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. So many links!

• To learn more about Tangled Art + Disability, check out recent exhibits like “Body Farm” and “HIDDEN”
  • You can read the Canadian Art review of “HIDDEN” here and watch this video to learn more about Gloria Swain’s work
• Check out the work of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology & Access, including their Cripping the Arts symposium and their Vital Practices in the Arts resource guide!
• Here are some other references Sean made:
  • Yinka Shonibare on disability as the last avant-garde
  • Eliza Chandler on “Cripping Community” (with bonus references to Kelly Fritsch’s understanding of cripping as “open[ing] up desire for what disability disrupts”)
  • José Esteban Muñoz on “Queerness as Horizon”
  • Amanda Cachia on “the politics of creative access”
  • The Smithsonian’s guidelines for accessible exhibition design
  • An FAQ on relaxed performances from Tourettes Hero aka Jessica Thom
  • Sean Lee talking about resisting the art therapy model
  • Tobin Siebers on disability aesthetics
  • Mia Mingus defining disability justice
  • Ableism as defined by Talila A. Lewis and Dustin Gibson
  • The new and improved Creative Users website
• And a few things I talked about
  • The Festival of Literary Diversity’s Amanda Leduc on virtual events as as an opportunity for accessibility
  • Some reading on the intersections of COVID-19 and anti-Black racism
  • What the fuck is up with J.K. Rowling
• Finally, if you’d like to donate, may I recommend the Black in BC Community Support Fund for COVID-19

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. Sean’s theme song was “It’s Gonna Be Okay, Baby” by MUNA.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email me about your killjoy survival kit? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 queer media sounds like, and why we should be listening to archival audio more. Here are some links:

• To learn more about Stacey’s work you can check out her website and follow her on Twitter
• I talked a bit about how important Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble was to my undergraduate feminist awakening
• Stacey discussed her fascination with Love is Blind and recommended this article about our fascination with “sexy baby voice”
• On the topic of women’s voices, I’ll never stop linking to Anne Friedman’s iconic “Can We Just, Like, Get Over the Way Women Talk?” and this This American Life story on hate mail over women’s vocal fry
• You can check out the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony to learn more about The Lesbian Show. Stacey also wished to issue the correction that The Lesbian Show discussed not baseball but track and field.
• Check out Mermaid Palace to learn more about podcasts like The Heart and Asking For It
• Also, for your consideration: Queer Public
• And while you’re in a listening mood, check out the Constellations audio project
• One last recommendation: for some beautiful queer counter-history, watch A Secret Love (get ready to cry, tho)

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. Stacey’s theme song was “Time Travel” by Blouse.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 about how we are listening differently right now, and it prompted me to think for myself: how am I listening differently? Why am I compelled to always have my noise cancelling headphones nearby while also becoming fascinated with identifying the birds outside my window by their song? Why am I burning out on Zoom calls? Why does Fetch the Bolt Cutters feel like the unofficial album of the pandemic? And what is it about Within the Wires that is making it feel like the absolute perfect podcast for me right now?

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 about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email me about your killjoy survival kit? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 a lot of links to add beyond that link to our own work, but I do want to point you towards this article on the significance of publicly engaged scholarship in review, tenure, and promotion documents by the scholars at the ScholCommLab.

A note about transcriptions: my goal was to get transcriptions more aligned with the release date of podcast episodes this year, a goal that has been significantly delayed by COVID-19 and the challenges facing my students. I want to highlight my commitment to continuing to improve on this front, including collaborating with colleagues on new podcasting workflows that can further automate transcription. More on that in the future!

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 about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email me about your killjoy survival kit? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 you will, too! Here are some links!

• To learn more about Carolyn, read this recent blog post about re-framing evaluation as an accountability mechanism); listen to the Eval Café podcast; and check out the Evaluation colouring book!
• To contextualize our conversation about apocalypse, we talked about the podcast “How to Survive the End of the World” as well as Kai Cheng Thom’s book I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World
• Carolyn also recommended “Changing the Culture of Research: An Introduction to the Triangulation of Meaning” by Manulani Aluli-Meyer and “Positional Objectivity” by Amartya Sen
• I recommended that you watch Netflix’s The Dragon Prince
• Here’s more on that story about settlers fleeing to remote Indigenous communities to avoid COVID-19
• You can watch the webinar on “Safe and Equitable Engagement Spaces in the Age of COVID-19” on YouTube!
• Read up on Decolonizing Wealth!
• Here’s a quick explanation of CERB and an article on safe supply in BC, for the non-Canadians out there.
• Learn more about the SFU certificate in Evaluation for Social Change and Transformational Learning and particularly the first course of that certificate, Transformative Evaluation Landscape, taught by Kim van der Woerd of Reciprocal Consulting, an Indigenous women-led evaluation consulting firm
• Read up on The Equitable Evaluation Initiative, which is run by Jara Dean-Coffey of The Luminare Group, and while you’re at it learn more about the LEVEL youth grants from the Vancouver Foundation, which are being evaluated using the EE framework
• And finally, an introduction to prison abolition.

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. Carolyn’s theme song was “Adieu” by AIZA.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 of scholarly communication. The first two seasons of the podcast received an open peer review, but for the third season we decided to do things a little differently:

To cap off our Scholarly Podcast Review project with Season 3 of Secret Feminist Agenda, we tried something different. We asked two of our previous reviewers, Cheryl Ball and Carla Rice to create their own podcast episode that reviewed the entire third season. Their conversation was moderated by Michael Faris, Assistant Chair of the Department of English at Texas Tech University and Managing Editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Siobhan McMenemy and I also had an opportunity to respond to the peer review and to our sense of how this pilot project went in general. Feel free to listen in!

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 of scholarly communication. The first two seasons of the podcast received an open peer review, but for the third season we decided to do things a little differently:

To cap off our Scholarly Podcast Review project with Season 3 of Secret Feminist Agenda, we tried something different. We asked two of our previous reviewers, Cheryl Ball and Carla Rice to create their own podcast episode that reviewed the entire third season. Their conversation was moderated by Michael Faris, Assistant Chair of the Department of English at Texas Tech University and Managing Editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Look out for another bonus episode featuring my commentary on this peer review with my collaborator Siobhan McMenemy at WLUP!

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 own grief, and building feminist survival kits for a moment when survival is our main priority. Here are some links:

• The interview with David Kessler is called “That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief.”
• If you’re doing some SFA relistening, I recommend slowing down, getting into sourdough, and embracing laziness/eating the rich.
• You can find my tweet about academic workaholism and the many wonderful responses to it here.
• I don’t know if I have a whole podcast about the joys of Animal Crossing in me, but I recommend listening to this wonderful podcast discussion of how crucial this game will be to so many people.

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 about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email me about your killjoy survival kit? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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 Technologies Speakers and Workshop Series. If you’d prefer to watch this as a video, you can find all the videos here. No links for this one, pals! Enjoy!

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 about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email me about your killjoy survival kit? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.