Wanna know what the Barbie and the newest Superman movies have in common? It's more than you'd think, and we talk about it on this week's episode.

Listen to the It's A Fandom Thing Pod episode featuring yours truly, in which we discuss the sociopolitical intent and impact of James Gunn's Superman (2025) here.

Read the article from The Mary Sue mentioned here.

This week's Special Segment is On My To Be Read Pile, about the Suzanne Collins book The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes.

Bed Wed or Behead, the podcast that may or may not be dead, idk, ask Meg.

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Sometimes your favorite show will break your heart, and not in a good way. The X-Files' 11th season began with an episode that left me disgusted. So much so that I have never revisited what had been my favorite show for over 20 years. Immediately after the episode aired in 2018 I wrote a blog post detailing what had turned me off the show. Does the blog post hold up? Will revisiting it lead me to feel more comfortable dipping my toe back into the X-Phile life? Join me on this week's episode to find the answers. The truth is out there but also here. As in...in this episode.

TW/CW: Mentions of rape, lack of consent, forced impregnation.

Special Segment: Coming Soon. The 2022 book The Trees by Percival Everett is being adapted into a series and I'm very excited about the casting news!

Link to Deadline article

The Entertainment Weekly article mentioned in the reading of the blog post has been taken down (iiiinteresting) but is referenced here.

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Yeah, whatever, Zack and Kelly. MY heart ships Lisa and Zack --and I'm not alone! This week we talk about the mysteriously disappearing relation between Zack Morris and Lisa Turtle on Saved By The Bell, how racism came between them and viewers, and why Screech is as much trash as Zack.

Link to Clarissa C's video "It Sucks Being The Token Black Girl"

Link to Funny Or Die's video The Time Zack Morris Stabbed Screech In The Back To Hook Up With Lisa

Link to Diversity in Education article.

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