We talk about the highs and lows of The Alloy of Law, our first foray into Mistborn Era 2.
Next month we'll be reading The Eleventh Metal and H.A.R.R.E, Episode Airs: May 31st
Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, arranged marriages, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, classism, death, decapitation, discussion of rape, discussion of sexuality, domestic violence, enemies to lovers, eugenic breeding, eugenics, fatphobia, gaslighting, genocide, hallucinations, homophobia, human sacrifice, insanity, maiming, mind control, misogyny, murder, mutation, mutilation, racism, rape, references to Nazis, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, sexual assault, sexual violence, slavery, spousal death, stabbing, sterilization, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, undeath, wounds and infection
Corrections: Grant Morrison's pronouns are They/Them, many apologies for misgendering them.
Correction 2: Folks on the autism spectrum are moving away from the term "Asperger's Syndrome" for a multitude of reasons, one of which being the originator of the term was a nazi scientist.
Things Mentioned:
Grant Morrison's X-Men
A Game of Thrones
Grant Morrison's The Invisibles (Sympathy for the Henchman)
Necropolitics - Achille Mbembe https://muse.jhu.edu/article/39984
Society Must be Defended - Michelle Foucault (Biopolitics)
Dicipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
Rykers Island https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/nyregion/kalief-browder-held-at-rikers-island-for-3-years-without-trial-commits-suicide.html
This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.
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