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WMC Live with Robin Morgan is a nationally syndicated American radio show with an international audience in 110 countries around the globe. The weekly show (additionally available online at iTunes and at WMCLive.com) is hosted by Robin Morgan, the award-winning author of over 20 books, political an…

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    • May 25, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 52m AVG DURATION
    • 478 EPISODES

    4.7 from 60 ratings Listeners of Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan that love the show mention: wmc, feminist, smart, funny, thank, listen, love, robin morgan.


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    The Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan podcast is a smart and funny exploration of gender studies that feels like you're taking a course with a curious friend. As a listener, I have been blissfully bingeing on the intelligent and heartfelt programs hosted by Robin Morgan. It is remarkable that I have only just discovered this gem despite our resonant interests, but I am grateful that the Women's Media Center exists to bring such enlightening content to us.

    The best aspect of this podcast is Robin Morgan herself. She embodies an impossible combination of fiery and gentle, smart and funny, soothing and awakening. Her hosting style keeps listeners engaged and eager to learn more about feminist issues. The guest lineup on The Women's Media Center Live is also phenomenal, with each guest expanding my feminist perspective in unique ways. Whether it is authors, activists, or experts in various fields, the guests always bring valuable insights and experiences to the conversation.

    The worst aspect of this podcast is difficult to pinpoint because it delivers so much value overall. However, some listeners may find that the topics discussed can be heavy at times, as they delve into the struggles faced by women in society. While this depth is necessary for understanding and addressing these issues, it can be emotionally draining for some listeners who prefer lighter content.

    In conclusion, The Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan podcast is an absolute must-listen for anyone interested in feminism and gender studies. It provides a unique blend of intelligence, humor, and heart that leaves listeners feeling encouraged, expanded, and connected after every episode. Robin Morgan's passion for feminism shines through her hosting style, making her an inspiring figure in contemporary feminism. I am grateful to have found this refreshing podcast and will continue to recommend it to friends who are seeking valuable conversations on women's issues.

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    Latest episodes from Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan

    WMC Live #474: Neither Fear Nor Favor. (Original Airdate 5/25/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2025 58:39


    Robin revisits the Biden presidency in light of new revelations. Special Guest: feminist Margot Wallström, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.

    WMC Live #473: Ice, Loss, and Hope. (Original Airdate 5/18/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 50:39


    Robin's conversations explore the great Arctic ice with climatologist Twila Moon, a eulogy for Cecile Richards—and Bourbon Pecan Pie.

    WMC Live #472: Old Age Is Not For Sissies. (Original Airdate 5/4/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 45:26


    Robin takes on a newfound constituency—the aging population. Guest Judy Karofsky talks about her powerful new book, "DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice," describing her care for her mother.

    WMC Live #471: Guerrilla Girls! (Original Airdate 4/27/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 48:26


    Robin celebrates the 40th birthday of the great, witty, profound Guerrilla Girls, with guests "Frida Kahlo" and "Kathe Kollwitz"—the Originals still going strong!

    WMC Live #470: Resist! (Original Airdate 4/20/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 55:12


    Robin explores different ways of resistance. Guest Meg Stone on her new book, The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence.

    WMC Live #469: Money. (Original Airdate 4/6/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 45:36


    Robin worries aloud about the Leftist (and her) loathing of money. Special Guest: Trish Costello, founder and CEO of Portfolia.com, a collaborative equity investment platform.

    WMC Live #468: Unbanned Words. (Original Airdate 3/30/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 46:03


    Robin shares secret words banned by US government agencies under Trump. Guest: Nilo Tabrizy, Iranian journalist, on the women's uprising in Iran.

    WMC Live #467: We the Men. (Original Airdate 3/23/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 52:45


    Robin maps the gauntlet the oppressed endure. Guest Jill Elaine Hasday discusses her book, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality."

    WMC Live #466: Abortion Pills—What You Didn't Know. (Original Airdate 3/9/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 41:25


    Medical abortion is now the preferred method of ending an unwanted pregnancy. Robin and guest Carrie N. Baker discuss Baker's new book, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics” (also available via Open Access).

    WMC Live #465: Money, Lies, and God. (Original Airdate 3/2/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 43:44


    Robin brings Elizabeth Cady Stanton's anti-religionist arguments up to date, exposing the New Right's campaign to eradicate democracy. Guest: best-selling investigative reporter Katherine Stewart, author of “Money, Lies, and God.”

    WMC Live #464: His Satanic Majesty. (Original Airdate 2/23/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 47:54


    Robin discusses and reads from the writings of the great 19th-century radical suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who lambasted religions—Christianity in particular.

