Episode 107: History Has Its Eyes on You

In which the consulting fans talk about race and racism in the media we love and communities we create. We dig into the Blind Banker, discuss Imperialism in ACD, celebrate Hamilton and Avatar: The Last Air ender, read Sally Donovan fic Time After Time, and host a roundtable on Challenging Racism in Fandom.

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Episode 107: History Has Its Eyes on You

In which the consulting fans talk about race and racism in the media we love and communities we create. We dig into the Blind Banker, discuss Imperialism in ACD, celebrate Hamilton and Avatar: The Last Air ender, read Sally Donovan fic Time After Time, and host a roundtable on Challenging Racism in Fandom.

Segment timestamps:

0:00:39 – Host Opening
0:28:48 – A Decade of The Blind Banker
0:59:21 – Watching the Blind Banker as a POC
1:27:12 – Top Ten Things We Actually Like From The Blind Banker
1:29:10 – Sherlock Holmes and the Terrible Empire
2:04:44 – FOI Avatar: The Last Airbender
2:33:19 – Top Ten Sally Donovan Headcanons
2:34:46 – Challenging Fandom Racism
3:07:07 – FOI: Hamilton
3:35:16 – ASIF: Time after Time
3:59:05 – That’s My Division
4:06:43 – Post Mortem

Shownotes, contact details, and credits below.

FULL SHOWNOTES

Host Opening (0:00:39)

Consulting Fans: Finn, Hope, Drinkingcocoa, Producers: Finn & Johnlocked, Editor: SundayDuck

Notice of multicultural Sherlock Holmes Anthology : The Only One in the World
Tanya Moodie as Gertrude in Hamlet with Paapa Essiedu
Black Girl Nerds

website| Soundcloud| YouTube| Facebook| Twitter| Patreon
Interviews with Leslie Odom Jr.and Renée Elise Goldsberry+ video interview; follow-up article, plus an excellent article on Hamilton

Metis in Space Podcast, recommended episode: Avatar
Find ALL of Three Patch FIC RECS with tags in our Bookmarks on AO3

A Decade of Sherlock: The Blind Banker (0:28:48)

Consulting Fans: Drinkingcocoa, Johnlocked, Cumbercookie, Shannon, Producer/Editor: Drinkingcocoa

For the 10-year anniversary of The Blind Banker, we discuss Steve Thompson’s writing, issues of race and gender, and how this episode has contributed to the fandom.

Race roundtable from TPP Ep 10
Transcript of race roundtable
Sorting segment on Moffat, Gatiss, and Thompson from TPP Ep 25
Recreational Meta: Steve Thompson and his HUGE MATHEMATICAL BRAIN
Suzhou numerals (misnamed as Hangzhou in the episode)
mid0nz on A Strange Yellow Squiggle: Racism in TBB

Watching the Blind Banker as a Person of Color(0:59:21)

Consulting Fans: Drinkingcocoa, Caroline, Anarfea, Producer/Editor: Drinkingcocoa

Three people of color discuss watching The Blind Banker and what they would have said if serving as a sensitivity reader for this episode.

Race roundtable from TPP Ep 10
Transcript of race roundtable
The Falling by PetraTodd
Women in Sherlock: Janine by Drinkingcocoa
Mid0nz on race in The Blind Banker: A Strange Yellow Squiggle, Arabialock: An Analysis of the Last Scene in Belgravia, Bartitsu

Top Ten Things We Actually Like From The Blind Banker (1:27:12)

Contributed by: Alexx, Vulgarweed, Juli, DrinkingCocoa, Caroline, JL, Science

Read & Produced by: Science

Sherlock Holmes and the Terrible Empire(1:29:10)

Consulting Fans: finnagain, Doctornerdington, Producer/Editor: finnagain

We introduce Imperialism in Victorian Literature and share an anti-colonial critic of Arthur Canon-Doyles’ The Sign of Four

All the countries invaded by Britain
The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh
The Sign of Four by ACD
Introduction to Postcolonial Theory
India’s first war of Independence, and the legacy of Hindu-Muslim unity by Shamsul Islam
How UK museums are responding to Black Lives Matter (repatriation)

Fandoms of Interest: Avatar: The Last Airbender(2:04:44)

Consulting Fans: Drinkingcocoa, Johnlocked, B, Cumbercookie, @nimblenoor , Producer: B, Editor: B

A spoiler-free discussion about why you should watch the animated television show, Avatar: The Last Airbender (recently added to US Netflix), how the representation within the show has made a profound impact on fandom, & why Sherlock fans would love Aang!

Noor’s cosplay photos
About our guest: Noor is a detail-oriented fantasy cosplayer whose primary fandoms are Avatar:The Last Airbender, Sherlock, and Dungeons and Dragons podcasts like Critical Role. They have created six Avatar cosplays to date and plan to cosplay every character in the show eventually. You can follow them @nimblenoor on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Top Ten Sally Donovan Headcanons (2:33:19)

Contributed by: Alexx, Vulgarweed, Juli, DrinkingCocoa, Caroline, JL, Science

Read & Produced by: Science

Challenging Fandom Racism Roundtable(2:34:46)

Consulting Fans: Dr. Rukmini Pande, Stitch, joan miller, Dr. Samantha Close, finnagain Producer/Editor: finnagain

Four acafans discuss racism in transformative fandom, the work of challenging this status quo, and some ways fans can practice anti-racism in our communities. LOOK OUT FOR THE EXTENDED CUT.

