Unscrewed

By Jaclyn Friedman

What's Unscrewed about?

Host Jaclyn Friedman and a rotating cast of whipsmart guests untangle the politics and culture of sex, and help out real-world sex advice-seekers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Unscrewed episodes:

07.07.2020
LISTEN: We'll Hear Arguments
While Jaclyn's on summer hiatus, check out the brilliant first episode of We'll Hear Arguments, a miniseries about the Roe v. Wade arguments hosted by Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Boom! Lawyered. Think Mystery Science Theater 3000 meets...
06.10.2020
Spare Parts: Marathons and Sprints
An anti-racist check-in, a listener question about endometriosis, sex drive and the NuvaRing, and a call for podcast recommendations, all in under 15 minutes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
06.03.2020
The Absence of Pain is Not Pleasure (Rewind)
What can the history of Black sexual oppression and resistance in the US teach us about how Black people get all the way free? Dalycia Saah and Rafaella Fiallo of Afrosexology have a vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
05.13.2020
Spare Parts: Conscious Incompetence
Jaclyn is in a MOOD in this quickiesode. Click play for rants about Joe Biden and about the new Title IX regulations. Plus, some wisdom about how we all start to work on our implicit bias. Hosted on Acast. See...
04.28.2020
Under Pressure
Depressed lately? Anxiety spiking? Is your mental health (or your partner's) fucking with your sex life? JoEllen Notte wrote a book for you, and she's here with Jaclyn to help. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.21.2020
Spare Parts: Consent in Confinement
How is COVID-19 confinement impacting your ability to navigate consent and set boundaries? In this special episode recorded for #Open, Jaclyn answers your quarantine questions and conundrums. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.14.2020
A Pleasure to Serve You
Why do we so often fixate on whether or not porn performers are having authentic sexual pleasure while they work? Writer, podcaster and sex worker advocate Tina Horn breaks it down with Jaclyn in this conversation about pleasure, labor, entertainment,...
04.07.2020
Spare Parts: Pay For Your Pandemic Porn
Some ways to participate in Sexual Assault Awareness/Action Month while social distancing, and some ways to have a spicy sex life without touching your sex partner. It's a self-isolation quickiesode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.31.2020
Gossip is an English Word
What if women quietly telling each other who to trust and who not to was recognized as a form of justice? Native rights lawyer, professor, and MacArthur Award-winner Sarah Deer joins Jaclyn to discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
03.18.2020
Not A Coincidence
Jaclyn is joined by activist and author of Unbecoming, Anuradha Bhagwati, to talk about the state of women's relationship to power in the wake of Warren dropping out of the primary. Don't worry, they keep a safe social distance. Hosted...
03.11.2020
Spare Parts: Backlist and Pleasure-Forward
Jaclyn's back from her Believe Me tour! And she wants to hear your all-time fave feminist reads (for a new bookstore opening soon!), share what she's learned about the origins of the idea of "sex trafficking," and encourage you to...
02.18.2020
Corkscrewed
Why does it matter that the internet is built by and for men, and how do we survive while we try to remake it in our image? Believe Me contributors Katherine Alejandra Cross, Sady Doyle and Soraya Chemaly join Jaclyn...
02.11.2020
Spare Parts: Like a Polaroid
It's a #BelieveMe quickiesode, with updates on the high school activists fighting for their right to sex ed in Oregon, insight from Rolling Stone writer Jamil Smith, and how the internet is like a polaroid picture for women trying to...
01.28.2020
Believe Me
What does it mean to believe women? To believe survivors? What would become possible if we had a culture that treated women as both credible and important? Jaclyn is joined by Jessica Valenti to celebrate the publication of their new...
01.08.2020
Feminist Vengeance Squad
Amber Rollo is one of the three heroes who confronted Harvey Weinstein and his enablers at a comedy event in New York late last year. You're gonna want to hear her story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
12.13.2019
For the UK: An Army of Lovers
I'm back! And I'm sending love to everyone facing the horrible election results in the UK, in the form of a rerun of the episode I ran right after Trump was elected. It's about why pleasure isn't optional, even in...
10.29.2019
The Feeling of Safety
Sex! Danger! Rebellion! Underground lairs! It's all there and so much more in Safe Sex, the new comic book series from Unscrewed fave Tina Horn. What makes us feel safe, and how does it differ from what actually makes us...
10.10.2019
All Roads Lead to the Rapist
It's Part 2 of our live show at the PRX Podcast Garage! If you haven't listened to Part 1, go do that first: it's called When You Share Your Pain. This second half features filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman (Roll Red Roll)...
10.02.2019
When You Share Your Pain
It's Part One of the Boston live show! Featuring Bernadine Truth and audience-generated lightning round answers, and kicking off a two-part discussion about the perils and possibilities of focusing on perpetrators and enablers in our stories about sexual violence. CONTENT...
09.24.2019
Spare Parts: A Witchy Way to Move
Welcome spooky season with a reflection on crones from Sady Doyle, and then get scary active about our rights to defy sex stereotypes before the SCOTUS rules we can get fired for doing gender wrong. All this and more in...
09.17.2019
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
Welcome to Season Eight, Unscrewed Nation! We're kicking it off with a season-long theme -- Edge Case -- and a deep dive with the genius mind of Sady Doyle, whose new book Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers is all about...
09.04.2019
Listen: Bad Christian
Last month, Jaclyn chatted with the guys of Bad Christian about sex ed, protesting ICE, voting, when kids are ready for sex, and so much more. Check it out, and subscribe to the Bad Christian podcast wherever you get your...
08.23.2019
Rewind: An Army of Lovers
It's time for our annual reminder that pleasure isn't optional - it's a key ingredient in both our humanity and our political resistance. Let historian Hanne Blank explain as she talks with Jaclyn about what she learned during the 80s...
07.23.2019
Listen: Adult Sex Ed
Another episode of one of my fave shows to share with you, this time with me on it! While I'm still on summer hiatus, enjoy me talking butt sex (and many other things) along with Myisha Battle on the legendary...