    WMC Live #463: Messin' With Texas. (Original Airdate 2/9/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 54:15


    Robin and her guest, Marci Marie Simmons, together explore the women's prison system in Texas. Simmons, now an activist, is a survivor of 10 years in a Texas prison.

    WMC Live #462: Last Seen. (Original Airdate 2/2/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 41:26


    Robin and special guest, author Judith Giesberg, discuss Giesberg's book ‘Last Seen,' about the enduring search by formerly enslaved people to find their lost families.

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    WMC Live #461: More Than A Doll. (Original Airdate 1/26/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 49:22


    Robin rediscovers (STILL!) sexist toys. Special Guest: Jodi Bondi Norgaard, who fought to wake up the toy industry.

    WMC Live #460: The Feminist Campus Solution to Assault! (Original Airdate 1/19/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 45:30


    Robin explores ProjectCallisto.org, the technological key to combatting campus sexual assault. Special Guest: Tracy DeTomasi.

    WMC Live #459: A Serious Christian. (Original Airdate 1/12/2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 29:05


    Robin devotes a tribute program to the late Jimmy Carter, complete with her own exclusive interview with him from May 3, 2014, about Feminism as the priority for confronting all other oppressions.

    WMC Live #458: For the Birds. (Original Airdate 12/15/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 44:50


    Robin devotes the final episode before the holiday break to digging out of lingering post-election trauma and despair—with a surprising and awesome result.

    WMC Live #457: A Birthday Party. (Original Airdate 12/8/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 48:21


    Robin and guest Regina Scully discuss what really happened at Sophia Loren's 90th birthday. Updates on the Azerbaijan climate conference, with hopeful news.

    WMC Live #456: GAI & U. (Original Airdate 11/24/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 49:53


    Robin delves into what generative AI really is, what it promises—and what it threatens. Guest: Debora Spar, author and technology expert.

    WMC Live #455: Margin of Error. (Original Airdate 11/17/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 57:36


    Robin continues her Election Coverage, with inside stories and new insights into Trump's fascism. Guest: Dr. Marianne Legato on gender-specific research.

    WMC Live #454: Moments Like These. (Original Airdate 11/7/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 5:10


    Robin reads “September 1, 1939” by W.H. Auden on the day after the election, because moments like these always drive her to poetry.

    WMC Live #453: We Won't Go Back. (Original Airdate 11/3/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 51:13


    Robin winds up her pre-Election Coverage, plus new insights into anti-Fascism. Guest Clara Bingham discusses her new book, The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973.

    WMC Live #452: Enemies Within. (Original Airdate 10/27/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 50:37


    Robin takes on Trump's neofascism. Guest: Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises, whose new research into domestic violence is stunning.

    WMC Live #451: You and Me. (Original Airdate 10/13/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 48:30


    Robin on the hurricane crisis in the US, and climate change. Guest: Susan Hawthorne on her new book, Lesbian: Politics, Culture, Existence.

    WMC Live #450: Eyes on the Prize. (Original Airdate 10/6/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 56:24


    Robin dissects the Veep debate and reveals startling new statistics. Guest: Letty Cottin Pogrebin on her new book Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy.

    WMC Live #449: Preventable Deaths. (Original Airdate 9/29/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 58:35


    Robin explores the lives of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, the first to die from Trump's overturned Court ruling on abortion. Guest: Emily Van Duyne, author of Loving Sylvia Plath, which finally tells the truth about Plath's life, work, and death.

    WMC Live #448: She Didn't Need To Say It. (Original Airdate 9/22/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 27:29


    Season Premiere! Robin opens the season with an all-to-herself episode that analyzes the past dramatic events of the summer, and then focuses on just who Kamala Devi Harris truly is.

    WMC Live #447 Special Commentary: Thank you, Joe. Let's go, Kamala! (Original Airdate 7/28/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 11:23


    A special commentary from Robin Morgan on Joe Biden's election decision and Kamala Harris' history-making emergence.

    WMC Live #446: Two Old Friends. (Original Airdate: 6/30/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2024 52:50


    Season Finale! Robin's final show until September is an exclusive interview with old friend Gloria Steinem, now age 90. An intimate talk over 50 years in the making—on life, death, fame, aging, family, persuasion, conflict, and much more.

    WMC Live #445: Surprised by Reality. (Original Airdate 6/23/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2024 55:17


    Robin continues the saga of the bird's nest, and delves into Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post. Guest: Katherine Stewart on her book, "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism."

    WMC Live #444: Surprised by Joy. (Original Airdate 6/16/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 55:56


    Robin on Trump's 34 "Guilty" felony verdicts, two female presidents, and the Samuel Alitos (again). Guest: Daisy Khan on her important book 30 Rights of Muslim Women.

