Feminist Frequency Radio
Kat Spada, Anita Sarkeesian
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Feminist Frequency Radio is a podcast that explores films, games, and TV from a feminist perspective. Host Kat Spada invites guests including media critics, entertainers, and academics to discuss and critique popular culture. The show aims to help listeners dig deeper into the media they love, celebrating and critiquing everything from blockbusters to hidden gems. It continues the legacy of Feminist Frequency, an organization that ran from 2009 to 2023, providing video commentaries on gender representations in media.
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FFR 273: The Wedding Banquet (2025) 02.04.2026 49minA.C. and Kat experienced Andrew Ahn's remake of The Wedding Banquet across somewhat of a generational divide. Is it millennial aesthetic queerness with inauthentic politics, sweet & satisfying wish-fulfillment for Gen Xers, or something else entirely?
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FFR 272: Crooklyn 25.03.2026 49minIt was an absolute joy to spend time in the world of Spike Lee's 1994 bildungsroman CROOKLYN. Co-written by Lee and his siblings Joie and Cinqué, the film follows nine-year-old Troy navigating herself, her neighborhood, and her extended family in 1973.
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FFR 271: 98th Oscar Nominees 11.03.2026 1godz 5minKat and A.C. go through the films that will be fêted at this Sunday's Academy Awards. We feel a big shift in our relationship to Oscar movies, and aren't sure how much of that is the disintegration of the entertainment industry, and how much is just growing up.
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FFR 270: Real Women Have Curves 03.03.2026 46minOur "Focus on the Family" season is back with 2002's REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES, a modern classic that was a big nostalgia kick for Kat, and a first-time watch for A.C.
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FFR 269: The Kids Are All Right 10.12.2025 45minFor the first episode of our "Focus on the Family" season, we're taking it back to Lisa Cholodenko's 2010 film THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, a real time capsule of mainstream queer cinema for its era.
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FFR Season Preview: Focus on the Family 25.11.2025 11minFrom festival favorites to reality TV, this season we're discussing onscreen portrayals of all different kinds of families, and what Hollywood thinks it's saying about any of it.
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FFR Bonus: Emilia Pérez 28.10.2025 9min"Bingo." As the epic conclusion to our season of Musical Mayhem, we watched Jacques Audiard's 2024 extravaganza EMILIA PÉREZ. Did we hate it? Kinda! Did we love it? Kinda!
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FFR 268: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 15.10.2025 50minIt's Andrew Lloyd Webber week in our Musical Mayhem season, and to turn the volume all the way up, we've selected Joel Schumacher's most renowned superhero flick, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
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FFR 267: THE WIZ 08.10.2025 43minWatching the 1968 film adaptation of the Broadway musical THE WIZ, we can't help but feel that director Sidney Lumet and screenwriter Joel Schumacher deeply underserved their stars, craftspeople, and source material.
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FFR 266: FUNNY GIRL 30.09.2025 50minWe couldn't do a whole season about movie musicals without watching a Barbra vehicle, and we found a lot of nuance in FUNNY GIRL's exploration of labor and gender dynamics.
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FFR Bonus: DEAR EVAN HANSEN 25.09.2025 16minListen to a preview clip of this week's full-length bonus episode for Patreon only, where we take a deep dive into the shallow waters of DEAR EVAN HANSEN.
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FFR 265: GLEE 17.09.2025 1godz 2minNever has the micro-generational divide between Kat and A.C. been sharper than in their relationships to GLEE, arguably the most influential musical series ever on television.
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FFR 264: ALL THAT JAZZ 10.09.2025 45minIs this the first "perfect" movie we've covered on this podcast? This was Kat's first time watching Bob Fosse's 1979 self-referential musical drama All That Jazz, one of A.C.'s absolute favorites.
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FFR 263: GUYS AND DOLLS 02.09.2025 45minFor the first full episode of our new "Musical Mayhem" season, we watched GUYS AND DOLLS. The gender dynamics in this movie feel like they'd be right at home in today's "trad wife" resurgence...
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FFR 262.5: MUSICAL MAYHEM Season Preview 20.08.2025 18minFeminist Frequency Radio is returning with an all-new season, being critical of the media we love while tapping our toes: the screen musical.
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FFR 262: Chasing Chasing Amy featuring Sav Rodgers 29.01.2025 47minA.C. and Kat are joined by director Sav Rodgers to discuss his documentary feature debut, CHASING CHASING AMY, and the complicated legacy of its subject matter, Kevin Smith's 1997 film CHASING AMY.
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FFR 261: Wicked: Part One 18.12.2024 47minA.C. and Kat are back from their first semester at Shiz University for winter break, and we just had to talk about Jon M. Chu's blockbuster Broadway adaptation of WICKED: PART ONE!
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FFR Bonus: Rapid-Fire Recaps + Gelée 05.12.2024 29minKat's sick, so she & AC could only record a mini ep this week. We discuss what we watched over the holiday break, plus AC's new zine: Gelée!
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FFR 260: Buffy the Vampire Slayer featuring Margaret Wappler 20.11.2024 50minLuke Perry biographer Margaret Wappler joined us for a discussion of the 1992 action comedy BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.
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FFR 259: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas featuring Tara Giancaspro 06.11.2024 1godz 8minWriter and musician Tara Giancaspro joins Kat and A.C. for a rootin' tootin' rip-roarin' review of the Dolly Parton-starring 1982 movie musical THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS.