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Feminist Frequency Radio

Kat Spada, Anita Sarkeesian

Feminist Frequency Radio is coming for your media. Each week, Kat Spada invites you to listen in on entertaining and stimulating conversations about films, games, and TV... from the latest blockbusters to classic hidden gems, and more. With special guests bringing their distinctly different feminist perspectives to the mix as they celebrate and critique it all—including media critics, entertainers, academics, and everyone in between—Feminist Frequency Radio is there to help you dig deeper into the things you love. Warning: Feminist Frequency Radio may significantly enhance your media experience.

Created by Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency ran as an organization from 2009–2023, providing video commentaries exploring gender representations, myths, and messages in popular culture media. Now, host Kat Spada continues Feminist Frequency Radio's legacy as an independent podcast, with fun new conversations about entertainment that asks you to be critical of the media you love.

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#277
September 3 · 44 min
FFR 277: But I'm a Cheerleader
In the canon of "camp" cinema, there are so many examples of movies that are queer-coded, so we wanted to make sure we focused on a textually-gay example of the genre: Jamie Babbit's 1999 satire BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER.
#276
August 27 · 52 min
FFR 276: Batman Forever
This season's focus on "camp" cinema had to bring us to Joel Schumacher's 1995 film BATMAN FOREVER. From Val Kilmer's rubber nipples to Jim Carrey's unsanctioned buffoonery, there's so much of an aesthetic sensibility that it's a perfect example of superhero camp.
#275
August 12 · 44 min
FFR 275: Hairspray (2007)
One question we wanted to ask in our Summer "Camp" season was: does a remake add or remove layers of camp? Especially when it's one of John Waters' best-known films that's moved to the mainstream with a musical adaptation turned Hollywood.
#274
July 29 · 52 min
FFR 274: Barbarella
The #FemFreqRadio Summer "Camp" season is off to the stars with the 1968 space romp BARBARELLA, starring Jane Fonda.
July 23 · 42 min
Season Preview: Summer "Camp"
Before we dive into our brand new season all about camp cinema classics, we had to reacquaint ourselves with the aesthetic sensibility at the heart of the style. So, we re-read and discussed Susan Sontag's 1964 essay: Notes on "Camp."
#273
April 2 · 49 min
FFR 273: The Wedding Banquet (2025)
A.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?
#272
March 25 · 49 min
FFR 272: Crooklyn
It 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.
#271
March 11 · 1 hr 5 min
FFR 271: 98th Oscar Nominees
Kat 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.
#270
March 3 · 46 min
FFR 270: Real Women Have Curves
Our "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.
#269
Dec 10, 2025 · 45 min
FFR 269: The Kids Are All Right
For 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.
Nov 25, 2025 · 11 min
FFR Season Preview: Focus on the Family
From 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.
Oct 28, 2025 · 9 min
FFR Bonus: Emilia Pérez
"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!
#268
Oct 15, 2025 · 50 min
FFR 268: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
It'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.
#267
Oct 8, 2025 · 43 min
FFR 267: THE WIZ
Watching 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.
#266
Sep 30, 2025 · 50 min
FFR 266: FUNNY GIRL
We 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.
Sep 25, 2025 · 16 min
FFR Bonus: DEAR EVAN HANSEN
Listen 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.
#265
Sep 17, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
FFR 265: GLEE
Never 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.
#264
Sep 10, 2025 · 45 min
FFR 264: ALL THAT JAZZ
Is 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.
#263
Sep 2, 2025 · 45 min
FFR 263: GUYS AND DOLLS
For 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...
Aug 20, 2025 · 18 min
FFR 262.5: MUSICAL MAYHEM Season Preview
Feminist 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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