    WMC Live #443: Bloody Misery. (Original Airdate 6/2/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 53:10


    Robin takes on Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito in detail—his decisions, corruptions, leaks, and connections. Guest: Egyptian author and activist Mona Eltahawy.

    WMC Live #442: Alternate Realities. (Original Airdate 5/26/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 55:46


    Robin takes on Supreme Court Injustices Thomas and Alito, plus good news in the truths buried in the polls. Guest: Johnnie Jae, Native artist, activist, one-woman movement.

    WMC Live #441: Live and In Color. (Original Airdate 5/19/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 50:24


    Robin on the courts' resistance to televised trials. Guest Joyce Schorr, Founder & President of WRRAP—the oldest & largest national, independent, nonprofit abortion fund which assists women unable to pay for safe & legal surgical & medical abortions.

    WMC Live #440: Under the Lilacs. (Original Airdate 5/5/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 41:49


    Robin continues her meditations on the militant campus demonstrations and on the intoxication of lilacs. Guest: Grace McLean, singer, songwriter, actor, on "Suffs."

    WMC Live #439: The Sound and the Fury. (Original Airdate 4/28/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 51:41


    Robin on new polls and the many campus demonstrations and arrests across the country. Special Guest: Elizabeth Holtzman on the numerous Trump indictments and court cases.

    WMC Live #438: Sex, Lies, and Patriarchy. (Original Airdate 4/21/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 57:55


    Robin confronts the new teenage sex trend—“choking”—and also revives the feminist campaign against male (as well as female) circumcision. Guest: Jane Manning on Harvey Weinstein's possible release.

    WMC Live #437: Resistance. (Original Airdate 4/7/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2024 52:43


    Robin on Haiti's uniqueness in the world, and “Whatever happened to CEDAW?!” Guest: author Soraya Chemaly and The Resilience Myth.

    WMC Live #436: The Invisible Becoming Visible. (Original Airdate 3/31/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2024 51:21


    Robin "unearths" Lise Meitner, the "mother of the atomic bomb" (she loathed it), interviews Lela Mailman and Darlene Gomez about missing and murdered Indigenous women, and discovers the ignored female birds of North America.

    WMC Live #435: The Monarch. (Original Airdate 3/24/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 29:17


    Robin relaunches her news coverage and analysis of our political reality, and also reports on a remarkable natural history story.

    WMC Live #434: The Last Speaker, Part 3. (Original Airdate 3/10/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2024 32:28


    Robin concludes her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the third and last section of the three-part novella from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.

    WMC Live #433: The Last Speaker, Part 2. (Original Airdate 3/3/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2024 33:30


    Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the second of three parts of a novella from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.

    WMC Live #432: The Last Speaker, Part 1. (Original Airdate 2/25/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2024 51:52


    Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the first of three parts of a novella from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.

    WMC Live #431: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 2. (Original Airdate 3/11/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2024 22:23


    Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the final section of a story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.

    WMC Live #430: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 1. (Original Airdate 2/4/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2024 29:15


    Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading a two-part story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.

    WMC Live #429: The Child Who Could Read Rivers. (Original Airdate 1/28/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 40:55


    Robin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading a new story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.

    WMC Live #428: The List Keeper. (Original Airdate 1/21/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024 29:03


    Robin continues her New Year's feature with a reading of her own short fiction fitting the date— “The List Keeper,” from her book Parallax published by Spinifex Press.

    WMC Live #427: New Year, New Approach. (Original Airdate 1/14/2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 33:50


    Robin goes into "Refresh" in computer mode, starting 2024 reading a new little gem of her own fiction, "The Embodiment" from her book Parallax.

    WMC Live #426: The Mer-Child. (Original Airdate 12/17/2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2023 69:52


    After a chaotic and stressful year, Robin devotes the entire episode to reading the magical, transformative story she wrote for her son, then age 8—The Mer-Child: A Legend for Children and Other Adults.

    WMC Live #425: Say Her Name, Part 2. (Original Airdate 12/10/2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2023 41:27


    Robin discusses the #SayHerName Mothers Network, intersectionality, #MeToo, racialized motherhood in America, and more with special guests Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gina Best. Plus, Audre Lorde's poetry.

    WMC Live #424: Say Her Name, Part 1. (Original Airdate 12/3/2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2023 49:27


    Robin's guests, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw of the African American Policy Forum & Gina Best of the #SayHerName Mothers Network, on police brutality and public silencing regarding Black women. Plus, Robin on Israel and Hamas.

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