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Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the former editor of Teen Vogue and Feministing and the editorial director at The Meteor. She's the author of The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning, which explores the contradictions and inequities of success in the modern workplace, particularly for women and marginalized groups. She's also written Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life and was the co-editor of the anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America. She wrote her master's thesis on The Politics of the Feminist Blogosphere and is passionate about examining power, gender, and cultural narratives through a feminist lens. We talk about: Why Samhita wrote her book The systemic challenges in the workplace for women The impact of gendered expectations The American ethos of work and success What it means for Samhita to be a feminist at work Redefining success and prioritizing self-care What it means for Samhita to be in the realm of being an older woman Burnout as a systemic problem Samhita's vision for the book (and society) And more! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Recommended by the Sunday Times. Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide. You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.

353. How We'll Save Abortion: A Must-Listen with Jessica Valenti Amanda, Glennon and Abby sit down with award-winning writer and activist Jessica Valenti to discuss the state of abortion rights in the United States.  Discover:  -The staggering statistic revealing overwhelming public support for abortion in America -Why the anti-choice movement is desperate to keep abortion off the ballot -Why abortion is a litmus test for the future of democracy in America -The exodus of doctors from anti-choice states and the rise in maternal mortality rates.  More on Jessica:  Jessica Valenti is an award-winning author and activist. She's the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller Sex Object: A Memoir. Her groundbreaking anthology, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, paved the way for legislation of the same name, setting what's now considered the gold standard for sexual consent. Jessica has also been credited with sparking feminism's online wave by founding the trailblazing blog Feministing. She's been a columnist for The Guardian and The Nation, and her writing has been published everywhere from The New York Times and The Atlantic to Bitch magazine and The Toast. After the demise of Roe, Jessica founded Abortion, Every Day, an urgent synthesis of anything and everything happening with abortion rights in the United States. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. More about Jessica's Work:  -https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/772254/abortion-by-jessica-valenti/ -https://jessica.substack.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Laura for a discussion with Samhita Mukhopadhyay exploring her newest book, The Myth of Making It. The former executive editor of Teen Vogue brings to this conversation her experiences of workplace reckoning to help us reimagine what work can be when we are tired, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of hustle culture. Samhita Mukhopadhyay is is the former executive editor of Teen Vogue and Feministing and the current editorial director at the Meteor. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Atlantic, and The Nation.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, author of "The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning" joins Abhay for a conversation about a range topics from “trickle down feminism” to being the daughter of two Bengali immigrants, to mentoring and leadership. Samhita served as the executive editor of the popular blog Feministing and then for Teen Vogue and in reflecting on her journey, found herself squarely in the messy middle of it all in being a girl boss, questioning the notion that happiness and fulfillment stem from overwork and professional achievement. In “The Myth of Making It”, Samhita questions “hustle culture” and the neo-liberal feminist mantras of leaning in and persevering as seductive and often destructive definitions and methods. Through a blend of personal anecdotes, expert analysis, and the varied experiences of workers, she tackles this paradox of why working success for women can feel deeply important and so unsatisfying at the same time.(0:00 - 3:30) introduction(3:30) Part 1 - redemption and liberation, "hustle culture"(14:20) Part 2 - "trickle down feminism", mentoring and leadership, counseling new women entering the workforce(31:49) Part 3 - daughter of Bengali immigrants, South Asian modern feminism, exploring and enjoying paradoxes(46:48) Conclusion

There are so many books coming out this month about rethinking women and the workplace—specifically by former magazine editors, which, as a magazine editor, I'm really into. Out today is one of the best books I've read in a long time, Samhita Mukhopadhyay's powerful The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning, which opens with a beautiful epigraph from Toni Morrison that reads “You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.” So many of us have bought into, as Samhita calls it, the myth of making it—as she writes, our definitions of success are myths, and seductive ones, at that. She writes in the book that we have a collective responsibility to re-imagine work as we know it, and she advocates for a liberated workplace that pays fairly, recognizes our values, and gives people access to the resources they need. The book traces the origins of, basically, how we've been getting it all wrong all of these years—I especially enjoyed the rethinking of Helen Gurley Brown, former editor-in-chief at Cosmopolitan and author of Sex and the Single Girl, as well as rethinking Lean In and Girlboss and hustle culture. Samhita writes about how millions of us “in the past decade—and especially during and after the pandemic—have looked at their lives and said, ‘What the fuck?' Why are we working all the time to make less than our male counterparts? Why are we doing most of the childcare, even when our partnerships are ‘equal'? Why have we sacrificed so much of our personal happiness to be driven by these undefined measures of success? Why were we spending more time with our coworkers than with anyone else in our lives? Why are we tired all the time?” She adds, “The way we work has become untenable, both personally and globally. We are craving something more and something better,” and she adds, of her rock bottom while executive editor at a major fashion magazine, “all I could think was, This is not normal. There must be a better way. My hope is, together, we can find it.” In this book and in this conversation, Samhita discusses the end of the hustle, Anna Wintour, burnout, working moms, and so much more. Samhita is the former executive editor of Teen Vogue and former executive editor at Feministing. As a writer, her work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Cut, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Atlantic Monthly, and Jezebel. Let's get into our conversation.   The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning by Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Have you ever felt like you're being pulled in a million directions, stretched incredibly thin as you try to juggle all the expectations of career, family, and personal fulfillment? Have you struggled with the narrative that women can "have it all" if they just lean in and work hard enough? In today's episode, we challenge this myth of "making it" and explore why it may be causing more harm than good, especially for women. My guest today is Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor of Teen Vogue and Feministing, and author of the book "The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning."  We'll discuss the toll that unrealistic work-life expectations take on women's well-being, the challenges of advocating for change, and how we can start crafting more meaningful, sustainable lives and careers. If you've ever felt alone in your struggles to balance it all, this episode will remind you that you're not the only one questioning the status quo.  We're in conversation with: SPARKED GUEST: Samhita Mukhopadhyay | Book Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the former executive editor of Teen Vogue and the former executive editor at Feministing. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, The Cut, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Atlantic, and The Nation. Born in New York City, Mukhopadhyay lives between Putnam County and Brooklyn.  YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 850,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover Your Sparketype | The Book | The Website Find a Certified Sparketype Advisor: CSA Directory Presented by LinkedIn.

Jessica Valenti, author of the book Sex Object: A Memoir and founder of the blog Feministing, is a dishonest woman with the unseemly life mission to keep abortion safe, legal, and commonplace. She describes herself on TikTok as a “feminist author” and “a much bigger deal on Twitter,” who writes “about abortion every day.” Valenti, an avid proponent of women killing their own children—who are the greatest source of joy in life—aptly calls herself “Auntie Killjoy.” Read more...

