What Would Sepi Say?

Making Her Exit: Notes on Leaving

We examine what it means to leave a system that profits from your staying. Through the women of The Deuce, this episode explores exit not as an escape, but as consequence: and what it costs to try.

Choosing for Herself: Notes on Agency

We look closely at what agency actually means when no option is free. Rather than treating choice as empowerment, this episode explores the clarity women arrive at inside constraint, and the costs that is carried in systems that weren't designed for their agency. TW: brief discussion of violence and suicide, no details.

Playing Her Part: Notes on Survival

In episode 2, we examine a familiar pattern in storytelling and in real life: how women are written into, and live inside systems they didn't design, and the forms of intelligence required just to stay in the room.

Repeat After Her: Notes on Names

What's in a name? We discuss names, pronunciation, identity, and what's wrapped up in it through one of Sepi's famous characters.