Public Intellectual

Public Intellectual

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Public Intellectual episodes

  • Illness Not Even Slightly as Metaphor (with Johanna Hedva)
    Jessa sits down with Johanna Hedva. They discuss why illness memoirs are big sellers right now, why one shouldn’t capitalize on a moment even when it’s convenient and profitable, and the difference a well structured system of health care can make on a life.
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    54 min
  • What Comes After Victory (with Roisin Agnew)
    What does feminist theory and a feminist worldview offer as we consider how to move into the future? How do we move the gaze to “what could be?”
    Ireland won a huge victory in woman’s rights with the legalization of abortion. Jessa speaks with special guest Roisin Agnew about these questions and the state of Irish feminism.
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    52 min
  • The Wife Problem (with Jennifer Porto)
    Jessa sits down with Jennifer Porto to discuss the problem of the wife and why there is so little good literature on a role that is millennia old. Why is it so mistreated and dismissed?
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    1 hr
  • Straight White Men (with Philip St John)
    In our continuing investigation into the reality of the lives of straight white men, we turn our attention to their artistic output. Jessa sits down with Irish playwright, Philip St. John, to discuss this, as well as contemporary pressures on artists/writers.
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    55 min
  • Housing is a Feminist Issue (with Dorina Pojani)
    Housing and city planning are feminist issues. Jessa speaks with Dorina Pojani, Professor at the University of Queensland, about urban planning and how we can begin to think about bringing feminism into urban planning on a much larger scale.
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    40 min
  • Believe Women (with Heidi Matthews)
    Jessa sits down with Heidi Matthews to discuss the #MeToo movement and believing women.
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    51 min
  • American Dads Do Crimes, Or RoboCop (with Emily Yoshida)
    Jessa is joined by Emily Yoshida to discuss Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film RoboCop, the masculinity of the hyper-80s action movie, and the TV dads that followed.
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    1 hr 4 min
  • Healing vs Getting On With It (with Michael Scott Moore)
    In 2012, Michael Scott Moore was abducted in Somalia while working as a reporter. Two and a half years later, he was released after a ransom was paid. Now he has published the book, The Desert and the Sea, which is not only a memoir of his experience as a hostage but is also a work of reporting and a history of the situation in Somalia.
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    43 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…