Following the Fire

59: Embracing the F-Word: What is Feminism and how it can help us all be fully human

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Embracing the F-Word: What is Feminism and how it can help us all be fully human

Special guest Alison Buxton joins us again to discuss that OTHER dirty f-word: Feminism. She tells us what it is, what it isn’t, and why it matters. The 2 dudes on this podcast learned a LOT from Alison, including how feminism is connected to everything in ways we didn’t expect.

  • Friends don't have to use shortened names
  • Ms.
  • Book Club Episode: “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • “Feminazi”
  • Book: “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Jane Fonda Vietnam War protests
  • bell hooks
  • Bra burning
  • Women’s March 2017
  • Black Lives Matter
  • History of Feminism
  • Intersectionality
  • Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • 19th Amendment
  • Jim Crow laws
  • MeToo movement
  • Tarana Burke
  • From “The Handmaid’s Tale” - Gilead
  • Clarence Thomas
  • Anita Hill
  • Book: “The Democratization of American Christianity” by Nathan O. Hatch
  • The Bechdel Test
  • The Bechdel Test Movie List
  • Nadia Boltz Weber
  • Article: “The Crisis of Men and Boys”by David Brooks in the New York Times
  • The Feeling Wheel
  • Kimberlé Crenshaw TED Talk
  • Book: “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
  • Book: “The Woman’s Hour” by Elaine Weiss
  • Book: “The Krunk Feminist Collective” by Brittany Cooper
  • Book: “Feminism is For Everybody” by bell hooks
  • Book: “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan

    • Theme music by Daniel Wheat!

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      • Special Guest: Alison Buxton.

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