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Pages and Prejudice
by Adrie Rose, Stitch
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.
Episodes
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E80: Trope Court with Sanj Basker and Tyler McCall
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...
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E79: I Support Women’s Wrongs - Fandom and Readers Hate Unlikeable Women
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…
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E78: You're Not Gay Enough - Bisexuality, Sapphics, and WLW Erasure in Romance
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…
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E77: My Opp, My Man - Dramione, Zutara, & the Enemies to Lovers Industrial Complex
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,...
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E76: What’s in a Name - Romance, Erotica, Fairy Porn, and Smut
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...
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E75: Girl That's the Whole Plot - How Romance Marketing Became Trope Soup
Show Notes: Enemies to lovers, fake dating, one bed – go girl, give me… the entire story. Adrie and Stitch dive into the world of romance marketing — specifically, the increasingly common practice of selling books through exhaustive trope lists rather than traditional publishing shorthand. They...
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E74: Paging Inmate Baby Girl - Captivity and Kink in Dark Romance
Show Notes: Everyone hates alpha-holes until the hero is a 7-foot tall, genetically modified war criminal being held captive in a secret underground lab. Content Warning: This episode includes frank discussions of dubious consent, non-consent, and other fraught power and relationship dynamics....
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E73: Leave the Mask On - Why Romance Readers Love Masked Men
Show Notes: Maybe he’s hiding emotional trauma, maybe it’s Maybelline. Stitch and Adrie dive into the world of masked man romance — a subgenre of dark romance and erotica centered on men (and occasionally other entities) who conceal their faces. Stitch, newly obsessed with the trope, breaks down...
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E72: Shameless Fandom - Ditching Guilty Pleasures and the Culture of Fan Shame
Show Notes: I am a freak and I am proud. Why are so many fans hiding their AO3 bookmarks, running private accounts, and apologizing for what they love? In this episode of Pages & Prejudice, Stitch and Adrie Rose dig into the culture of shame, guilt, and fear that has taken over fandom spaces —…
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E71: Second Chance Romance - Why Readers Love Love Stories About Trying Again
Show Notes: Go forth and live your best trope! Adrie and Stitch sit down with Maggie North, Canadian author and anesthesiologist, to discuss her latest novel Fossil Feud — an almost second-chance, contemporary romance set against the world of citizen science and paleontology. They talk about the...
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E70: Manic Pixie Goth GF - the Commodification of Alt Girls in Media
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. 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: Another…
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E69: Leave Room for My God Complex - Kink Panic and the New Puriteens
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. 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) Leave room for...
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E68: Graphic Romance - Hot Girls Read Webtoons Too
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. 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) And what if I…
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E67: Kill Your Alpha Holes - The Rise of the Dark Romance Antihero
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. 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: Ella…
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E66: Make Me Want You
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. Buy merch on Threadless to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Unfortunately, romance wouldn’t sell...
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E65: That's My Emotional Support Cinnamon Roll
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. Buy merch on Threadless to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) The pandemic emotionally…
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E64: What's Your Y/N?
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) I accidentally made eye contact with Y/N and now HR is asking me to clean out my...
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E63: I Got a Pocket Full of Cheap Books
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Quit tellin' everyone I"m dead! Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Highlander...
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E62: Ship War of Theseus
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) It is these damn phones. Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers Now you can grab…
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E61: Monsters on My Mind
Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to [email protected]. Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University…
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E60: Hated It
Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Head empty, just complaints. Reading Recommendations: Read whatever you want. Godspeed. Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show…
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E59: The Absence of Aging
Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Role Playing by Cathy Yardley 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 (manga and live action...
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E58: Eat the Book Boyfriends, Pt. II
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Excess by...
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E57: Eat the Book Boyfriends, Pt. I
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO. Reading Recommendations will be in part II.…
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E56: Let's Wrap it Up
Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Our gift to you is 2 hours of uncut yapping. Enjoy! Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, and...
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E55: Monster Lovers Anonymous
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Tradwifery is just kink with extra steps. Monster romance is kink with no steps. Pick your fighter. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Clecanian series by Victoria...
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E54: Gay Twitches! Gay Twitches!
