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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.
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January 29, 2023 Politics,
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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.
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January 22, 2023 Politics,
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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.
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January 15, 2023 Politics,
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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.
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December 18, 2022 Politics,
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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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December 11, 2022 Politics,
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WMC Live #394: The Pleasure Key! (Original Airdate 12/11/2022)
Robin ponders why the clitoris remains such a medical mystery, to the great detriment of women. Special Guest: Dr. Rachel S. Rubin, MD, urologist and sexual medicine expert, and an associate editor of Sexual Medicine Reviews.
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WMC Live #393: Our Bodies Ourselves. (Original Airdate: 12/4/2022)
Robin devotes the episode to the 50th anniversary of the feminist classic Our Bodies Ourselves—updated and digital! Guests: members of the Boston Women's Health Collective Amy Agigian, Diana Namumbejja Abwoye, Judy Norsigian, and Marta Pagán-Ortiz.
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WMC Live #392: The World of Philanthropy. (Original Airdate: 11/20/2022)
Robin explores the good, the bad, and the ugly in the philanthropic universe, and discusses women philanthropists. Special guest: Patti Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of the Feed The Hunger Fund.
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November 13, 2022 Politics,
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WMC Live #391: Midterm Magic!! (Original Airdate 11/13/2022)
Robin demystifies the midterm elections and does her little dance of celebration.
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November 06, 2022 Politics,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #390: Before It's Too Late. (Original Airdate 11/6/2022)
Robin confronts antisemitism rising again in all its forms, and links it to our coming elections. Special Guest: Tova Friedman, on her book The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope.
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WMC Live #389: "Terra Nullius?" Indigenous Peoples' Month. (Original Airdate 10/30/2022)
Robin celebrates with guest Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Indigenous Activist Leader (Kankana-ey Igorot) from The Philippines, and one of the original drafters of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which finally passed in 2007.
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WMC Live #388: Theocracies. (Original Airdate 10/16/2022)
Robin covers the women's revolution in Iran in depth, with analysis of that country's history with feminism, and theocratic governments in general. Guest: Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani, Iranian-British journalist.
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October 09, 2022 Politics,
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WMC Live #387: Driven To Drink? (Original Airdate 10/9/2022)
Robin takes on The National Women's Soccer League, and delves into the history of the codpiece! Special Guest: Mallory O'Meara, prize-winning author of Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol.
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WMC Live #386: Cancel Culture. (Original Airdate 10/2/2022)
Robin does a 360-degree exam of "cancel culture," where it really came from, and where it's going. Special Guest: New York Times Contributing Editor and author Jessica Bennett.
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WMC Live #385: Opus Dei—and Sex Ed. (Original Airdate: 9/25/2022)
Robin exposes the tentacles of Opus Dei in the Catholic Church, with a surprising ally. Guests: Emma Rose Smith, Alyson Nordstrom, Lily Swain, and Paige Buckley—all age 17 and teaching sex ed!
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WMC Live Special Bulletin: Women's Revolution in Iran. (9/23/2022)
A special alert bulletin from Robin Morgan on Mahsa Amini and the Women’s Revolution in Iran.
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WMC Live #384: The Founders and Abortion. (Original Airdate 9/18/2022)
Season premiere! Robin explains what Biden has really done and, unlike SCOTUS, exposes the actual positions of our Colonial-era Founders on abortions. Guest: Claire Atkin of Check My Ads, on defunding misinformation online—even at Fox News!
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WMC Live #383: Season Finale—The Bright Side. (Original Airdate 6/26/2022)
Robin analyzes the January 6 Congressional Committee Hearings and finds heartening news. Special guest: Professor Anita Hill.
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WMC Live #382: Nushu—The Hidden Code of Women. (Original Airdate 6/19/2022)
Robin's special guest is award-winning filmmaker Violet Du Feng, whose groundbreaking documentary Hidden Letters just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Through her lens we find modern Chinese women—and their ancient secret language.
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WMC Live #381: The State That Never Was. (Original Airdate 6/12/2022)
Robin explores the almost-state of the US that was to have been Sequoia. Special Guest: Dr. Cristina Azocar, Mattaponi Nation and Journalism Professor, on her book News Media and the Indigenous Fight for Federal Recognition.
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WMC Live #380: The Gun and the Fetus. (Original Airdate 5/29/2022)
Robin connects the dots between ammo and abortion, male supremacy and white supremacy. Special Guest: Carrie Baker, author, attorney, professor, and reproductive rights expert.
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WMC Live #379: Two Women Who Persevere. (Original Airdate: 5/22/2022)
Robin highlights two women who stand their ground: Marina Ovsyannikova and special guest, author Sallie Bingham.
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WMC Live #378: The Past is Never Dead. (Original Airdate: 5/8/2022)
Robin on the leaked Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Special guest for an in-depth discussion on the Court's decision: multiply awarded lesbian-feminist Chicana writer and activist Cherríe Moraga.
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WMC Live #377: Native Women Artists. (Original Airdate: 5/1/2022)
Robin explores visual art done by Native American and Indigenous women. Special Guests: Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo), Theresa Secord (Penobscot Nation), and Marie Watt (Turtle Clan, Seneca).
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WMC Live #376: The Body Snatchers. (Original Airdate 4/24/2022)
Robin explores post-Roe v. Wade realities if we lose reproductive rights, and finds a vast network of underground abortion providers and devices. Special Guest: Jessica Bruder, writer of “The Abortion Underground” in the May edition of The Atlantic.