Femme Wonk by Katie Davey

Young people ages 18-35 make up the largest demographic voting block in this election. We chat with Shreya, an organizer with Future Majority about getting young people to the polls for Election 43!

If you haven't yet, do get out and vote! Check out elections.ca for more information. 

We talk about all things basic income including frameworks, past pilot programs, benefits, and #elxn43 platform commitments. We end with listener questions on basic income. What do you think? Is it a no-brainer?

We chat with Amber Bishop, the principal of the Cambridge- Narrows Community School (K-12) about what her school specifically is doing to transform the bathroom experience for all students. The transformation includes providing sanitary products for free to those who need them. Although the CNCS is a small school in rural New Brunswick, the idea of period poverty is being discussed across the country and governments are beginning to respond. We hope that these conversations continue. 

Thanks to Ontario Loud for organizing and facilitating this conversation!

In this episode, we join a conversation with Chris, Kate, and Alexi of Ontario Loud as well as Dr. Kate Graham of No Second Chances to put the Trudeau government to the test on feminism. We also chat about how parties can show up for women in this election -- do you think they will? 

In keeping with our back to school theme, we chat with the chair of Students for Consent Culture, Connor Spencer about the landscape of campus sexual violence, what they're doing to support student advocates, what their provincial lobbying looks like, and barriers that exist within the post-secondary system.

I'm joined by Founder and CEO of Leading Women of Tomorrow, Medha Reddy. We chat about the importance of supporting young women to equip them with the tools to run for office or take on leadership roles in the future. 

What do you get when you put two Canadian political podcast hosts together to talk about the #DemDebate? 1.5 hours of rants, rabbit holes, and some smart analysis. Thanks again to Chris from Ontario Loud for joining us to chat U.S Democratic Party politics. 

In this episode, we collaborated with Matt George of the podcast Unsettled. Matt is focused on the intersection of culture, business, and technology. We chatted about gender quotas, universal basic income, legislating culture change, and about a million other things. Let us know what you think -- and check out Unsettled!

We chat with Susan Holt about her experience running for office. She shares lessons learned, opportunities, and challenges that she and others face. We dig into the recently raised issues of sexism at the Fredericton City Council, we chat about her new role with PQA and Plato Testing, and we talk about a number of systemic changes needed to get more people with diverse experiences elected.

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We just celebrated our 6th full month of this project so I wanted to take to opportunity to flip the script a bit. We asked you on social media what questions you’d like me to answer and then I asked my lovely partner if he would take these questions as well as some of his own and interview me! We chat about a wide range of topics, including our current TV and book recommendations so stick around. Let me know what you think -- and if you're still left with questions send us a note: [email protected].

Also — this is the first episode since we launched our t-shirt campaign! If you haven’t had a chance, head over to femmewonk.com/buy and check out our “a woman’s place is in the house.” t-shirts. This is our way of positively contributing to the dialogue leading up to the 2019 federal election. We want to see a house of commons that is more representative of the actual population of Canada. This is also something that we’ve heard time and time again from guests on this podcast.