Elly Arrow and Savannah Severn are joined by screenwriter and director Diana to dive into the first two seasons of the Netflix hit show "Bridgerton" and its treatment of the pseudo-Regency era marriage market, how the female and male characters navigate its perils respectively, and the ideas transported about love, sex(ual exploitation), patriarchy, racism, and class oppression, in due course.

Sources:

Creator Chris Van Dusen on the inspiration for Bridgerton: https://www.out.com/print/2022/3/25/how-bridgerton-was-inspired-its-gay-creators-west-hollywood-family

Bridgerton earned Netflix $350+ million dollars: https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/bridgerton-streaming-revenue-netflix

For more pop culture review, see our episode "Pretty Woman Is Darker Than You Remember".

To hear more from Diana, listen to our episode "A Look At Film Censorship, Sex Scenes and Intimacy Coordinators"

In Part 1 of "Inanna's Journey through the Underworld", we used a 5,000-year-old myth to explore how the sexual exploitation industry strips victim-survivors of all their worldly possessions, leaving us bare - materially, mentally and spiritually - and in a state of living-death.In this part 2, we learn how the Queen of Heaven and Earth, with the help of her loyal friends, is saved from the clutches of Death. But living through trauma is only half the battle. In addition to ridicule and apathy from society's power structures, we carry painful demons from our time in The Great Below. Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow discuss the work that is needed to support victim-survivors as we re-enter society.

Andrea Heinz interviews Céline Manon Martin about the mutual vulnerabilities that led them into the sexual exploitation industry, the impact of entertainment media on entering prostitution, and Céline’s previous pro-industry advocacy. Together, they reflect on how much they’ve changed in their understanding of self-love and self-respect, and how collective liberation should replace self-abandonment and hyperindividualism.

Links:

Céline Manon Martin's website: https://gracetosee.com/celine/

Céline Manon Martin's Substack: https://gracetosee.substack.com/

Céline Manon Martin's Twitter: https://x.com/celinemanon_

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