Jessica Valenti, author of the book Sex Object: A Memoir and founder of the blog Feministing, is a dishonest woman with the unseemly life mission to keep abortion safe, legal, and commonplace. She describes herself on TikTok as a “feminist author” and “a much bigger deal on Twitter,” who writes “about abortion every day.” Valenti, an avid proponent of women killing their own children—who are the greatest source of joy in life—aptly calls herself “Auntie Killjoy.” Read more...

This week, Joi Chaney, our Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, sits down with Kerrie Johnson, Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Together they discuss the nation's reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and its impact on the LGBTQ community and the importance of including the LGBTQ community's perspective and existing within different intersections as well updates on Brittney Griner's case. Discussed in this episode: LGBTQIA+, LGBTQ, lesbian, gay, bisexual,  trans, transgender, queer, civil rights, justice, Brittney Griner, Russia, WNBA, safe space, safety, health, Black community, Black men, Black America, African Americans, Race, Black Women, Black Families, State of Black America, For the Movement, National Urban League, Urban League Movement, Young Professionals  Contact and Follow our Guest(s) on Twitter @TaskForceAF. Visit: https://www.thetaskforceactionfund.org. Contact and Follow the National Urban League at: Web: www.nul.org Email: podcast@nul.org  Twitter and Instagram: @NULpolicy | @NatUrbanLeague Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NULPolicy  Kierra's Bio: Executive Director, Kierra Johnson, joined the National LGBTQ Task Force in 2018 as Deputy Executive Director but was already engaged with the organization, previously serving on the National LGBTQ Task Force's board of directors and its National Action Council. Johnson came to the Task Force after serving as (Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity) URGE's Executive Director with a wealth of experience in organizational leadership and management, program development, youth leadership and reproductive justice. As a bisexual Black woman, Johnson is one of few out queer-identified women of color at the helm of a national LGBTQ organization. She is recognized as a national expert on queer and reproductive rights issues and has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, Fox News, Feministing.com and National Public Radio. Johnson also serves on the boards of directors of the General Service Foundation, Groundswell Fund, and Guttmacher Institute. Here are opinion pieces written by Kierra Johnson that were mentioned in this episode: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/transgender-people-get-pregnant-sometimes-trans-people-need-abortions/   https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/6/29/how-scotuss-roe-decision-fails-todays-america

This week, Joi Chaney, our Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, sits down with Kerrie Johnson, Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Together they discuss the nation's reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and its impact on the LGBTQ community and the importance of including the LGBTQ community's perspective and existing within different intersections as well updates on Brittney Griner's case. Discussed in this episode: LGBTQIA+, LGBTQ, lesbian, gay, bisexual,  trans, transgender, queer, civil rights, justice, Brittney Griner, Russia, WNBA, safe space, safety, health, Black community, Black men, Black America, African Americans, Race, Black Women, Black Families, State of Black America, For the Movement, National Urban League, Urban League Movement, Young Professionals  Contact and Follow our Guest(s) on Twitter @TaskForceAF. Visit: https://www.thetaskforceactionfund.org. Contact and Follow the National Urban League at: Web: www.nul.org Email: podcast@nul.org  Twitter and Instagram: @NULpolicy | @NatUrbanLeague Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NULPolicy  Kierra's Bio: Executive Director, Kierra Johnson, joined the National LGBTQ Task Force in 2018 as Deputy Executive Director but was already engaged with the organization, previously serving on the National LGBTQ Task Force's board of directors and its National Action Council. Johnson came to the Task Force after serving as (Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity) URGE's Executive Director with a wealth of experience in organizational leadership and management, program development, youth leadership and reproductive justice. As a bisexual Black woman, Johnson is one of few out queer-identified women of color at the helm of a national LGBTQ organization. She is recognized as a national expert on queer and reproductive rights issues and has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, Fox News, Feministing.com and National Public Radio. Johnson also serves on the boards of directors of the General Service Foundation, Groundswell Fund, and Guttmacher Institute. Here are opinion pieces written by Kierra Johnson that were mentioned in this episode: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/transgender-people-get-pregnant-sometimes-trans-people-need-abortions/   https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/6/29/how-scotuss-roe-decision-fails-todays-america

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"Rape culture is a culture in which sexual violence is treated as the norm and victims are blamed for their own assaults. It's not just about sexual violence itself, but about cultural norms and institutions that protect rapists, promote impunity, shame victims, and demand that women make unreasonable sacrifices to avoid sexual assault. Rape culture pressures women to sacrifice their freedoms and opportunities in order to stay safe, because it puts the burden of safety on women's shoulders, and blames them when they don't succeed. As a result, certain opportunities are left unavailable to women, and still others are restricted by expensive safety precautions, such as not traveling for professional networking unless you can afford your own hotel room. That amounts, essentially, to a tax that is levied exclusively on women. Over time, the cost of that tax adds up to opportunities lost and progress not achieved. When women give up social and economic opportunities in order to stay safe, that affects their progress overall, which in turn affects society's progress overall. And although rape culture has its roots in long-standing patriarchal power structures that were designed to benefit men, today's rape culture burdens men too — for instance, by ignoring the fact that men can be victims of rape and sexual assault, and women can be perpetrators of it. That means that male victims are also left without legal protection and social support. The goal of talking about rape culture is about much more than just reducing the frequency with which sexual assault occurs or the impunity that allows it to flourish, because the problems at the root of rape culture are much bigger than that. How the concept of rape culture is becoming mainstream The term "rape culture" was originally coined in the 1970s. The term appeared in Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women, published by the New York Radical Feminists Collective in 1974, and was explored in depth in the 1975 documentary Rape Culture. In more recent years, however, the idea of rape culture has received much more attention, including from mainstream outlets: This is due in large part to the rise of feminist and female-focused online media and activism. Sites such as Feministing, Shakesville, Colorlines, Racialicious, and Feministe published essays identifying and analyzing different aspects of rape culture. Their success amplified the voices of feminist writers covering the subject and eventually attracted the attention of mainstream publications as well. At the same time, awareness campaigns run by groups like Know Your IX and Hollaback have compounded that effect, bringing the issue to greater prominence. Rape culture blames victims, which allows impunity for the perpetrators First, rape culture treats rape as a problem to be solved through improving the behavior of potential rape victims (who are presumed, in this logic, to be women), rather than improving the behavior of potential rapists (who are presumed to be men)." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

