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WMC Live
July 29, 2018 | Deeyah Khan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #257: Deeyah Khan. (Original Airdate 7/29/2018)

Season Finale: Robin on "everyday courage," lesbian moms, more climate-change impact, hereditary peers, and water on Mars. Guest: Emmy and Peabody winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan on her new documentary about neo-Nazis, "White Right: Meeting the Enemy."

WMC Live
July 22, 2018 | Victoria Tauli-Corpuz | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #256: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. (Original Airdate 7/22/2018)

Robin on the long-term impact of sexual harassment, "ghost particles," older women and poverty, and a newly unearthed "Henge." Guest: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, on losses (and wins!) for Indigenous women.

WMC Live
July 15, 2018 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #255: Julia Rybak, Rachel Devlin. (Original Airdate 7/15/2018)

Robin on how to protect your vote from hacking and other violations, Trump's War on Babies, and a new low in domestic abuse. Guests: Julia Rybak's unionizing of hotel workers; Rachel Devlin on how girls really desegregated America's schools.

WMC Live
July 01, 2018 | Tracy K. Smith | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #254: Tracy K. Smith. (Original Airdate 7/1/2018)

Robin on the murder of journalists, the Supreme Court decisions, and Justice Kennedy's departure—with an extended Fighting Words on how to survive. Guest: Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States.

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June 24, 2018 | Daisy Khan, Jane Manning | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #253: Jane Manning, Daisy Khan. (Original Airdate 6/24/2018)

Robin on children, mothers, and borders; Trump under pressure; Sally Hemmings; and giant Sequoias. Guests: former prosecutor Jane Manning on Harvey Weinstein's trial; Daisy Khan on Muslim American women's leadership. Plus, Surrealism Corner.

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June 17, 2018 | Leah Lax, Angela McQuillan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #252: Angela McQuillan, Leah Lax. (Original Airdate 6/17/2018)

Robin on Jeff Sessions' immigration war against women, and on definitions of "culture," "tradition," and "private." Guests: Angela McQuillan on art intersecting with science; Leah Lax on escaping fundamentalist Hasidic Judaism. Surrealism Corner.

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June 10, 2018 | Liang Xiaowen | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #251: Liang Xiaowen. (Original Airdate 6/10/2018)

Robin on the "c-word," Bill Clinton and #MeToo, Spain's new feminist cabinet, women firefighters, and the Miss America Pageant PR stunt. Guest: Liang Xiaowen's personal report on the state of women in China and the feminist underground.

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June 03, 2018 | Bailey Davis, Sarah Blackwell | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #250: Bailey Davis, Sara Blackwell. (Original Airdate 6/3/2018)

Robin on the Irish referendum, Weinstein in handcuffs, Roseanne's racism. Guests: Former Saints' cheerleader Bailey Davis and lawyer Sara Blackwell discuss their complaint against the NFL for sex discrimination.

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May 27, 2018 | Jane Fonda. | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #249: Jane Fonda. (Original Airdate 5/27/2018)

Robin on women's primary-election wins, the Supremes' "mandatory arbitration" decision, Trump's gag rule, and evangelical women waking up. Guest: Jane Fonda talks politics, her hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie, and new movie Book Club.

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May 20, 2018 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #248: Elaine Luria, Maria Ressa. (Original Airdate 5/20/2018)

Robin on Jerusalem's US Embassy, primary wins, & a national alert on chemically tainted water. Guests: Elaine Luria, Naval commander, mermaid maker, Virginia Congressional candidate; Maria Ressa, crusading journalist under attack in the Philippines.

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May 13, 2018 | Christine Lahti | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #247: Christine Lahti. (Original Airdate 5/13/2018)

Robin on Cohen, Giuliani, Schneiderman, Spain's "wolf pack," Congress' chaplain, and our 620 million-year-old genes. Guest: actor/director Christine Lahti on sex, power, and aging in Hollywood, and her book, "True Stories from an Unreliable Witness."

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April 29, 2018 | Gail Dines, Deb Haaland | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #246: Deb Haaland, Gail Dines. (Original Airdate 4/29/2017)

Robin on what statues teach us, updating #MeToo vs. the Nobels, Chinese feminism—and the green-haired turtle. Guests: Dem. Deb Haaland, NM candidate to be the first Native American woman in Congress; Dr. Gail Dines on porn as a public-health issue.

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April 22, 2018 | Daina Ramey Berry, Taina Bien-Aime | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #245: Daina Ramey Berry, Taina Bien-Aimé. (Original Airdate 4/22/2018)

Robin on #MeToo versus the Nobel Prize, poetry month, and women's long-term strategies in Rwanda and the Gaza Strip. Guests: Daina Ramey Berry on what enslaved persons thought—and cost; Taina Bien-Aimé on anti-sex-traffick progress. Plus a surprise!

