This episode focuses on the harassment and abuse that women–particularly women in politics–face online. Signs associate editor Sarah Sobieraj, an expert on US political culture and digital media, speaks with Professors Moya Bailey and Nina Jankowicz.
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Constance Grady, Janell Hobson, and Marisa Meltzer discuss Sophie Gilbert’s book Girl on Girl, with a response from Gilbert.
Meredith D. Clark, Jo Freeman, Stephanie M. Ortiz, and Carmen Perez-Jordan discuss Loretta J. Ross’s book Calling In, plus a response from Ross herself.
IN MEMORIAM: SANDRA HARDING (1935-2025) Rosi Braidotti, Sarah Bracke, and Iris van der Tuin In the history of feminist theory, there is a before and an after Sandra Harding. She has structured the language and the categories of feminist collective thinking, introducing the founding principles of what it means to think politically about feminist knowledge […]
Natasha Lennard, Sian Norris, Wendy Parmet, and Carly Thomsen discuss Jessica Valenti’s book Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win.
Kellie Carter Jackson, Joy James, Koritha M. Mitchell, and Michelle B. Taylor discuss Kali N. Gross’s book Vengeance Feminism, and Gross responds to the commentaries on her book.
Kylie Cheung, Cora Fernández Anderson, Julia McReynolds-Pérez, and Zoe Sullivan discuss Ana Elena Correa’s book What Happened to Belén: The Unjust Imprisonment that Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement, with a response from Correa.
