Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror


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Writing (female) characters
October 04, 2018

Writing better female characters is covered in a lot of writing advice. Many of these pieces will preface their comments with sarcastic comments like ‘Women are people too, duh’. This sort of statement, I think,

Disposable characters
September 20, 2018

Redshirts. No sooner are they introduced than they are killed. The tension rises, there are beads of sweat on Kirk’s brow… now the audience knows the peril is real. These stock, disposable characters exist in a story solely for the purpose of being dis...

S03, E18: Catriona Ward & ‘the liminal space between certainties’
September 06, 2018

Lucy and Charlotte talk to horror writer Catriona…

S03, E17: Revisiting The Dark Crystal
August 23, 2018

A Charlotte and Lucy special! After the success o…

S03, E16: Magic, Wealth and Power with Vic James
August 09, 2018

Social inequality and the unequal distribution of…

S03, E15: Women’s jobs in fantasy
July 26, 2018

Having already looked at women's jobs in science …

S03, E14: Grimdark with Anna Smith Spark
July 12, 2018

We spoke with author Anna Smith Spark, Queen of G…

S03, E13: Women’s jobs in science fiction
June 28, 2018

With equality of pay and the drive to get more wo…

S03, E12: Toxic Masculinity
June 14, 2018

We started this podcast to highlight the issues a…