UnF It Up With Katie Goodman

Today I talk with Gillian Thomas, a trial attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She talks with me about discrimination against women, porn on worksites, men peeing in women’s toolboxes, peeing in bottles and sealing them up in the walls of a building under construction, and well, more peeing. Gillian litigates employment discrimination including sex discrimination cases on behalf of women working in male-dominated fields, such as construction and law enforcement. Out of 11,000 firefighters in New York City, guess how many are women? 31. Not 31%. Not 3.1%, not even a third of a percent ...31 live human females. Surprised? Wait til you hear about what else goes on in these fields…

Comedian and actor John Fugelsang talks with me about Obama, comedy, religion, performing for the troops, right wingers, improv, hecklers, how being a new parent will inform his comedy, and why Jesus is the Liberal poster child.

Actress and activist Kathy Najimy joins me for an honest, funny, and sassy conversation about feminism, activism, gay rights, animal rights, and how to keep up the fight and have a life at the same time. You’ll recognize Kathy from 25 films, including Sister Act, over 37 TV appearances, and from the infamous “Kathy & Mo Show” that basically created feminist sketch comedy. She was awarded MS. Magazine Woman of The Year, and is a comedic, feminist tour de force. See more at www.kathynajimy.com.

Dan Savage, author of the internationally syndicated sex advice column, “Savage Love,” and creator with his husband Terry Miller of the “It Gets Better Campaign,” joins me to talk about the success of the campaign in supporting LGBT youth, the role of straight alliance friends, the fact that Obama is UnF’ing it up for LGBT's -- albeit slowly -- and a new definition for the word Romney.

Roy Zimmerman writes fiercely funny songs about ignorance, war and greed. In eleven albums over twenty years, Roy has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for Peace and Social Justice. In this interview, Katie and Roy talk about unf'ing it up through comedic songs, how they find endless inspiration from conservatives, and what you do when you end up in a room full of audience members who were expecting something a little less liberal.

I interview SENATOR CONSTANCE JOHNSON about her amendment to the Personhood Bill in Oklahoma.

I interview SIMON ADAMS, "Atrocity Preventor" Superhero (as his wife jokingly calls him). He is the Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect which basically rocks the international save-the-world field. We talk about how to stay sane while working in fields like genocide, we discuss Kony and the "Invisible Children" documentary, we hit on Syria, and on what makes someone go into this work in the first place and how to unf it all up. And of course, we finish with the Australian word for "MILF."