Feminist Current
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
PODCAST: Filipino mail-order brides are still an issue Canada and in pop culture
02 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In September, NBC greenlit a sitcom called Mail Order Family. The plot would center around a widowed single father who orders a mail-order bride fro...
PODCAST: Sheila Jeffreys on neoliberalism, identity politics, and the women’s liberation movement
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Image: The Age/Simon Schluter Feminism has suffered a significant loss in recent decades. The impact of “queer studies,” neoliberalism, and ident...
PODCAST: The trouble with transing kids
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Image: Veer Images The days of Marlo Thomas’ “Free to be… You and Me,” it seems, are long gone. Now, when kids don’t quite “fit” within...
PODCAST: Contextualizing the burkini/bikini debate
06 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
An example of the imagery circulating in mainstream media, depicting a woman in a burkini alongside a woman in a bikini. Just today media reported th...
PODCAST: Survivors speak out in new book about the prostitution industry
13 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As prostitution and the legislation that surrounds it has become an increasingly heated debate, the voices of women who survived the industry have gr...
PODCAST: Womyn’s Gathering 2016
25 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, 300 women have gathered for a five-day long feminist meeting in an “eco-domain” in Normandy, France. The will discuss topics like het...
PODCAST: Blair Braverman talks dog-sledding and navigating male dominance on a glacier
05 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From the time she was a child, Blair Braverman was drawn North. Soon after she left high school, she headed to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled do...
PODCAST: Orlando mass shooting fueled by anti-gay bigotry, unbridled masculinity, and misogyny
14 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Early Sunday morning, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in an attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Many have speculated about th...
PODCAST: Max Dashu reveals the suppressed truth behind the witch hunts (and the implications for women today)
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The witch hunts are viewed as a thing of the distant past, assumed to have happened over a century or two in Europe. But the truth is that the witch h...
PODCAST: Dietland author Sarai Walker talks fat, fuckability, and liberation
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Plum Kettle is 300 pounds and has been on a diet for her whole life. She’s waiting to be thin in order to begin her “real life” and is, conseque...
PODCAST: Doctors still won’t let women choose sterilization as a permanent birth control method
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since Brie Ripley was young, she knew she didn’t want to reproduce. But despite her struggles with other birth control methods, doctors refused...
PODCAST: Economic & sexual violence as barriers to sustainable development
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How can we talk about “sustainability” without also talking about an industry that sees thousands of women and girls, across the planet, exploited...
PODCAST: Empowerment and body positivity in the selfie age
18 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
These days, we hear an awful lot about “empowerment.” In an image-based culture, explicitly connected to social media, this has meant that young w...
PODCAST: Why must Maryam Namazie take on the left in her critiques of Islamic extremism?
16 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s become increasingly difficult for leftists and feminists to critique certain ideas and groups, even when those groups put forth misogynist idea...
PODCAST: The Guerrilla Feminist Collective vs. Roosh V.
07 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Roosh V., a man widely known as a “pickup artist,” who espouses a particularly extreme version of misogyny (recently advocating for legalized rape...
PODCAST: Women’s solidarity, the Montreal Massacre, & fighting violence against women today
03 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday, December 5th, from 10am-6pm, Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter will host their annual Montreal Massacre Memorial event at the Van...
PODCAST: Milk — A documentary about birth & breastfeeding
09 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the fact that women have been breastfeeding, quite literally, for all of human existence, there is still stigma and judgement around how women...
PODCAST: What could a Liberal majority mean for Indigenous communities?
29 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On October 19th the Liberal Party of Canada won a majority government, beating out the much maligned Harper Conservatives. Liberal Party leader, Justi...
PODCAST: Chris Hedges on the death of journalism & critical thought in the internet age
25 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hedges publishes a weekly column at Truthdig, has written 11 books, including “Death of the Liberal Class,” “Empire of Illusion: The End o...
PODCAST: Aftermath by Andrea Dworkin
22 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, at age 52, Andrea Dworkin was drugged and raped in Paris. She published a partial account in New Statesman in 2000, but it wasn’t until aft...