Positivity, Dysmorphia, and Horror! How does the individual relate to their physical form and how much can media shape that view?

Billions of individuals on Earth; with billions of billions before; trillions of billions in humanity’s collection of fiction. Are we really that different from each other? 

Hope your ears brought an appetite! Sherlann tells us about how food is used in two magical realism stories, With the Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo and Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Arthur talks about how people are combating their food desert communities through food sovereignty.

What do people put in their bodies? Snacks? Potions? Other people?! Our first look at tangible culture is consumables. ⁠

Which parts of culture can you touch and what ideas feel permanent?

In the second half of the Monarchy episode, Sherlann and Arthur focus on the reality of Monarchs over time and wonder how religion influences them and their subjects.

In this first half of the Monarchy episode, Sherlann and Arthur discuss the 2015 movie Tale of Tales and the 17th-century fairy tales that inspired it. Join them as they discuss the power of different desires and tropes that are continued and broken.

In this episode, Arthur and Sherlann overview what governments do for our real and fictional worlds.⁠

On this opening episode of Diversity and Fiction, Sherlann and Arthur introduce themselves and share why they started this podcast.