Episode 025: Kitty Pryde (feat. Stephanie Burt)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 212 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In Episode 25 of CEREBRO, Connor and Harvard Professor of English Stephanie Burt sail the high seas with Captain Kate Pryde, Red Queen of the Hellfire Trading Company! Best known as Kitty Pryde or Shadowcat, Kate is the protagonist of much of the classic Claremont run, and has endured as a fan favorite. As the first explicitly Jewish superhero at Marvel Comics, she has often been the lens through which the minority metaphor of the X-Men was most often refracted.

The CEREBRO character file on Kate Pryde begins at 1:01:48.

(Content Advisory: Kate's story includes grooming of a minor, suicide, torture, antisemitism, rape of another character, a weird alien pregnancy plot, and genocides including the Holocaust.)

Our Sponsors: * Check out Uncommon Goods: https://uncommongoods.com/CEREBRO Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If they all finally get to say on page,
0:02.0	we fuck other girls,
0:03.2	which like they haven't been allowed to do
0:05.1	for 40 years,
0:06.5	then you know what?
0:07.9	Let's let them fuck a whole bunch of girls,
0:09.5	in my opinion.
0:10.6	X-Men, X-Men.
0:13.8	In the 21st century,
0:15.8	people mutants led by Magneto
0:17.5	aimed to destroy the world.
0:22.6	Only hope is X-Men.
0:29.0	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:35.3	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.
0:37.3	And with me today is Dr.
0:38.4	Stephanie Burt, professor of English at Harvard University, a literary critic and poet, once hailed by
0:43.7	the New York Times as one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.
0:48.2	Stephanie, how are you today? I am doing pretty well, and I am super honored to be on Cerebro. I'm sort of melting a little bit.
0:58.7	I'm thrilled to have you. Certainly the first Harvard professor I've had on. Harvard is, it looms large in my mind because my parents met at Harvard Law School.
1:07.2	Oh. Yeah. There was always like, are you going to go to law school? And I was like, no,
1:11.0	because I won't get into Harvard. And then it'll be weird because you guys met there.
1:16.2	Also, I didn't want to be a lawyer. But yeah, the initial concern was embarrassment.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Connor Goldsmith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Connor Goldsmith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.