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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Robin on California's fires, dashing up Mt. Everest, workplace menopause policy, slut-shaming of a Congresswoman, and women in (yes) media. Guest: Joy Harjo, poet, musician, feminist, and the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.
Robin on Lev and Igor, women truckers, air-conditioning the outdoors, African American pilots, Nancy’s red dress, and clam gardens. Guest: Julie K. Brown, award-winning investigative journalist whose work reignited the Jeffrey Epstein cold case.
Robin on thinking global (Kurds, Kashmir, Hong Kong) while acting local (impeachment, election, Time’s Up), whale-song jam sessions, and Argentina’s Feminist Tango Movement. Guest: Jane Fonda on why she hopes to spend her 82nd birthday in jail.
Robin on the Trump Tipping Point, prehistoric sippy cups, safety tips for runners, leaders and lemmings, and sociable cats. Guest: Samhita Mukhopadhyay, executive editor of Teen Vogue, on Gen Z women and girls.
Robin on the impeachment quid pro quo, climate change strikes, “extreme grooming,” books banned in the US, and the importance of forgetting. Guest: Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives Katherine Clark (D-MA).
Robin on Mormons by any other name, legalized child labor in Bolivia, why our galaxy is warped, and learning not to forgive. Guest: Pat Mitchell on her book, “Becoming A Dangerous Woman.”
The Women’s Media Center is delighted to announce the eighth season of the award-winning podcast “WMC Live with Robin Morgan,” a weekly program with a listenership in 112 countries around the world. The season premiere features an intimate conversation with Women’s Media Center co-founder Gloria Steinem about her new book, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off. Morgan’s commentaries this week target digital assistants, tactics to fight ageism, what’s really inside the headlines, “female Viagra”, and mosquitos.
Season Premiere! Robin on digital assistants, tactics to fight ageism, what’s really inside the headlines, “female Viagra,” and mosquitos. Guest: Gloria Steinem.
Robin on Special Counsel Mueller’s July 17 testimony, permafrost, what being a journalist means, and knitters united against hate speech. Guest: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D. WA), Memb. Judiciary Comm., on impeachment and her Medicare-for-All Bill.
Robin on Iran, impeachment, endurance, Greenwich Village during Pride Month, the 60 percent, and the Robin fledgling in her garden. Guest: Dr. Sunita Puri on her book, “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour.”
Special Edition! Robin and former 4-term Congresswoman and Watergate Committee member Elizabeth Holtzman talk bold new strategies for impeaching Donald Trump. Two former POTUS’s refute Trump’s claim that laws against foreign interference are “wrong.
Robin on Canada’s declared femicide of Indigenous women, boycotting anti-abortion states, the 2020 census, and a reclaimed anniversary. Guest: Sarah Barnett, first woman president of AMC Entertainment Networks (AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC and Sundance TV).
Robin on abortion and the Supremes, women’s exclusion from HIV medical trials, Afghan schoolgirls, Irish divorce, and what snails can teach us about left-handedness. Guest: Lawyer Cara Robertson on her book, The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story.
Robin on ”consensual rape,” Oreo’s, patriarchal reversals, Mary Daly, Deutsche Bank, forced childbirth, and McDonald’s. Guest: Leah Greenberg reveals Indivisible.com’s latest tactics, shifting from defensive to offensive, and her political analy
Robin on Alabama v. abortion, how women and alcohol are viewed, death-in-childbirth rates, and soda straws. Guests: Judith Arcana, Cait Cortelyou, Caroline Hirsch discuss their film Ask for Jane on 70s feminists doing underground abortion referrals.
Robin on Democratic strategy, the UN biodiversity alert, Woody Allen’s unpublishability, Paleolithic stoners, and an NRA mano a mano. Guest: Stephanie Urdang, South African journalist and activist, on the election and 25th anniversary of liberation.
Robin on how viruses in the oceans could save us, stress, fraternities, the Japanese Imperial family, and smart phones. Guest: Rep. Donna Shalala (D. FL), the oldest “freshwoman” in Congress.
Robin on impeachment, “heartbeat” bills and Roe, connecting the dots, and “reading the bones.” The Conversation: Cherríe Moraga talks with Robin about writing, theater, mothers, activism, and her new book, Native Country of the Heart.
Robin on the Islamic State’s “leftover” women, Easter’s real meaning, remembering the Watergate women, downtrends in US religiosity, and the gender gap on perceiving progress. Guest: Rev. Gretta Vosper, the atheist minister who “deconstructed God."