Exploring Star Trek through an intersectional feminist lens…. Engage!
InterTREKtional
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Exploring Star Trek through an intersectional feminist lens…. Engage!
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April 5, 2022
RERUN! She’s a Killer Queen
Hi Intertrekkies! Here’s a rerun of our ode to the Borg Queen, dedicated to all you Picard-watchers out there. And don’t worry, we’ll have a totally fresh Q ep out to you soonsoon! Repulsive yet seductive, powerful and enigmatic, the Borg Queen is one of our favorite Star Trek villains. In preparation for Star Trek: Picard, Becca and Ryan kick off InterTREKtional Season Two with this deep look at the Borg’s baddest bitch. The film Star Trek: First Contact, and Voyager episodes ”Dark Frontier” (S5:E15/16) and ”Unimatrix Zero” (S6:E26; S7:E:1) are discussed.
September 24, 2021
Queerness and Kink in the Mirror Universe
Uh-oh! You've just experienced a transporter accident, and now everyone around you looks the same but is acting very strange. Your midriff is exposed, and your coworkers are making aggressive sexual advances. Welcome to the (dun dun dunnn) Mirror Universe. Don't worry, Becca and Ryan are here to hold your hand, while we explore how queerness and kink are used as shorthand for EEEEVIL. ******Mild Spoiler Alerts for: Star Trek Mirror Universe eps, The Suicide Squad, Stargate SG1, Rick and Morty (S5E5), and Netflix's Bonding.****** What We Watched More or less, all of the Mirror Universe episodes: see Memory Alpha Reviews! Becca's Review: The Suicide Squad - tl;dr: just don't. Ryan's Review: Stargate SG1 - racist! jingoistic! fun! Queer Villainy Opinion: TV producers, stop portraying bisexuals as villains by Zachary Zane via Washington Post Many bisexual TV characters lack a moral compass. They exploit their own sexuality as a means to get ahead. They’re also unabashedly shameless in their actions, never having an ounce of remorse. It is as if, for these fictional bisexual characters, sexual fluidity equals moral fluidity. In this regard, sexuality is not seen as an identity, but rather, as a personality trait. The tropes, as identified by GLAAD (from report WHERE WE ARE ON TV 2015-16) bisexual characters who are depicted as untrustworthy, prone to infidelity, and/or lacking a sense of morality characters who use sex as a means of manipulation or who are lacking the ability to form genuine relationships associations with self-destructive behavior and treating a character’s attraction to more than one gender as a temporary plot device that is rarely addressed again Why Are So Many Bisexuals On TV Also Sociopaths? by Hannah Harris Green via BuzzFeed.News The Trope of the Evil Television Bisexual by Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic 4 Terrible Bisexuality Tropes on TV — And 4 Portrayals That Defy Them by Gillian Brown via The Body is Not An Apology Depraved Bisexual via TVTropes Kink Shaming The Generational Clash at Pride Is Actually a Sign of Progress by Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic Bondage Is Bad & Sex Is Evil via TVTropes Painful Therefore Pleasurable - Rick and Morty (clip) via YouTube
July 30, 2021
Seeking Asylum in the Trek Universe
Y'all WE DID A LIVE SHOW!!! Behold Becca and Ryan discussing asylum seekers/refugees in the universes of Trek and "the real." Recorded live as part of the IDIC Podcast Festival hosted by Women at Warp this past July 17-18, 2021. Donate to Never Again Action. Hit it. P.S. seriously check out the other podcasts in this festival, they are LEGIT What We Watched Sanctuary DS9 2x10 Short Treks S1: Brightest Star Masterpiece Society TNG 5x13 Cogenitor ENT 2x22 Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night DS9 6x17 Honorable Mentions The Disease VOY 5x17 Generations The Sound of Thunder DIS S2E6 Absolute Candor PIC 1x04 References Memory Alpha - Refugee Memory Alpha - Political asylum Migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants: What’s the difference? via International Rescue Committee Currently, there are 68.5 million men, women and children escaping war, persecution and political turbulence. These are refugees and asylum seekers. There are others who are looking for jobs or an education—they are usually called migrants—and people who want to live permanently in another country—immigrants. A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her home because of war, violence or persecution, often without warning…. An official entity such as a government or the United Nations Refugee Agency determines whether a person seeking international protection meets the definition of a refugee, based on well-founded fear. An asylum seeker is someone who is also seeking international protection from dangers in his or her home country, but whose claim for refugee status hasn’t been determined legally. America’s asylum system is broken. Here’s how Biden could fix it. by Nicole Narea via Vox Since 2014, the majority of asylum seekers arriving at the US Southern Border are from “Central America’s “Northern Triangle” — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. For years, these countries have suffered from gang violence, government corruption, extortion, and some of the highest rates of poverty and violent crime in the world. The pandemic-related economic downturn and a pair of hurricanes late last year that devastated Honduras and Guatemala, in particular, have only exacerbated those longstanding problems. Many of the migrants arriving on the southern border, sometimes in large caravans, likely felt they had no choice but to seek refuge elsewhere — as is their right under US and international law.” Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System by Brigitte Amiri via ALCU ***a government-contracted doctor repeatedly performed sterilizing procedures on women in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody without their knowledge or consent. In 2017, groups working with young immigrants discovered that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which has custody over immigrants under age 18 who come to the country without parents, had instituted a policy of blocking pregnant young people from accessing abortion care and trying to coerce them to carry pregnancies to term against their will. Numerous pregnant women detained by Border Patrol recounted being told by officers to get abortions, all while being held in crowded, unsanitary facilities with little access to food or water. During the first two years of the Trump administration, the number of undocumented women who miscarried while in government detention nearly doubled. More immigrant women say they were abused by Ice gynecologist by Victoria Bekiempis via The Guardian ***“Petitioners were victims of non-consensual, medically unindicated and/or invasive gynecological procedures, including unnecessary surgical procedures under general anesthesia, performed by and/or at the direction of [gynaecologist Dr Mahendra Amin],” the petition said. “In many instances, the medically unindicated gynecological procedures Respondent Amin performed on Petitioners amounted to sexual assault.” *** at ICE privately
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