Writer Reena Zaman recently released a beautiful memoir, I Am Yours. In this episode she reads her essay from the Fury anthology and shares the experience of being other'd in America and how she learned to use her voice and platform to push for

Author Lisa Kirchner on Love, Trust, Intersectionality and Being a Feminist Married to a Trump Voter

Nov 8th, 2018 41m 3s

Lisa L. Kirchner is author of the critically-acclaimed, Hello American Lady Creature: What I Learned as a Woman in Qatar. NPR says, “it’s like Eat, Pray, Love, only funny.” She’s also appeared on NBC, CBS radio, BBC Radio and HuffPoTV. Earlier

Amy Roost on Balancing the Personal and the Political

Nov 1st, 2018 58m 46s

Host Amy Roost tells our exec producer Amy Westervelt about her own fury, the need to take breaks from outrage, and what sort of silver lining she thinks we'll see around 2016 twenty years from now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega

Ecofeminist Author and Professor Heidi Hutner

Oct 25th, 2018 57m 6s

Heidi Hutner teaches and writes about environmental literature and film, environmental justice, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and media. She is a professor at Stony Brook University, the author of several books, and writes frequently for various p

Writer Katherine Morgan on Patriotism, Protest, and Standing Up for What's Right

Oct 18th, 2018 41m 27s

Writer Katherine Morgan's work has been published in The Rumpus, Ravishly, and various other publications. In this episode she talks to Amy about what both the Obama and Trump elections were like for her as a Black woman living in America, and

Therapist and Editor Alissa Hirshfeld-Flores on Mental Health and the 25th Amendment in the Trump Era

Oct 10th, 2018 44m 3s

Alissa Hirshfield-Flores is a marriage and family therapist specializing in grief and loss. She says she's seen an increase in people experiencing anger, grief, and anxiety issues since the 2016 election, and saw an increase in women seeking ap

Author Krystal Sital on the Importance of Truth, and Being a Woman of Color in Trump's America

Oct 3rd, 2018 43m 55s

Author Krystal Sital has never shied away from tough topics or situations. She tackles domestic abuse in her own family in her bestselling debut memoir Secrets We Kept. In this episode she talks to Amy about how, in the aftermath of the 2016 el

Artist and Psychiatric Nurse Nina Gaby on Protest, Trauma, and Different Waves of Feminism

Sep 27th, 2018 40m 59s

Artist Nina Gaby's work is in the collections of several museums, including the Smithsonian, and she also works as a psychiatric nurse, which gives her unique insight into the human condition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.

Writer and Teacher Sarah Mina Osman on Why It's Important to Fight Like Hell

Sep 21st, 2018 33m 57s

When Sarah Mina Osman showed up to teach her high school class the day after the 2016 election, someone had written "deportation day" on her blackboard. She crossed it out and wrote "Revolution Day."In this episode she talks to Amy about why it

Editor Jennifer Silva Redmond on Protest, Progress, and Being a Latinx Woman in America Today

Sep 12th, 2018 33m 17s

Jennifer Silva Redmond remembers going to protests almost every weekend as the child of hippies, growing up in the 1960s. Today she's shocked to see so many civil rights gains slipping, and a general disrespect of women, but heartened to see th

Memoirist Meg Weber on Identity, Family, and Mental Health

Sep 6th, 2018 29m 26s

As an LGBTQ parent, therapist, and memoirist, Meg Weber shares her insights on staying sane and supporting both yourself and your loved ones in the time of Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dawn Marlan on Loss of Innocence and the Expectations of Men

Aug 29th, 2018 48m 32s

Writer and memoirist Dawn Marlan shares her own deeply personal story in this episode, where we get into the intersection between #MeToo, Trump, and the shifting status of women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer and filmmaker Pamela Woolford on being a Black woman in Trump's America

Aug 23rd, 2018 26m 57s

Pamela Woolford is a writer, filmmaker, and performer. Her short stories, essays, and articles have been published in various newspapers and journals, from Harvard University’s Transition to Poets & Writers Magazine. In this episode, she talks

Jessica Handler on the Silencing of Women

Aug 15th, 2018 39m 26s

Jessica Handler is the author of Invisible Sisters: A Memoir, Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss, and The Magnetic Girl, which is forthcoming from Hub City Press in 2019. Her nonfiction has appeared on NPR, and in Tin Hou

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Coming soon: Fury

Jul 31st, 2018 2m 14s

Hosted by journalist and frequent Snap Judgement contributor Amy Roost, and complementing a forthcoming book of personal essays Amy edited, Fury interviews American women about the rage they're feeling these days, and how they're channeling it

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