Xena (& Gabrielle) The Warrior Princess (with Sara Century)
2h 36m | Sep 9, 2026Video Episode 5
A Queer Retrospective of Xena The Warrior Princess (& Gabrielle)
Ringing in September with the long awaited Xenasode! I'm joined by returning guest Best Issue Ever's Sara Century!
This SUPERSIZED episode features discussion of:
- A brief history of lesbianism on television
- A queer history of 90s television
- Birth of the slashfic
- Xena as a queer historical text
- Why Lucy Lawless & Renee O'Conner will always be gay famous
- Why Xena did it first
- Leather & Lesbians
- Butch queers exist
- WHOOSH
- Revengence
- Worst Ex Girlfriend
- Rural Queers
- Callisto, ally?
- Syndication, serialisation, long form storytelling, spin offs.
- Sam Raimi
- R.J. Stewart
- Rob Tapert
- Liz Friedman
- Bruce Campbell!
- Karl Urban!
- Hercules The Legendary Journeys and Kevin Sorbo (flop)
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Lord of the Rings
- Wire-Fu
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- My Name is Earl (?)
- Context, subtext and subtext in context
- "Subtext" queers
- The glee effect
- FRIENDS
- Embracing the 'problematic'
- Pacifism
- Sara and Khaliden's Top 4 'Xena the Warrior Princess' episodes for newcomers!
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Original podcast Artwork by Valentine M. Smith.
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