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Send us Fan Mail We're topping off our coverage of the Frameline Film Festival with a hilarious animated comedy, and a documentary about a Bay Area legend. Lesbian Space Princess is an animated film about a space princess who is thrust out of her sheltered life into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens. Co-directors/co-writers Emma Hough Hob...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're bringing you two documentaries that celebrate the spirit of the Frameline Film Festival . We Are Pat explores gender identity and comedy through the lens of the SNL skit It's Pat , as explored by trans and non binary comedians and writers. Director Rowan Haber joins us to discuss the many different (and surprising) reactions to It's Pat within the queer...

Send us Fan Mail We're excited to welcome back Frameline Film Festival 's executive director, Allegra Madsen ! As we celebrate the 49th anniversary of the country's longest running and largest LGBTQ+ film festival, she shares some film and party highlights to look forward to, the urgency of this moment as funding attacks threaten to erase our values and our stories, and why being in...

Send us Fan Mail Sally is now available to stream on Disney+, Hulu, and National Geographic! Sally documents the secret life of Sally Ride , the first American woman to blast off into space, uncovering what it was like to be a woman in a male dominated industry, and why she chose to hide her partner of 27 years. We sat down with director (and return guest !) Cristina Costantini to dive into her ob...

Send us Fan Mail If you need some healing and comfort right now, this episode is for you. adrienne maree brown is a writer, social justice leader, witch, healer and meme queen. She returns with us to discuss the release of the final book in her Grievers Triology, Ancestors , but this conversation turns into so much more. We dive into her favorite and newest role as aunt, how she stays positive and...

Send us Fan Mail We're proud to announce that starting today (June 11th, 2025), San Francisco officially has a women's sports bar! Rikki's is located in the iconic Castro district, and we got a sneak peak at the spot during their soft opening over the weekend. From the food, to the cocktails, to the company, this spot has it all!  We sat down with co-owners Danielle Thoe and Sara Ye...

Send us Fan Mail If you're in need of a good laugh, this episode for you! We're continuing our Tribeca Film Festival coverage with two short films that interestingly reference the use of hands in magical ways. Apocalypse Besties shares a day in the life of two friends who accidentally survive an apocalypse and decide they must remove each other's IUD's in order to repopulate th...

Send us Fan Mail It's the Tribeca Film Festival 2025 and we've got two powerful short films that center around the beautiful ways in which people finding meaning in life. In How I Learned to Die , 16 year old Iris finds out in 4 days she has a 60% chance of dying, so she decides to live it up. Director/writer Manya Glassman shares how the story is based on her real life experience, havin...

Send us Fan Mail The Grocery List Show , hosted by Top Chef contender Chrissy Camba , explores five different international grocery stores and the communities they serve, ending in a shared meal with a home cooked family recipe. Director Emily Strong and host Chrissy Camba join Ange to discuss their favorite aisles in the grocery store, learning to cook from our grandmothers, and the magic of inte...

Send us Fan Mail We are excited to highlight the first ever Resistance of Vision festival, a traveling festival of social justice cinema. If your response to this is "fuck yeah", same. We sit down virtually with Director of Programming Anna Feder to discuss the festival's four main pillars of activism, why she decided not to include films about electoral politics, and what it takes...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) Fest ! We're on the red carpet for a film of the Broadway play Yellow Face . The play was written by David Henry Hwang (and is semi-autobiographical), about an American playwright who protests "yellowface" casting in the musical "Miss Saigon", only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his o...

Send us Fan Mail We're focusing on a documentary at the SFFilm Festival that highlights some of the beautiful change makers in the heart of the Bay. The Chaplain & the Doctor shares the story of two unlikely allies who are tackling a broken healthcare system with curiosity, compassion and connection. We are joined by director/participant Dr. Jessica Zitter , and Chaplain Betty Clark to di...

Send us Fan Mail We're proud to kick off our SFFilm 2025 coverage with a very Bay centered short film! After What Happened at the Library is a fictional story based on the real events that took place in 2022 when Kyle Casey Chu , a drag queen, was attacked by Proud Boys spouting homophobic and transphobic slurs at the popular Drag Story Hour at the San Lorenzo Library . We're joined by c...

