All in Action
Plural activist Criss Itterman joins us to help break down and understand the relationship between these two complex characters, and how this is reflective of the lived experience of the plural community. Forget “split-personality” movies like… well, SPLIT; this is a much more nuanced look at what it means to share a body with someone else.
Ariel can be read pretty clearly as a trans icon, a victim of horrific intergenerational trauma, or even autistic (when she’s above water, that is). There’s a whole lot of different possible interpretations to dig into!
Frozen details the sordid story of a cursed, divergent woman who is denied the love of her family and coerced into constructing a false life defined by isolation. She rebels, makes new friends, and as punishment is imprisoned and forced to watch her sister die. Welcome to the most popular Disney movie of this decade. Conceal don’t feel, y'all.
It doesn’t take much thought to realize that the Circle of Life is secretly a villain that entails eating/killing other animals, getting eaten, or starving, all under the guise of “the natural order of the food chain”
Are Venom & Eddie Brock the first plural superhero? We think so! In this episode, Andy and Emily discuss the portrayal of multiplicity/systemhood in Venom. Tell us what you think of how multiplicity is represented in the movie!
What would you do if you were destined to live your life out alone, confined to a space ship, for the next 90 years? You’d probably go a little mad. On this podcast, Andy and Emily explore that very question through the film Passengers. They also debate whether Passengers is secretly anti-capitalist or just a plain old romance in space. Let us know whose side you’re on!
Our dynamic duo explore societal associations between madness and biological determinism as well as the factors that lead marginalized groups not to be trusted as credible experts of their own feelings and experiences.
