This week, we covered The Hunger Games franchise, Suzanne Collins’ YA Dystopian Masterpiece! We start the episode talking about tarot cards, maligned women, and how history should not be perceived in a binary. We get into how the Hunger Games movies are a direct contradiction to themes of the books in their execution and how they “sex up” the revolution in a way that obfuscates the original intent of Madame Collins. We cover the impact of Katniss as a heroine and why we still look to The Youths to Save Us All. We investigate why most women’s happy endings in YA are directly connected to the bearing of children and how not everyone is emotionally equipped to be a parent, especially when you’re working through the PTSD of two death matches and an entire revolution! Gaia cannot pronounce Johanna, so decides to pronounce it three di ...