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WMC Live
June 04, 2023 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #412: Naming. (Original Airdate 6/4/2023)

Robin explores how major museums still fail women artists, and why New York has become a center for Indigenous people. Guest: Larissa FastHorse, first Native American woman playwright ever to have a play on Broadway.

WMC Live
May 28, 2023 | Laura Bates, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #411: Suffer the Little Children. (Original Airdate 5/28/2023)
Robin takes on the headlines themselves, including the latest Catholic Church shockers. Special Guest: Laura Bates, author and founder of Everyday Sexism, on the results of this remarkable campaign.
WMC Live
May 21, 2023 | Soraya Chemaly, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #410: The Tech Apocalypse? (Original Airdate 5/21/2023)
Robin puts the E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump case into crucially important context. Special Guest: Soraya Chemaly, author, activist, co-founder of the WMC Speech Project, and expert on technology, digital media, and sexism.
WMC FBomb
May 16, 2023 | Sophie Hayssen | Politics
How Montana House Rep. Zooey Zephyr Was Censured For Defending Trans Americans

Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr has recently been thrust into the national spotlight after her Republican colleagues voted to remove her from the floor following comments she made about S.B. 99, one of a wave of anti-trans legislation introduced across the country.

WMC Live
May 14, 2023 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #409: Running the Gauntlet. (Original Airdate 5/14/2023)
Robin messes with Texas, and her special guest is Cherry Smiley, an activist on prostitution and trafficking of women, and author of Not Sacred, Not Squaws: Indigenous Feminism Defined—which breaks new ground.
WMC News & Features
May 01, 2023 | Treva Lindsey | Education, Free Speech, Politics
Fighting Back Against Anti-“Woke” Censorship

On Wednesday, May 3, the Freedom to Learn National Day of Action will mobilize people to defend the right of students to learn about systemic injustice, as well as ideas that form the basis of social justice movements.

WMC Live
April 30, 2023 | Maria Teresa Kumar, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #408: Comes with the Territory. (Original Airdate: 4/30/2023)

Robin on the firings of Fox News' Tucker Carlson and CNN’s Don Lemon, and on youth activism. Special Guest: Maria Teresa Kumar, founding President/CEO of Voto Latino.

WMC Live
April 23, 2023 | Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #407: Sylvia Plath Symposium Keynote, PART 2. (Original Airdate: 4/23/2023)
Robin and Gloria Steinem continue last week's live-audience conversation at Hunter College (CUNY) on Sylvia Plath's influence.
WMC Live
April 16, 2023 | Gloria Steinem | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #406: Sylvia Plath Symposium Keynote, PART 1. (Original Airdate 4/16/2023)
Part 1 of a 2-part podcast from Hunter College (CUNY)! Robin is joined by friend Gloria Steinem for a live-audience keynote on Sylvia Plath.
WMC Live
April 09, 2023 | Jane Manning, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #405: Eclectic Solutions to VAW. (Original Airdate 4/9/2023)
Robin's commentaries range from animal models of reverence for elders to the declining church population in the US. Guest: Jane Manning, former prosecutor on sex crimes and violence against women, and director of the Women's Equal Justice Project.
WMC Live
March 26, 2023 | Debora Spar, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #404: Rethinking Thinking. (Original Airdate: 3/26/2023)

Robin takes a dive into redefinitions of concepts we think we already know—from Buddhist nuns and kung fu to time itself. Special Guest: Debora Spar, expert on technology, future societies, and women.

WMC FBomb
March 21, 2023 | Sophie Hayssen | Politics
Two Women Are Leading Italian Politics Right Now

Italian politics are at a fork in the road with women leading the way on either side.

WMC Live
March 19, 2023 | Deeyah Khan, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #403: Corporate "Feminism" and Violence. (Original Airdate 3/19/2023)
Robin unmasks the slick public-relations "corporatization" of feminism, and exposes its cruel realities. Special Guest: award-winning documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan and her new film, Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence.
WMC News & Features
March 16, 2023 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Girls, Politics, Sports
When It Comes to Trans Sports Bans, Don’t Be Fooled by the Language of ‘Protection’

Currently, 18 states ban trans girls from participating in girls’ sports. Often framed as offering “fairness” or “protection,” these insidious laws actually harm all women.

WMC Live
March 12, 2023 | Jimmy Carter, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #402: The Peanut-Farmer Champion. (Original Airdate 3/12/2023)

As former President Jimmy Carter enters hospice care at 98, Robin delivers a tribute show to him, stressing his post-presidency activism and strong support for feminism, and highlighting their exclusive and extraordinary 2014 conversation.

WMC Live
March 05, 2023 | Margot Wallström, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #401: A Feminist Europe?! (Original Airdate 3/5/2023)
Robin explores what a "feminist Europe" would look like, and interviews returning special guest Margot Wallström, former (proudly proclaimed) feminist Deputy Prime Minister and Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
WMC Live
February 19, 2023 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #400: Books to Change Our Lives. (Original Airdate 2/19/2023)
Robin doubles down on opposition to CRT and Black history. Guest: Ilyon Woo, author of Master Slave Husband Wife, the true story of a couple from Georgia who escaped slavery—in disguise. Plus, a transformative reading list.
WMC Live
February 12, 2023 | Janet Dewart Bell, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #399: The Idea of Whiteness. (Original Airdate 2/12/2023)
Robin confronts the Right's attacks on books in general and Critical Race Theory in particular with her own reading suggestions. Guest: Janet Dewart Bell, scholar, author, and social-justice activist.
WMC FBomb
February 02, 2023 | Jessica Weaver | Politics
Women Still Face Dress Codes — In Schools and in State Legislatures

As a Gen Z woman serving on a school board in America, I was not shocked to see the Missouri legislature recently passed a new dress code for women legislators and staff members in the State House of Representatives.

WMC Live
January 29, 2023 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #398: Book Bans & the MAGA-GOP. (Original Airdate 1/29/2023)
Robin explores contemporary book banning as a legacy of the Confederacy, and confronts the epidemic of US gun murders. Special guest: Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congresswoman and progressive activist.
WMC Live
January 22, 2023 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #397: Beyond Objectification. (Original Airdate 1/22/2023)
Robin delves into deeper ironies about America's Indigenous peoples. Special Guest: Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, botanist, Potawatomi activist, on the emerging "language" spoken by the natural world.
WMC News & Features
January 19, 2023 | Debbie Hines | Politics
The Impact of Vice President Kamala Harris

January 20 marks the second anniversary of Kamala Harris’ inauguration as the first woman vice president of the United States. Attorney Debbie Hines considers Harris’ accomplishments in her first two years in office.

WMC Live
January 15, 2023 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #396: A Holographic Universe?! (Original Airdate 1/15/2023)
Robin's post-holidays roundup, and 2023 predictions from 100 years ago. Plus, reconciling Einstein versus Einstein with mind-boggling new theories in physics.
WMC FBomb
January 03, 2023 | Meena Annamalai | Politics
When Will Women Finally Be Equally Represented in American Politics?

We still have a long way to go toward reaching equality in politics.

WMC Live
December 18, 2022 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #395: The World’s First Poet. (Original Airdate 12/18/2022)
Robin devotes the final episode of the year to poets, from the first known writer in history Enheduanna (Ancient Sumer) through Mary Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Muriel Rukeyser.
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