This is a formerly Patreon exclusive episode of The Hidden Bookcase.
For our latest Patreon episode, we're discussing My Feminist Call to Historical Fantasy by Samantha Shannon, an essay on how historically informed fantasy settings do, and should, incoporate misogony.
Click here for closed captions. Transcript available here.
Content warnings: Mentions of sexism/misogony in both real and fictional contexts, sexual assault, racism, ableism, childbirth, homophobia, transphobia, and J. K. Rowling.
Media mentioned in this episode (roughly) in order referenced:
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon [UK LINK] / [US LINK]
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon [UK LINK] / [US LINK]
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon [US LINK]
The Attic Monologues by Morgna Greensmith (Podcast) [Listen Online]
A Sonf of Ice and Fire (Series/TV Series) by George R. R. Martin [UK LINK] / [US LINK]
The Lord of the Rings (Series) by J. R. Tolkien [UK LINK] / [US LINK]
Noughts and Crosses (Series) by Malorie Blackman [UK LINK] / [US LINK]
In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu [US LINK]
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir [US LINK]
The Sword in the Stars (Series) by Amy Rose Capetta and Cory McCarthy [UK LINK] / [US LINK]
The Lunar Chronicles (Series) by Marissa Meyer [UK LINK] / [US LINK]
Exolore (Podcast) [Listen Online]
Avatar the Last Airbender (TV Series) by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino
Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game) [Website]
The Dragon Prince (TV Series) by Justin Richmond and Aaron Ehasz
The Owl House (TV Series) by Dana Terrace
Steven Universe (TV Series) by Rebecca Sugar
Nimona (Film) by Noelle Stevenson
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore [US LINK]
Notes on this episode:
Morgan mentions the Game of Thrones TV Series having more sexual assault than the books it's based on. Tumblr user @tafkarfanfic did a statistical analysis of how frequently it occurs in the books vs. in the show, and found that there was a higher number in the books. However, there are some sexual assaults included in the show that do not appear in the books (such as that involving Sansa, which Morgan references here.)
Sorren (me, hi) also confidently guesses that Dragon Age Origins came out in the early 2000s/2002- he misspoke (I swear!) and the actual year DA:O first released is indeed 2009. (I promise I know those graphics were impossible in 2002. My brain just switched off for a moment.)
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com