodyshaming from fandom. "The idea that fat people should not exist in your utopia is really horrible and RFK Jr coded."
The editorial decision to exclude Michelle Hurd

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