The Feminist Agenda – Details, episodes & analysis

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Purchase books mentioned and reviewed in this episode through my Bookshop affiliate links:

• It's Her Story: Amelia Earhart a Graphic Novel 
• Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League 

People & things mentioned in this episode: 

• Wally Funk  
• 1918 pandemic  
• Amelia's NYT Letter to the Editor  
• ERA  
• Dr. Kristin Neff

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Jennifer Baumgardner is a writer, activist, filmmaker, and lecturer. Baumgardner joined The Feminist Agenda to discuss the need to publish feminist children's books, letting projects go, and editing the new feminist book review LIBER. 

Originally from Fargo, Baumgardner has been working in New York City at the intersection of feminism and publishing for three decades, beginning in 1993 as an intern (and later editor) at Ms. magazine. From 1997 on, she wrote dozens of features for a diverse array of magazines (Glamour, Teen Vogue, Bust, Dissent, Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s, The Nation, Elle, New York Times, etc.), authored/co-authored seven books (including Manifesta, Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, and Abortion & Life) and wrote, directed, and produced two feature-length documentaries (It Was Rape and I Had an Abortion). Baumgardner has keynoted at more than 250 colleges and universities and, in 2002, co-founded Soapbox Inc., a speaker’s bureau. She was writer-in-residence at the New School from 2008 to 2012. From 2013 to 2017, Baumgardner was the publisher and chief executive of the Feminist Press, where she relaunched their children’s publishing, created the award-winning queer imprint Amethyst Editions with Michelle Tea, and established the Louise Meriwether prize for a debut author of color. From 2017-2021, she was editor in chief of the Women’s Review of Books, a long-running feminist print review out of Wellesley. In December, she left Women’s Review to edit the new feminist book review LIBER, with Katha Pollitt and others. She lives in the Village with her husband, two sons, and two cats.

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• Find most of Jennifer's books at Bookshop 
• Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

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Episode 12 bring us Stephanie Ryan, PhD, who is an author, education consultant, and founder of Ryan Education Consulting LLC. She has a strong background in chemistry and biology and enjoys applying her background to develop superior educational products. She is also  interested in how mathematics and science intertwine. Her first book, a children's book, Let's Learn About Chemistry, has earned rave reviews. 

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Braintown by Laura Elizabeth Hernandez
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Disclaimer: I received a copy of Braintown for review. No further compensation was provided.  

Kandace Creel Falcón, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, writer, and visual artist. Their life’s passion grounds the power of narrative for social transformation. As a Xicanx femme feminist, KCF engages the power of aesthetics and the need to disrupt conventional Western beauty norms. She currently lives and works in rural Minnesota.  

Things we talk about:

• Passion Planner: Use code KANDACE10 to save 10%
• Archer & Olive: Use code feminista10 to save 10%
• National Women's Studies Association 

And while we didn't talk about this exactly, we do wonder if anyone has written about Zodiac signs and planning. So here are some listicles:

• 6 Zodiac Signs Who Are Great At Making Plans
• The 5 Zodiac Signs That Make the Best Wedding Planners
• 4 Zodiac Signs Who Love To Plan Dates, So You Never Have To Make Another Reservation

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Lisa Levenstein, PhD is a professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UNC-Greensboro. Her latest book, They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties, takes a peek into the origins of online feminism in the 1990s and Veronica's role in that history.

Things we discuss:

* FemFuture Report

* Veronica's response to the FemFuture Report

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Thanks to my friend, Corinne Kodama, Policy Analyst at Women Employed, for joining The Feminist Agenda to discuss the themes of Megan Rapinoe's memoir, One Life. Women Employed's mission is to improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity. They draft testimony, rally students, secure grants, persuade legislators,  mobilize advocates, share ideas with educators, design systems  improvements and programs, brainstorm with business leaders, tweet and  post, and passionately believe in a better future for all working women.

