Intersectional fandom
Mar. 19th, 2019 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jkatkinaAnd after a solid week of being sick, I'm back. Apologies to everyone whose comments I just didn't reply to -- I've spent an alarming amount of the past seven days fetal on the couch with a fever, and then making preparations for next Saturday (which I will tell you about afterwards, and is fairly large).
I've been rewarded with epic sunshine for my recovery, at least. It's beginning to feel legitimately like spring here and I cannot get enough.
So I've been listening to a new podcast at work called Treks and the City. It's brilliantly named -- you get almost everything you need to know about it from that name. It's two ladies, Trek fans, who listen to episodes of TNG and shoot the shit about them with each other and a guest. But as they would say it, it's not just Trek, it's Trek and the City -- and just like the other show the name riffs on, they're constantly off talking about their lives, their experiences, TMI stuff and everything, in addition to Star Trek. They're unapologetic. They're often off-topic and brook that as a feature, rather than a bug.
They also look at TNG (and with their Patreon, other Treks) from a feminist and particularly woman-centric point of view, as well as from a point of view of multiculturalism and the connective tissue of marginalized identity between. One host is a straight white comedian, the other is a bi (I think) Venezuelan-American comedian who is, over the course of the early podcast, converting to Judaism. I tend to come at things largely from a queer perspective myself, rarely from a specifically female perspective, and from a not-very-nuanced white perspective -- and hearing their voices on this thing I've loved so long is fascinating.
It's also forced me to wrestle with some internal biases. I have a complicated relationship with gender, particularly with being female -- I don't feel very female, and I think that's led to an antagonism in me to things that other women seem to share so easily. I've had to check myself for judging the way that they speak to one another and the way that they engage with a whole web of topics at a time rather than just carrying on in a linear and logical manner. There are some episodes I've really hated -- one in particular with a guest who didn't watch the episode at all and seeemed to try and cover by being as gross as possible, a couple others that just fell flat. Largely, however, I've grown to really enjoy witnessing the way these two women share with each other and their guests their love of TNG, because it's changed my own understanding of the breadth of people to which this show appeals. Their joy overwhelms and is so clear. Their earnestness is bright and unapologetic without being trite.
There are a billion Star Trek podcasts out there to enjoy, and almost as many devoted specifically to TNG. But Treks and the City provides a perspective that I would consider pretty unique and worthwhile among them.
I've been rewarded with epic sunshine for my recovery, at least. It's beginning to feel legitimately like spring here and I cannot get enough.
So I've been listening to a new podcast at work called Treks and the City. It's brilliantly named -- you get almost everything you need to know about it from that name. It's two ladies, Trek fans, who listen to episodes of TNG and shoot the shit about them with each other and a guest. But as they would say it, it's not just Trek, it's Trek and the City -- and just like the other show the name riffs on, they're constantly off talking about their lives, their experiences, TMI stuff and everything, in addition to Star Trek. They're unapologetic. They're often off-topic and brook that as a feature, rather than a bug.
They also look at TNG (and with their Patreon, other Treks) from a feminist and particularly woman-centric point of view, as well as from a point of view of multiculturalism and the connective tissue of marginalized identity between. One host is a straight white comedian, the other is a bi (I think) Venezuelan-American comedian who is, over the course of the early podcast, converting to Judaism. I tend to come at things largely from a queer perspective myself, rarely from a specifically female perspective, and from a not-very-nuanced white perspective -- and hearing their voices on this thing I've loved so long is fascinating.
It's also forced me to wrestle with some internal biases. I have a complicated relationship with gender, particularly with being female -- I don't feel very female, and I think that's led to an antagonism in me to things that other women seem to share so easily. I've had to check myself for judging the way that they speak to one another and the way that they engage with a whole web of topics at a time rather than just carrying on in a linear and logical manner. There are some episodes I've really hated -- one in particular with a guest who didn't watch the episode at all and seeemed to try and cover by being as gross as possible, a couple others that just fell flat. Largely, however, I've grown to really enjoy witnessing the way these two women share with each other and their guests their love of TNG, because it's changed my own understanding of the breadth of people to which this show appeals. Their joy overwhelms and is so clear. Their earnestness is bright and unapologetic without being trite.
There are a billion Star Trek podcasts out there to enjoy, and almost as many devoted specifically to TNG. But Treks and the City provides a perspective that I would consider pretty unique and worthwhile among them.
