Pages and Prejudice

Welcome to Pages & Prejudice — your new favourite podcast exploring the best, worst, and most blush-worthy corners of the romance genre. Hosted by Stitch and Adrie Rose, two black femmes with academic chops and the psychological damage of unrestricted internet access, this show dives deep into romance fiction and media with critical insight, sharp humour, and a whole lot of heart. Whether you’re a diehard fan, or just romance-curious, join us for lively conversations on everything from tropes and trending titles to fanfiction, social media, cultural analysis, and sex-positive takes that challenge and charm. Pages & Prejudice isn’t just about love stories — it’s about loving stories enough to ask better questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pages and Prejudice is a arts podcast hosted by Adrie Rose, Stitch, with 79 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Adrie Rose, Stitch hosts Pages and Prejudice, a arts show with 79 episodes published.

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  Episode #20

  E80: Trope Court with Sanj Basker and Tyler McCall

  Sep 27, 20261h 27mS4

  Show Notes: All tropes are innocent until poorly written. Adrie and Stitch are joined by guests Sanj Basker and Tyler McCall — co-hosts of the Radio 831 podcast from 831 Stories — for a special Trope Court episode. Each of the four participants comes prepared to deliver a full-throated legal defense of a romance trope they believe is misunderstood. After each defense, the other three deliver a verdict: Guilty Pleasure, Misunderstood Masterpiece, or Case Dismissed.  Topics: trope court, secret baby, category romance, contemporary romance, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, C-dramas, miscommunication, historical romance, Sherry Thomas, Emily Henry, voice-note discourse, NTR (netorare), boys love, girls love, manga, manhwa, Yotomo Min Sensei, Katee Robert, cuckolding, hot wifing, billionaire romance, chaebol romance, K-dramas, plastic surgery culture, guilty pleasure Reading Recommendations:  Fiction: Nobody’s Baby but Mine but Susan Elizabeth Phillips Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas Under the Oak Tree by Suji Happy Place by Emily Henry Your Dad Will Do by Katee Robert Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre Naachan NTR: The Person I Fell in Love With Is My Childhood Friend's Father by Yotamoi Min Sensei Riho NTR: Ordered by My Husband to Get Fucked by His Colleague by Yamamoto Tomomitsu TV: Pursuit of Jade Marry My Husband What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Sanj Basker and Tyler McCall , co-hosts of Radio 831 Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , and support the hosts. Share the show with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #19

  E79: I Support Women’s Wrongs - Fandom and Readers Hate Unlikeable Women

  Sep 20, 20261h 12mS4

  Show Notes: I don’t have to like her, I understand her. Adrie and Stitch tackle the "unlikable female character" discourse head-on, tracing how fandom, publishing, and film consistently punish women and female characters for the exact same flaws that make male anti-heroes and rough heroes beloved. Drawing on academic work — from A.W. Wheaton's concept of the "rough hero" to Adriana Clavel-Vázquez's writing on rough heroines and imaginative resistance — they dig into why audiences eagerly forgive murderers, rapists, and misogynists (Quagmire, Hannibal, Cyril, Lestat) while turning on women for being confident, passive, horny, traumatized, or simply present (Rhaenyra, Skyler White, Julia from Cowboy Bebop, Shuri). The conversation ranges from Jane Austen's Emma to Tyler Perry's Acrimony, from Game of Thrones fandom's selective outrage to K-drama villainesses, landing on the same conclusion every time: "I support women's rights" often stops right where "and wrongs" begins. Topics: unlikable female characters, rough heroes, anti-heroes, fandom double standards, protagonists, racialized double standards in fandom, Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, Hannibal, Cowboy Bebop, Marvel/MCU, K-drama, webtoons, villainesses, misogyny in pop culture, feminist media analysis, women’s wrongs Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson The Remarried Empress by Alphatart Shards of a Broken Glass Slipper  The Returned C-Rank Tank Won’t Die For My Derelict Favorite My Engagement Was Called Off Under False Accusations, but Who Ever Said My Face Was Ugly Beneath the Mask? By En Nekogawa with illustrations by Neneko Kobato Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent Famine (The Four Horseman #3) by Laura Thalassa Charmed & Dangerous (Bronwyn the Witch #1) by Candace Havens Film & TV Jessica Jones (MCU) Marry My Husband (Korean and Japanese live action on Amazon Prime Video) Malcolm in the Middle Non-Fiction: Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You To Hate by Anna Bogutskaya Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice: What Rough Heroines Tell Us about Imaginative Resistance by ADRIANA CLAVEL-VAZQUEZ Misanthropes and Monsters: Writing the Unlikeable by PJ MALLETT Rough Heroes of the New Hollywood by A. W. Eaton “ Jessica Jones Doesn’t Care About Men of Colour ”   Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , and support the hosts. Share the show with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #18

