Burst Your Bubble

A podcast about -isms and -phobias in pop culture.

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EP63 - The Queer Coded Villain and Sounding Gay

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EP63 - Long before we saw multidimensional LGBTQ characters in pop culture, The Hays Code regulated movies. Homosexual storylines didn't meet the moral standards, and as a result queer characters would be coded into the films. But what does it mean to be queer coded, and what does it mean for stereotypes?

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Art by Jeremy Ferris.

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EP57 - The Orientalist History (and Future) of Aladdin

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EP57 - Disney's 1992 Aladdin is a childhood classic. Growing up I know it was one of my favorites - but it's important to talk about the story from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and how its orientalist views later influenced any and all adaptations of Aladdin (and yes, that includes Disney's).

You can find the full episode script here.

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

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EP49 - The Three Little Pigs and What We Can Learn from History

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We can probably all think of examples of stereotypes in pop culture, but what happens when the original content is edited multiple times and years apart, changing the stereotype and erasing what we previously saw and heard. Is that change good or bad, and how does it shape our understanding and knowledge of history?

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

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