Call Your Girlfriend

By Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

What's Call Your Girlfriend about?

A podcast for long distance besties everywhere. Co-hosted by BFFs Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow. Produced by Gina Delvac. Brand new every Friday.

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Farewell

02.11.2022

We say goodbye, in the final episode of Call Your Girlfriend. In typical fashion, we're going out talking about how friends have been helping us get through the pandemic, the never-ending furor over Joe Rogan, and what podcasts we're loving. ...

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02.11.2022 Farewell We say goodbye, in the final episode of Call Your Girlfriend. In typical fashion, we're going out talking about how friends have been helping us get through the pandemic, the never-ending furor over Joe Rogan, and what podcasts we're loving. ...
12.17.2021 I'm the Bad Guy Sometimes We're not dead yet! Aminatou talks with legendary podcast, poet and essayist Nichole Perkins about navigating relationships as a Black woman, desire, boundaries, longing, and much more as we chat about her new book, Sometimes I Trip on How Happy ...
12.10.2021 See You on the Nostalgia Tour Is there anything you miss from before the internet? Reading, focus, getting lost, filing cabinets, are just a few of the things New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul discusses with us. Her new book is 100 Things We've ...
12.03.2021 Big Announcement A different kind of newsy episode with Aminatou, Ann and Gina. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11.26.2021 Money, Grief, Kids We talk with one of our favorite writers, The New Yorker's Ariel Levy, about dynastic wealth, how we experience grief, and big surprises in life, including the joys of getting older and having children. Her podcast that chronicles maternity wear ...
11.19.2021 So You Want to Change the World Can’t be that hard, right? We pass the mic to Nereya Otieno, one of Ann’s 2021 writing fellows, who sits down with two women who have started initiatives to improve the lives of a select few in hopes that it ...
11.12.2021 Tastemakers We talk with Mayukh Sen about seven immigrant women who remade American cuisine and his new book, Taste Makers. Plus, racism in the worlds of food writing and publishing and who gets to break out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11.05.2021 Making Older Friends Women over 50 are too often erased, including on this very podcast. Grace Bonney has been collecting inspiration and advice from women of more advanced experience in her new book, Collective Wisdom. She's gathered interviews and intergenerational conversations with over ...
10.29.2021 Grief Companionship Grief can come in so many forms and impact us in unexpected ways. Illustrator and designer Ngaio Parr knows all too well, having lost four family members in four years. Retreating from family and friends? Strange physical symptoms? Suddenly seeing ...
10.22.2021 Bandsplain Yasi Salek's podcast Bandsplain has us listening to music like teens again, with obsessive curiosity about whole albums and the quirks and life stories that draw us into the artists we come to love, or learn more about canonical artists ...
10.15.2021 The Silent but Deadly Fart of Racism George McCalman is an artist, a writer, an illustrator, and a designer. This man does it ALL. He spent many years as a magazine creative director, shaping the look and feel of publications such as Mother Jones, Readymade, Afar. Then ...
10.08.2021 Change is Always Coming How fixed are we in our ways of being and doing things? We're always confronting change, but how much can we choose it? These are some of the big ideas through small moments Jade Chang tackles in her Audible Original, ...
10.05.2021 SCOTUS vs. Abortion (sponsored by Rewire News Group) In a special episode brought to you by Rewire News Group, we go deep on the conservative push to regulate and ban abortion in Texas and Mississippi with Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of the Boom Lawyered podcast. See ...
10.01.2021 Disability, Fragility, Vulnerability Emily Ladau and Kelly Dawson return to dispel dull narratives around disability and go beyond the 101. How coping with fragility creates resilience. How friendships deepen with the knowing and trust that disabled people share. What allyship looks like to ...
09.24.2021 Believing Anita Hill Dr. Anita Hill made history in 1991 when she testified to the Senate Judiciary committee about the sexual harassment perpetrated against her by Clarence Thomas. After the all-white, all-male committee led by then-Senator Joe Biden heard Dr. Hill's testimony, Clarence ...
09.17.2021 Where Should I Send My Kid to School? A simple question with loaded answers. On today's episode, we unravel a few of those knots with Courtney Martin and Dr. Dena Simmons, whose interracial friendship has weathered distance, accountability, academic rigor, heartbreak, and mutual support. They met over a ...
09.10.2021 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation Don't today's conspiracy theories make UFOs and JFK conspiracy theories seem quaint, almost sweet? Dr. Stacy Wood breaks down how independent communities of belief have accelerated online. It's not only the fault of social media, but as we reorganize how ...
09.03.2021 Finding Your Voice Comedy and art criticism don't exactly sound like parallel career paths. But after bouncing from a freelance hustle to a fancy art world job to improv classes, Christina Catherine Martinez realized she wanted to do both. We talk about how ...
08.27.2021 Sex Work is Work As OnlyFans flips and flops on the sex workers that built its platform, we revisit our interview with Lorelei Lee on the history of sex work legislation. Lorelei is a writer and performer who discusses how sex work is neither ...
08.20.2021 Sustainable Style Miranda Bennett has long been one of our favorite designers. We discuss how she got started making and selling clothes, how she balances running a sustainable business with keeping the lights on, and tips for shopping sustainably (even though we ...
08.13.2021 Summer of Friendship: Forever35 Our summer of friendship continues with Kate Spencer and Doree Shafrir, hosts of the podcast Forever35. While we love their conversations about serums and budget-friendly makeup tips, we come and stay for their deep friendship, which started on the internet ...
08.06.2021 Bad Behavior From Matt Damon to Andrew Cuomo to gender testing at the Olympics, we do a quick survey of men in the news behaving badly. Links Matt Damon and the "f-slur" / original headline Amanda Knox on Damon’s Stillwater Cuomo is ...
07.29.2021 Boundaries We talk about finding and maintaining boundaries, why the world makes it easier for some people than others, how boundaries help us be in community with others, and how grateful we are for boundary possibility models like Simone Biles and ...
