Call Your Girlfriend

We talk with authors Mary HK Choi and Liana Finck about their delightful new books. Plus, what we're reading: fiction, memoir and actionable non-fiction about climate change. Share your reading list on instagram with #cygbooks.

Links:

Permanent Record by Mark HK Choi

Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self by Liana Finck

We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer

Inconspicuous Consumption by Tatiana Schlossberg

A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Grace Dunham

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a bonus episode to promote the current season of the Color Full Lives podcast, presented by State Farm we listen into Aminatou with co-hosts Tonya Rapley and Angela Yee. This season is all about financial planning for big life milestones. Amina, Tonya and Angela share their travel-saving tips and are joined by Jessica Nabongo who has visited every country in the world.

Listen and subscribe to Color Full Lives on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Soundcloud.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A very political and newsy episode inspired by our visit to Washington, DC in which we discuss:

• Giuliani's butt dials
• Who is speaking truth to power and who is rewriting history to spiff up their image (looking at you former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen)
• Katie Hill's departure from Congress
• Drake's birthday
• The Democratic candidates' corny tendencies
• The FTC investigation into cult skincare brand Sunday Riley faking online reviews

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What does it take to live your ideals? We discuss growing up and trying to make a positive change in the world with former UN Ambassador Samantha Power.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Life on the road, impeachment inches forward, and are vitamins for real? Plus, we talk to one of our favorite writers, Sarah Hagi, about Scamnadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And, an apology for a fatphobic comment in last week's episode.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Dead bodies are not dangerous!" is a fitting manta for mortician, author and death positivity activist Caitlin Doughty. This week: how to die, the funeral-industrial complex, and why you need an advance directive.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Friend of the podcast Hillary Rodham Clinton returns with Chelsea Clinton to discuss their recent joint project, The Book of Gutsy Women.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Starting next year, you'll see celebration galore for the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, often celebrated as voting rights for American women. But which women could vote? We talk with historian Lisa Tetrault about the myths of suffrage (spoiler alert: it's not actually a right) and the racist politics of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Then we move to the state of suffrage today with activists Arekia Bennett of Mississippi Votes and DeJuana Thompson of Woke Vote, who are working to ensure that marginalized people are enfranchised under new waves of voter suppression.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An update on #MeToo from Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times reporters who broke the Weinstein story. They share behind-the-scenes details of how they urged survivors to speak out, the institutions and individuals that protect abusers, and some points of hope.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chase Strangio, an activist for trans rights and a staff attorney at the ACLU, talks about the Supreme Court case that we should all be outraged about. The government wants to redefine the Civil Rights Act to discriminate against transgender Americans, people in queer relationships, and anyone who doesn't fit a tidy definition of male and female. The Court takes up oral arguments on October 8.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.