Rachel and withdrawal are finally getting the respect they deserve. Episode Discussed: Bridgerton, Episode 5, “The Duke and I” Binging/Cringing: Leila's binging Netflix' “The One” Lori's cringing at pearl clutchers at the Grammys Special Guest: Rachel Jones https://twitter.com/rachelj5 Rachel's original commentary on withdrawal: https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2009/does-withdrawal-deserve-another-look# Lori's piece on Feministing covering Rachel's commentary: http://feministing.com/2009/08/07/pulling-punches-on-pulling-out/ Laura Lindberg's piece on sex ed and Bridgerton: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2021/01/21/has-sex-ed-even-changed-from-the-bridgerton-era-to-today/ Ad: Hot Bread Kitchen https://hotbreadkitchen.org/ Credits: Our editor is Karen Y. Chan https://karenychan.com/ Judith Walker created our logo and cover art Dallas DL Engram created our theme song https://soundcloud.com/dadollars Our ad music is by Sidhartha Corses https://siddharthamusic.bandcamp.com/

While Lovell is away, special co-host and former Gayborhood guest Heather Rae Martin joins Roger to interview media maven and author Sesali Bowen. An accomplished journalist, Sesali is a former editor of Feministing, the former senior entertainment editor at Nylon Magazine, and her upcoming memoir Notes from a Trap Feminist: A Manifesto for the Bad Bitch Generation is about to hit a bookstore near you this fall. Sesali, Heather, and Roger dive deep into a variety of topics, including the definition of an artist, zodiac signs, fatphobia, Brickhouse Commodores, and the power of trap feminism. Go on Instagram to follow Sesali at @badfatblackgirl and Heather at @hrae013, and learn everything you can about the folx highlighted by Sesali in this week's Gayborhood Watch: Amber J. Phillips, Ts Madison, and Sesali's own mom.  Be sure to check out Sesali's podcast Purse First too, and don't forget to follow @rogerq.mason and @lovell.holder on Instagram for all your Gayborhood updates.

Malebo Sephodi is a South African writer and researcher. With over 6 years corporate and just over 20 years community development experience, Malebo has worked and spoken in various parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas. She has worked with many Schools, NGO's and the private sector tackling numerous socio-economic projects.She has been listed by Okay Africa as top 100 women in Africa in 2018 and a Mail and Guardian Top 200 Young People in 2018. She was the recipient of the Fabulous Woman Brave Award in 2018 and a runner up in the Gauteng Legislature Vita Basadi Award. Malebo was also the recipient of the South African Literary Award first-time Published Author in 2018 and is a Wits City Institute Mellon Fellow and recipient of the Wits University Walter and Albertina Sisulu Prize. Her research interests include: Gender, Human Development Economy, Artificial Intelligence Policy, and the Hegemony of Science.Her debut non-fiction titled Miss Behave published by BlackBird Books (imprint of Jacana Media) was released in May 2017. Dubbed by many readers as "compulsory reading,” Miss Behave tracks Malebo's journey as a Black Woman in South Africa fighting for autonomy over her life. She addresses issues such as Patriarchy, Sexism, Intersectionality, Body positivity and Economic Quotas. Miss Behave has been long listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Non Fiction Prize.Malebo shares how growing up in a family of activists was the start of her being seen as a pillar in her community and how the pressure to remain that pillar took a toll on her body which eventually led to an awakening of sorts (my language) with respect to self care. She shares how she learned to rest, find pleasure, joy and prioritize self care. Malebo also talks about the role spirituality plays in her personal care as well as her life in general, and how honoring her spirituality is decolonial work. "Science is knowledge, but who defines what that knowledge is." Malebo has also done a lot of work to end gender based violence, and she shares some of her lessons learned along the way. There are so many nuggets of wisdom in this talk today, grab a cup of tea and enjoy! Here's her TEDxTalk that I mentioned.Also as mentioned at the end of the show, here's where you can find out about IONE's Dream Festival, happening now! http://www.ministryofmaat.org/dreamfestival.htmlToday's show was produced, hosted, and edited by ME, Theresa, so please forgive any hiccups.Our show music is from Shana Falana !!!Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IThttp://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHERITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCASTITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr'Follow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcastTWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas

The so-called “discovery” of the world by European navigators in the XV century is the event that defines the beginning of the historical process known as colonialism, a system marked by the exploitation of labor and expropriation of land that is still present in different forms in the international geopolitical arena. In this episode, the first of a small series, we will discuss how these colonial structures are present in modern times and how they are reflected in the Covid-19 crisis we currently live. Our attention will focus on the Navajo Nation and the Republic of Zimbabwe. Our guests today are Dr. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and an Assistant Professor of History as well as an affiliated faculty of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University and author of The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century; and Tinashe Goronga, a physician from Zimbabwe who is focused on social medicine, public health, and health equity. Tinashe is also member of the Global Campaign Against Racism’s, Zimbabwe chapter. ** This episode was recorded on July 10th, the data presented refers back to that moment and might have changed by now. Here are links to further the discussion, based on the conversation: NAVAJO INITIATIVES Dr. Farina King’s website - https://farinaking.com/dinedoctorhistorysyllabus/ Healing Songs sung by the Navajo and the Sioux – https://youtu.be/x1uJidwo77s The Official Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund - https://www.nndoh.org/donate.html Utah Navajo Health System - https://www.unhsinc.org/ NDN Collective COVID-19 Project – https://ndncollective.org/covid-19/ Pueblo Relief Fund - https://pueblorelieffund.org/ Far East Navajo COVID-19 Response Fund - https://www.gofundme.com/f/far-east-navajo-covid19-relief Utah Diné Bikéyah - https://utahdinebikeyah.org/contribute-2/ K'é Infoshop - http://keinfoshop.org/donate The National Council of Urban Indian Health - https://www.ncuih.org/index ZIMBABWE INITIATIVES CHEZ- health education – https://twitter.com/CHEZimbabwe Zim Citizens COVID Response - https://www.instagram.com/zimccr/ Rare Diseases & Disabilities Africa Foundation – https://www.facebook.com/RaDDA.Foundation/ Kufema - https://kufemazimbabwe.org/ Kufunda Village Community – https://www.kufunda.org/ National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe - http://www.nationalgallery.co.zw/ Institute of afrikology - https://instituteofafrikology.wordpress.com/ Women for the Environment Africa - https://www.womenforenvironment.org/ Feministing while African - https://twitter.com/FeministingWAF BRAZILIAN INITIATIVES UNEAFRO Brazil - https://uneafrobrasil.org/ Popular health agents project - https://agentespopularesdesaude.org.br/

