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September 22, 2024 Politics,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #448: She Didn't Need To Say It. (Original Airdate 9/22/2024)
Season Premiere! Robin opens the season with an all-to-herself episode that analyzes the past dramatic events of the summer, and then focuses on just who Kamala Devi Harris truly is.
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July 28, 2024 Politics,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #447 Special Commentary: Thank you, Joe. Let’s go, Kamala! (Original Airdate 7/28/2024)
A special commentary from Robin Morgan on Joe Biden’s election decision and Kamala Harris’ history-making emergence.
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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 #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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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December 11, 2022 Politics,
Robin Morgan
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,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #391: Midterm Magic!! (Original Airdate 11/13/2022)
Robin demystifies the midterm elections and does her little dance of celebration.