Send us Fan Mail Coming at you on location from the SFFilm lounge, we talk meeting famous crushes and musical icons, Captain Party's cameo on the news, Erin's newest famous nemesis, Benihana birthdays, and being honored at SFFilm's Essential SF Program. Then we cap off the episode with our newest segment, This Bitch .  Support the show Thanks for listening and for your support! We c...

Send us Fan Mail Get ready, because we're capping off our SXSW 2025 coverage with a bang! Brother Versus Brother is a one-shot musical film in which twin brothers wander the streets of San Francisco in search of their missing father, guided by music and historic Beat Generation landmarks. Brothers/stars of the film/director and composer (respectively) Ari Gold and Ethan Gold join us to sing s...

Send us Fan Mail We’re bringing you two SXSW 2025 short films that we absolutely loved! The Singers takes place in a lonely dive bar where an impromptu sing-off will determine the best singer in town. Director Sam A. Davis shares what inspired him to adapt this short story into film, casting first time actors via viral videos on social media, and our shared connection through art and vulnerability...

Send us Fan Mail We are celebrating SXSW 2025 with two short documentary films about big topics. Red Sands shares the story of an off-road culture that thrives along the notorious border of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Mexico. Director Romina Cenisio and cinematographer/producer ( and returning guest! ) Sean Mattison join us to discuss showing a different side of border towns that include levit...

Send us Fan Mail It's Freaky Fridays at Bitch Talk because we're celebrating the theatrical release of Freaky Tales with our exclusive red carpet coverage at the Oakland premiere of the film at none other than the Grand Lake Theatre!  Freaky Tales tells four interwoven stories set in 1987 Oakland. It's a love letter to Oakland, and we're bringing you a lineup of Oakland legends...

Send us Fan Mail We are celebrating SXSW 2025 with a feature length film and a narrative short that both deal with topics of death in a very different (and often hilarious) way. Dead Lover is a horror comedy that tells the story of a lonely gravedigger who stinks of dead people so badly, that she is willing to do anything in her power to have (and keep) a lover. We were joined by director/co-write...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to SXSW 2025! Today’s episode celebrates two beautifully shot short films with different messages about family and community. Grandma’s Four Color Cards follows a 101 year-old woman in Saigon as she runs nightly card games with her friends, and is supported by the people in her community. Director Sally Tran joined us to discuss how everyone in the film was cast to pl...

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing our SXSW 2025 coverage with two documentaries centering around the strength of a mother. MOLA: A Tibetan Tale of Love and Loss , chronicles the life of Kunsang Wangmo (aka "Mola"), a 100 year-old Tibetan nun who was exiled from Tibet in 1959 and, after celebrating her 100th birthday, dreams of dying in "the religious paradise of Tibet". Co...

Send us Fan Mail O'Dessa is a post apocalyptic rock opera about a farm girl who goes on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom. We chatted virtually with director/writer (and return guest !) Geremy Jasper about his thoughts on auto-tune, modeling a character after Grace Jones , and the beauty of gender fluidity. O'Dessa is streaming now on Hulu ! Follow O'Dessa on IG S...

Send us Fan Mail We're on location at SXSW 2025 with a spicy red carpet for The Threesome , a film that shares the mess that happens when an alluring stranger is romantically added to a happy couple. In this episode you'll hear some of the film's lead actors wax poetic on the topic of relationships and sex. Tommy Do describes his ideal pre-threesome meal, Arden Myrin shares her drea...

Send us Fan Mail Warning: this episode is delirious AF. Your bitches kicked March off with a trip to NOLA for Erin's bday/Mardi Gras, and then drove ten hours to Austin to cover the SXSW festival! Erin and Ange sit down at a bar in Austin, Texas, to catch you up on why New Orleans continues to be their favorite city in the world, and what exciting things they have in store for you coming out...

Send us Fan Mail We're concluding our coverage of Slamdance 2025 with two very timely documentaries that reiterate the need for empathy and activism. Silent Trees follows 16 year-old Runa after the death of her mother on the Polish-Belarusian border as she has to become a mother for her 4 younger brothers. Director Agnieszka Zweifka shares how starting as an activist in the refugee camp led h...