SPEAKERS Jessica Valenti Columnist, Medium; Founder, Feministing.com; Co-Author, Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World Jaclyn Friedman Founder and Former Executive Editor, Women, Action and the Media; Podcaster, “Unscrewed”; Co-Author, Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World Meena Harris Founder and CEO, Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign—Moderator This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on February 11th, 2020. ** This Podcast Contains Explicit Language **

I'm joined by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti editors of a new anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. We discuss why we need a book about believing women’s experiences are as credible and reliable as men. Believing women starts with believing ourselves and caring for our personal well-being. Samantha Irby contributes an essay about her chronic illness which you can read on Elle.  Anuradha Bhagwati, author of the memoir Unbecoming, writes about the disbelief of her disability from countless others. Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her, writes about the lack of C-level women in technology jobs and how it leaves us more vulnerable to online harassment. --- About JaclynJaclyn Friedman is an educator, activist, and the force behind four hit books: Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers’ Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009), What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power & How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All, and the forthcoming anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Her podcast, also called Unscrewed, is paving new paths to sexual liberation, and was named one of the best sex podcasts by both Marie Claire and Esquire. Friedman is a popular speaker on campuses and at conferences across the US and beyond. She has been a guest on the Today Show, Nightline, PBS News Hour, Call Your Girlfriend, and numerous other audio and TV shows, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, Vox, Refinery 29, The Washington Post, Glamour, and The Guardian. Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Podcast About JessicaJessica Valenti - called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world - is a columnist for Medium and a feminist author. Her most recent book, Sex Object: A Memoir, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2004, Jessica founded the award winning blog Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review called “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Jessica’s articles have topped the most-read lists at The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Guardian, and The Washington Post. She's also written for Salon, Bitch, Ms. Magazine and The Toast. Jessica has been interviewed on The Colbert Report, profiled in The New York Times magazine, and is a widely-sought after speaker. Website | Instagram | Twitter --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings --- Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions --- Subscribe to the podcastWe're on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! Have a show idea or guest recommendation? E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. --- Join the Facebook groupContinue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners on the Body Kindness Facebook group. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

In our second episode about Witches, we talk about women who embrace the label of witch because they don't accept typical gender roles, and women maligned as “witches” by others, including Hillary Clinton and AOC. Plus, WITCH protest groups, Lindy West, and pop culture witches that made a statement about gender and feminism, including The Craft, AHS: Coven, and Sabrina. We also discuss Disney witches, including Maleficent and Ursula. It won't surprise you to know that most witches in film and TV are not great representations of women. Still - why are so many of us drawn to the idea, imagery, and symbolism of a witch? What is inherent to witches that leads feminists to identify with them? Want extra reading? Check our sources and recommendations: About Kristin Sollee's book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/05/witches-feminism-books-kristin-j-sollee About the 1960s WITCH protest group: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/43gd8p/wicked-witch-60s-feminist-protestors-hexed-patriarchy “The Real Reason Women Love Witches” by Annie Theriault: https://medium.com/the-establishment/the-real-reason-women-love-witches-647d48517f66 Witch protesters from 2017: https://www.lifesitenews.com/pulse/witches-violent-protestors-show-up-to-support-planned-parenthood-at-pro-lif About AOC being accused of belonging to a coven: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/02/conservative-christians-claim-ocasio-cortez-is-a-witch-leading-attack-against-trump/ Review of AHS: Coven from Mic: https://www.mic.com/articles/80723/let-s-talk-about-the-extreme-racism-and-sexism-of-american-horror-story-coven Review of AHS: Coven from Feministing: http://feministing.com/2013/12/04/american-horror-story-coven-is-getting-race-all-wrong/ There's a great article from Critical Studies in Media Communication (a scholarly journal), but you'll need access through a library or institution, called “There's Nothing I Hate More Than a Racist: (Re) Centering Whiteness in American Horror Story: Coven,” by Amanda Kay LeBlanc.https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1416418 Profess-Hers is a podcast written and presented by Misty, a History professor, and Allegra, an English professor, both of whom are here for having a serious, fun conversation about looking at literature, history, current events, pop culture, and media through a feminist lens. Written by Allegra Hanna and Misty Wilson-Mehrtens. Find the Profess-Hers Podcast on Twitter and Instagram @Professhers.

Lauren Mitchell and Mary Mahoney, co-authors of The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People talked with me in January 2017 about their book, story-based doula care, and organizing doulas.“This is what she needs us to bear witness to at the moment” --Lauren MitchellRESOURCES* The Doulas: Radical Care For Pregnant People https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/the-doulas* Bitch’s review of The Doulas https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/radical-idea-providing-doulas-abortions* Feministing’s interview with Lauren and Mary http://feministing.com/2016/12/07/the-feministing-five-mary-mahoney-lauren-mitchell-of-the-doula-project/* The Doula Project https://www.doulaproject.net/* The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption In The Decades Before Roe v. Wade http://www.thegirlswhowentaway.com/* “Inside The Million Dollar Get-Rich Doula Clique” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiejmbaker/doula-drama* The Berkshire Doula Project https://www.facebook.com/BerkshireDoulaProject/SUPPORTYou’re invited to help sustain the podcast by becoming a patron at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fullspectrumdoulacircleCONNECTOther ways to connect:fullspectrumdoulacircle@gmail.comtwitter.com/FSDCirclefacebook.com/FullSpectrumDoulaCircle/facebook.com/groups/1258576247514205/THANK YOUThank you to Elizabeth Fein for writing and recording the podcast theme music.

Maya Dusenbery is a journalist, editor, and the author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. She is editorial director of Feministing.com and has previously been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard. Her work has appeared in publications like Slate, Cosmopolitan.com, HuffPost, TheAtlantic.com, Popular Science, and Teen Vogue, among others. 03:01 More than 40% of women with an autoimmune disease have been told by a doctor that they are overly concerned with their health. 04:03 Gender gap delays in diagnosis. 05:03 “The knowledge gap and the trust gap.” 06:38 Why autoimmune diseases are so difficult to diagnose. 09:26 Why it’s difficult for patients to trust themselves in their pain and problems. 10:05 Underestimating the authority that medical professionals hold. 13:14 The issues with treating women properly. 14:19 “Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to have an adverse drug reaction.” 15:10 The remarkable problem that leaves one-half of the population less well treated. 15:49 “The less that we know about women’s bodies ... the more that we tend to ... dismiss them.” 17:42 “We are poised for change.” —Stacey 19:31 Social media and affecting change. 21:47 Do employers have a stake in this? 24:53 Maya’s advice for health care professionals and systems to better cater to millennial women. 25:14 "... listening to women and believing them.” 26:57 Why millennials are more likely to skip primary care and go straight to a specialist. 31:41 “Nobody ... wants their health to become a second full-time job.” 32:12 Health care providers educating themselves on the history of health care and its biases.