06.25.2019
Listen: Suspect Class
While Unscrewed is on summer hiatus, Jaclyn is bringing you the most Unscrewy episodes of other people's podcasts! Today: an episode of Rewire.News' Boom! Lawyered, bringing you some great news from the courts that you may have missed last week....
06.06.2019
Spare Parts: Don't Desist
Last episode of the season! Including a bunch of updates from listeners, an advice question from a woman in a dry spell, new ways to get involved with Unscrewed Nation, a political pep talk - and because I forgot to...
05.21.2019
What Kind of Girl Do You Want to Be?
Right-wing extremists are infiltrating public schools under the guise of "sex education" -- even in liberal school districts. But in Eugene, OR, high school girls are fighting back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
05.14.2019
Spare Parts: Don't Sex Strike
What to do about draconian abortion laws (hint: it doesn't involve whether or not you fuck), a call for podcast suggestions, and advice for an aspiring sex educator, all in one quickiesode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
05.07.2019
Future Imperfect
What should the future of anti-rape work look like? Activists Lorena Kourousias and Kalima Young of the Monument Quilt project join Jaclyn to talk art, orgasms, Afrofuturism, and living your future vision now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
04.23.2019
Sex Party!
Can people who support sexual freedom become a political force to be reckoned with? Fiona Patten, founder of Australia's Reason Party, is proving it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.16.2019
Spare Parts: Action Month
Your dating app wish list, how to turn Sexual Assault Awareness Month into Action Month, a scary bathroom incident involving trans rights that the right-wing won't be crowing about, and a little tease from Jaclyn, all in 15 minutes. Hosted...
04.09.2019
Appetite for Power
Black women are often conceived of as the victims of BDSM and pornography, but can they also be sites of Black women's healing, pleasure, liberation or power? Professor Ariane Cruz, author of The Color of Kink, says yes. Hosted on...
04.03.2019
Spare Parts: The Good Guys
On Biden, Dr. Willie Parker, and why the "good guys" hurt us. Plus we hear from listeners who took Jaclyn's advice and wrote in to update us on how they're doing! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.26.2019
Unbecoming
When she was young, Anuradha Bhagwati chose an unusual way to rebel against her strict immigrant parents; she joined the U.S. Marine Corps. What followed taught her about power, masculinity, double standards, trauma, bravery, activism, and much much more. Hosted...
03.19.2019
Spare Parts: Pleasure is a Human Right
Listener sex ed news from Oregon, a new documentary about Steubenville, and some deep thinking about the sexual politics of liberation: all in this one quickiesode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.12.2019
The Room Where It Happened
For the 10th anniversary of Yes Means Yes, Jessica Valenti joins Jaclyn to share behind-the-scenes secrets and reflect on the legacy and future of their landmark book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.05.2019
Spare Parts: Bad Enough
Oklahoma tries to make sex ed strides, Jaclyn gives away her audiobook, and a heartaching listener question about who gets to call themselves a survivor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
02.26.2019
The Absence of Pain Is Not Pleasure
What can the history of Black sexual oppression and resistance in the US teach us about how Black people get all the way free? Dalycia Saah and Rafaella Fiallo of Afrosexology have a vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
02.20.2019
Spare Parts: Super Interactive
Listeners sound off on sex ed and offer their own resources, and Jaclyn asks you to a whole bunch of stuff. Oh, and we take it wayyyy back to before the internet had search engines. Hosted on Acast. See...
02.12.2019
A Very Specific Mary Poppins
Scarleteen.com, the groundbreaking sex ed website, turns 20 this year! Celebrate with Jaclyn and Scarleteen's founder Heather Corinna, who reflects not just on how the site -- and sex ed -- has evolved in two decades, but how doing the...
02.05.2019
Spare Parts: All That Gender Shit
On the human cost of content moderation, sex ed news in Colorado, and a listener question about a sexual role reversal -- but not the fun kind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01.29.2019
This Is Why We're Bad At Sex
In December, Tumblr banned all "adult content" from its site, only the latest salvo on a misguided quest of corporations and politicians to crack down on adult entertainment in the name of protecting the innocent. Elle Chase, who ran Lady...
01.22.2019
Spare Parts: The Real Scandal
Fake nude selfies, a really amazing pop culture recommendation, and advice for a listener who's not getting what she needs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01.15.2019
Dystopia Buddies
Now that Kennedy is out and Kavanaugh is in, how bad are things going to get for people who need abortions? Robin Marty joins Jaclyn to talk about her new book Handbook for a Post-Roe America, and some surprising ideas...
12.19.2018
Sex While Trans
Why is it so hard to find good sex advice for trans women? Educator, performer and activist Rebecca Kling joins Jaclyn to talk it out on the meta level, and to help out two very specific listeners who are going...
11.20.2018
The Robots are Coming
Sex robots are here. Now what? Jaclyn catches up with cultural critic Katherine Cross to talk robot brothels, dudebros, Ex Machina, and why you should be excited for the robot uprising. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11.15.2018
Spare Parts: Look Alive
Trump may be banning the phrase "sexual health," plus listener questions about breaking into activism and good books for girls growing up in hostile territory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11.06.2018
Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
We've been fighting patriarchy so long. Why are we still drowning in it? Carol Gilligan, the mother of feminist psychology, and NYU researcher Naomi Snider think they know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10.23.2018
A Family Heirloom
How does fatness affect our sense of our own sexuality, our own gender, our own race? Sonalee Rashatwar, AKA The Fat Sex Therapist, joins Jaclyn to dig deep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10.16.2018
Spare Parts: Edge Case
Hillary Clinton, Dan Savage and comprehensive pleasure-based sex education. It's a quickiesode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's Unscrewed about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Unscrewed episodes:

