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

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


Latest Episodes

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…

S03, E11: Women’s ghost stories with Melissa Edmundson Makala
May 31, 2018

Ghost literature written by women in the 19th cen…

S03, E10: Idealised characters and Mary Sues
May 17, 2018

Mary Sues are idealised characters with no real f…

S03, E09: Fighting oppression with Paige L Christie
May 03, 2018

We ask Paige L Christie about sacrificial tropes,…

S03, E08: Describing women with Gwen C Katz
April 19, 2018

Why is it such a problem that men write poor desc…

S03, E07: Jeanne Cavelos on teaching genre writing
April 05, 2018

Can writing be taught? Why go to a genre-specific…

S03, E06: Fantasy, nostalgia, and working for hire with David Tallerman
March 22, 2018

Charlotte interviews writer David Tallerman about…

S03, E04: Violence as climactic conflict
February 22, 2018

Do science fiction, fantasy, and horror narrative…

S03, E03: The Bechdel-Wallace test
February 08, 2018

For over 30 years we have used the Bechdel-Wallac…