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Ethicist and author Katie Watson discusses the legal and political arguments around abortion, as well as Roe v Wade, a topic she explores in her book, Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion. She uses the term ordinary abortion to describe the common nature of abortion given that roughly 1 in 5 pregnancies end in abortion.

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Kathy Hochul, lieutenant governor of New York state, holds the highest elected office of any woman in the state and joins me to discuss her elections, both the victories and the losses, as well as, New York State's Women's Justice Agenda. We also discuss her #HowSheDoesIt Campaign, a social media campaign intended to help women succeed by providing transparency into how she's dealt with the challenges of elected office.

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A conversation with author and activist Gail Ukockis, about her new book Misogyny: The New Activism, where she explores historical examples of misogyny and suggest actions to combat each example chapter by chapter.

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The Men's Story Project, founded by today's guest Dr. Jocelyn Lehrer, is a storytelling and community project that brings critical exploration of social ideas about masculinity into public forums around the world and allowing men to share their stories that are less-often heard with a live audience.

On this episode, I talk with Dr. Lehrer about how The Men's Story Projectbreaks silences on issues including sexism, racism, homo/transphobia, ableism and violence – and ways in which these are often linked with masculinities.

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Marianne Williamson is best known as an acclaimed lecturer, activist and author; and seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times bestsellers. Williamson has been one of America’s most well-known public voices for more than three decades and now she's a Presidential Candidate in the 2020 Democratic Primary race.

Outside of politics, Marianne Williamson has amassed the largest social media following out of all the 2020 Democratic primary candidates and has been a popular guest on Oprah and Bill Maher. Within politics, however, Williamson is less well-known; except for her Congressional bid in 2014 for California's 33rd District, Williamson is a relative newcomer to formal politics.

Williamson has a progressive platform and aligns closely with the political ideology of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who she supported in 2016. But Williamson thinks we need a new approach to healing the country, including establishing a cabinet level Department of Childhood and Youth; additionally her platform includes a proposal to grant a $200 billion - $500 billion in reparations for slavery, a position she's advocated for, for over 20 years, when she wrote about reparations in her book "Healing the Soul of America," in 1999.

We discuss the reasons behind her decision to run for President, her platform, what motivates Trump voters and what it will take to win in 2020.

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Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the Policy Director of the progressive think tank, New Consensus, and one of the architects behind The Green New Deal, joins me to discuss the details of the GND Climate Change resolution and how its comprehensive approach will address the social justice and economic impacts of transforming the country's primary energy source, as well overhauling our transporation framework and building infrastructures.

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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers discusses her new book "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South," a book that dispels a common myth about the role of white women within the institution of slavery, as being one of reluctance and passivity. Previous scholarship has often depicted them as bystanders or even as allies to enslaved people; but in her new book, Jones-Rogers uncovers how white women in the antebellum south were actually adept slave owners and willing participants, reaping both economic and political gain from their involvement.

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Summer Brennan, award-winning journalist and author of the new book High Heel, joins me to discuss the writing process for her book which explores the iconography of the high heel. Summer Brennan methodically explores the high heel using analogies from Greek Mythology and literature; she considers its role in our professional lives, in politics or how the high heel fits into sex culture and history. PURCHASE "HIGH HEEL" book

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This is Pt II of my conversation with activist and writer, Marisa Kaba, creator of the popular online voter tool, Crush the MidTerms. We discuss the tool's popularity, why she created it; wealso discuss the midterm election outcome, 2020 candidates and what we can do to support our favorite candidates before primary election season begins.

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Gina Clayton-Johnson, founder and executive director of the Essie Justice Group, an advocacy group for women with incarcerated loved ones, joins to discuss the unique hardships of women who shoulder the burden of America's epidemic of mass incarceration. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the emotional, financial and political burden of this crisis falls upon women. The Essie Justice Group seeks to lesson that burden and harnesses the collective power of women to bring about change.

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