Things mentioned in this podcast include:

• One Life by Megan Rapinoe
• Wolfpack by Abby Wambach
• Chicago Red Stars supporter group, Chicago Local 134

Book links are to support Chicago's Women and Children First bookstore. They are not affiliate links. I just want the bookstore to always be there. 

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Brea Grant is a filmmaker/writer best known for co-writing/directing the apocalyptic feature, Best Friends Forever, and acting on shows like Heroes and Dexter. Her latest book, Mary: The Adventures of Mary Shelley's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter, is a YA graphic novel about angsty teenager Mary Shelley who is not interested in carrying on her family's celebrated legacy of being a great writer. Brea also has a new movie out, 12 Hour Shift and is the co-host of Reading Glasses. In her spare time, she enjoys reading science fiction and  watching too much TV while pretending like it's research. She lives in  Los Angeles, California. 

Things discussed in this episode include:

• Bookshop
• One Life by Megan Rapinoe
• Women and Children First Bookstore
• Mary Shelley
• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 
• Octavia Butler 
• Lucky
• Buffering the Vampire Slayer
• PEN15
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
• Hobonichi Techo - organization system

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This episode of The Feminist Agenda features Martha Chaves, a Hispanic-Canadian award-winning comedian, actor, activist, and playwright. Join the conversation as we touch on feminism in comedy, growing up under a dictatorship, witnessing Black Lives Matter, and her learning curve within the Nobel Peace Prize sisterhood. 

Martha is a regular in the comedy circuits in North and Latin America, and during quarantine, in the confines of the Zoom where it happens and the Twitch where it 'itch.' In 2020 she even managed to perform in the We are Funny That Way Festival for CBC GEM, directly from her living-room. 

Martha has been featured multiple times in all the prestigious festivals in Canada: Just for Laughs, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival, The Comedy Halifax, and the We are Funny That Way, LGBTQ+ festival. She's a regular host at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. She's often heard in Laugh out Loud and The Debaters on CBC Radio. She's a regular panelist on Because News, also on the CBC. 

Her numerous TV appearances include her Just for Laughs and Winnipeg Comedy Festival Galas and her two national comedy specials: Comics! on the CBC and There's Something' About Martha on the Comedy Network. She was voted Stand-up Comic of the Year at the 2018 Canadian Comedy Awards. Her debut comedy album,"CHUNKY SALSA," was featured among the 11 best comedy albums of 2019 (Interrobang Magazine.) She is also a fierce human rights advocate, using humour to challenge the status quo in four different languages. In her own words, she's the "most famous LGBTQ Nicaraguan-Canadian stand-up comic in the world."

In this episode we mention:

• The Nobel Women's Initiative including Jody Williams
• 2012 Mesoamerica Delegation Report [PDF]
• Canada & their role in ecodestruction in MesoAmerica
• When Feminists Rule the World, a NWI podcast
• Hay libros en la casa tees & totes

You can find Martha on Instagram and Twitter. 

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This episode of The Feminist Agenda features Torii Wolf, musician and creator, who discusses the beauty of creating music that fits the pandemic esthetic, pandemic puppies, astrology, and CW shows. 

• Find Torii's music at YouTube and Spotify
• Find Torii on Twitter, Facebook, & Instagram
• Find Ghost Tense at Spotify

Things we mentions in the podcast:

• Girls Rock Camp
• Chani Nicholas Book
• Bjork!

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Lisa Levenstein, PhD, has a traditional feminist job - she's a professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UNC-Greensboro. She's on The Feminist Agenda to discuss her latest book, They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties, which showcases many feminist activists who were doing non-traditional feminist work in the 1990s. Lisa uses the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference to show how the 1990s were a pivotal, but undervalued moment in feminist history. 

Topics we touch on:

• Time Magazine's obituary of feminism
• Jane Collective
• Carework during the pandemic
• Ai-Jen Poo
• Marketplace Feminism

Organizing tools Lisa mentions

• Asana
• Todoist 

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