Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTalia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 369
What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolonial analysis help us understand trans oppression…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sophie Lewis, "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (Haymarket Books, 2025)
Episode 173
Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2025) is a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Akiko Takenaka, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
Episode 170
Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2025) examines the shifting relationships among mother…
1 year, 1 month ago
Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 764
How do we acquire knowledge about societies? Does how we acquire social knowledge shape what we know? How conscious must we be of our own experiences…
1 year, 1 month ago
Laura Miller, "Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Episode 169
In Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan (Hawaii 2024), Laura Miller examines the intersections of ludic capitalism with formal and informal …
1 year, 1 month ago
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Episode 260
Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at much higher rates than their white counterparts. The vast majority of these…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
Episode 230
In Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female (Policy Press, 2025), Dr. Sally King interrogates the diagnostic label of premenstrual syn…
1 year, 1 month ago
Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 207
Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments…
1 year, 1 month ago
Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 411
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India (U California Press, 2024) is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of B…
1 year, 1 month ago
Farah Ahamed, "Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 273
Period Matters is a groundbreaking anthology edited by Farah Ahamed that explores the cultural, social, and political dimensions of menstruation in S…
1 year, 2 months ago