Pages and Prejudice

About Pages and Prejudice

Welcome to Pages & Prejudice — your new favourite podcast exploring the best, worst, and most blush-worthy corners of the romance genre. Hosted by Stitch and Adrie Rose, two black femmes with academic chops and the psychological damage of unrestricted internet access, this show dives deep into romance fiction and media with critical insight, sharp humour, and a whole lot of heart. Whether you’re a diehard fan, or just romance-curious, join us for lively conversations on everything from tropes and trending titles to fanfiction, social media, cultural analysis, and sex-positive takes that challenge and charm. Pages & Prejudice isn’t just about love stories — it’s about loving stories enough to ask better questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Adrie Rose, Stitch

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Apr 2024

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

80 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   E80: Trope Court with Sanj Basker and Tyler McCall

   Show Notes: All tropes are innocent until poorly written. Adrie and Stitch are joined by guests Sanj Basker and Tyler McCall — co-hosts of the Radio 831 podcast from 831 Stories — for a special Trope Court episode. Each of the four participants comes prepared to deliver a full-throated legal defense of a romance trope they believe is misunderstood. After each defense, the other three deliver a verdict: Guilty Pleasure, Misunderstood Masterpiece, or Case Dismissed. Topics: trope court, secret baby, category romance, contemporary romance, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, C-dramas, miscommunication, historical romance, Sherry Thomas, Emily Henry, voice-note discourse, NTR (netorare), boys love, girls love, manga, manhwa, Yotomo Min Sensei, Katee Robert, cuckolding, hot wifing, billionaire romance, chaebol romance, K-dramas, plastic surgery culture, guilty pleasure Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Nobody’s Baby but Mine but Susan Elizabeth Phillips Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas Under the Oak Tree by Suji Happy Place by Emily Henry Your Dad Will Do by Katee Robert Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre Naachan NTR: The Person I Fell in Love With Is My Childhood Friend's Father by Yotamoi Min Sensei Riho NTR: Ordered by My Husband to Get Fucked by His Colleague by Yamamoto Tomomitsu TV: Pursuit of Jade Marry My Husband What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/pagesandprejudicepod?igsh=YnlpbGRvYjdzNTg5). Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com (mailto:pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com). Buy merch on Threadless (https://pagesandprejudice.threadless.com/) or become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/cw/PagesandPrejudice) to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Sanj Basker (https://sanjanabasker.com/about/) and Tyler McCall (https://www.tylermccall.com/), co-hosts of Radio 831 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-831-a-romance-podcast/id993666762) Now you can grab some show merch (https://pagesandprejudice.threadless.com/), or become a show patron (https://www.patreon.com/cw/PagesandPrejudice), and support the hosts. Share the show (https://pod.link/1741262953r85L5IQ) with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   20 Sept 2026

