Secret Feminist Agenda

Secret Feminist Agenda episodes:

• 10.12.2022

  Bonus Episode: A Sentimental Education

  What’s that? Another bonus episode??? Kind of! On September 22 (I say October in the episode and I’m too lazy to go back and fix it, but it was September) I launched my new book, A Sentimental Education, at Iron...

  
• 05.20.2021

  Bonus Episode: Burning Out

  For no other reason than I felt like it, here’s a bonus episode. This is an audio version of the essay “Burning Out” that I published in 2020, in the Hair issue of Room Magazine. Content warning for discussion of...

  
• 12.04.2020

  Episode 4.30 Thinking Intergenerationally Toward a Future with Eugenia Zuroski

  In this, the final episode of Secret Feminist Agenda, I sat down with Eugenia Zuroski to talk about hope, planifestos, collectivity, mentorship, and where we know from. As far as final conversations go, this one felt absolutely perfect. Here are...

  
• 11.20.2020

  Episode 4.29 Saying No! Again! Forever!

  It’s here! The final minisode of season four (and frankly, probably, all?) of Secret Feminist Agenda! Ending this podcast series, in its current form at least, is a way of saying no to one thing so that other things will...

  
• 11.06.2020

  Episode 4.28 Welcoming the Roasting of the TikTok Youth with andrea bennett

  Brace yourself for the lively energy of an interviewer who has been pandemic-isolated for too long and an interviewee who really just wants to talk about reality television. I sat down with author and person-I-want-to-trick-into-being-my-IRL-friend andrea bennett to talk about...

  
• 10.23.2020

  Episode 4.27 Asking For Help (Again)

  This week we’re revisiting one of my all-time favourite conversations: asking for help! I’m asking some of the Big Questions(TM) that have been keeping me awake lately, such as: why do I find it so much harder to ask a...

  
• 10.09.2020

  Episode 4.26 Becoming “The Man” with Lily Cho

  In this episode I sat down (virtually, of course) with Lily Cho to talk about feminist mentorship, the importance of boundaries, and trying to make change from within institutions. What if mentorship wasn’t based on intimacy but on clear boundaries...

  
• 09.25.2020

  Episode 4.25 Mentorship

  Are you ready to talk about mentorship? Because that’s what we’re doing for (checks watch) about 18 minutes. While we’re at it, here are a few articles on feminist mentoring: “Feminist Co-Mentoring: A Model for Academic Professional Development” by Gail...

  
• 09.11.2020

  Episode 4.24 Providing Some Helpful Discomfort with Cicely Belle Blain and Vivek Shraya

  I’m back from a much-needed hiatus and ready to jump into the final half-dozen episodes of season four, starting with a doozy. I talked to Vivek Shraya and Cicely Belle Blain about Vivek’s imprint VS Books, Cicely’s new book Burning...

  
• 06.26.2020

  Episode 4.23 Being a Demon Bitch About Justice

  This week I’m announcing a wee hiatus as I regather my resources to finish up season four. I’m also talking about what it might look like for us to collectively reject civility and instead become a hoard of demon bitches...

  
• 06.12.2020

  Episode 4.22 Disability Art is the Last Avant-Garde with Sean Lee

  This week I sat down virtually with Sean Lee, Director of Programming at Tangled Art + Disability, to talk about radically accessible curation, the transformative possibilities of disability as disruption, and the exciting work of Tangled and Bodies in Translation....

  
• 05.29.2020

  Episode 4.21 Introducing the Amplify Podcast Network

  Are you ready to learn all about the Amplify Podcast Network? Great. The podcast theme song is “Mesh Shirt” by Mom Jeans off their album “Chub Rub.” Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Follow me @hkpmcgregor and tweet...

  
• 05.15.2020

  Episode 4.20 Producing Queer Media with Stacey Copeland

  In this very special cross-over episode, I’m talking to Stacey Copeland, audio producer extraordinaire and the project manager of the SpokenWeb Podcast, which I also host! We talk about our feminist scholarly awakenings, the gendered policing of women’s voices, what...

  
• 05.01.2020

  Episode 4.19 Listening

  This minisode is dedicated to the newest episode of the SpokenWeb podcast, which it’s preemptively responding to (that episode will be out on Monday, and I’m going to have to insist that you listen to it). That episode is thinking...

  
• 04.23.2020

  Bonus Episode: Secret Feminist Agenda and Peer Reviewing Podcasts at Mount Royal University

  Another bonus episode coming at you! This one was recorded on April 4, 2019 at Mount Royal University and features me and Siobhan McMenemy interviewing one another about our collaborative work on peer reviewing podcasts. I don’t think there are...

  
• 04.17.2020

  Episode 4.18 Running out of Fucks to Give with Carolyn Camman

  This week I’m talking to evaluation consultant and podcaster Carolyn Camman about radicalizing the apocalypse, queering objectivity, learning to listen to our bodies, and what the heck evaluation actually is. I learned a ton from this conversation, and I think...