Dr. Rukmini Pande twitter

Squee From the Margins: Fandom and Race with the University Iowa Press
Upcoming edited collection (2020): Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices
Interview with Henry Jenkins
Interview on Fansplaining on racism in fandom
Article on racism in femslash fandoms

Stitch twitter

Stitch Media Mix blog
Why Write About Fandom Racism At A Time Like This?
Antiblackness in (Service of) the Archive: A Statement
On Korean Artists Using Their Platforms to Say that Black Lives Matter
Series What Fandom Racism Looks Like
Stitch Talks Ish podcast

joan miller twitter, bio

Website: likejoanofarc.com
Interview: “Who and What Belongs: #Gamergate and Abjection“
Article on Cosplay and Race in forthcoming collection Fandom, Now In Color

Dr. Samantha Close twitter

Website But No Cigar
Open Letter to the OTW on Racism in Fandom
Article on Knitting Activism, Knitting Gender, Knitting Race

OTW

2020 Election Q&A Racism in the OTW and Its Projects
This Week in Fandom, Volume 149

More writings:

Teland, 2003, My. Fucking. God. on Pete Ross in Smallville
Dissensus by Jacques Ranciere
Cassandra Khaw’s Persons Non Grata series: Hammers on Bone and A Song for Quiet
Alissa Cole’s A Princess in Theory
Authors of Afrofuturism: Octavia Butler, N. K. Jemisin, Nalo Hopkinson

Fandom of Interest: Hamilton(3:07:07)

Consulting Fans: Johnlocked, Emma, DrinkingCocoa, Cumbercookie, Science, Producer: Johnlocked, Editor: Emma

With the confluence of Hamilton coming to Disney+ in July and the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, Consulting Fans discuss their love for this revolutionary musical.

Hamilton on Disney+
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) on Spotify

Genius.com lyrics

The Hamilton Mixtape on Spotify

Cabinet Battle 3 (Demo)and lyrics

Hamilton casting notices
White House Poetry Jam 2009
#Ham4Ham playlist

The Schuyler Georges
Hamilton Ladies

Hamilton creators talking about their process
Hamilton: Building America documentary
Chris Jackson and LMM singing One Last Time to the Obamas in 2017
History Has Its Eyes On You interview
Susie Graves’s Hamilton watch party menu
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2016 Tony acceptance speech/sonnet/Pulse tribute
Nimblenoor, CousinCecily, and Timestitcher cosplaying the Schuyler sisters at 221B Con
Hamilton is fanfic article from Vox
Hamilton Drunk History recounted by Lin-Manuel Miranda (part 1| part 2)

ASIF: Time After Time by Pennypaperbrain (3:35:16)

Consulting Fans: Alexxphoenix42, Caroline, Finn, Producer/Editor: Alexx

We discuss a fanfic that explores one possible history of Sally and Sherlock in their uni days.

Time After Time by Pennypaperbrain
Sally Donovan Appreciation tag
Pennypaperbrain’s meta on Sally Donovan
Other meta on Sally Donovan
Moffat comment about Sally in S4

That’s My Division(3:59:05)

Consulting Fans: Alexxphoenix42, Caroline, MK, Producer/Editor: Alexx

This month, we gather fic recs featuring characters of color and issues of race & racism.

Alexxphoenix42

The Adventure of the Dying Private Investigator by Iwantthatcoat
The Deepest Secret Nobody Knows by sciosophia
Other Things to do After Buying a Cat by BlackEyedGirl
Common Ground by gardnerhill
Black as they’re painted by marysutherland
In Flames: The Life and Death of Soo Lin Yao by radial_symmetry

MK

with whom faith could be kept by language_escapes

Post Mortem(4:06:43)

Consulting Fans: Finn, Hope, Drinkingcocoa, Producers: Finn & Johnlocked, Editor: SundayDuck

Ticks on a Door Frame by disfictional and tumblr post with art
TPP Transcripts including our two new interviews!
Susie Graves Hamilton watch party menu

Contact

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Website: https://www.three-patch.com

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Discord: http://discord.gg/ZUYEJhN

Music Credits

Unless otherwise indicated, all music is available for purchase through online retailers such as amazon.com and iTunes.

Show Intro– David Arnold and Michael Price, Sherlock: Original Television Soundtrack Music From Series One: Opening Titles
A Decade of The Blind Banker – David Arnold and Michael Price, Sherlock: Original Television Soundtrack Music From Series One: Crates of Books, Library Books
Watching the Blind Banker as a POC – David Arnold and Michael Price, Sherlock: Original Television Soundtrack Music From Series One: Library Books, Elegy
Sherlock Holmes and the Terrible Empire – BBC Horrible Histories: Just a Little Song about British Things
FOI Avatar: The Last Airbender – Jeremy Zuckerman, Avatar: The Last Airbender Opening Theme
Challenging Fandom Racism – Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computer: Crazy Classic Life
FOI: Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording): Alexander Hamilton, My Shot, Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down), History Has Its Eyes On You
A Study in Fanfic – Cake, Fashion Nugget: Open Book
That’s My Division – John Coltrane, My Favorite Things [Deluxe Edition]: My Favorite Things, Part 1
Show Outro – Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever [The Original Movie Soundtrack]: Stayin’ Alive

Production Credits

Episode Producer: finnagain

Episode Banner Artist: Fox Estacado

Episode Audio Editor: Johnlocked

Distribution funded by Fans!

How to Cite

APA

By Three Patch Productions. (2020, 08, 01). History Has Its Eyes on You [Episode 107]. Three patch podcast.Podcast retrieved from https://three-patch.com/2020/08/01/episode-107/