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January 14, 2024 Politics,
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WMC Live #427: New Year, New Approach. (Original Airdate 1/14/2024)
Robin goes into "Refresh" in computer mode, starting 2024 reading a new little gem of her own fiction, "The Embodiment" from her book Parallax.
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December 17, 2023 Politics,
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WMC Live #426: The Mer-Child. (Original Airdate 12/17/2023)
After a chaotic and stressful year, Robin devotes the entire episode to reading the magical, transformative story she wrote for her son, then age 8—The Mer-Child: A Legend for Children and Other Adults.
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WMC Live #425: Say Her Name, Part 2. (Original Airdate 12/10/2023)
Robin discusses the #SayHerName Mothers Network, intersectionality, #MeToo, racialized motherhood in America, and more with special guests Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gina Best. Plus, Audre Lorde's poetry.
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WMC Live #424: Say Her Name, Part 1. (Original Airdate 12/3/2023)
Robin's guests, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw of the African American Policy Forum & Gina Best of the #SayHerName Mothers Network, on police brutality and public silencing regarding Black women. Plus, Robin on Israel and Hamas.
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November 19, 2023 Politics,
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WMC Live #423: The Boarding School Era. (Original Airdate 11/19/2023)
Robin delves into the use of boarding schools to "assimilate" Native American children in the 19th century. Special Guest Dr. Brenda Child, Ojibwe historian and author.
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WMC Live #422: Ancient Societies, Modern Crises. (Original Airdate 11/12/2023)
Robin explores China's new plans for women with her special guest, Leta Hong Fincher, author of Leftover Women. And Robin's commentary on the Israel-Gaza war.
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WMC Live #421: Cultural Cure. (Original Airdate 11/5/2023)
Robin devotes the main body of the podcast to a conversation with the founders of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Praxis—writer Cherríe Moraga and painter Celia Herrera Rodríguez.
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WMC Live #420: Not Too Late—Yet. (Original Airdate 10/29/2023)
Robin faces into climate damage already beyond repair, but then welcomes guest Jane Fonda, now a climate activist, who offers practical hope.
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WMC Live #419: Disability Rights & Wrongs. (Original Airdate 10/22/2023)
Robin explores the intersection of climate crises and the world’s largest oppressed minority: the disability community. Guest: Emily Ladau, author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, How to Be an Ally.
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WMC Live #418: A Time of Great Abiding Sorrow. (Original Airdate 10/15/2023)
Robin confronts the Taliban's draconian list of forbidden acts for women. Guests: Asila Wardak and Jessica Neuwirth of the Women's Forum on Afghanistan.
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WMC Live #417: Surfacing ... Sort of. (Original Airdate 10/8/2023)
Robin struggles to regain a focused self post-severe-COVID. Special guest Kathy Spillar, Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine, and editor of the new book 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution.
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WMC Live #416: The Show Must Go On. (Original Airdate: 9/24/2023)
Robin is leveled by COVID but muddles through hilariously. Special Guest: Feminist art historian and critic Lucy Lippard. New feature: Poetry Corner!
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WMC Live #415: Harvesting Darkness. (Original Airdate 9/17/2023)
Season Premiere! Robin celebrates it by debuting her new book of poems just out, her eighth collection: Harvesting Darkness. After going Inside the Headlines, she shares some powerful, deeply moving poems from the book, in a special reading.
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June 25, 2023 | Julie Burton, Frances Nguyen, Barbara Findlen, Erica González Martínez, Kate McCarthy, Robin Morgan |
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Robin Morgan
WMC Live #414: Inside the Frontlines, Part 2. (Original Airdate: 6/25/2023)
Season Finale! Robin focuses this episode—like last week’s—on the Women's Media Center staff and brilliant mission. Today: women in conflict situations, expert speakers' database, features, media training—and a peek into ambitious future plans!
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June 18, 2023 | Cristal Williams Chancellor, Julie Burton, Tiffany T. Nguyen, Julie Zeilinger, Lauren Wolfe, Robin Morgan |
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WMC Live #413: Inside the Frontlines, Part 1. (Original Airdate 6/18/2023)
Robin devotes this episode—and next week’s—to conversations with the Women's Media Center staff: how their diverse desks model a true free media. Today: Young Feminists, Entertainment, Climate, and the Research Reports that have become so famous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.