  
• 04.07.2020

  Bonus Episode: Response to Review of Season 3

  Those of you who have been following along at home probably already know this, but Secret Feminist Agenda is part of a collaborative project with Wilfrid Laurier University Press looking at ways to edit and evaluate podcasts as a form...

  
• 04.07.2020

  Bonus Episode: Season 3 Peer Review of Secret Feminist Agenda

  Those of you who have been following along at home probably already know this, but Secret Feminist Agenda is part of a collaborative project with Wilfrid Laurier University Press looking at ways to edit and evaluate podcasts as a form...

  
• 04.03.2020

  Episode 4.17 It’s Okay Not to Be Okay

  It’s time for Feelings 101, aka wow what a completely wild and difficult time to be a person who feels things, let’s talk about that. I’m exploring being okay with not being okay, taking a strange comfort in recognizing my...

  
• 03.24.2020

  Bonus Episode: Fireside Chat with Alex Ketchum

  Welcome to the first of a whole series of bonus episodes coming your way over the next few weeks! This one is a fireside chat with Dr. Alex Ketchum, recorded as part of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications...

  
• 03.20.2020

  Episode 4.16 Choosing Love with Kai Cheng Thom

  The original plan was for Kai Cheng Thom and I to talk while she was in town to deliver the keynote at the Growing Room literary festival, but plans change, don’t they? So we talked on Skype instead, about creative...

  
• 03.06.2020

  Episode 4.15 #WorldObesityDay

  In this week’s minisode we’re celebrating #WorldObesityDay by talking about how everything you thought you knew about obesity is wrong and also why fat people are brilliant and gorgeous and worthy of celebration. Links! Here’s the original post by Sofie...

  
• 02.21.2020

  Episode 4.14 #Mood with Hilary Atleo

  Last week I went to Iron Dog Books after hours to hang out with co-owner Hilary Atleo and talk about settler-colonial mind-fucks, problematic favs, the pleasures of queer feminist sci-fi, why cities thrive on independent arts businesses, and whether or...

  
• 02.07.2020

  Episode 4.13 Empathy Fatigue & Hopepunk

  This week’s minisode is a little more leisurely than last time, as I think my way through empathy fatigue aka burnout in the face of crisis, and whether hopepunk is a possible way through feelings of numbness and overwhelm. And...

  
• 01.24.2020

  Episode 4.12 Cool Poet Mom with Dina Del Bucchia

  To make up for the very mini minisode, here’s an extra-long interview with extra-awesome human being Dina Del Bucchia! We talk about poetry, publishing, cats, farts, and basically everything in between. Here are a million links! First! Check out the...

  
• 01.10.2020

  Episode 4.11 Cozy Resolutions

  I’ve set a new record in this, the first minisode of 2020, for just how mini a minisode can be. Turns out? pretty mini! But that’s okay, it’s a new year and we’re being gentle with ourselves. This week’s topic...

  
• 12.20.2019

  Episode 4.10 Our Categories of Knowledge Suck with Tina Sikka

  This week I’m talking with Dr. Tina Sikka about her work in feminist science studies, from feminist analysis of geoengineering to the intersections of race and the diet industry. This is one of those episodes where I probably learned as...

  
• 12.06.2019

  Episode 4.9 Abundance

  This minisode is about taking stock and resisting the urge to turn our own lives into listicles or “best of the decade” featurettes, but instead residing in the messy and complex abundance of it all. You know, just some low-stakes...

  
• 11.22.2019

  Episode 4.8 I Wish I Had A Mustache with Max Collins

  In this episode I’m talking to Max Collins, campus radio advocate and producer behind the new investigative podcast “Dragged Out.” We discuss about four thousand things, including: community-based podcasting, drag performance and gender, Vancouver real estate, funding/monetizing art, and queer...

  
• 11.08.2019

  Episode 4.7 Trans Rights Are Human Rights

  In this minisode I’m thinking through recent protests agains “gender identity debates,” which institutions need to have values, and how we sustain ourselves when doing organizing or activist work that can feel so completely exhausting sometimes. This feels like a...

  
• 10.26.2019

  Episode 4.6 Rape is Real & Everywhere with Emma Cooper

  Content warning for discussions of rape and sexual assault as well as a reference to torture. This week I sat down to talk with Emma Cooper, creator of the comedy show Rape is Real & Everywhere, which highlights the comedy and...

  
• 10.11.2019

  Episode 4.5 International Day of the Girl

  This is a slightly unusual episode, inspired by an email I got from Plan International Canada about International Day of the Girl which is, in fact, today! October 11! They shared with me some data they’ve gathered about how girls...

  
• 09.27.2019

  Episode 4.4 Off-Mic Conversations with Khairani Barokka

  Content warning for discussions of sexual abuse, child abuse, child pornography, racism and ableism. This episode was actually recorded in early May, and here it is over four months later, FINALLY seeing the light of day, and I’m so delighted...

  
• 09.13.2019

  Episode 4.3 ENTHUSED!!!

