Our Flag Means Death

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In today's Queer as Fiction episode, we follow up our previous episode on historical piracy with a discussion about David Jenkins' 2022 pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death. Join us as we explore the historical figures of Major Stede Bonnet and Captain Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, discuss the evolution of pirate tropes and how they became associated with queerness, and revel in the multifaceted ways OFMD depicts its predominately queer characters. 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 Description: The poster for Season 1 of Our Flag Means Death, featuring the main cast of rough looking pirates with Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet in the centre, saluting and dressed fancily].

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Queer's Fiction, where we talk about queer historical media. I'm Jason.
0:04.1	I'm Alice, and I'm Eli. And today, in part two of our voyage through the seven seas of queer piracy,
0:09.4	we're talking about David Jenkins' 22 TV show, set during the Golden Age of Piracy, Our Flag Means Death.
0:28.8	Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the Wawandari-Woiwurung people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their
0:33.5	elders past and present. We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition
0:37.6	far older than this podcast. We also have some content warnings for this episode. These are
0:41.9	execution, gun violence, and sexual assault. If any of that sounds like something you don't want
0:46.1	to listen to, please feel free to check out one of our other episodes. Probably not the one
0:49.9	immediately prior to this one though. Which will be functionally the same content.
0:54.3	And probably worse, because most of this isn't real. Some of it is though. So I don't need to
0:59.9	tell most of you that our flag means death is pretty great. If you haven't seen it yet, it's
1:06.6	essentially a workplace comedy set on a pirate ship. Like I guess you're right.
1:16.6	Which features a diverse cast of characters, a lot of wacky misunderstandings, and a refreshingly wide array of queer characters and relationships. The leads are Reese Darby as
1:21.4	Steed Bonnet and Tycho Wittiti as Edward Blackbeard Teach. It's been renewed for a second season
1:26.9	after airing earlier this
1:28.0	year, which is very exciting and dear god of some of the cast, I'm looking at you, Nathan
1:32.4	Fode, Vico Ortiz, and Con O'Neill, been driving the fan base into a frenzy with their love
1:36.9	of the fan art and engagement with the community, especially the queer community.
1:40.8	Now this may seem pretty natural. Black Sales was a popular show from 2014 to 2017, featuring
1:45.8	prominent queer pirates, and even before that, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies always
1:49.8	had a fairly prominent queer fan base. Kieran really goes so goddamn hard in those movies.
1:54.3	I love her so much.
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