Bodice Rippers Danielle & Kim

Welcome to Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. Hint - It's WHITE HOT TRASH! Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of non-consensual activities including rape and human trafficking. 

Moving on through Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. Hint - It's WHITE HOT TRASH! Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of non-consensual activities including rape and human trafficking. 

Here's chapter 3 of Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. This chapter gives us some good fuel for a discussion about sex abuse within the fashion industry. Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of non-consensual activities including rape and human trafficking. 

Here's chapter 4 of Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. As in every chapter in this rubbish book, this one gives us PLENTY of fuel for a FIRE convo about toxic masculinity. Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of non-consensual activities including rape and human trafficking. 

In this pilot episode of Bodice Rippers, hosts Kim and Danielle dive into their own backgrounds and experiences with sexual education while growing up, romance in the media and how it's consumed in American culture.  
Romance Writers of America Website
Baby by Chance on Amazon
Bustle Article about who reads romance novels
 

Teaser for this week:
"Chance Devereux had blown into town on a mission. He had some bull semen to buy in the next week, but in the meantime, finding himself stranded in Las Vegas waiting for the breeder was not the most painful of life’s situations. He’d played the slots and won, tried his hand at blackjack and lost, and now, showered and shaved and with a king-size buffet beneath his belt, he was ready to raise a little hell.
He was ready, for a woman. A nice, willing, uncomplicated woman."
In this episode, Kim and Danielle read the first chapter of Baby By Chance.  We meet Cinnamon Roberts and Chance Devereux and learn about the events that put their paths on a collision course.  
We also discuss the issues of presumed whiteness of characters in romance novels, long simmering issues with race in the RWA, class and status assumptions of characters, and why representation matters.  
Doll Experiment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM&t=4s https://www.therippedbodicela.com https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/04/fifty-shades-of-white-romance-novels-racism-ritas-rwa