Lawyer Chase Strangio On “Genocidal” Anti-Trans Laws—And Resistance
2021 has already been declared the worst year in U.S. history for legislative attacks against the LGBTQ community...and we’re not even halfway through! Against that backdrop, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangi...
10 Jun 202136min
Amani on Why This Moment “Feels Different” For Palestinians
After last month’s devastating violence in Palestine and Israel, global public opinion began to shift in support of the Palestinian people. That’s long-overdue, says Amani, the Palestinian-American ac...
3 Jun 202131min
‘Queen Sugar’ Author Natalie Baszile on the New Black Farming Revolution
In a week that marks one year since George Floyd's death, there’s no better time to talk about cultivating the world we deserve. Queen Sugar author Natalie Baszile believes that true Black freedom is ...
27 Mai 202136min
Travon Free Wants To Flip The Script on Masculinity
Feminism is not just about changing the ways we raise girls—in the words of host Brittany Packnett Cunningham, “men need to be freed too, y’all!” And Travon Free, the filmmaker who just won an Oscar f...
20 Mai 202135min
Nikole Hannah-Jones Wants Us To Confront The Truth of Who We Are
New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones is the creator of The 1619 Project, a multimedia effort about the legacy of slavery, and how it still informs American life. It won her a Pulitzer ...
13 Mai 202134min
Insecure’s Yvonne Orji On Black Joy… And Her “Homie” Jesus
In the year of our lord 2021, we need all the faith we can get—so it felt like the perfect time to invite comedian/actress Yvonne Orji (Molly from HBO’s Insecure) onto the show to share her lessons fr...
6 Mai 202137min
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson On The “Feminist Climate Renaissance”
The state of our blue planet can feel dire—because it is. California wildfires, Midwestern droughts, Southern floods, and global food insecurity. But marine biologist and climate justice expert Dr. Ay...
29 Apr 202137min
Andra Day on the Tragedy and Triumph of Billie Holiday
In a week that brought us Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts but also a relentless wave of police killings, it can feel like not much has changed since Billie Holiday sang “Strange Fruit.” Andra Day—up for...
22 Apr 202137min
