A League of Their Own

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today's episode covers the 1940s All American Girls Professional Baseball League, and the 2022 television series based on it, A League of Their Own. Join us for a discussion featuring shoes deemed "excessively masculine-looking", perhaps too many women named Dottie, and more "close, life-long friends and roommates" than you can shake a stick at. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. [Image: A cropped version of the poster for the 2022 TV series A League of Their Own, featuring (left to right, top to bottom) Chante Adams as Maxine Chapman, Abbi Jacobson as Carson Shaw, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance Morgan and D'Arcy Carden as Greta Gill].

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Queer's Fiction, where we talk about queer historical media.
0:04.0	I'm Jace.
0:04.6	I'm Alice.
0:05.5	And today we're talking about the 2022 TV series, A League of Their Own, based on the 1940s
0:10.5	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
0:26.0	Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the Banuong-Bunwarang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respect to their elders past and present.
0:32.1	We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:37.4	We also have some content warnings. This episode will discuss systemic racism and homicides. as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:39.1	We also have some content warnings.
0:43.9	This episode will discuss systemic racism and homophobia, homophobic violence, and involve the use of outdated terminology for both African Americans and queer people.
0:47.8	If any of that sounds like something you wouldn't want to listen to, please feel free to
0:50.6	check out one of our other episodes.
0:52.4	So the first thing I just wanted to note is that
0:54.3	obviously it's just the two of us today. Eli's not feeling very well, and Irene hasn't watched the show.
1:02.0	So it's just going to be me and Alice. So in discussing this show, I want to look at the history of the
1:06.9	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Henceforth to be referred to as the AAG PBL.
1:11.9	Yeah, I'm going to remember that for sure.
1:13.9	Look, we're going to get further into that in a little bit.
1:16.9	I then want to go into the social dynamics of the league and the real-life queer women who
1:21.7	participated in it.
1:22.7	Throughout the discussion, I'll be pointing out parallels between the history and the show.
1:27.0	So if there's anything I
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