  E78: You're Not Gay Enough - Bisexuality, Sapphics, and WLW Erasure in Romance

  Sep 12, 20261h 7mS4

  Show Notes: You can be bisexual, but only if you’ve never touched a man.  Adrie and Stitch tackle the endless discourse around books "mismarketed" as sapphic when their bisexual leads also sleep with men. They break down what sapphic actually means, why bi women get treated as secretly straight (or not queer enough), and how "gold star" purity tests and political lesbianism collapse into transphobia. The conversation widens into heteropessimism, fandom's discomfort with femslash, the whiteness of biphobic discourse, and a eulogy-adjacent “discussion” of Gloria Steinem — before closing out with a stacked round of bisexual-lead romance recommendations. Topics: sapphic marketing, bisexual erasure, biphobia, gold star gays, political lesbianism, compulsory heterosexuality, heteropessimism, Achillean romance, M/M romance, WLW romance, Heated Rivalry, fandom shipping discourse, femslash, transphobia, How to Get Away With Murder, Annalise Keating, age-gap romance, white feminism, Gloria Steinem, poly romance, why choose romance, queer romance Reading Recommendations:  Fiction: Vengefully Matched by Audrey Goldberg Ruoff Two for Tea by CM Nascosta Romancing the Werewolf by Gail Carriger Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert The Art of Three by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese Small Town Witch by Alex Singer (story) and Jayd Aït-Kaci (art) Every Kit Rocha book, basically but The Sectors specifically A Rational Arrangement by L Rowyn Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , and support the hosts. Share the show with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #17

  E77: My Opp, My Man - Dramione, Zutara, & the Enemies to Lovers Industrial Complex

  Sep 6, 20261h 23mS4

  Show Notes: My man, my man, my man… is trying to kill me. Adrie and Stitch are joined by pop culture critic and video essayist Princess Weekes to dig into the enemies-to-lovers trope across anime, fanfic, and romance publishing. They trace their earliest ships (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Dramione, SwanQueen), argue about what modern romance gets wrong when it "mismarkets" itself as enemies to lovers, and debate what actually makes the trope work — narrative overlap, ideological reconciliation, and real stakes, not just banter. Topics: enemies to lovers, rivals to lovers, fandom shipping wars, fanfiction, omegaverse, dark romance, erotica vs. romance, historical romance, second chance romance, anti-hero tropes, Dramione, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zutara, Kataang, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spuffy, Fuffy, fandom discourse, cancel culture, thought crimes, ASOIAF Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Broken Flames by MK Ahearn The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley XXX Buddy/Perfect Buddy by lash and daki Game On by Navessa Allen The Death Made Prince by Lisette Marshall The Nightborn Duet by Carissa Broadbent The Sweet Pea Mysteries series by Kathryn Moon The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang Non-Fiction:   The Messy Politics of Enemies to Lovers by PrincessWeekes Anti hero, edited by Fiona Peters and Rebecca Stewart Previous Episodes : E69: Leave Room for My God Complex - Kink Panic and the New Puriteens E62: Ship War of Theseus E51: Fandom Etiquette Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Princess Weekes is an Assistant Editor at the Geek Girl Pop Culture Site, The Mary Sue and the co-host/co-writer of the PBS Digital Series, It's Lit . She got her Master's Degree at Brooklyn College in Literary Theory where she wrote about colorism in fairy tales and became inspired to write, The Johnson Bay Witches. A born and raised Brooklynite, when she isn't busy writing, she's busy contemplating cult-classic television shows that ended decades ago. The Johnson Bay Witches is her first novel. Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , and support the hosts. Share the show with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #16

  E76: What’s in a Name - Romance, Erotica, Fairy Porn, and Smut

  Aug 30, 20261h 19mS4

  Show Notes: If I had a nickel for every time someone reduced the entirety of the romance genre to “smut,” I’d have enough money to be my own billionaire book boyfriend. Adrie and Stitch dig into the TikTok discourse around "smut," "fairy porn," and romantasy — a conversation that starts with why Adrie hates the word smut and ends with a rigorous taxonomy of romance, erotic romance, erotica, and pornography. Along the way, they trace the through line from Anthony Comstock's 19th-century censorship crusade to contemporary age-verification legislation, purity culture in fandom, and why women reading for pleasure has always made someone, somewhere, deeply uncomfortable. Topics: romance, erotic romance, erotica, pornography, romantasy, fantasy romance, dark romance, smut discourse, the Comstock Act, publishing censorship, age verification, KOSA, internet regulation, fandom purity culture, religious repression, women's literacy, feminist discourse, genre fiction Reading Recommendations:  Fiction: A Touch of Taboo series by Katee Robert Sinner by Sierra Simone Father by Loki Renard Guarded by the Snake by Layla Fae Training the Receptionist by Juniper Bell The Bachelor Machine by M Christian THE GODWICKS by Tiffany Reisz The Scheming Crown Prince’s Wicket Consort by Subaru Kayano  We Can’t Do Just Plain Love by Mafuyu Fukita Nao-chan NTR ~The Person I Fell in Love With Is My Childhood Friend's Father~ by Yatomomin The Cold-Blooded Captain's Sadistic Love (audio) The Merciless Perfect Man I Started Dating Turned Out To Be An Infatuated Closet Pervert (audio) Non-Fiction: Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible by Linda Williams Screening Sex by Linda Williams Reading the Romance by Janice Radway The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault The Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde (part of Sister, Outsider) The Perpetual Disappointment of “If Only” Eroticism by Rien Gray Past Episodes: E24: Harlequin Renaissance E29: Heaving Bosoms E33: In Defense of Smut Follow & Support: Follow us on Instagram . Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com . Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch , or become a show patron , and support the hosts. Share the show with your friends, no matter where they listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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