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WMC Live
May 09, 2021 | Charlotte Gordon, Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #347: A Far Cry from Peace. (Original Airdate 5/9/2021)

Robin explores the original meaning and reasons for what has become another consumer holiday: Mother's Day. Special Guest: Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.

WMC News & Features
April 28, 2021 | Rebecca Adamson | Economy, Environment, Politics
SEC Takes a Step for Corporate Accountability

A new rule announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission could enable investors and other groups to hold companies accountable for their impact on communities.

WMC Live
April 25, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #346: The Supreme Court, Part 2. (Original Airdate 4/25/2021)

Robin on The Verdict in the Chauvin trial, and its deeper meaning. Also, an exploration of the Supreme Court and why/how it can, after all, be expanded.

WMC Live
April 18, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #345: Poetry! (Original Airdate 4/18/2021)
For Poetry Month this spring, Robin reads work by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Parker, Audre Lorde, Victoria Chang, Kimiko Hahn, Lucille Clifton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Suzi F. Garcia, Stevie Smith, Charlotte Mew, and others.
WMC Live
April 11, 2021 | Annie Laurie Gaylor, Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #344: Religious Establishments. (Original Airdate 4/11/2021)

Robin returns to religion's role in our secular Republic, and the ongoing struggle to keep it separate. Guest: Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the largest organization of atheists, agnostics, and free thinkers in the USA.

WMC Live
March 28, 2021 | Helen Zia, Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #343: Another Original Sin. (Original Airdate 3/28/2021)
Robin's Fighting Words expose centuries of anti-Asian American hate before the Georgia terrorism against AAPI women. Guests: legendary activist Helen Zia; Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.
WMC Live
March 21, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #342: The Pandemic Anniversary. (Original Airdate 3/21/2021)
Robin on “The Year That Was,” where we are now, and the future; plus a special report on women and the vaccine(s). Guest: Linda Goler Blount, President & CEO of Black Women's Health Imperative.
WMC News & Features
March 19, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Undoing Trump’s Four-Year Assault on LGBTQ Rights: Biden Provides a “Sea Change”

The Biden administration's early actions to promote LGBTQ equality are getting high marks from rights groups.

WMC Live
March 14, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #341: A Meditation on Whiteness. (Original Airdate 3/14/2021)

In this unique podcast, Robin explores the complexities of Thomas Jefferson's 40-year-long relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings—which inspires a meditation on whiteness.

WMC News & Features
March 09, 2021 | Nicole Bedera | Gender-based violence, Politics, Violence against women
The Fight to Refocus Title IX on Survivors

As Biden calls for a review of enforcement guidelines, advocates are pushing the administration to do more than just repair Trump-era harms.

WMC Live
February 28, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #340: The People's House. (Original Airdate 2/28/2021)
The United States House of Representatives: its powers, history, legends, and unique Constitutional functions. Special Guest: Congresswoman Val Demings (D-FL).
WMC Live
February 21, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #339: Homegrown American Terrorism. (Original Airdate 2/21/2021)

Robin—whose book "The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism" predicted this—dives into who funded it, who's behind it, who collaborates in it, and just how deep it runs.

WMC FBomb
February 16, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Politics
How Political Violence Has Become Normalized for Teen Girls in America

As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way.

WMC Live
February 07, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #338: The Senate. (Original Airdate 2/7/2021)
Robin dissects the complex, arcane, convoluted rules and traditions of the U.S. Senate, "the world's greatest deliberative body"—none of which are in The Constitution.
WMC Women Under Siege
February 05, 2021 | Michelle Onello | Health, International, Politics
The Biden Administration’s Moves to Protect Abortion are Good, Just Not Good Enough

While President Biden’s memorandum provides a welcome change to the dangerous situation established by the Trump administration, it only partly restores the status quo of four years ago. The timing, presentation, and language of the actions indicate that abortion rights advocates will have to continue to fight to make abortion rights a bigger priority for the Biden administration.

WMC Live
January 31, 2021 | Barbara Boxer, Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #337: Impeachment(s). (Original Airdate 1/31/2021)
Robin explores Trump's second impeachment, the history of impeachments (including execution!), and why they are vital to democracy. Special guest: former Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
WMC Live
January 24, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #336: The Vice Presidency. (Original Airdate 1/24/2021)
Robin's take on the weird, sometimes hilarious, often mocked, previously ignored office of the Vice President, and its transformation. Also, Joe Biden's executive orders, and what's next.
WMC News & Features
January 20, 2021 | Anna Chu | Politics
A Feminist To-Do List for the Biden-Harris Administration

There is a long list of actions the new administration and Congress should take for women and girls, but we can start with six things.

WMC FBomb
January 18, 2021 | Kylie Cheung | Politics
Ohio’s Fetal Burial Law is about Surveilling and Criminalizing Pregnant People

As we mark the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this month, it’s crucial to recognize the landmark Supreme Court case was about more than abortion and bodily autonomy — it was also broadly about privacy and pregnancy.

WMC Live
January 17, 2021 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #335: Inauguration. (Original Airdate 1/17/2021)
Robin on presidential inaugurals—the good, the bad, and the ugly—a capitol under attack and under armed guard, an embattled Republic, a precious friend, and a fringed white orchid.
WMC Women Under Siege
January 12, 2021 | Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Feminism, Free Speech, Gender-based violence, International, LGBTQIA, Politics, Violence against women
Black and Trans Women Fight for Safety and Visibility in Brazil’s Far-Right Government

The growth in political representation of Black and trans women in Brazil's city governments has not gone unnoticed by right-wing parties, making them visible targets for racist and death threats and abuse.

WMC FBomb
January 11, 2021 | Shelby Black | Politics
How This Memphis Activist Disrupted the City’s Political Sphere

In 2013, Sawyer moved back to Memphis and threw herself into local activist organizations, including Black Votes Matter.

WMC FBomb
December 15, 2020 | Kylie Cheung | Politics
What the Biden-Harris Administration Can Do On Day One for Survivors

Any plan to rein in the pandemic and its most jarring consequences requires action to support victims and survivors.

WMC FBomb
December 14, 2020 | Kate Alexandria | Politics
This Is the Harm That Was Done to Title IX Under the Trump Administration

The new administration’s actions will be crucial to reaffirming the faith of sexual violence survivors after the damage of the Trump presidency.

WMC Live
December 13, 2020 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #334: A Holiday Story. (Original Airdate 12/13/2020)
After 2020—The Year We're Delighted To Leave—Robin reads "The Handmaiden of the Holy Man," a special story from her new novel, Parallax (Spinifex Press), to cleanse the palate for 2021, and to reassure the soul.
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