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April 15, 2018 | Tracey Thorn | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #244: Tracey Thorn. (Original Airdate 4/15/2018)

Robin on Trump's "Fixer," Zuckerberg's testimony, a new organ in the human body, and snow monkeys. Guest: "Everything But the Girl" singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn opts for in-your-face feminism in her new Record.

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April 08, 2018 | Leni Steinhardt, Brianna Fisher, Zoe Gordon | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #243: Parkland, Florida High School Student Activists. (Original Airdate 4/8/2018)

Robin on those awesome Red State teachers; MeToo in Moscow and Wall Street; mourning the death of Winnie Mandela. Guests: Brianna Fisher, Leni Steinhardt, Zoe Gordon—high school journalists who lived through and report on the Parkland, FL tragedy.

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March 25, 2018 | Stacey Abrams, June Millington | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #242: Stacey Abrams, June Millington. (Original Airdate 3/25/2018)

Robin on Facebook's crash, Cambridge Analytica's pimp, Al Qaida's "feminine" drive, and women keeping men's secrets. Guests: Stacey Abrams, African-American feminist running for Georgia governor; June Millington, "godmother of women's rock 'n roll."

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March 18, 2018 | Nina L. Khrushcheva | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #241: Nina Khrushcheva. (Original Airdate 3/18/2018)

Robin on sexism and pop music, the high-school protests, ageism and lowering the age to vote—and reversing the arrow of time?! Guest: Nina Khrushcheva on Putin's real motives and how current US policy aids and abets him. Plus Surrealism Corner!

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March 11, 2018 | Helen LaKelly Hunt, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #240: Kimberle Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus, Helen LaKelly Hunt. (Original Airdate 3/11/2018)

Robin on striking teachers, marching students, cranky nuns, and defining "articulate." Guests: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus on "Say Her Name" activism; Helen LaKelly Hunt on her book about erasure of early 19th-century feminists of faith.

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March 04, 2018 | Masih Alinejad, Charlotte Gordon | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #239: Charlotte Gordon, Masih Alinejad. (Original Airdate 3/4/2018)

Robin on the hidden history of the Second Amendment, Hope Hicks, sexism at the BBC, Boko Haram's return, and China's Winnie the Pooh. Guests: Charlotte Gordon on the feminist origins of "Frankenstein"; Masih Alinejad on women's uprising in Iran.

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February 25, 2018 | Catherine Kerrison, Pascale Lamche | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #238: Catherine Kerrison, Pascale Lamche. (Original Airdate 2/25/2018)

Robin on new anti-NRA tactics; both former "Playmate" and porn star joining MeToo against Trump; breast-feeding in Congress—and KFC?!? Guests: Catherine Kerrison on Jefferson's daughters—two white, one black; Pascale Lamche's Mandela film "Winnie."

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February 18, 2018 | Emily Wilson | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #237: Emily Wilson. (Original Airdate 2/18/2018)

Robin on repeated school shootings, systemic sexism, fake "followers," the Right's assault on the courts, and how #MeToo just might bring down Trump. Guest: Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. Plus Surrealism Corner.

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February 11, 2018 | Ellen Pao, Linda Gordon | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #236: Linda Gordon, Ellen Pao. (Original Airdate 2/11/2018)

Robin on WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter and wife-battery, and on House Dem. Leader Nancy Pelosi's historic Dreamers plea. Guests: historian Linda Gordon on her Second Coming of the KKK book; Ellen Pao on how she shook up Silicon Valley pre-Me Too.

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February 04, 2018 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #235: Ursula K. Le Guin. (Original Airdate 2/4/2018)

SPECIAL EDITION WMC LIVE. Celebration of the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin (d. Jan. 22, 2018): Robin's Exclusive Conversations with UKL on poetry, fiction, feminism, motherhood, politics, freedom, craft, and play. Le Guin reads her latest poems.

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January 28, 2018 | Ruth B. Mandel, Debbie Walsh | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #234: Ruth Mandel, Debbie Walsh. (Original Airdate 1/28/2018)

Robin on the abuse-survival testimony of the former gymnasts in Michigan, DACA, and the Museum of the Bible. Guests: Ruth Mandel and Debbie Walsh of The Center for American Women and Politics discuss the historic numbers of women candidates in 2018.

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January 21, 2018 | Yoruba Richen, Young Jean Lee | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #233: Young Jean Lee, Yoruba Richen. (Original Airdate 1/21/2018)

Robin on the Women's March anniversary, WeAreMarchOn.org, sea turtles—& a government shutdown? Guests: Young Jean Lee, Broadway's first Asian American woman playwright; Yoruba Richen on her film about anti-abortion crusades on black communities.


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