Plowshares activist Sister Megan Rice, the 83-year-old nun recently freed from federal prison, talks about activism, nuclear weapons, feminism and the Church; Lina Nilsson discusses how to attract more women engineers.
Gentrification, policing and the creation of gay place-based communities: a conversation with Christina Hanhardt. Hanhardt is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. Also: Women’s Empowerment Day at Hip Hop For Change’s Second Annual Independent Hip Hop Festival on … Continued
Host Lisa Dettmer talks to feminists Katha Pollitt and Meghan Murphy about the recent vote in Ireland to legalize same sex marriage. How is it that Ireland is now touted as in the vanguard of progressive politics after legalizing same sex marriage while abortion is still illegal in Ireland except when a women’s life is … Continued
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. His newest report is From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation. And Rad American Women A-Z, written by … Continued
Hilary Klein discusses her new book, COMPAÑERAS: Zapatista Women’s Stories. We talk about the origins of the EZLN, its evolution over 30 years of struggle and institution building, and how well it realizes its objectives of full gender equality. Klein lived in Chiapas for six years and interviewed dozens of women, from military commanders to … Continued
In conversation with Rafia Zakaria about her new book The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan.
Rebecca Herzig is professor of women and gender studies at Bates College and the author of the book Plucked: A History of Hair Removal. About the book: From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of … Continued