07.23.2021 Summer of Friendship: Foxy Browns More from our Summer of Friendship series, where a few of our favorite podcasters tell us how they met, times their friendship has been stretched, and how they grow together. This week, dear pals Camilla Blackett and Priyanka Mattoo of ...
07.16.2021 Summer of Friendship: Two Old Bitches As we continue our Summer of Friendship series, a few of our favorite podcasters tell us how they met, times their friendship has been stretched, and how they grow together. This week, Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler aka Two Old ...
07.09.2021 Summer of Friendship: Claire and Erica As part of our Summer of Friendship series, a few of our favorite podcasters tell us how they met, times their friendship has been stretched, and how their off-air and on-air friendship is different. This week, iconic bestie entrepreneurs Claire ...
07.02.2021 Hot Vax Summer of Friendship Aminatou and Ann's book Big Friendship is available in paperback July 6, so to celebrate we're doing our second Summer of Friendship series. We catch up and kick off chatting through our recent forays back into the world, which friends ...
06.25.2021 Bi Bi Bi 2.0 Jordan and Gina round out Pride with a followup to our Bi Bi Bi episode from 2018. We hear from Divinity (@officiallydivinity) who identifies as bisexual, gray ace, and aromantic and how those labels coalesce for her. Divinity has amazing ...
06.18.2021 Lockdown Lesbian Love Story Queer women aren't exclusively looking for longterm monogamous love - but some are! As part of our Pride series, a lockdown lesbian love story featuring musician Abby Diamond and actor and director Rachel Cora Wood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
06.11.2021 Detransition, Baby We talk with Torrey Peters about her breakout novel, Detransition, Baby, full of queer characters finding and defining family, and why she dedicated it to divorced cis women. Plus, a bunch of great reading recommendations for books by trans authors. ...
06.04.2021 Queer and Questioning On this month's agenda: exploring queer identities with CYG producers Gina Delvac and Jordan Bailey. First up, we hear from queer sex therapist Casey Tanner about questioning your sexuality or gender identity, coming out, and dating when you're first exploring ...
05.28.2021 What Does an Art Curator Do As more of us can step back into the world and look at art in person, we discuss the role (and responsibility) of an art curator with Helen Molesworth, formerly of MOCA in Los Angeles, and host of the podcast ...
05.21.2021 Healing Ourselves with Friends (and Books) You know that friend you can get real with about therapy, shedding the hard parts of your childhood, and how to take the next steps in your life? Ashley C. Ford is that and more to so many, in how ...
05.14.2021 The Other Epidemic As we emerge back into the world, how long will we live with COVID? Will it be like HIV/AIDS? We talk to people who have been closely involved in AIDS activism and responding to the coronavirus: Mathew Rodriguez and Leisha ...
05.07.2021 Hard Conversations Death, sex, money, family and identity. How do we start and receive the hardest conversations that emerge in our lives? The one-and-only Anna Sale of Death, Sex and Money is here to talk us though it and her new book, ...
04.30.2021 Creative Evolutions We have all had to find different ways to cope, and for those with creative practices, they are often evolving. For friend of the podcast and artist Kenesha Sneed, that has meant moving among media and the many different roles ...
04.23.2021 Cooking and Eating with Friends Home cook and author Julia Turshen joins us to discuss pandemic cooking fatigue, why the stories behind recipes matter, and how she learned to love cooking and eating. Her latest cookbook is Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort ...
04.16.2021 Love in Color We're easing our way back from our break with Bolu Babalola, author of the delightful collection of romantic stories that center Black women, Love in Color. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
04.09.2021 Get Your 2020 Taxes Right Taxes are scary but getting free money from the government is great. CYG's accountant and the force behind Taxes for Artists, Claudia Yi León returns to tell us all about how to deal with the wild year of unemployment and ...
04.02.2021 More Shine Theory What better time to be lifting up the people we love and growing together? Brooke Baldwin of CNN joins us to discuss the groups of women - or huddles - that make collective change happen at work, in activism, sports, ...
03.26.2021 More Pelvic Power You should never pee when you laugh. You can see a midwife for non-pregnancy health exams like pap smears. And you can even insert your own speculum at the gynecologist if that makes you more comfortable. We revisit all the ...
03.19.2021 More Samantha Power Samantha Power served as the US ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration and has been nominated by President Biden to serve as administrator to USAID. We revisit our 2019 interview full of hard and candid truths about ...
03.12.2021 More Pleasure Activism It doesn't feel like a great time for pleasure, but that's exactly why we need it, right now. We revisit our interview with adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy, and most recently, We Will Not Cancel Us. ...
03.05.2021 Burnout Getting real about recognizing burnout, how it's different from similar feelings like depression, and how ambition means more than working constantly. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
02.26.2021 Fighting for Indigenous Rights A planned tar sands pipeline through Northern Minnesota crosses tribal land and would disrupt waterways and wild rice cultivation. Tara Houska is Ojibwe, an attorney, an environmental and indigenous rights advocate, and has a long history on the land Line ...
02.19.2021 Feeling Our Way Through Poet, artist and activist Cleo Wade feels deeply and writes movingly about growing up, finding ourselves, and having good boundaries with the people in our lives and our social feeds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
02.12.2021 Glittery Curiosity The NYT's Caity Weaver joins us to discuss her love of Santa Fe, television, pronouncing words correctly, and how her insatiable curiosity compels her to find out how glitter is made. Plus, in her many celebrity profiles: who tried to ...
02.05.2021 Cozy Content This episode is all about comfort in challenging times and staying true to yourself. We talk with a paragon of creating cozy feelings, Jenny Han, the author behind the book and Netflix series To All the Boys I've Loved Before. ...
01.29.2021 Jangling Keys of Friendship Is it childish to call people Best Friends? Who holds the various keys to our hearts and identities? And what dreams of the past and future are getting us through the pandemic? Aminatou discusses travel, religion, finding ourselves and how ...
01.22.2021 Transition of Power We discuss the inauguration celebrity parade, the fallacy of calls for "unity," Melania's caftan, Bernie's mittens, and "We will be back in some form." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Call Your Girlfriend