Maya Dusenbery is an editor, journalist and author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. She was the Editorial Director of Feministing.com, a fellow at Mother Jones magazine, a columnist at Pacific Standard and has written for several publications such as Slate and the New York Post. In this episode, we talk about the massive knowledge gap in medical research for men versus women and how it contributes heavily to several issues from gender bias in the doctor’s office to the experiential gap in treating women-only conditions like endometriosis. We also discuss how to navigate these gaps and biases, take control of your own health, and so much more!   To learn more about Maya Dusenbery, visit the show notes.

This week's guest is writer and editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay. After stints at Feministing and Mic and writing her book, she took over the Executive Editor role at Teen Vogue. In this episode she talks about her path to Teen Vogue and offers up some serious career advice.

As part of my women’s health series, I chat to Maya Dusenbery about her new book, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. We spend our conversation talking about the book and all that she discovered about the history of ignoring and/or disbelieving women’s pain and the deep, systemic problems that underlie women’s experiences of feeling dismissed by the medical system. Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. About Maya Maya Dusenbery is a journalist, editor of the feminist site Feministing.com, and the author of the book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has also appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, HuffPost, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch magazine, Teen Vogue, New York Post, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Follow Maya Website | Twitter | Book --- Body Kindness study: Want to help advance research on body image healing? I’m co-investigator of a new study with Dr. Jennifer Webb Director of the Integrative Positive Psychology Research Lab in Mindfulness, Body Acceptance, Culture & Health (MIND-BATCH) at UNC Charlotte. We’re looking for female Body Kindness readers living in the U.S. who are either pregnant OR who have at least one child 5 years or younger to complete a survey. Visit www.BodyKindnessBook.com/research to learn more and find out how you can get a free e-book and web-based resources. --- Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062 Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9 Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V --- Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

This week my guest is Sarah Murray of Women Win, who is a global authority on play who has spent two decades promoting gender inclusion in sport. Wearing the Women Win jersey since 2009, she is currently the organization’s U.S. and Global Catalyze Director — leading efforts to empower adolescent girls to achieve their rights through sport. In this role, she captains strategy development, programs, resource mobilization and global thought leadership.https://www.spreaker.com/show/mtp-dave-briglioMore About Sarah: Prior to joining Women Win, Murray spent 10 years as the Web Producer for the Women’s Sports Foundation – a nonprofit started by Billie Jean King focused on gender equity in sport. Her editorial leadership secured the top Google result for “women’s sports” and made the organizations the most highly trafficked women’s sport site on the Internet. She authored the GoGirlGo! Curriculum, which won the U.S. National Health award and worked with top athlete activists such as Mia Hamm, Christiane Amanpour, Geena Davis and Abby Wambach. An animated public speaker, Murray has challenged audiences from stages such as Beyond Sport, IWG Women in Sport and Next Step. She regularly facilitates cross-cultural workshops related to gender, sport, leadership, storytelling and human-centered design. Her writing has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers and books, including Feministing.org, Women’s Adventure and the Huffington Post. In this episode you’ll hear:•How your organization can develop a “tribe” to increase the scale and depth of engagement •Ways to encourage progress in gender inclusion in sport by rewarding organizations and programs for excellent practices•About Digital Storytelling, a workshop-based methodology that focuses on the everyday person’s ability to share aspects of their life story.

Once upon a time, there was a bespectacled girl who loved tennis. She was resourceful and figured out a way to get tennis lessons for free since her family didn't have a lot of money. When she became a national champion, she began to fight for equal rights within the tennis circuit: equal pay for men AND women. This led to a revolution in the sport, paving the way for future female superstars like Venus and Serena Williams.Sponsored by:www.rebelgirls.co Use promo code REBELPODCAST to get 15% off your first purchase!Jessica Valenti is a columnist for the Guardian US and the author of multiple books on feminism, politics, and culture. Her most recent book, Sex Object: A Memoir, was a New York Times bestseller. Her award-winning blog, Feministing.com, has been praised by Columbia Journalism Review as “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.”This episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is produced by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, with writing and operation support by Darby Maloney and Elyssa Dudley. Sound Design and Original Theme Music by Elettra Bargiacchi.

Once upon a time, there was a bespectacled girl who loved tennis. She was resourceful and figured out a way to get tennis lessons for free since her family didn't have a lot of money. When she became a national champion, she began to fight for equal rights within the tennis circuit: equal pay for men AND women. This led to a revolution in the sport, paving the way for future female superstars like Venus and Serena Williams.Sponsored by:www.rebelgirls.co Use promo code REBELPODCAST to get 15% off your first purchase!Jessica Valenti is a columnist for the Guardian US and the author of multiple books on feminism, politics, and culture. Her most recent book, Sex Object: A Memoir, was a New York Times bestseller. Her award-winning blog, Feministing.com, has been praised by Columbia Journalism Review as “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.”This episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is produced by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, with writing and operation support by Darby Maloney and Elyssa Dudley. Sound Design and Original Theme Music by Elettra Bargiacchi.

On this week's episode, Lovely Leaky Ladies, Jen and Soph chat to Instagram High Priestess, Sarah Tyrrell (aka @selfloveandsarah) who you might have seen on the Late Late Show recently. Sarah is a body positivity activist, brilliant writer, and goddamn inspiration to all of us who need to get the hell on that self love train (in every sense;)). We sat down to talk about what it was like to become a mum unexpectedly at 19, how she weathered years of severe mental illness, survived an eating disorder and suicidal ideation and came to self acceptance. We also covered how finally in the last year, she ditched having crap sex in favour of "weird" sex, the importance of hanging out naked and most intriguingly, the Irish swingers scene. Follow us: Instagram @motherofpodcast www.instagram.com/motherofpodcast/ Facebook @motherofpod m.facebook.com/motherofpod Email us motherofpodcast@gmail.com Hosted by Jennifer O'Dwyer and Sophie White Produced by Cassie Delaney Follow Sarah (@selfloveandsarah) Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selfloveandsarah/ Twitter https://twitter.com/selflovesarah Facebook https://www.facebook.com/selflovewsarah Website: www.sarahtyrrell.com Links to stuff we're talking about: Here's Sarah's piece about her healing her relationship with food: https://sarahtyrrell.com/2018/03/02/how-i-healed-my-relationship-with-food/ Here's Shelly Mc: https://www.instagram.com/shellymc/ Here's the interview I did with Shelly Mc on living with mental illness: https://www.image.ie/life/really-like-chronic-mental-illness-100758 Here's the piece I wrote about therapist hopping: https://www.image.ie/life/first-world-prob-alert-im-a-serial-therapist-hopper-111069 Here's Rebecca Flynn, the other brilliant woman who is wonderful on BoPo and Repeal and Feministing in general! https://www.instagram.com/flynnfluencer/ Here's Your Fat Friend the other brilliant writer we mention: https://medium.com/@thefatshadow/when-the-world-doesnt-fit-527e97e99cc5 And on twitter: https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend

Today I’m joined by Maya Dusenbery, a writer, the editor of Feministing.com, and the author of the new book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, which explores how gender bias in the medical system is harming women. In this episode we discuss the unconscious biases against women that exist in medicine, where these biases come from historically, and how activism and spreading awareness can help shed light on the issue. It’s time for the medical system to start trusting women’s voices, and it’s going to take big change from health care providers — and brave action from patients — to make it happen. “Throughout medical history women’s activism has been very important in creating change.” - Maya Dusenbery Join Dr. Aviva Romm as she dishes up a weekly dose of the whole truth on health and medicine. To learn more about this episode of Natural MD Radio go to http://www.avivaromm.com/079

Episode 6: Embracing Failure, Practicing Self-Care, and Being a Feminist with Renee M. Powers Listen and Subscribe to the podcast here: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher Renee M. Powers inspires us to embrace failure and let go of other's expectations. She teaches us how to prioritize self-care in the after affects of a traumatic experience. We talk about what feminism means to us, and if we think our husbands are feminists. To visit the show notes: www.alliowen.com/renee To join our community: www.facebook.com/groups/alignedandalive Both Renee and I are currently burning our entire lives down.. ”You Gotta Burn it To Build it Back up Again” -Alli Renee is withdrawing from PhD Program We talk about doing things for your parents, approval of others How to explain decisions to other people that they might not understand Prioritizing mental health [bctt tweet="When you’re vulnerable and you admit that this isn’t a healthy choice for me, people will come to your support. And the ones who don’t come to your support are the ones you didn’t need in the first place."] What feminism means to us [bctt tweet="Leaving the phd program was the feminist choice because it allows me to stretch my wings and work with women who I want to work with- Renee"] What to do if the word feminist scares you-- how to know if you identify as a feminist Share feminist resources: Feministing.com Everydayfeminist.com Xojane.com Bustle.com Bitchmagazine.com How to explain to men what feminism is….and talking about if we think our husbands are feminists Quotes from Belle Hookes - Ain’t I a woman, feminism is for everybody…. “Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center more than 10 years ago. It was my hope at the time that it would become a common definition everyone would use. I liked this definition because it did not imply that men were the enemy. By naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter. Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult. It is also broad enough to include an understanding of systemic institutionalized sexism. As a definition it is open-ended. To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism.” Transwomen of color is the highest minority murder rate in this country [bctt tweet="The issue is not just equal pay and the #metoo movement, it’s life or death for a lot of people"] When those people feel safe in this world, everyone will feel safe in the world #METOO or #AMINEXT? Why self-care is so important- especially in times of “burning down your life” phases We have to be firing on all cylinders in order to bounce back from trauma Self-care is identifying your base needs and then prioritizing them. There is no shame in calling in your troops We rise by picking each other up How to find your chosen family Renee's favorite book: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys Where to find Renee:  Website Instagram Facebook Social Do you want to hear more from Alli? Subscribe below! Copyright ©2017 - All Rights Reserved - Allison Owen | Privacy Policy | Photography by Jake Heath

In this first installment of Epistemic Unruliness recorded from within the Trump Age, James interviews Barbara Sostaita, a Feministing.com columnist, community organizer, and doctoral student in Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina where she researches Latinx migrant faith practices and communities. Their conversation focuses upon immigration policy and the recent urgencies created by […]

This week on StoryWeb: Beyoncé’s album Lemonade. Beyoncé slays. That’s the only word to describe her achievement on her most recent album, Lemonade. Now I am not a big fan of hip hop or pop music or what the Grammys call urban contemporary music, but ever since Beyoncé’s performance of “Formation” at last year’s Super Bowl, I have been mightily intrigued by this powerhouse of a performer. For Beyoncé’s songwriting and performance go well beyond hip-hop or pop music or urban contemporary or R&B. Indeed, it seems that any genre is just too narrow to contain Beyoncé. “I am large,” said Walt Whitman. “I contain multitudes.” The same might very well be said of Beyoncé. She slays precisely because she contains vast multitudes. “Formation” – especially the video Beyoncé released the day before the Super Bowl – made me sit up and take notice. Indeed, it made an entire nation sit up and take notice. Like many Americans, I pored over the video, read the lyrics online, read analyses of the song and the video, talked with others about what they were hearing and seeing. So many layers of African American history – from Creole culture to New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, from the Black Power movement to Ferguson and #blacklivesmatter. I continue to watch the video and listen to the song – and I continue to hear and see new cultural references every time I witness this powerful piece. Two months later, Beyoncé released Lemonade, both as a “conventional” album (which in its release exclusively via the Tidal streaming service can hardly be called “conventional”) – and quite unconventionally, as a “visual album.” Back in the 1970s, we would have called this a “concept album” – but the term “visual album” refers to the fact that the entire album is also presented as a 65-minute film, which premiered on HBO in April 2016 the same day the album was released. It’s safe to say that Beyoncé and her husband, rapper Jay Z (who owns Tidal), likely earned considerable money from this album and film. As she says in “Formation,” “I might just be a black Bill Gates in the making.” On the surface, Lemonade may tell the story of Jay Z’s infidelity, but to say that makes it sound as though you’re getting the latest issue of Us magazine or some other celebrity gossip rag. Lemonade is not that. You couldn’t say Beyoncé slays on this album if this were merely a tell-all complaint. No, Lemonade tells the story of marital infidelity in such a way that Beyoncé – as the narrator of these songs – becomes a stand-in for all women who have been betrayed, particularly all black women who have been denigrated as second-class citizens (or worse). The album’s title is drawn from Jay Z’s grandmother, who is shown in the film at her 90th birthday party: “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade.” Spin magazine calls Lemonade “a visual tale of grief, resurrection, and black female empowerment” and goes on to say: On first listen, Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade is all about Jay Z’s cheating. But the 65-minute film accompanying the music makes the personal political by visually empowering black women, celebrating Deep Southern culture, and referencing the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and Hurricane Katrina. Beyoncé is not just a single woman scorned — she represents a scorned demographic, or as the film directly quotes Malcolm X: “The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”   The visual album features the work of British-Somali poet Warsan Shire; the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner, who hold photos of their dead sons; and appearances and contributions from African American celebrities and artists from Serena Williams to Kendrick Lamar. Jay Z also appears near the end of the film, and Ivy Blue Carter, Beyoncé and Jay Z’s young daughter, makes more than one appearance.   The cinematography and some of the actual scenes in the visual album strongly echo Julie Dash’s revolutionary 1991 film, Daughters of the Dust. According to The Washington Post, Daughters of the Dust is “widely recognized as the cultural antecedent” to Lemonade. NPR interviewed Dash about last year’s rerelease of her film. When asked how she responded to Lemonade, Dash said: I was, in a word, enthralled. I was stunned. My mouth was hanging open a gap. I was so taken by the music, the visuals, the non-linear story structure. I was – I was in heaven. . . . I was very pleased. I was very pleased. To learn more about the album and to participate in a lively, ongoing discussion about it, go to Twitter and use LemonadeSyllabus as your hashtag. To read the lyrics to each song and learn the behind-the-scenes back story to the evolution and composition of each song, visit Genius.com. The Atlantic also offers a substantial and insightful analysis of the album.   If you want to get deep into the heart of what Lemonade represents and whether Beyoncé is contributing to the liberation of African American women, you might want to explore the debate started by the nuanced and not always positive view of the album and film offered by African American cultural and feminist critic bell hooks. Her commentary – “Moving Beyond Pain” – sparked considerable discussion. The website Feministing is a good place to explore this lively conversation and to peruse a variety of responses to hooks’s assessment.   Visit thestoryweb.com/beyonce for links to all these resources and to watch the video for “Formation.”   At the end of the day, Beyoncé slays. As she says at the end of the album, you know you’re it “when you cause all this conversation.”  