  Here are some things to look forward to in this minisode: the sound of my voice with a pretty bad head cold; a characteristic quantity of grappling; and the announcement of the new minisode segment [fanfare sound effect]. And while...

  
• 08.30.2019

  Episode 4.2 Dreaming Big Wild Worlds with Dawn Serra

  With apologies for its tardiness, I present to you the first interview of season four, and this one’s a doozy. I’m talking to rad queer fat genius, sex & relationship coach, and pleasure advocate Dawn Serra about shame, vulnerability, pleasure,...

  
• 08.09.2019

  Episode 4.1 Growing Roots

  HOLY SHIT IT’S SEASON FOUR! Can you believe it’s season four already? This season there are going to be a few changes. Kaarina won’t be joining us for Self-Care Corner, meaning I’m on the lookout for new segment ideas, plus...

  
• 05.17.2019

  Episode 3.30 Brilliant and Disgusting with Brenna Clarke Gray, Lucia Lorenzi, and Erin Wunker

  It’s here! The final episode of season three! This episode responds explicitly to Carla Rice’s peer review of season two, specifically this sentence: “Follow-up episodes featuring panels of feminist scholars, educators and activists could have opened space to reflect on...

  
• 05.10.2019

  Episode 3.29 Feminist Anecdotes

  It’s the last minisode of season three, and I’m doing some very specific responding to Anna Poletti’s peer review of season two. Specifically, I’m taking up the genre of the anecdote, and the kind of work it does in Secret...

  
• 05.03.2019

  Episode 3.28 Living a Feminist Life with Sara Ahmed

  Content warning for discussions of cancer and death. This episode is an absolute dream come true: I spent a full hour talking to Sara Ahmed about feminism. Can you believe it??? Our conversation focused on Sara’s most recent book, Living a Feminist Life (pictured...

  
• 04.26.2019

  Episode 3.27 Killjoy Survival Kits

  This week’s episode continues our mini-cluster on feminist public scholarship by talking about a feminist genre of knowledge-creation that’s new to me: the killjoy survival kit. Want to know what a killjoy survival kit is? Then you should probably listen to...

  
• 04.19.2019

  Episode 3.26 Masters of Text with Ames Hawkins

  This week we’re continuing the mini-arc on feminists who use podcasting for public scholarship, with the brilliant and delightful Ames Hawkins, scholar and artist and podcaster behind Masters of Text (that name tho). This episode seriously pushed forward my thinking...

  
• 04.12.2019

  Episode 3.25 Keep Podcasting Weird

  Collectively, Kaarina and I are bringing you some ~extremely chill vibes~ today. I’m talking about why we need to embrace the radical potential of podcasting as a medium that has yet to be fully absorbed into the mainstream, but I’m...

  
• 04.05.2019

  Episode 3.24 Trauma Queen with Jimanekia Eborn

  This episode is the beginning of a mini-cluster or mini-arc that will conclude season three of Secret Feminist Agenda. The coming episodes will focus on other feminist podcasters and/or public scholars, starting with this week’s incredible guest, Jimanekia Eborn, creator...

  
• 03.29.2019

  Episode 3.23 Pain

  Content warning for discussions of chronic pain and illness, drug addiction, and cancer. I jokingly tweeted a screenshot of the audio file for this episode with the caption “The telltale shape of a hard-to-record minisode.” I was referring to the...

  
• 03.22.2019

  Episode 3.22 Interfering with the Legitimacy of the Settler State with Chelsea Vowel

  Hold onto your hats it’s a LIVE EPISODE! This one was recorded at the University of Alberta, as part of the Canadian Literature Centre’s Brown Bag Lunch series. I’m talking to the brilliant Chelsea Vowel, aka âpihtawikosisân. The ostensible topic...

  
• 03.15.2019

  Episode 3.21 Citing Your Sources

  This minisode topic is very close to my heart, not just because part of my job is teaching students how to properly cite their sources, but also because I think sound citational politics are both the cornerstone of what’s good...

  
• 03.01.2019

  Episode 3.20 A Trojan Horse of Radical Values with Zena Sharman

  For this episode I sat down with the brilliant and luminous Zena Sharman to talk about her work as an LGBTQ+ health advocate (seriously click on that link and look at that website, it is a testimony to femme web...

  
• 02.22.2019

  Episode 3.19 Dealing With Criticism

  Oof! This week Kaarina and I are bringing you a minisode with many feelings in it, as we both process difficult aspects of being a human in the world: I’m talking about dealing with criticism, and Kaarina is talking about...

  
• 02.15.2019

  Episode 3.18 The Monáe Test with Taylor Crumpton

  Content warning for discussions of police violence. This week I’m talking to journalist and totally-not-a-bot Taylor Crumpton. We talk about how Taylor went from grad student to freelance journalist, how Twitter is a platform for both highlighting marginalized voices and...

  
• 02.08.2019

  Episode 3.17 On Veganism

  Content warning for a brief discussion of disordered and restrictive eating. In this week’s minisode I’m tackling a topic that I’ve been putting off for approximately two and a half seasons of this podcast: veganism. I talk about why I...