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Feminist Professor

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Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 25

A podcast that shares and explains key ideas in gender, sexuality, and feminist ideas in an accessible and approachable format.

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S2, E7 On Hope

Season 2 · Episode 7

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 • Duration 27:01

In this episode, hope is not read as ‘naïve hope’ that wishes only for a better future; hope here is a more radical version, sometimes called ‘educated hope,’ because we must learn how to hope in ways that do not deny the intolerability of the present or the necessity of striving for a different future. We talk about the role of hopelessness and despair as partners for hope as well as make the case for a kind of hope that would rather fail or be disappointed than forfeit imagining a better future or ‘not yet.’ SHOW NOTES In this episode, I cited the following texts: The Principle of Hope (Ernst Bloch): https://www.amazon.com/Principle-Studies-Contemporary-German-Thought/dp/0262521997 ‘Despair is Not a Luxury’ from No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain (Rebecca Solnit): https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2517-no-straight-road-takes-you-there Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Jose Manuel Munoz): https://nyupress.org/9781479874569/cruising-utopia-10th-anniversary-edition/ ‘Hope in Refusal: Feminist, Queer Futurity’ (Rachel Silverbloom) Signs: Vol. 49 (4): Summer 2024, 807-830.

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S2, E6 On Angry White Men

Season 2 · Episode 6

Saturday, January 24, 2026 • Duration 34:42

In this episode, we will consider the rise of the ‘angry white man,’ the man who experiences aggrieved entitlement because he has not been delivered the social power, authority, and resources promised by patriarchy. The angry white man—who may resent downward economic mobility as much as feminist challenges to gender hierarchy—has been recruited as a voter, protestor, and warrior in the fight for normative masculinity (which, by extension, requires normative femininity). We talk about the political force of the angry white man right now as well as the many ways he is positioned as the last defense of patriarchy and white supremacy. Show Notes The following texts have been mentioned in this episode as well as earlier episodes in the series on masculinities: Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (Michael Kimmel): https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0060831359 Angry White Men: Masculinity at the End of an Era (Michael Kimmel): https://www.amazon.com/Angry-White-Men-American-Masculinity/dp/1568585136 Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (C.J. Pascoe): https://www.amazon.com/Dude-Youre-Fag-Masculinity-Sexuality/dp/0520271483 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (bell hooks): https://www.amazon.com/Will-Change-Men-Masculinity-Love/dp/0743456084

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S2, E5 On Bro Culture

Season 2 · Episode 5

Saturday, December 13, 2025 • Duration 37:04

In this episode, we are rejoined by Dr. Suzanne Ashworth for a conversation about the rise and rules of ‘bro culture.’ She will discuss the shaping force of ‘guyland’ for white, college bound or college educated young men as well as the ways in which the extended adolescence offered to men generates entitlement, requires silence, and affords protection. She will also discuss the ‘killing paradox’ that defines dominant masculinity and the use of ‘fag discourse’ as a form of social control for young men. Together we will think about the elevation of ‘bro culture’ in modern political life and the forms of complicity it encourages from the larger public. Show Notes Dr. Ashworth mentions the following texts in her discussion: Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (Michael Kimmel): https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0060831359 Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (C.J. Pascoe): https://www.amazon.com/Dude-Youre-Fag-Masculinity-Sexuality/dp/0520271483

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S2, E4 On Masculinities

Season 2 · Episode 4

Thursday, November 6, 2025 • Duration 37:50

In this episode, we will launch the first of three conversations on masculinities with Dr. Suzanne Ashworth. We will discuss why masculinities should be understood as plural even though our culture seems to ignore all but the most dominant and idealized version of it. We will also discuss boyhood and the ways in which mainstream culture begins to ‘boy’ our boys in the direction of emotional indifference and cruelty. Throughout the three-part series, we will constantly return to the questions: what does masculinity feel? And what more might masculinity feel? SHOW NOTES The following texts were cited in this episode: Masculinities (R.W. Connell): https://www.ucpress.edu/books/masculinities/paper Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (Michael Kimmel): https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0060831359 Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Niobe Way): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674072428 Perverse Feelings: Poe and American Masculinity (Suzanne Ashworth): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/perverse-feelings-9781978798533/

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S2 E3, On LGBTQ Equity and Personhood

Season 2 · Episode 3

Thursday, October 2, 2025 • Duration 27:09

DESCRIPTION In this episode, we will complete our discussion of selected policy objectives in Project 2025. This week, the focus is on LGBTQ equity and personhood. Project 2025 is consistently invested in diminishing or denying the personhood of LGBTQ individuals, and it details the legal, political, and economic levers that will help normalize this. We discuss the loss of legal protections as well as the right to non-discrimination, the assumption that gay marriage and family are defective versions of what is biologically and morally desirable, the effort to relabel the trans person as potential political extremist and terrorist, and the conflation of LGBTQ-supportive materials with pornography.

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S2 E2, On the Endgame of Project 2025, Contraception

Season 2 · Episode 2

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 • Duration 24:56

In this episode, we will continue our close look at the key objectives of Project 2025. This time, we will focus on the plan to restrict and deny access to both contraception and emergency contraception. More contraceptive forms (i.e. hormonal birth control, IUDs) have been reframed as abortifacients, or drugs and devices designed to terminate pregnancy. They do not terminate pregnancy; they prevent pregnancy. But Project 2025 is intent on erroneously redefining them so that they can be folded into larger efforts to regulate and ban abortion. Listen to hear more about how this is—and will—happen.

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S2, E1 On the Endgame of Project 2025, Abortion

Season 2 · Episode 1

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • Duration 36:22

DESCRIPTION As the second season of Feminist Professor launches, we begin a multi-episode and closer examination of Project 2025. In this first episode, we focus on the larger plan to regulate, obstruct, and ultimately end the provision of abortion services in the United States. SHOW NOTES You can find a PDF of the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership at https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf You can find the Project 2025 Tracker at https://www.project2025.observer/en The mentioned article, ‘Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate’ (Jay Greene and Lindsey Burke) can be found here: https://www.heritage.org/education/report/education-policy-reforms-are-key-strategies-increasing-the-married-birth-rate

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S2, E1 On the Endgame of Project 2025: Abortion

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • Duration 36:22

As the second season of Feminist Professor launches, we begin a multi-episode and closer examination of Project 2025. In this first episode, we focus on the larger plan to regulate, obstruct, and ultimately end the provision of abortion services in the United States.

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Season 1, Episode 16: On the Politics of Rest

Thursday, June 26, 2025 • Duration 21:52

In this episode, we discuss the important political and personal necessity of rest. Because we live in a grind culture that insists on incessant productivity and normalizes exhaustion, we have lost the capacity to define and defend rest. Thanks to Tricia Hersey’s work in Rest is Resistance, this episode describes how we are damaged by the ‘cult of urgency and busyness’ and how we might begin to reimagine the radical potential of learning how to rest.

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Season 1, Episode 15: On Resilience

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 14:14

Podcast Available On: Apple Spotify Featuring: Dr. Tammy Birk Show Notes: In this episode, we are going to examine the shortcomings and liabilities of resilience. We will discuss the ways in which resilience—as a social expectation and psychological ideal—can obscure the need for structural change and block larger forms of resistance. Resilience can easily become […]

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