EP 22: Feminism and Justice for All     Let’s listen to Hatch Innovation’s Director of Events & Culinary Happenings, Jess DeNoto chat with upcoming panelist Emilly Prado. Emilly is a writer who focuses on the intersection of feminist identity, race, class, gender and popular culture. Throughout this episode, Emilly covers authors and artists who’ve inspired her over the years, to current events and the recent articles she’s researched and written, and how our own identities and perceptions play a role in the content we view. Please join us and contribute your identity and perception to this ever-growing conversation.   Host Jess DeNoto, Hatch Innovation A native New York turned longtime Portland resident, Jess has been enjoying french presses at Hatch since its grand opening in January 2014, and currently serves as the director of ComCap Conferences, gatherings of community capital leaders from across the country. Outside of the Hatch realm, Jess is the Executive Director of Vegan Iron Chef, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organized based in Portland, OR, and is a co-founder of Vida Vegan Con (2009-2015), an award-winning international vegan lifestyle, blogging & social media conference.  She received a degree in Marketing Communication from Emerson College in Boston, MA, and spends her free time talking to her cats (Huxley & Zelda), obsessing over curry pastes, placing library holds, living car-free and cultivating a community garden plot with her wife. This episode marks Jess’ first appearance on the Hatch the Future podcast. You can find her online as @jdfunks on Instagram and @getsconed on Twitter. Guests Emilly Prado, Writer, Bitch Media Writer, photographer, and future librarian. A Chicana native of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has called Portland home since 2009. Her writing typically focuses on pop culture with an intersectional feminist lens in relation to race, class, and gender. She earned a B.A. in Child and Family Studies from Portland State University with cum laude honors, received a 2016 ALA Spectrum Scholarship, and is a current MLIS candidate at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in Bitch Media, the Portland Mercury, Feministing, Ms. Magazine, and Travel Portland. When not writing, working, or schooling, she makes zines, sells homemade pinback buttons, and travels as much as possible. You can see her work at www.emillyprado.com In this episode you’ll hear about An exploration of Intersectional Feminism Recognizing the social responsibility of diversifying both professional and personal environments How the editing process can change the original intent Examination of identity and gender in contemporary politics and popular culture Referenced Resources: Emilly’s website Bitch Media Bell Hooks Institute   Referenced Articles: “How Media Coverage of Sexual Assault Victims in Portland Perpetuates Rape Culture” Medium.com September 21, 2016 “The Hunger Games’ Anti-Consumerism Message is No Match for Cover Girl” Bitch November 19, 2013   Referenced Inspiration + Voices: Amandla Stenberg Janet Mock St. Sucia Xicanisma Chimamanda Adichie Selena - The Film Remezcla Kat Blaque Black Girl Dangerous Nalgona Positivity Pride UW’s Women Who Rock Alice Bag’s Women in LA Punk

Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer for The Nation magazine. He has also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Feministing.com, The Guardian, The Root, theGrio, ThinkProgress, and The Huffington Post, and he has been a featured commentator on NPR, BBC radio, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, HuffPost Live, and a number of other radio and television programs. He is the author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching. In this episode of Writers Who Don't Write, Mychal discusses his experience growing up black in America, and what that meant for him, his friends and his family.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lori talks about how sexism affects women and girls with Jessica Valenti, founder of the award-winning Feministing.com. Valenti is a columnist for the Guardian US and the author of four books on feminism, politics, and culture, including Sex Object. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Salon, among others. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Jessica Valenti, author of SEX OBJECT, discusses her new memoir with Rachel Hills, author of THE SEX MYTH, followed by a dialogue between Kate Layte and Katie Eelman on the book.  Jessica Valenti - called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world - is a columnist for theGuardian US and the author of four books on feminism, politics and culture. Her third book, The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women, won the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Award and was made into a documentary by the Media Education Foundation. She is also editor of the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, which was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009.  She founded Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review called “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Her writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian (UK), The American Prospect, Ms. magazine, Salon and Bitch magazine. She has won an IBIS Reproductive Health Evidence in Activism Award, a Choice USA Generation award and the 2011 Hillman Journalism Prize for her work with Feministing.   Rachel Hills has written about feminism and politics for ABC’s The Drum, The Age, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Daily Life, Elle, Girlfriend, Glamour, Grazia, Jezebel, The Monthly, The New Inquiry, New Matilda, The New Republic, NYMag.com, Russh, The Spectator, Stylist, Sunday Life, The Sydney Morning Herald, TIME, Vogue, The Walkley Magazine, YEN and more. She is also the author of a book called The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality, which published in North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK in August 2015. 

