Reframing Courtney Love: Fighting Gender Bias in Pop Culture with Lisa Whittington-Hill

Reframeables

This week on Reframeables, we spoke with author Lisa Whittington-Hill about her new book Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture is Failing Women. With Lisa, we jumped right in with a discussion about female rage, considered the failings of media for middle age women and teenage girls, and shared some nostalgic memories of Courtney Love — who Lisa has defended loudly enough to get her thrown out of parties. We are unhappy with the misogyny that is baked into pop culture and social media, but we are happy to have conversations with someone like Lisa who is doing work to interrupt it.
Lisa Whittington-Hill is a writer based in Toronto, Canada. Her work has appeared in Longreads, The Walrus, Hazlitt, Catapult, and more. She is also the publisher of This Magazine, a progressive magazine of politics, ideas, and culture, and teaches in the publishing program at Centennial College.
Links:
Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture is Failing Women
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章节

1. This week's episode (00:00:00)

2. How we love to see women fail (00:01:29)

3. Female rage in grunge (00:06:13)

4. Calling a space progressive doesn't make it so (00:11:40)

5. Representations of middle-aged women in pop culture (00:13:52)

6. Nostalgia and media focus (00:17:57)

7. Interrupting these narratives (00:23:21)

8. Defending Courtney Love (00:27:30)

9. Pop culture framing narratives around mental health (00:29:00)

10. Who's next for a redemption arc (00:35:10)

11. We don't want to talk about women's art (00:36:20)

12. Navigating the mundane (00:38:16)

13. Speed round (00:42:09)

14. Wrapping up (00:44:55)