# Episode 118 -- The Romantasy Boom

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Podcast: [In Bed With The Right](https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-bed-with-the-right-6461263)
Published: 2026-01-27T07:03:04+00:00
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## Resource

For this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Abby Kluchin from the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast to discuss a recent publishing phenomenon and its implications for gender politics: romantasy, a genre that's been emerging over the last 10 years with renewed force. Series like Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses and the Empyrian-novels by Rebecca Yarros mix fantasy tropes with costume drama and pretty explicit sex scenes -- and they rely on a very particular kind of trauma heroine, and what seems to be a very particular understanding of gendered trauma.

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