Public Intellectual

Public Intellectual

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Public Intellectual episodes

  • Homes are for People Not Banks, with Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen
    Tenhunen is an activist in Madrid currently helping to organize and participate in the mass occupation of bank owned property in Spain. Jessa sits down with her in Madrid to discuss taking direct action to society's problem but also, how to make a life meaningful.
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    44 min
  • F**k the Bechdel Test, or Ida Lupino's The Hitch-hiker (with Ryan Nyburg)
    For her latest series about women directors, Jessa speaks with Ryan Nyburg of the Post-Culture Review about Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker, the cross-gendered ability to see the other gender in all its complications, pressures, psychological/sociological realities, and why the Bechtel test is a bullshit way to talk about a film.
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    47 min
  • Reasons to Be Beautiful (with Heather Widdows)
    The pressure to conform to very limited beauty standards has (as today’s guest would say) an ethical side — if you don’t use this 12 step skin care regiment then you are letting yourself down. The line for what’s normal keeps moving until we are all now plucking, waxing, toning, not eating carbs, manicuring, injecting poison into our faces.
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    46 min
  • Female Trouble (with Margaret Howie)
    Jessa welcomes back special guest Margaret Howie for a conversation about terrible women, conmen, and fraudsters.
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    46 min
  • Women's Work (with BD McClay)
    The world is really complicated, but the stories we're telling aren't. Jessa sits down with BD McClay to discuss the depiction of women in modern fiction and the stories women choose to write.
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    1 hr 4 min
  • Performing Masculinity (with Nicolas R Melo)
    Jessa is married. What follows is a conversation with the man she married about his history of performing masculinity, jessa’s history of trying to perform and failing to perform femininity, heterosexuality and how coupledom tries to reinforce strict gender roles.
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    1 hr 3 min
  • Living with Art (with Emil Ferris)
    Jessa speaks with Emil Ferris, author of the graphic novel “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” about living with art, the gift that ugliness can be, and their shared deep love of Chicago.
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    44 min
  • Alternatives to Babies (with Donna Haraway)
    Donna Haraway and Adele Clarke edited the potent little volume "Making Kin Not Population," as a way to think through alternatives to babies and ask the question, "how do we prevent environmental collapse and resource stripping?" Donna Haraway joins Jessa to discuss this and more on today's episode.
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    49 min
  • Superhero Movies are Fascist Fantasies (with Peter Biskind)
    Is it possible for a film to be just entertainment or are the stories that our mass media tells us shaping how we see the world? Peter Biskind, author of “The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great For Extremism” has been covering this territory for a while.
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    39 min

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Complicated conversations with complicated people about complicated topics. Let's get into the real mess of gender, feminism, punishment, class, politics, and culture and leave easy rhetoric and…