Disobedient Femmes

What would it take for a robot to be able to make you a sandwich?
In this episode, Suzanne LaGrande interviews science writer Kathryn Hulick, who has just published Welcome to the Future: Robot Friends, Fusion Energy, Pet Dinosaurs, and more.
In the discussion, Ms. Hulick talks about:
How her love of science fiction led her to write about science for kids and about the great need there is for more books about science written for kids.


The process of writing Welcome to the Future and how she took popular topics such as robots, cities in space, living forever, endless clean energy, and food for all and did extensive interviews with scientists to help assess the feasibility of these ideas.
The possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence and the surprising complexity involved in “simple” human activities like making a sandwich
Genetic engineering, what’s feasible and what’s desirable
Giving students a nuanced understanding of the science and the ethical questions involved in making decisions about the technology of the future.
For more about Kathryn’s work, visit http://kathrynhulick.com/.
Twitter: @khulick
Instagram: @kathryn_hulick
TikTok: @kathryn_hulick
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Suzanne LaGrande interviews writer, blogger, online art curator Sarah Elizabeth who has just published The Art of the Occult, a visual sourcebook for the Modern Mystic.
The book draws together artists from a variety of occult sources and practices: from theosophy and kabbalah, from alchemy; spiritualism to sacred geometry. It introduces the ideas behind different occult traditions and showcases the artists who have been influenced by them.
Included in the book are symbolic and mythical images of the Pre-Raphaelites; the automatic drawing of Hilma Af Klint and Madge Gill; Leonora Carrington's surrealist interpretation of myth, alchemy, and Kabbalah; and much more.
In the interview, Ms. Elizabeth discusses how her interest curiosity about art and artists that she loved, combined with her interest in occult themes inspired this book, how art juxtaposes different realities, and how it helps ask important questions particularly in times of upheaval.
For more about Sarah Elizabeth's work visit https://unquietthings.com/ or https://linktr.ee/ghoulnextdoor (https://linktr.ee/ghoulnextdoor)
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In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Suzanne LaGrande interviews Creative Coach and founder of PDX Vox, Marie Schumacher.
Marie discusses why cultivating creativity is important, how she works with the inner critic, and ways that people can overcome anxiety and cultivate wonder. For more about her work, visit https://www.pdxvox.com
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Disobedient Femmes begins its the third season!
Suzanne LaGrande interviews writer and author Kate Hodges who has just published Warriors Witches, and Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females. Ms. Hodges discusses how both feminism and stories about monsters and ghosts helped inspire her book, which is a compendium of fascinating female figures from World mythologies. The book includes figures from mythology such as Cassandra as well as actual women who have become legends such as Yennenga, a warrior, princess, and mother who lived over 900 years ago in Burkina Faso. Other characters include
Bewitching, banished Circe, an introvert famed and feared for her transfigurative powers.
The righteous Furies, defiantly unrepentant about their dedication to justice.
Fun-loving Ame-no-Uzume makes quarreling friends laugh and terrifies monsters by flashing at them.
The fateful Morai sisters spin a complex web of birth, life, and death.
From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses, Warriors, Witches and Women retells each heroine's story and raises important questions about how we may draw on these stories to understand the lives of women at present. For more about Kate Hodge's work, visit https://katehodges.org. (https://katehodges.org.)
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More than ever, comedy is a powerful source of influence and social critique.

Suzanne LaGrande interviews Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman, authors of A Comedian and An Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Borum Chattoo and Feldman talk about the ways that comedy breaks through digital clutter and and offers a hopeful and sustainable way of calling attention to serious issues. They also talk about different kinds of comedy and the emergence of new voices, political perspectives and forms of political activism as a result of new forms of digital media.

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Why do people cheat?Does love at first sight exist?

What makes for a healthy relationship?

Suzanne LaGrande interviews poet and writer Laura Mucha, author of Love Understood:The Science of Who, How and Why We Love.

Does love at first sight exist?

What makes for a healthy relationship?

Suzanne LaGrande interviews poet and writer Laura Mucha, author of Love Understood:The Science of Who, How and Why We Love.

On this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Mucha talks about how she interviewed hundreds of strangers, from the ages of 8 to 95 in more than 40 countries, asking them to share their most personal stories, feelings, and insights about love and relationships.

Drawing on psychology, philosophy, anthropology and statistics, Love Understood combines evidence, theory and everyday experience and is the perfect read for anyone who is curious about how we thing, feel and behave when it comes to love.

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What happened to women who got pregnant before Roe v Wade?

Suzanne LaGrande interviews filmmaker, community activist and writer Lani Jo Leigh about her memoir, Unfit: The Tale of One Pregnant Teen in the Bible Belt Before Women Had Choice.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Leigh talks about what it was like to be get pregnant as a young woman in the Bible Belt, the family and larger social pressures that lead her to spend six months in a home for unwed mothers where she was forced to to give her child up for adoption.

As one of 1.5 million girls and young women who were sent to maternity homes and coerced into relinquishing their babies, she talks about the enforced silence, shame and long term emotional and social consequences of this experience.

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Suzanne LaGrande interviews speaker, midlife coach and writer Janna Lopez, author of Me, My Selfie, and Eye: A midlife conversation about lost identity, grief and seeing who you are.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Lopez shares an intimate portrait of midlife identity loss, which she characterizes not as a crisis, but as a necessary journey for self discovery.

According to Lopez, part of the midlife journey involves letting go of old identities, and the grief that accompanies that loss in a culture that doesn't make room for grief.

She also talks about how transitioning through one's identity loss is made more difficult by social media's constant influence.

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What if we changed our story about why we eat?

Suzanne LaGrande interviews clinical psychologist Dr. Anita Johnston specializes in eating disorders and women's issues. Johnston is author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform their relationships with Food Through Myths, Metaphors and Storytelling.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Johnston explains what “disordered eating" means, the connection between eating disorders and diet culture, and why food isn't really the problem; it's a red herring that diverts us from the real, complex issues underlying disordered eating.

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What if we believed women?
Suzanne LaGrande interviews writer Jaclyn Friedman, co-author of Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change The World.
In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Friedman discusses how women speaking up to publicly expose behavior that was previously only whispered about -- is both changing our culture and also sparking a backlash.
The book draws on the contributions of many important voices in feminism today and explores how trusting women is the critical foundation for future progress.
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