S08.02: Feminism in Romance with Adriana Herrera
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4.9 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Our fave, Adriana Herrera, is with us this week to talk about feminism, romance, and how the two intersect. We talk about the history of the genre, about the evolution of feminism within it, and about what we want from the texts we're reading now, as the world does whatever it is it's doing. Oh, and we recommend some feminist romance, because of course we do.
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Notes
Welcome back to the podcast, Adriana Herrera. Her first time on the podcast was way back in Season One, talking about Bowen and Mariketa, and then there were all these other times we’ve talked with her or about her books. Her latest project is the After the End kickstarter, which was just ending as this podcast aired. But you might be able to get in on it for a few more days if you act fast.
Choice feminism isn’t the way, even if you’re Charlotte from Sex in the City… why did Jen think it was Samantha? Because memory is weird, okay.
In 2025, the New York Times reports that 350k Black women have lost their jobs and the goal of the administration broadly seems to be resegregation.
We recommend books about feminism below, from beginner to advanced. But we’ve also collected some web-based resources you might want to check out:
- The Race to Innocence: watch this TikTok or read this 1998 paper by Fellows & Razack which first defined the phenomenon. Intersectionality: This idea was first defined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. You can read more about the basics of intersectionality here, here, or
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, Adriana Herrera. I don't even know how many episodes you've been on now. It's a lot. |
| 0:07.0 | You're a whole crew of pink ladies all by yourself. I know. I know. I'm like a season now. |
| 0:13.3 | We could just pull out those episodes, run them as like the Adriana season, the Adriana season, the Adriatic hunt. |
| 0:21.2 | That sounds delightful, actually. |
| 0:23.2 | That sounds so nice. |
| 0:25.6 | But this is very exciting. |
| 0:28.1 | We're so excited to have you. |
| 0:29.3 | It's the beginning of season eight. |
| 0:31.6 | You have been certainly on an episode every season at least. |
| 0:36.0 | So thanks for being with us all this time. |
| 0:41.6 | I am very happy to be here. |
| 0:43.0 | I was actually talking to someone the other day |
| 0:44.5 | about the first time I was on this. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh, it was Alexis Darya because she had never read Immorals after Dark. |
| 0:50.5 | Imagine. |
| 0:51.7 | And no. |
| 0:52.5 | Blasphemy. |
| 0:59.0 | And so. And she's a paranormal reader. She is, but she hadn't. I think she tried to read them like a while ago and started with the first one, which, you know, I always say... |
| 1:04.7 | You have to be willing to just go with God on the first one. Yes. I always say, you got to start |
| 1:10.3 | those paranormal series for the 2000s on the second |
| 1:13.1 | book and go back. |
| 1:14.4 | But anyway, she started it and then has been listening to the episodes as she goes. |
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