Tarana Burke on Her Powerful New Memoir—And The Future of #MeToo
Season finale! Fifteen years ago, Tarana Burke started using two simple words to empower young Black and brown girls who had experienced sexual violence. Today, MeToo has exploded into a global moveme...
12 Aug 202157min
Pleasure Activist adrienne maree brown On Conflict, Canceling, and Community
As we head into the last stretch of summer, Brittany catches up with the guru of feeling good, writer adrienne maree brown. Together they get into how the philosophy of Pleasure Activism shaped adrien...
5 Aug 202139min
Jemele Hill On “The Cursed Olympics”—And Simone Biles Choosing Her Peace
Fresh on the heels of Simone Biles’ decision to put her mental health over Olympic gold, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with sportscaster Jemele Hill to ask a key question: Can the Olympi...
29 Juli 202140min
The Billionaire Space Race and Patriarchy in Physics, With Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos became the latest contestant in the “billionaire space race,” prompting a million memes—and serious questions about how exactly this makes life better for those of us here on ea...
23 Juli 202137min
Connie Walker On Covering the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Mass graves found on the sites of former residential schools in Canada. Disturbingly high rates of murder and disappearance for Indigenous women across North America. These headlines have woken many i...
15 Juli 202140min
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw On the Truth About Critical Race Theory
In recent months, Republican lawmakers in close to a dozen states have been trying to stop schools from teaching Critical Race Theory—or really any examination of America’s history of oppression. So w...
1 Juli 202137min
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Finally Fixing the Military’s Sexual Assault Problem
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been speaking up for sexual assault survivors in the military for the better part of a decade. The military currently “addresses” (or fails to address) thousands of...
24 Juni 202130min
The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” on the Holiday’s Past, Present and Future
This week, Congress voted to designate Juneteenth a federal holiday—something Opal Lee has spent years trying to make happen. The 94-year-old Texas-raised activist and author—known as the “Grandmother...
17 Juni 202131min
