The Feminist Present Podcast
1) Episode 59: Pitch Craft with Laura Goode
Greeetings! It's been a while! But we're back and one of us (Laura!) has A BOOK! It's called Pitchcraft: The Writer's Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid, and it's out next week. So this is ...Show More
2) Episode 56: Abstinence & Horny Nuns with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos joins Laura and Adrian to discuss her new book, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex. Together, the trio dives deep into histories of horny nuns and Melissa’s exper...Show More
3) Episode 55: Cat Bohannon on Women and Evolution
In this episode, Cat Bohannon joins Laura and Adrian to discuss her most recent book, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, where she reframes the stories we tell about ...Show More
4) Episode 54: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
This week, we have the incredible Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the show. Her newest work Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is a biography that offers a new understanding of the lif...Show More
5) Episode 53: Samhita Mukhopadhyay & What Comes After the Death of the Girlboss?
Join Laura for a discussion with Samhita Mukhopadhyay exploring her newest book, The Myth of Making It. The former executive editor of Teen Vogue brings to this conversation her experiences of workpla...Show More
Episode 53: Samhita Mukhopadhyay & What Comes After the Death of the Girlboss?
48:48 | Aug 28th, 2024
6) Episode 52 - Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Join Laura and Adrian as they talk with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal about her newest book, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders. In this conversation, the crew discusses topi...Show More
7) Episode 51: Sarah Manguso & the Liars marriage makes
Sarah Manguso joins Laura to talk about her newest book, Liars. Telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, Liars depicts the slow and normalized forms of abuse and misogyny ...Show More
8) Episode 50 - Jessica Calarco: Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.
Jessica Calarco joins Laura and Adrian to unpack her newly released book, Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net. They discuss the histories and the sociological interviews ...Show More
Episode 50 - Jessica Calarco: Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.
1:03:06 | Jun 5th, 2024
9) Episode 23: RFK Jr.
Moira walks Adrian through the strange, tragic, enraging life of RFK Jr.—vaccine skeptic, presidential candidate, and literal brain worm survivor. Along the way, your hosts touch on Kennedy masculinit...Show More
10) Episode 49 - Lyz Lenz RETURNS!
Author and self-described "soccer mom Simone de Beauvoir" Lyz Lenz makes a triumphant return to the pod to discuss her new book THIS AMERICAN EX-WIFE with Laura and Adrian. (Please refer to TFP E...Show More