She and Her

Libby Rodenbough is the fiddler for Mipso, a quartet of 'renegade traditionalists' based in Chapel Hill. She joins Sandra and Anita to perform live, discuss her relationship with music, and share the story behind how she joined the group. Photo by Baxter Miller of Bit & Grain

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Wedding season is upon us, and Sandra and Anita talk the good the bad and the ugly of being a bridesmaid with Anna Feagan, a veteran bridesmaid whose life - and summer wedding schedule -currently resembles the plot of 27 Dresses.

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Mother's Day is just around the corner. Sandra and Anita are joined by feminist scholar Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz and their very own moms to reflect on the joys, struggles and politics of motherhood.

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Many women are socialized to put themselves last. But that comes at a social, emotional, and political cost, especially for women of color. Sandra and Anita are joined by Jamaica Gilmer of The Beautiful Project and Alexis Dennis, two women behind a new documentary exhibit that explores how Black women of different ages and walks of life practice and struggle with self care. The exhibit is inspired by poet and scholar Audre Lorde who describes self care as "an act of political warfare."

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Reading is a political act, and the world of publishing, which determines what gets in front of us to read, is a political field as rife with gender issues as any other industry in this country. A children's librarian, publisher and novelist join Sandra and Anita to share three perspectives on what it all means.

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Meet Meredith McCoy, a native graduate student who joins Sandra and Anita to discuss growing up native, the problem with Pocahontas and historic trauma.

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Sandra & Anita discuss AOL Instant Messenger screen names, broken bones, their teenage "rebellion" and the theracane.

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Sandra and Anita are joined by a healer and tarot card reader to discuss the world of magic. Not the Harry Potter kind...but the kind that exists around us everyday. While some may call it coincidence, Bakara Wintner believes there is a special kind of energy out there that we can tap into and seek guidance from.

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More than 20 million women in the country suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their lifetime. In today's episode, one of Anita's childhood friends joins us to publicly share her struggle with an eating disorder for the first time. She talks about how her struggles with body image and food first began, the challenges of coming to terms with her diagnosis, and the long road to recovery.

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Anita & Sandra celebrate female friendship with the hosts of Call Your Girlfriend, who share the story of their friendship on the show, and with special Galentine's Love Letters from listeners. Prepare to feel warm, fuzzy and like you need to call YOUR girlfriend and tell her you love her. #Lylas.

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