Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain (Random House, 2026)
Episode 2614
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington (…
16 hours ago
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Episode 153
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation…
16 hours ago
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining
Episode 2611
To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara Ahmed. In No! The Art and Activism of Complaining, her sweeping exploration of complaint a…
1 week ago
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 2610
What happens to foreign aid (and to women’s status) when the global development landscape shifts away from U.S. dominance? In this episode of Interna…
1 week, 1 day ago
Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain with Lise Shapiro Sanders (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 2609
Lise Shapiro Sanders is the author of Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early 20c Britain, published in October 2026 by …
1 week, 5 days ago
Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women with Eleanor Johnson (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2608
For as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by women. In this book, Eleanor Johnson provides an enga…
1 week, 5 days ago
How Dungeons and Dragons Changed the Way We Play with Aaron Trammell (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 2607
First released in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons revolutionized game design and interactive media by allowing players to create and perform their own ficti…
1 week, 6 days ago
Realism After the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel with Rafael Walker (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 2606
The realist novel, so the story goes, isn’t really an American genre but a European and British one. And what the realist novel does—again, according…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India with Vibhuti Ramachandran (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 2605
Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India (Cambridge UP, 2025) delves into the complex intersection o…
3 weeks ago
Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory with Heather Berg (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 2604
“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) ope…
3 weeks, 1 day ago