Essays on Carrie: Part 1 “Who Owns Carrie Fisher?”

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Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

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4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Caitlin and Charlotte begin a multi-part series discussing essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia from “Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia,” edited by Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk. In this episode, we discuss “Who Owns Carrie Fisher? A complicated embodiment of manufactured commodity and avatar of resistance.” by Jennifer M. Fogel. Topics include commodification, identity, gender, parasocial relationships, body image, feminism, the golden bikini outfit, and much more. Please take care as this episode handles some heavy topics referenced above. Buy the essay anthology: https://amzn.to/3JhQFgK https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers http://skytalkers.com http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod https://www.tiktok.com/@skytalkers http://facebook.com/skytalkerspod https://www.instagram.com/skytalkerspodcast http://www.twitter.com/crerrity http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher hello@skytalkers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your host, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:18.0	Hey everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin, and welcome to this episode where
0:22.2	Charlotte and I are kicking off a fun series that we've been talking about for a couple of months now.
0:29.1	So a couple of months ago, Charlotte and I saw through Twitter through our friend Sarah from the
0:35.1	podcast, Friends of the Force. She had posted about this book called Our
0:39.2	Blessed Rebel Queen. And it is an anthology of essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia.
0:45.5	And you know, Charlenea immediately hit purchase on that. And we've had the book for a couple of
0:53.0	months and we've been trying to figure out a good way to talk about it on the show.
0:58.0	And finally, we decided that we would just kind of go through each of the essays that have been compiled in this book and just kind of talk about them.
1:08.3	And we're kind of envisioning this as series that we do throughout
1:12.2	the year. It's not going to be like one right after the other. It's going to be whenever we feel
1:16.8	like covering the next essay in this book. But it's all about Carrie Fisher and her identity and
1:23.8	legacy as Princess Leia and what it means, like her impact in the world as,
1:30.2	as Carrie Fisher and also as her character, Princess Leia.
1:33.2	And we're really excited to be going through this book, actually.
1:35.6	Yeah, it felt like we really wanted to talk about these topics, which are gender, identity,
1:43.1	commodity, manufacturing, I don't know, a lot of things, right?
1:49.4	And everything that has to do with Princess Leia, female fandom and things like that.
1:54.1	Yeah, when Sarah mentioned this, I was like, what is this book?
1:56.7	We have to figure this out.
1:57.4	We have to buy this right now.
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