Disobedient Femmes

What would make a feminist, non-practicing Jew-ish New Yorker decide to join an evangelical mega-church in Houston, Texas?
Suzanne LaGrande speaks with musician and writer Cameron Dezen Hammon, author of This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession.
In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Cameron Denzen Hammon talks about her search for love, and community and her story of finding and losing faith.
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Suzanne LaGrande speaks with coach, facilitator and self described “radical pleasurist,” about her mission to increase pleasure in her life and in the lives of those in her community.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Treyger discusses her journey from people pleasure to radical pleasurist, the importance of pleasure, and the need to expand our understanding of what it involves and how it can lead to a more satisfying and joyful life.

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Suzanne LaGrande interviews feminist writer Caroline Criado-Perez, author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed For Men.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes,Criado-Perez discusses how data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. At the same time, hidden gender biases in data helps perpetuate gender inequality.

Much of the data we rely on treats men as the default and women as atypical. As a result, gender bias and discrimination are baked into our systems and women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.

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Suzanne LaGrande interviews award-winning writer, teacher, and community activist Apricot Irving. She is the author of Gospel of Trees: A Memoir, a lyrical meditation on ecology, loss and the tangled history of missions in Haiti, which won the 2019 Oregon Book Award.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Irving talks about what it was like to grow up in Haiti, her father's mission to preserve wild spaces through tree planting, the history of colonialism and the complex relationships within her own family.

She also discusses the destructiveness of believing one can do it right and how how failure can be the wisest of teachers.

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Suzanne LaGrande speaks with journalist, writer, media educator Lisa Loving, author of Street Journalist: Understand and Report the News in Your Community.
In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Lisa talks about her career in grassroots journalism, the future of journalism and news media in general, and why it's important for ordinary people to understand and report the news.
Lisa Loving is a former newspaper editor, host of news and public affairs radio shows including Democracy in Motion and Wednesday Talk radio on KBOO Community Radio, and travels around the country giving workshops and lectures on Street Reporting.
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Original theme music composed by Edward Givens. For more about his work, visit: https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/ (https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/)

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Suzanne LaGrande interviews award-winning screenwriter, film director, and director Gemma Whelan. Whelan is the artistic director and founder of the Corrib theater, a theater in Portland Oregon dedicated to producing plays by contemporary Irish playwrights.
In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Whelan discusses immigrating from Ireland to study theater in the Bay Area, being one of the few women theater directing students at UC Berkeley, why she founded the Corrib Theater and how contemporary Irish plays are an important mirror for what is happening in the U.S. at present. Gemma Whelan is an Irish-born theatre director and educator. Gemma has directed more than seventy-five stage productions and is also an award-winning screenwriter, film director, and published novelist.
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Original theme music composed by Edward Givens. For more about his work, visit: https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/ (https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/)

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How is our new digital media world is changing our world for better and for worse?

How do we create, resist or change social norms around digital devices?

Suzanne LaGrande interviews psychologist, activist, speaker Doreen Dogen-Magee, author of Deviced: Balancing Life and Technology in Today's Digital World.

In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Dogen-Magee discusses how technology has allowed us to be connected to more people and more kinds of people that ever before.

Yet, social anxiety and depression are on the rise, and there is evidence to suggest it is connected to our increasing reliance electronic media in place of face to face communication.

How can we set limits to media use when we are required to be responsive to a variety of media at school, work and within our interpersonal relationships?

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Suzanne LaGrande interviews Ayser Salman, writer, editor, and author of The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In.
In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Salman traces her unlikely journey from Baghdad to Hollywood, by way of Ohio, Saudi Arabia, and Kentucky. First comes Immigration, then Naturalization, and finally Assimilation—trying to fit in among her blonde-haired, blue-eyed counterparts, but always feeling left out.
Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, as well as the story of every American outsider on a path to find themselves in a country of beautiful diversity.
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Original theme music composed by Edward Givens. For more about his work, visit: https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/ (https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/)

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Why do we love music? Why do we turn to music to comfort ourselves after a breakup? Why does music have the power to unite a group of people?
In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Suzanne LaGrande interviews opera singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas, author of How Music Can Make Us Better.
Viskontas discusses the connection between neuroscience and music, why people prefer some kinds of music and hate other kinds, how music is used in healing and can make society as a whole better.
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Original theme music composed by Edward Givens. For more about his work, visit: https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/ (https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/)

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Suzanne LaGrande interviews researcher, editor, and writer Katherine Rowland, author of The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution.
In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Rowland discusses why how American culture is more sexually liberal than ever, yet millions of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire.
Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland argues that the pleasure gap is neither a medical malady nor a psychological condition but rather a result of our culture’s troubled relationship with women’s sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.
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Original theme music composed by Edward Givens. For more about his work, visit: https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/ (https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/)

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