   E79: I Support Women’s Wrongs - Fandom and Readers Hate Unlikeable Women

   Show Notes: I don’t have to like her, I understand her. Adrie and Stitch tackle the "unlikable female character" discourse head-on, tracing how fandom, publishing, and film consistently punish women and female characters for the exact same flaws that make male anti-heroes and rough heroes beloved. Drawing on academic work — from A.W. Wheaton's concept of the "rough hero" to Adriana Clavel-Vázquez's writing on rough heroines and imaginative resistance — they dig into why audiences eagerly forgive murderers, rapists, and misogynists (Quagmire, Hannibal, Cyril, Lestat) while turning on women for being confident, passive, horny, traumatized, or simply present (Rhaenyra, Skyler White, Julia from Cowboy Bebop, Shuri). The conversation ranges from Jane Austen's Emma to Tyler Perry's Acrimony, from Game of Thrones fandom's selective outrage to K-drama villainesses, landing on the same conclusion every time: "I support women's rights" often stops right where "and wrongs" begins. Topics: unlikable female characters, rough heroes, anti-heroes, fandom double standards, protagonists, racialized double standards in fandom, Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, Hannibal, Cowboy Bebop, Marvel/MCU, K-drama, webtoons, villainesses, misogyny in pop culture, feminist media analysis, women’s wrongs Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson The Remarried Empress by Alphatart Shards of a Broken Glass Slipper The Returned C-Rank Tank Won’t Die For My Derelict Favorite My Engagement Was Called Off Under False Accusations, but Who Ever Said My Face Was Ugly Beneath the Mask? By En Nekogawa with illustrations by Neneko Kobato Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent Famine (The Four Horseman #3) by Laura Thalassa Charmed & Dangerous (Bronwyn the Witch #1) by Candace Havens Film & TV Jessica Jones (MCU) Marry My Husband (Korean and Japanese live action on Amazon Prime Video) Malcolm in the Middle Non-Fiction: Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You To Hate by Anna Bogutskaya Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice: What Rough Heroines Tell Us about Imaginative Resistance by ADRIANA CLAVEL-VAZQUEZ Misanthropes and Monsters: Writing the Unlikeable by PJ MALLETT Rough Heroes of the New Hollywood by A. W. Eaton “Jessica Jones Doesn’t Care About Men of Colour (https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anathemamag.com%2Fjessica-jones-doesnt-care-about-men-of-colour&t=NWNlMTc3ZjQ1OTVlMjU0OTA2MGIwNDNiN2QxNDNkOWQxMDY5NTY3YyxVNGZzVERDOQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AgbTgyyTzTr0Zw3rtlvvpVw&p=http%3A%2F%2Fstitchmediamix.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F173174312339%2Fnon-fiction-jessica-jones-doesnt-care-about-men&m=0)” Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/pagesandprejudicepod?igsh=YnlpbGRvYjdzNTg5). Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com (mailto:pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com). Buy merch on Threadless (https://pagesandprejudice.threadless.com/) or become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/cw/PagesandPrejudice) to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ (https://www.silvermansound.com/free-music/holy-moly) by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch (https://pagesandprejudice.threadless.com/), or become a show patron (https://www.patreon.com/cw/PagesandPrejudice), and support the hosts. Share the show (https://pod.link/1741262953r85L5IQ) with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   13 Sept 2026

   E78: You're Not Gay Enough - Bisexuality, Sapphics, and WLW Erasure in Romance

   Show Notes: You can be bisexual, but only if you’ve never touched a man. Adrie and Stitch tackle the endless discourse around books "mismarketed" as sapphic when their bisexual leads also sleep with men. They break down what sapphic actually means, why bi women get treated as secretly straight (or not queer enough), and how "gold star" purity tests and political lesbianism collapse into transphobia. The conversation widens into heteropessimism, fandom's discomfort with femslash, the whiteness of biphobic discourse, and a eulogy-adjacent “discussion” of Gloria Steinem — before closing out with a stacked round of bisexual-lead romance recommendations. Topics: sapphic marketing, bisexual erasure, biphobia, gold star gays, political lesbianism, compulsory heterosexuality, heteropessimism, Achillean romance, M/M romance, WLW romance, Heated Rivalry, fandom shipping discourse, femslash, transphobia, How to Get Away With Murder, Annalise Keating, age-gap romance, white feminism, Gloria Steinem, poly romance, why choose romance, queer romance Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Vengefully Matched by Audrey Goldberg Ruoff Two for Tea by CM Nascosta Romancing the Werewolf by Gail Carriger Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert The Art of Three by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese Small Town Witch (https://littlefooleryshop.com/collections/small-town-witch) by Alex Singer (story) and Jayd Aït-Kaci (art) Every Kit Rocha book, basically but The Sectors (https://www.kitrocha.com/series/the-sectors/)specifically A Rational Arrangement by L Rowyn Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/pagesandprejudicepod?igsh=YnlpbGRvYjdzNTg5). Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com (mailto:pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com). Buy merch on Threadless (https://pagesandprejudice.threadless.com/) or become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/cw/PagesandPrejudice) to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ (https://www.silvermansound.com/free-music/holy-moly) by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch (https://pagesandprejudice.threadless.com/), or become a show patron (https://www.patreon.com/cw/PagesandPrejudice), and support the hosts. Share the show (https://pod.link/1741262953r85L5IQ) with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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