A reading of Erin Horáková's essay for Strange Horizons -- with optional visual components -- talking about the Idea of Captain Kirk in popular consciousness. Really happy with how this one turned out!

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THE ESSAY: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift

Original footnotes from the essay are on-screen, and any links from the article have been associated with my own footnotes, which you can find in the below google document!

FOOTNOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iiWl54ptWkW7kKHSw9Xd86Jn-WcXODXqjPiOGR1MJ7A/edit?usp=sharing

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Chapter One: What A Lousy Party!
07:56 Chapter Two: "You're A Womanizer, Baby"
29:48 Chapter Three: "But the James Bond '60s were the most sexist time of alll!!"
41:13 Chapter Four: Beyond the Broads: James “Totally Reckless” Kirk and the Very Exciting Prairie Lights Poetry Readings He Still Attends When He Goes Back to Riverside, Iowa to Visit His Mom
50:02 Chapter Five: The Unicorn-Dog and the WASP: The Uneasy Place of Jewish Masculinity in Popular Memory
52:04 Chapter Six: The Reboot of the Remake of the Sequel
1:00:17 Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Memory Sanctions
1:19:01 Acknowledgements