Category Archives: Podcast

Last week was pretty rough, so this week’s Fucking While Feminist brings you glad tidings of social progress! Jaclyn catches up with Carmen Rios, the activist behind SPARK‘s successful Educate Coaches campaign, now about to become a real-life initiative to educate coaches of high school sports teams on how to create sports culture that prevents [...]

From UConn to Dartmouth to Occidental, Swarthmore, UNC, USC and beyond, there’s been an avalanche of news lately about U.S. campus administrations’ deplorable approaches to rape on campus. UConn’s Professor Heather M. Turcotte and The Feminist Wire’s Monica Casper join Jaclyn to discuss ways to resist the individual narratives and address the structures that allow [...]

Gird your loins, listeners, because this week we’re joined by the Angry Black Lady! RH Reality Check’s Senior Legal Analyst Imani Gandy is delightful and informative as she joins Jaclyn to talk about what we should really be learning from the Gosnell case, the most recent attacks on abortion access and female sexual agency, major fail [...]

Why is so much of sports culture so toxic when it comes to sexuality, and can it be changed? Jaclyn caught up with The Nation’s first an only sports columnist Dave Zirin to talk trans athletes, abusive coaches, rape culture, Brittney Griner, “no homo,” Batman’s nipples, the power of feminist moms, and the sportswriting of Susan [...]

Between gun legislation and Steubenville coverage, March came in like a rape-apologist lion and never really got lamb-y. Few bore the brunt of this particular shitstorm like this week’s guest, Zerlina Maxwell, who found herself on the receiving end of a tidal wave of vile and violent threats just for suggesting that rape prevention efforts [...]

Let’s talk romance! Jaclyn gets in-depth with Jessica Luther, who’s just reported on feminist romance novels for The Atlantic. What do romance novels have in common with porn, how do we (or do we) subvert the trope of happy endings, and where are the lesbians? Plus book recommendations, the likability factor, a lot of talk [...]

Yes, porn can be feminist. But what does that mean? Three of the four editors of the groundbreaking new anthology The Feminist Porn Book — Mireille Miller-Young, Constance Penley and Tristan Taormino — join Jaclyn to break it down (and offer some recommendations!). Then we answer a listener advice question about how to talk about [...]

Let’s talk Scandal! Jaclyn catches up with Drs. Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey to talk all things Olivia Pope, starting with the question they asked at The Feminist Wire: Can a Black woman ever have an unapologetic sexual self in public without being called Jezebel? Then we answer a listener advice question about dealing with [...]

This week Jaclyn catches up with Spectra, a Nigerian writer, media advocate, and “Love” activist, who’s just returned from traveling through Southern Africa for 6 months, where she trained African women’s rights activists to use media and technology for advocacy. She brings us some stories of lgbt lives in some of the countries she visited [...]

Hate Valentine’s Day? Love Valentine’s Day? This is your podcast. Jaclyn is joined by Boston Globe columnist Miss Conduct (aka author Robin Abrahams) for an episode full of hearts, flowers and bittertinis. We talk Galentine’s Day, the romance-industrial complex (and the mysterious short-sightedness of marketers), “fake holidays,” dealing with (and avoiding being) the Valentine’s Police, [...]

Brace yourselves for the fabulousness, people: this week Jaclyn is joined by Jazabel Jade and exHOTic other, two of the Lovelies that make up Brown Girls Burlesque. We talk about what makes shaking your titties in public feminist, what scared them most when they got into the burlesque game (it wasn’t stripping), how they maintain [...]