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Life has been busy but we came out of hibernation to release this fall reading list! We'll be back in a few weeks with more episodes.Show notes:Books-Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea LawlorHow to do Nothing, by Jenny OdellF
In the FINAL episode of porn month, we interview Maggie MacDonald, a 4th year PhD student who studies the platformization of porn. We talk porn platforms, deepfakes, and anti-sex work policy in Canada. To read all the articles discussed in thi
Emma and Eva talk about the sex wars (also known as the porn wars), a time in the 1980s when debates on sexuality, pornography and kink dominated the feminist conversation. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter FacebookWe are a proud m
From Pompeii to Pornhub, Eva & Emma discuss the long history of porn.Show notes:https://www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms1.htmlhttps://www.proquest.com/openview/31a0431f5269893f8a5632a062bf0a46/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750https://susannapaas
We kick off Porn Month with a conversation with Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue, of the podcast Pullback! Pullback investigates the ethical issues behind everyday goods and services. Kyla and Kristen help us work through the issues around the ethic
This episode, we talk through our thoughts about the leaked Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade. Readings and Recommendations Interrupting Criminalization, Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and
This week, Eva and Emma talk about surrogacy. They discuss different feminist perspectives on the topic and consider how we can expand the definitions of "parenthood" and "family" beyond the nuclear model. Follow us on social media: Instagram
What's postmodern feminism? In this episode we desperately try to answer that question!Show notes:"Explainer: What is Postmodernism" by David Palmer, 2014Artland "What is Dadaism?""On Judith Butler & Performativity" by Sarah Salih, 2007 F
Eva and Emma talk about the male gaze, from its origins in feminist film criticism to how the concept gets used today. They also discuss what is often left out from the discourses around the male gaze... (hint: it's capitalism) and also get int
In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss the history of gender discrimination within the Canadian Indian Act, and the Indigenous women who have been fighting to overturn this sexism since the 1960's.Show notes:Indigenous authors and organizations:
In the late 1800s, both First-wave feminism and the women-lead Temperance Movement were gaining steam in North America. But why did so many more women join the temperance movement than the suffrage cause? Eva tells Emma about the different stra
In this week's episode, Emma tells Eva about the history of domestic work, and the patterns of colonialism and racism that still permeate this area of employment. Plus, a rundown of some major successes in domestic worker collective organizing
This week: a celebration of the life and work of bell hooks, who died last week at the age of 69. bell was an unparalleled writer, poet, and theorist, and was incredibly influential in the feminist movement. In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss
In this episode, Eva tells Emma about the 1970's "Wages for Housework" movement, an international campaign calling for housework and care work to be compensated. They discuss the movement's radical grassroots origins, different feminist perspec
This week, Eva and Emma get into an introduction to Postcolonial Feminism. They discuss the origins of postcolonial theory, examine how Western feminists frame so-called "third world" women and highlight the ways in which feminist rhetoric gets
In this episode, Emma tells Eva about the early roots of Ecofeminism and its strange, essentialist solutions to fighting patriarchy and capitalism. Side-tangents include Aristotle, The Giving Tree, and mind-body dualism. Follow us on social me
Eva gets into Adrienne Rich's 1976 book "Of Woman Born" and talks about radical feminist approaches to motherhood. We discuss the narrow definition of Rich's "mother" figure, Black feminist responses to her concepts, and the Texas abortion ban.
This week, Eva talks to Emma about the origins of the term “intersectionality”, how the definition has changed, and the importance of crediting and centring Black feminists. Plus-- a rant about the upcoming OnlyFans pornography ban.Reading Li
In this episode, Emma provides an overview of second wave, radical feminism. What does it mean to be a radical feminist, and is this term still useful today? Listen to find out!Reading list:Nachescu, Voichita. “Radical Feminism and the Natio
In this episode, Eva talks about the first birth control clinic in the US and the different tactics feminists of this time used to spread their message.Reading List:Ellen Chesler, Woman of valor: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement
In this episode, Eva tells Emma about Neoliberal Feminism, or as we like to call it, the girlbossopocapopolous...or something like that. Eva uses the case of Sophia Amuroso's book #girlboss to discuss this type of feminism and it's limits.Read
In this mini episode, Emma discusses the controversial topic of feminism’s “waves”. Are these a helpful framing tool, or a reductive method of remembering history?Reading List:Laughlin, Kathleen A., et al. “Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historia
In this Anti-Canada Day episode, Eva & Emma discuss famous Canadian ‘feminist’ Emily Murphy. Murphy was known for her role in the passing of various laws related to women’s rights in the early 20th century, such as the Dower Act and the Person’
In this week’s episode, Eva and Emma discuss the roots, ethos, and heroes of Liberal Feminism.Reading List:Mary Wollstonecraft- A Vindication for the Rights of Womenbell hooks- Feminist Theory: From Margin to CenterLucy Bailey- Liberal Femi
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