Women Against Power Trilogy: We Don't Need Sugar with Phil Longo

We made another trilogy episode! This week we talked with Phil Longo about the "Women Against Power Trilogy": The China Syndrome (1979), Silkwood (1983), and Erin Brockovich (2000). These movies each feature a bad-ass woman (Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, and Julia Roberts) standing up against a power plant conspiracy, and we had a great time thinking about them as a series.

Spoilers: poison, boobs, the 2023 mullet, Diet Coke, "Every Day is a Winding Road," lesbian Cher, Mike Nichols, shirtless Kurt Russell, Alien and other scary workplaces, Aaron Eckhart with horrible facial hair babysitting your kids, wtf another Michael Douglas movie?

Phil Longo is a teacher and an independent scholar, currently writing a book about Gavin Arthur.

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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige

Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley