SPECIAL EDITION. Robin on COVID-19 news “inside the headlines.” New Feature: Comfort Zone—practical things you can do, watch, hear, share to make yourself and others feel better. Fighting Words: Trustable sources and resources for facts, not rumors.
We must acknowledge that sexism in U.S. politics poses a pernicious threat to restoring political and social justice.
Robin on Mexico’s “Day Without Women,” Dubai’s sheik (the father from hell), a newfound teensy-weensy dinosaur, and finding ourselves “In Plague Time.” Guest: Brianna Wu, Gamergate survivor now running for Congress to break up Big Tech monopolies.
Advocates are expressing concern that less than four years after the court ruled that TRAP laws are unconstitutional, it has agreed to revisit the question.
Robin on Super Tuesday, the Taliban-US “Peace Treaty,” NASA’s call for women astronauts, handwashing secrets, “self partnering,” advice to Bloomberg, and space junk. Guest: Sarah Macharia on how you can join the Global Media Monitoring Project.
Nearly 90 percent of people in 75 countries demonstrated at least one bias against equality—with 91 percent of men and 86 percent of women showing bias in one of the four areas studied.
Robin on the Weinstein verdict, gender and the coronavirus, a whole new calendar—and signals from space? Guest: Maysoon Zayid, a Palestinian-American feminist, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and disability-rights activist with cerebral palsy.
Robin on what you didn’t see at the Oscars, “menstrual equity,” Southern Baptists and “transgressive” men, climate change’s impact on women, and whither the ERA now? Guest: Luvvie Ajayi on the African diaspora.
Robin on the Senate trial, part 2; WAPO’s sexist blunder; India’s feminist #MeetToSleep movement; and Mexico’s guerrilla glitter tactics. Guest: Former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman discusses what’s really happening in Washington—and what’s next.
Robin on the Senate trial, coronaviruses, the US ranking drop in gender equality, how Brexit will hurt women most, and a wicked mischief action that’s easy—even legal. Guest: Jessica McDiarmid on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.
Thousands of women repped the resistance front and center at the fourth annual Women’s March taking place in cities across the U.S. on Saturday.
Robin on impeachment, Harvey Weinstein, endangered women mayors, wrestling, how things are getting better, and days-long orgies of same-sex box crabs. Guest: NY Times columnist Gail Collins on her new book about older women, No Stopping Us Now.
The House passed a comprehensive rights bill last year, but it died in the Senate. A new proposed compromise would ban discrimination — but with a major loophole.
An opinion issued Wednesday from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel may scuttle an effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
2020 will mark the centennial of women getting the right to vote — and we have a lot to celebrate. But there is still room for improvement.
End-of-Year Special! Robin looks back at 2019, celebrates the impeachment proceedings, and thinks ahead to the Senate trial—plus a special surprise gift from Robin to her listeners.
Research shows that social media exposes female politicians to online abuse, but it also enables them to engage directly with their constituencies without the bias of mass media.
An anti-abortion bill introduced to Ohio’s General Assembly on November 14 is causing controversy for requiring doctors to exhaust every possible option to save an unborn fetus, including “re-implanting” an ectopic pregnancy — a procedure that is literally medically impossible.
Robin on citizen activists, impeachment witnesses, mountain lions, fantastic grandmothers, tiny motorists, and language legacies of Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin. Guest: Celeste Watkins-Hayes on her surprising research into women with HIV/AIDS.
The United States has not had a working Violence Against Women Act since February, when VAWA lapsed during a rush to pass legislation to (unsuccessfully) avoid a partial government shutdown. And now, while the House has already passed a version of the act earlier this year, the Senate is refusing to take up the bill because of pressure from the National Rifle Association.
Burmese women are critical to understanding a country whose people have endured systematic violence and repression for far too long. They can’t be forgotten.
Robin on real witch hunts, tax-free tampons, the Kung-Fu nuns of Nepal, neurological "connectomes," and coked-up wild boars. Guests: NY Times investigative reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly on their new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh.
Robin on having predicted the Gangster in Chief; married priests; women gamers; Royal Brits, MPs, and sisterhood; Georgia O’Keeffe; and tampons. Guest: Valerie Plame.
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