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Call Your Girlfriend episodes:

Farewell

I'm the Bad Guy Sometimes

See You on the Nostalgia Tour

Big Announcement

Money, Grief, Kids

So You Want to Change the World

Tastemakers

Making Older Friends

Grief Companionship

Bandsplain

The Silent but Deadly Fart of Racism

Change is Always Coming

SCOTUS vs. Abortion (sponsored by Rewire News Group)

Disability, Fragility, Vulnerability

Believing Anita Hill

Where Should I Send My Kid to School?

Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation

Finding Your Voice

Sex Work is Work

Sustainable Style

Summer of Friendship: Forever35

Bad Behavior

Boundaries

Summer of Friendship: Foxy Browns

Summer of Friendship: Two Old Bitches

Summer of Friendship: Claire and Erica

Hot Vax Summer of Friendship

Bi Bi Bi 2.0

Lockdown Lesbian Love Story

Detransition, Baby

Queer and Questioning

What Does an Art Curator Do

Healing Ourselves with Friends (and Books)

The Other Epidemic

Hard Conversations

Creative Evolutions

Cooking and Eating with Friends

Love in Color

Get Your 2020 Taxes Right

More Shine Theory

More Pelvic Power

More Samantha Power

More Pleasure Activism

Burnout

Fighting for Indigenous Rights

Feeling Our Way Through

Glittery Curiosity

Cozy Content

Jangling Keys of Friendship

Transition of Power

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