Pages and Prejudice

Show Notes: All tropes are innocent until poorly written. Adrie and Stitch are joined by guests Sanj Basker and Tyler McCall — co-hosts of the Radio 831 podcast from 831 Stories — for a special Trope Court episode. Each of the four participants comes prepared to deliver a full-throated legal defense of a romance trope they believe is misunderstood. After each defense, the other three deliver a ver...

Show Notes: I don’t have to like her, I understand her. Adrie and Stitch tackle the "unlikable female character" discourse head-on, tracing how fandom, publishing, and film consistently punish women and female characters for the exact same flaws that make male anti-heroes and rough heroes beloved. Drawing on academic work — from A.W. Wheaton's concept of the "rough hero" to Adriana Clavel-Vázquez'...

Show Notes: You can be bisexual, but only if you’ve never touched a man.  Adrie and Stitch tackle the endless discourse around books "mismarketed" as sapphic when their bisexual leads also sleep with men. They break down what sapphic actually means, why bi women get treated as secretly straight (or not queer enough), and how "gold star" purity tests and political lesbianism collapse into tran...

Show Notes: My man, my man, my man… is trying to kill me. Adrie and Stitch are joined by pop culture critic and video essayist Princess Weekes to dig into the enemies-to-lovers trope across anime, fanfic, and romance publishing. They trace their earliest ships (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Dramione, SwanQueen), argue about what modern romance gets wrong when it "mismarkets" itself as enemies to...

Show Notes: If I had a nickel for every time someone reduced the entirety of the romance genre to “smut,” I’d have enough money to be my own billionaire book boyfriend. Adrie and Stitch dig into the TikTok discourse around "smut," "fairy porn," and romantasy — a conversation that starts with why Adrie hates the word smut and ends with a rigorous taxonomy of romance, erotic romance, erotica, and po...

Show Notes: Enemies to lovers, fake dating, one bed – go girl, give me… the entire story. Adrie and Stitch dive into the world of romance marketing — specifically, the increasingly common practice of selling books through exhaustive trope lists rather than traditional publishing shorthand. They trace how genre conventions evolved from Jane Austen to bodice rippers to the algorithm-driven Canva gra...

Show Notes: Everyone hates alpha-holes until the hero is a 7-foot tall, genetically modified war criminal being held captive in a secret underground lab. Content Warning: This episode includes frank discussions of dubious consent, non-consent, and other fraught power and relationship dynamics.  Adrie and Stitch dive into the world of prison romance — a subgenre of romance and dark erotica cen...

Show Notes: Maybe he’s hiding emotional trauma, maybe it’s Maybelline. Stitch and Adrie dive into the world of masked man romance — a subgenre of dark romance and erotica centered on men (and occasionally other entities) who conceal their faces. Stitch, newly obsessed with the trope, breaks down its defining elements: the kinks involved (stalking, primal play, sex clubs, consensual non-consent), t...

Show Notes: I am a freak and I am proud. Why are so many fans hiding their AO3 bookmarks, running private accounts, and apologizing for what they love? In this episode of Pages & Prejudice, Stitch and Adrie Rose dig into the culture of shame, guilt, and fear that has taken over fandom spaces — and why it's making everyone miserable. Drawing on cultural anthropology, Ruth Benedict's guilt/shame...

Show Notes: Go forth and live your best trope! Adrie and Stitch sit down with Maggie North, Canadian author and anesthesiologist, to discuss her latest novel Fossil Feud — an almost second-chance, contemporary romance set against the world of citizen science and paleontology. They talk about the science and history baked into the book, why romance deserves more credit as an intellectual pursuit, w...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Another Bad Salad (@anotherbadsald on tiktok and youtube) aka the Bob’s Burger’s lady It’s not a phase mom...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Leave room for Jesus, but it’s a 20 year old virgin on tiktok. Adrie and Stitch dig into how purity culture is mak...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com .  Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) And what if I said erotica is a social good? From ukiyo-e erotica and Tijuana Bibles to webtoons and Kicksta...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com .  Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Ella Dawson (@brosandprose on bsky and instagram) is an NYC-based sex and culture critic and the aut...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com .  Buy merch on Threadless to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Unfortunately, romance wouldn’t sell as well if the FMCs blocked the MMC every time he was annoying. Reading Recommendations: F...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com .  Buy merch on Threadless to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) The pandemic emotionally dysregulated me and all I got was this cozy romance novel. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Brown...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com .  Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) I accidentally made eye contact with Y/N and now HR is asking me to clean out my desk. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Love and Deepspace (yes, the entire mobile game) No...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com .  Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Quit tellin' everyone I"m dead! Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Highlander series by Karen Marie Moning The Love at Stake series by Kerrelyn Sparks The Parasol Protec...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com .  Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) It is these damn phones. Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , support the hosts, and start some extremely awkwar...

Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University and former co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, the lar...

Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Head empty, just complaints. Reading Recommendations: Read whatever you want. Godspeed. Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in...

Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Role Playing by Cathy Yardley 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 (manga and live action show) Hot Nights at the Hot Springs, Secret Trip No. 241 by Sonoo Michiru Tokyo Story, a film by Ya...

Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Excess by Colette Rhodes Cinder’s Wolf by Sylvia Frost Desire in His Blood by Zoey Draven Terms and Conditions by...

Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO. Reading Recommendations will be in part II. Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , suppor...

Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Our gift to you is 2 hours of uncut yapping. Enjoy! Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See...