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The Soof and Flo Show

The Soof and Flo Show

By Soof and Flo

Welcome to the The Soof and Flo Show, a podcast which unpacks a new theme each season with 2021 vision, complete with trivia, intersectional critique and candid discussions. This season, we’re pulling a tarot card from the major arcana each episode and designing our own versions of the card, as we map the Fool’s Journey in the Major Arcana onto the design process and explore our own relationship to the visuals and layers of meaning of each card. Join Soof and Flo as they design in isolation during an age of lockdown.
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Episode 1: Is the Doctor an Intergalactic Sugar Daddy?

The Soof and Flo ShowFeb 02, 2020

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Mar 31, 202152:24
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Mar 18, 202144:24
Something borrowed, something blue: Mixed Media

Something borrowed, something blue: Mixed Media

This episode, we're digging into media! Graphic design has a lot of space for multi-disciplinary practices, and we love experimenting with different media and teaching ourselves new skills. Something old: we both choose a medium that we have revisited in lockdown. Something new: during quarantine, what new skill are we loving digging into? Something borrowed: we love working in cultural eco-systems, and sharing media and skills is an important part of that. Something blue: we each choose an object in a colour that we love exploring. 

Thank you for listening. We are Soofiya (@soofiya) and Florence (@boy.florence). You can email us with any thoughts or questions at soofandfloshow@gmail.com. 

Jun 26, 202031:47
Keep Calm and Clap for Boris: Populist Design
Apr 25, 202047:12
Our Design Processes
Apr 14, 202041:41
The Memphis Group are the Spice Girls of Design Studios
Apr 07, 202047:49
Episode 4: The Scooby Gang in the TARDIS

Episode 4: The Scooby Gang in the TARDIS

For our fourth episode, we’re digging into the masculinities in the TARDIS through the lens of discussing our favourite and least favourite Doctors.

  • We kick off with yet another rigged Buzzfeed quiz about which Doctor we are. We both got Matt Smith despite choosing very different answers.
  • An exploration of our favourite Doctors!
  • The BBC covered up Christopher Eccleston’s reasons for leaving (toxicity) by claiming he didn’t want to be typecast.
  • Did we fancy David Tennant, or did we want to be him?
  • The Doctor and themes of romance and domesticity. The Doctor can’t have a dull, homely life.
  • The relationship between the Doctor and humans, the way he interacts with them, parent and child relationship.
  • The impact of the age of the actor playing the Doctor on the dynamic with his companions and the ‘alienness’ of the Doctors
  • Returning actors who play small characters then return to companions (Romana is the Time Lady Florence is trying to think of).
  • Which Doctors we didn’t connect with as well
  • Ad Break: we have fake sponsorships. Please give us money so we can have proper sponsorships. Also stay hydrated!
  • Florence is a bit lecherous and wants to introduce a segment called Florence’s Thirst Trap Corner
  • Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor brought Soof back into the fold as a fan. They enjoyed the dynamic with the three companions. Mates trying to save the world.
  • Gender in the TARDIS: masculinity as reflected in alienness of the Doctor, the companions as embodying feminised empathy. Captain Jack as bringing a flirtatious fun energy compared to the usual jealousy that other male companions bring.
  • Soof and Florence share stories of dressing up as the Doctor
  • The Master as embodying madness and anger. The clever easter egg of the pocket watch - Russell T Davies was good at weaving in small easter eggs in a way that Steven Moffat wasn’t.
  • Theme music was Blur and Coalesce by Podington Bear, from Free Music Archive.
  • Send us your problems!! Find the form in the website link. All information will be kept anonymous.
Feb 23, 202033:43
Episode 3: Second Chances

Episode 3: Second Chances

For our third episode, we’re digging into the politics of monsters and the themes of sacrifice in Doctor Who through the lens of discussing specific episodes. We discuss the Ood as spiritual monsters, selective empathy and fatphobia.

Feb 16, 202038:01
Episode 2: The feminist and queer politics of Doctor Who

Episode 2: The feminist and queer politics of Doctor Who

For our second episode, we’re digging into the feminist and queer politics of Doctor Who by exploring the companions: the best, the worst, the blandest, the weirdest. We discuss misogyny in Doctor Who through the lens of the portrayals of the (usually female) companions, gender dynamics in the TARDIS, and the exploration of body manipulation and transness through Cassandra, masculinities through Micky, and queerness through Captain Jack.

  • We delve straight in and discuss our favourite companions. Justice for Martha.
  • Before Billie Piper played Rose, she was a popstar, Florence was a fan as a child. We decide that Because We Want To with its alien themes was Billie Piper’s unofficial Doctor Who audition tape.
  • Captain Jack as a foil and morally ambiguous contrast to the Doctor.
  • River Song was a fascinating (and hot) companion. Moffat as a single-episode writer compared to him as a show-runner.
  • Gender dynamics: why is the TARDIS a woman?
  • Steven Moffat’s bananas series story arcs
  • Before the episode started, Soof and Flo found out which Doctor Who companion they are but unfortunately the quiz was written by an ardent fan of Matt Smith / Karen Gillan and despite their different answers they both got Amy Pond and are mad about it, and are going to pen an open letter
  • Soof would be Martha, Florence would be Captain Jack. Which companion would you be? Ignore what Buzzfeed tells you! Let us know.
  • Steven Moffat cannot write women, and female companions often turn into cardboard cutout plot devices. There are plenty of articles on the internet about this. But we agree that Bill Potts is an excellent character and excellent gay representation.
  • Cassandra: issues of surgery and misogyny and transphobia. Moral issues around body manipulation explored through Cassandra, Adam and Trinny and Susannah. Exploration of concept of ‘purity’.
  • The character development of Micky and exploration of masculinities, and what kind of masculinity is necessary and gains respect from the Doctor. Micky represents domesticity and mundanity and grief of those left behind, but we only see him in a celebratory light when he hardens up and suffers trauma. Care, and its role in the Doctor Who universe, and who exhibits it.
  • They were considering a spin-off show for a companion other than Sarah-Jane and Captain Jack, but it wasn’t Rodrick, who only wanted his winnings from the Weakest Link
  • Be the companion and the protagonist of your own life.
  • If you could have dinner with any character, which would it be?
  • Would you travel backwards or forwards on your first day in the TARDIS?
  • Theme music was Blur and Coalesce by Podington Bear, from Free Music Archive.
Feb 09, 202032:01
Episode 1: Is the Doctor an Intergalactic Sugar Daddy?

Episode 1: Is the Doctor an Intergalactic Sugar Daddy?

Welcome to the first episode of the Soof and Flo Show! For our first episode, we’re digging into the 2005 revival of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, covering everything from the Doctor’s saviour complex to the campness of Doctor Who to our own escapist relationship with the show.

Feb 02, 202029:03