Katie Hill represented California’s 25th district in Congress from January to November 2019, making her its first openly bisexual member. She’s also had a hell of a year. Hill resigned after leaked photos emerged that revealed her relationship with a female campaign staffer; Hill alleges these photos were leaked to …
Sarah Smarsh is a journalist based in Kansas. Her first book was _Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth_ (2018), was a National Book Award finalist. Her new book, _She Come By It Natural_ , deftly combines a biography of the indomitable, …
Morgan Jerkins is an author, editor and essayist. Her first book, the essay collection _This Will Be My Undoing_ , was published in 2018 and became a _New York Times_ bestseller. Her new book, _Wandering in Strange Lands_ , is a travelogue and a family memoir about the Great Migration …
Since 1968, Black Studies departments have been established across the country, contributing to the intellectual life of the university and informing larger conversations about race beyond the academy. However, departmentalization eludes many universities, including Stanford. In this Clayman Conversations event, our panelists Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Kimberly Thomas McNair, Aileen …
The figure of the “TERF” (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) has emerged as one of the more puzzling flashpoints in recent culture wars on campus and in the media. Why have trans lives and identities become a politically potent rallying cry for people who seem not to care very much for …
Write anything, post anything as a woman on the internet, and they will gather: the Debate Me Bros. They are owed more arguments, further justification. They are experts, and they aren’t sure you are. In the first of our Clayman Conversations Online, journalist Nhi Le and scholar Moira Weigel will …
In this special Season 1 finale, Laura and Adrian reflect on post-#MeToo realizations, teen feminist lightbulb moments, queer respectability politics, and much, much more. Featuring references to WAP, Ben Shapiro's beleaguered wife, and Hegel all in the same five minutes. Listen to the end for tantalizing hints about our upcoming …
Rebecca Traister is an author and columnist, who is currently writer-at-large at _New York_ Magazine. Her books, including _All the Single Ladies_ (2016) and _Good and Mad_ (2018) have become touchstones in contemporary political discourse around gender, sexuality and the long backlash. Laura and Adrian talk to Rebecca Traister about …
Young Jean Lee is a playwright, director and filmmaker, as well an Associate Professor in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford. Her plays include _The Shipment_ (2009), _Untitled Feminist Show_ (2011), and _Straight White Men_ (2014). In 2012, Charles Isherwood called her "hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of …
Grace Parra is a screenwriter and actress whose performing credits include The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, Superstore, Master of None, and White Guy Talk Show. Until very recently, she was writing for a CBS series called Broke, and she also co-hosts the podcast Hysteria. Grace talks to Laura and …
Anthony Christian Ocampo is a scholar and writer who focuses on race, immigration, and LGBTQ issues. He is a sociology professor at Cal Poly Pomona and a Ford Foundation Fellow. His groundbreaking book, [The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino-Americans Break the Rules of Race](https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/search/site/anthony%20ocampo), was called “essential reading not only …
Sarah Marshall is a writer currently at work on a book about the satanic panic of the 1980s. Michael Hobbes is a journalist at the Huffington Post. Since 2018, Sarah and Michael have been hosting "You're Wrong About," a podcast about true crime, moral panics, and the untruths or half-truths …
Moira Donegan is an opinion columnist for Guardian US whose work has also appeared in the New Yorker, n+1, the New Republic, and in the viral The Cut essay, “I Started The Media Men List," in which she describes her creation of (and the fallout from) the "Shitty Media Men" …
In addition to his advice-giving role as Slate’s Dear Prudence, Danny M. Lavery is a co-founder of the Toast and the author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, and Something That May Shock and Discredit You. Danny talks to Laura and Adrian about giving advice, about respect and …
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker whose recent work includes an [exploration of youth vaping](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of-vaping- and-the-rise-of-juul) and essays on the ongoing cultural reckoning about sexual assault. Previously, she was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Her criticism has appeared in …
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an academic and writer whose work has been recognized nationally and internationally for the urgency and depth of her incisive critical analysis of technology, higher education, class, race and gender. McMillan Cottom’s columns have appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and …
In our inaugural episode, we are proud to welcome Evette Dionne to discuss her new book about Black women's fight for equality and suffrage, [Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box](https://bookshop.org/books/lifting-as-we-climb-black-women-s-battle-for- the-ballot-box/9780451481542). Known across the internet as “free Black girl,” Dionne is a Black feminist culture …
Listen for a first look of what is to come this season on The Feminist Present. First full episode will be released on June 10th.