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Every coven has has one witch whose real power is just emotional damage. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Brooms by Jasmine Walls, illustrated by Teo DuVall This…
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E53: The Pickup a Book Artist
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) No one is reading romantasy for the realism. They read it so 2 emotionally stunted idiots are legally obligated to kiss by page 312. Reading Recommendations: Fiction:...
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E52: ARC Reaction
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Romance ARC reviewers will sprint through 462 pages of soul-shattering hand-holding, then calmly write “needs more tension,” like they weren’t just sobbing into a…
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E51: Fandom Etiquette
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Why do you act like that? Like that…the way that you act. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Psy Changeling series by Nalini Singh The Boss by Jenny Trout...
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E50: The Hemmings Don't Deserve Rights
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram & tiktok) Adrie and Stitch talk about CM Nascosta, Cambric Creek, and race in monster stories. Reading Recommendations: The Cambric Creek Universe, in order: Girls...
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E48: It's a Communal Fridge
Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram & tiktok) Stitch and Adrie talk about Kinktober, fandom, and A03. Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show...
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E49: A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram & tiktok) Adrie and Stitch talk about heteropessimism, Sabrina Carpenter as a convenient scapegoat, and kink panic. Fiction: The Fifty Shades of Grey…
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E47: We Live in a Society
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Adrie and Stitch talk about slavefic, romcoms as a response to feminism, and the attitudes of women in American culture throughout post-industrial history. Reading...
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E46: I (Don't) Want it That Way
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Stitch and Adrie talk about kinktober, dark romance, Sinners and Stardust, and the nature off consent. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Steel Under Silk Sadistic…
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E45: Once You Go Alien
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Saving the species, one human at a time. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Brides of the Kylorr series by Zoey Draven The Clecanian series by Victoria Aveline Claimed...
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E44: I Remember Chocolate
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Do you carry a lunchbox? Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi Gravitation by Maki Murakami Fantasy...
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E43: It's Enough Pages
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) It’s a choice. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Meet Me at the Anvil by Kate Prior My Orc Roommate by Veronika Kane Sweetling by SE Wendel Magical Midlife Madness by…
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E42: I Didn't Make it For You
Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Well, I don’t say that you have to enjoy it! Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Dragons books by Katie MacAlister Gotten by the Gator by Lizzie Strong...
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E41: parasocial dot ai
Show Notes: Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) I invited you into my home and now you’re mad about the curtains? Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian Maybe the…
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E40: Twilight's New Dawn
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) This is not what Joseph Smith had in mind. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz Mediator series by Meg Cabot Lana Harvey, Reapers...
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E39: Hear Me Out
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Please clear my internet search history when I’m gone. Reading Recommendations: Games Mass Effect Silent Hill Non-Fiction: Snape: A Definitive Reading by Lorrie Kim...
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E38: Small Town Witches
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) It’s pretty obvious that money was just a suggestion for the Halliwell sisters. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui Cherry Magic!…
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E37: Yankee Doodle Went to War
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) And they were [Confederate] soldiers. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Love at Stake series by Kerrelyn Sparks The Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine...
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E36: I'll Eat You Up
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Fangs - Billy Balibally MADK - Ryo Suzuri The Tiger Won’t Eat the Dragon…
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E35: The Elusive O
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) WARNING: Explicit descriptions of graphic (and bad) sex and mild vore in this episode. The horrors persist and so do I. WARNING: Time stamps for potentially upsetting...
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E34: That MF is NOT Real
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) A playwright by any other name would be not Shakespeare. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult The Queen's Realm Non-Fiction: Shakespeare...
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E33: In Defense of Smut
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Man cannot survive on loathing alone. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Mating of Elves Eyelet The Bondservant Lady & Maid Cold Blooded Beast (Full Version) Silver...
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E32: My Girl's Got a Girlfriend
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guest Host: Our guest this week is Deepa (no pronouns), who has been in fandom since age 13 and interested in sapphic media and femslash just as long! Deepa co-hosts a...
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E31: How Did She Get on the Boat
Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guest Host: Saeed Jones is a poet and cultural critic. His most recent book, ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry. He...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
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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...
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