LISTEN: We'll Hear Arguments

Spare Parts: Marathons and Sprints

The Absence of Pain is Not Pleasure (Rewind)

Spare Parts: Conscious Incompetence

Under Pressure

Spare Parts: Consent in Confinement

A Pleasure to Serve You

Spare Parts: Pay For Your Pandemic Porn

Gossip is an English Word

Not A Coincidence

Spare Parts: Backlist and Pleasure-Forward

Corkscrewed

Spare Parts: Like a Polaroid

Believe Me

Feminist Vengeance Squad

For the UK: An Army of Lovers

The Feeling of Safety

All Roads Lead to the Rapist

When You Share Your Pain

Spare Parts: A Witchy Way to Move

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

Listen: Bad Christian

Rewind: An Army of Lovers

Listen: Adult Sex Ed

Listen: Suspect Class

Spare Parts: Don't Desist

What Kind of Girl Do You Want to Be?

Spare Parts: Don't Sex Strike

Future Imperfect

Sex Party!

Spare Parts: Action Month

Appetite for Power

Spare Parts: The Good Guys

Unbecoming

Spare Parts: Pleasure is a Human Right

The Room Where It Happened

Spare Parts: Bad Enough

The Absence of Pain Is Not Pleasure

Spare Parts: Super Interactive

A Very Specific Mary Poppins

Spare Parts: All That Gender Shit

This Is Why We're Bad At Sex

Spare Parts: The Real Scandal

Dystopia Buddies

Sex While Trans

The Robots are Coming

Spare Parts: Look Alive

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

A Family Heirloom

Spare Parts: Edge Case