“White feminism is not the only feminism, and it never has been.” That’s Koa Beck, author of a new book tracing the history of white feminism and the queer and BIPOC women and non-binary people left behind in its wake. Today, she joins Ali on the show to talk about the ideological weaknesses of white […]
Working from Home is Losing Its Luster
After a year-and-a-half of many American employees working from home, Carousel Bayrd spends her inaugural Wednesday show talking about feminism, workplace, and the home with Eileen Boris. Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics […]
More Women in Sports, Please
According to a recent Global Sport Matters feature, just 11.5 percent of sports reporters in the United States and Canada are women, and women’s sports represent only 4 percent of total sports media coverage. These numbers are staggeringly low, especially given that women make up a big share of the viewers and fans. On top […]
Desire Lines: My Seven Mothers
Pernille Ipsen spent her early years in a feminist collective in Copenhagen. She recently wrote a book about the seven women who raised her, which won a major Danish literature prize. On this week’s Desire Lines, Pernille talks to feature story contributor Carrie Ann Welsh about the story of her seven mothers. Images from the […]
Punk Lives On
Inspired by the Linda Lindas’ viral performance of a song called “Racist, Sexist Boy” at the LA Public Library last week, today former host Karma Chávez returns to the WORT airwaves to talk about punk and DIY culture with Mimi Thi Nguyen. They spend an engaging hour discussing BIPOC women in punk, the community-creating power […]
How Society is Shaped by Male Entitlement
In the wake of the budding #MeToo movement in 2017, feminist philosopher Kate Manne published her timely and critically-acclaimed debut about misogyny, Down Girl. She’s back this year with a new book, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women. Today, we host Kate Manne on the show for a conversation about male entitlement and how it affects […]
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