We’re Bitches on Comics and we’re creating a podcast to make comics more welcoming and friendly, particularly for LGBTQ folks and women readers. Bitches wanted.
Hosted by Sara Century, S.E. Fleenor, and Monika Estrella Negra with sound editing by Kate Warner, Bitches on Comics is a podcast with bimonthly interviews featuring LGBTQ+ folks and women comic, fiction, and pop culture creators and critics. In recognition of our unique perspectives and welcoming nature, we’ve been named a “Best Comic Book Podcast” by Book Riot, Screen Rant, The Mary Sue, Comic Book Herald, and Comic Book Couples Counseling. (Don’t take our word for it! Read our press and reviews.)
We’ve interviewed the likes of Rachel Pollack (Doom Patrol, Unquenchable Fire, Tarot for Magical Times), adrienne maree brown (Grievers, Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy), Stephanie Williams (Nubia and the Amazons, Living Heroes, But What If Though), MariNaomi (Life on Earth trilogy, Turning Japanese), Gabby Rivera (Marvel’s America, Juliet Takes a Breath, b.b. free), Emma Veronique Houxbois (Transcription, Comicosity writer), the good folks of WWAC (Women Write About Comics), Amy Chu (Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life an Death, Green Lantern), Ria Brodell (Butch Heroes), Anthony Oliveira (Marvel’s Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling), Bianca Xunise (Six Chix), Aiden Thomas (NYT Bestseller Cemetery Boys), Tina Horn (SFSX, host of Why Are People Into That?), and many others. Our conversations invariably entertain, educate, and delight as we talk to the people who make and/or critique some of our favorite queer and feminist comics and fiction.
Our whole goal is to include more folks in the comic book world and to help newer readers find comics they’ll love–with no shade for being new.
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We Are…
Sara Century (she/her) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker who is obsessed with most things. She is good at speaking in public, working for most hours of her waking life, and saying quotable things in casual conversation.
You can find Sara’s webcomic with Tana Thornock at http://www.thevolatileanesthetic.com
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S.E. Fleenor (they/them) writes novels, creative non-fiction, and articles centering on feminism, queer identities, pop culture, and literature. Their writing has appeared in Vice, Electric Literature, them.us, Upworthy, The Muse, and Class Lives: Stories from Across the Economic Divide. They regularly write for SYFY WIRE’s feminist vertical, FANGRRLS, and Daily Xtra. Feisty, sometimes angry, sometimes funny, but always bringing realness, S.E. is ecstatic to share their love of comics with audiences that have historically been excluded, particularly LGBTQ folks and women readers.
Learn more about S.E. at: sefleenor.com or on Twitter @se_fleenor
Monika Estrella Negra (she/her) is a freelance journalist, filmmaker and curator of all things radical in media. Her first short titled “Flesh” is about a Black femme serial killer navigating the Chicago DIY punk scene (of which was included in the ‘Horror Noire’ syllabus). She has directed three additional shorts, ‘They Will Know You By Your Fruit’, ‘Succubus’, and the in production ‘Bitten, A Tragedy’. A writer, a nomadic priestess, spiritual gangster and all around rabblerouser – Monika has written essays for Syfy Fangrrls, Black Girl Nerds, Grimm Magazine, Black Girls Create, Black Youth Project, Wear Your Voice Magazine, Rue Morgue, Fangoria and is the author of a zine series (Tales From My Crypt). In addition, she is the creator of Audre’s Revenge Film and Black and Brown Punk Show Chicago, a GRRL Haus Cinema Resident Filmmaker (2019) and is aspiring to become a Meme Lord. Hailing from the Midwest, she now resides in Philadelphia.
Learn more about Monika on her Authory site or her film site Audre’s Revenge and find her on Twitter at @negramonika1
Kate Warner (she/her/they/them) is a music producer, performer, A/V technician and sound engineer. She is addicted to Star Trek and video games, and fixes electronic things sometimes.
You can listen to their solo project Mirror Fears at https://mirrorfears.bandcamp.com/ or the band they currently perform with, church fire, at https://churchfire.bandcamp.com/
Find Kate on Twitter @soundbs4u
Theme music is written and recorded by Katy Taylor, who plays as Earth Control Pill. You can listen to more at https://earthcontrolpill.bandcamp.com/
Branding and logo design by Emma Mallinen https://emmamallinen.com/