Jessica Valenti is the founder of Feministing, a columnist at the Guardian, and the author of the new book "Sex Object." She's also a friend from the early days of blogging. In this podcast, we talk about the early days of blogging, as well as how the internet has changed as the conversation has moved from comment sections to the social web. Jessica's insight here — that in comment sections, trolling was something you did, while on Twitter, a troll is something you are — is powerful, and I've been thinking about it since our conversation. We also talk about:- How feminism was different when Jessica started her blog- How she sees the fights over trigger warnings and political correctness- What it's like to write a book where you reveal some of your deepest secrets to the whole world- The advice Jessica wishes she was given at 15- Whether perceptions of Hillary Clinton are influenced by sexism- Why she rereads the same few books over and overAnd, as always, there's much more. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Valenti is a feminist author, co-founder of Feministing.com, and columnist at The Guardian US. Her new book, Sex Object, explores what it's like to come of age as a female in a misogynist, patriarchal society. Her experiences with abortion and motherhood have reinforced her feminist, pro-choice beliefs. Valenti has had two abortions. The first was the result of an unwanted pregnancy, and the second ended a very wanted pregnancy that could have been fatal. The first wasn't a difficult decision at all: she just didn't want to be pregnant. The second was profoundly painful. Still, she says, one experience was not more valid than the other. Listen to her full story here.

Jessica Valenti is an awesome woman. She has been called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by the Guardian and is a daily columnist there. She is the author of six books on feminism, most recently Sex Object: A Memoir (2016) which came out this month. She founded Feministing.com in 2004, Her writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms. magazine, Salon = and she has won many awards for her work. We talk about feminism, writing an honest memoir and how to deal with online abuse. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti is a pioneer of digital-age feminist writing, starting her blog Feministing in 2004, and becoming known as one of the leading voices in the discussion about gender equality. Valenti’s newest contribution to the movement is her new book, Sex Object: A Memoir.   Her witty and courageous book explores the cold, hard realities of growing up female in a male-dominated society, with a unique spin on a story many women are all too familiar with. Point of Inquiry’s Lindsay Beyerstein gets the inside scoop on what motivated Valenti to write the memoir and what she advises for the future of feminism and the fight for gender equality. They talk about many of the stories Valenti shares about her life, and discuss the personal impact of divulging one’s most vulnerable experiences in order to tell the difficult truths about many women’s everyday lives.

“If I had to choose one thing that's my job or that pays my bills that's being a poet.” Kyle Tran Myhre aka Guante is an MC, two-time National Poetry Slam champion, activist, educator and writer. He and/or his work has appeared on Upworthy, MSNBC, Welcome to Night Vale, Racialicious, Feministing, MPR, Everyday Feminism, the Progressive, City Pages' “Artists of the Year” list and URB Magazine's “Next 1000” list, and he has performed everywhere from the United Nations to the Soundset hip hop festival to hundreds of colleges, clubs, and theaters across the country. In this episode of the podcast, Kyle talks about having a High School nickname become his public face. He also talks about using different names in different contexts and the strengths and weaknesses of being known by different names. Kyle talks about making the bulk of his living traveling to colleges and high schools to work as a poet and teaching artist and how he can leverage being brought in as a poet and then create space for dialogue on the content of his work. Kyle talks opens about race, gender, identity, positionality, power and activism and the role all of these things play in his work. He also talks about completing graduate school and being a thoughtful media activist.

In this episode, Bo Bennett answers some listener feedback about critical thinking and interviews humanist Matthew Facciani about his activism & research in the areas of feminism, religion, and science communication. From Matt's website: Matthew Facciani is a PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience at the University of South Carolina. He completed his undergraduate education at Westminster College, PA receiv-ing a B.A. in Psychology with honors. Facciani has done research on neuroimaging methods and is currently studying the themes of race, class, and gender in comic books. His dissertation will be on the neuroscience of religiosity. He is also an instructor at the University of South Carolina where he teaches psychological statistics. Facciani's writing has been featured on Faith Street, The Good Men Project, The Feminist Observer, Patheos, Skeptical Raptor, Feministing, Secular Nation, and others which are linked in the writing section of this site. As for activism, Facciani is involved with various organizations and projects which pro-mote gender equality and religious tolerance. Facciani also travels around the country to give talks about gender equality and the psychology of religious belief. Once Facciani finishes his PhD, he plans to complete a post-doctoral fellowship furthering his cognitive neuroscience research and become a college professor and science communicator.

Hey gang.  We'll put this episode's link in the social networks and let the people choose some topics.   

Please join MC Brooks and Father Teresa as they debut their new show "The Break Beat."   Joining them tonight is Sesali Bowen from Feministing magazine.  They will discuss black male privilege and the male gaze. This promises to be a very enlightening and informative conversation.   To join in the conversation, please dial 310-982-4273 and press 1.  You can also Skype into the show by clicking the blue S.  You can also set a reminder.

Today on RF we look at some feminist stuff happening out there in the world. There's a lot, so it was hard to choose, but we picked some gems . . .  * Lyn, from the radio show HOMOGROUND, tells us about her Feminist Playing Cards project * Miriam, from FEMINISTING, talks about the world of feminist bloggers * And 3 performers from the UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW talk about gender, nuditity, collaboration and danccceee.     

Miriam Zoila Prez is a writer, blogger and reproductive justice activist. She works with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and is an Editor at Feministing. She was trained as a doula in 2004 and her blog is RadicalDoula.com.I spoke with Miriam about being a radical doula, an abortion doula, reproductive justice and the Too Many Aborted billboard campaign.

Samita Mukhopadhyay, executive editor of Feministing.com, will be speaking at Women's Worlds 2011, which is being held this year in Ottawa-Gatineau from July 3-7.

Writer Jessica Valenti is founder of the blog Feministing.com. She is a three-time author, and her writing has appeared in Ms., The Guardian, and Bitch.

The best commentary on race, feminism, politics, pop culture and more from the blog, What Tami Said, plus reader comments, special interviews and more. SPECIAL EPISODE: LEARN HOW TO GAIN READERS AND ATTENTION FOR YOUR BLOG AND HOW TO LEVERAGE IT TO GAIN OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OFFLINE I'll be joined by Latoya Peterson of Racialicious, Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks, Political Voices of Women and Blogher, and Samhita Mukhopadhyay of Feministing.

The best commentary on race, feminism, politics, pop culture and more from the blog, What Tami Said, plus reader comments, special interviews and more. SPECIAL EPISODE: LEARN HOW TO GAIN READERS AND ATTENTION FOR YOUR BLOG AND HOW TO LEVERAGE IT TO GAIN OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OFFLINE I'll be joined by Latoya Peterson of Racialicious, Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks, Political Voices of Women and Blogher, and Samhita Mukhopadhyay of Feministing.

Jessica Valenti, from Feministing.com, can't find the feminism in Sarah Palin.