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		<description>Ask a Feminist, a podcast from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (http://signsjournal.org), features interviews with leading feminist thinkers on feminist issues raised by some aspect of current political life or social justice issue. This allows Signs to create an ongoing conversation between and among feminist scholars, media activists, and community leaders, enhancing the journal’s role as a transitive space, percolating in and between the space of intellectual production and activist engagement. Ask a Feminist is part of the Signs Feminist Public Intellectuals Project (http://signsjournal.org/feminist-public-intellectuals-project/).</description>
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				<itunes:summary>Ask a Feminist, a podcast from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (http://signsjournal.org), features interviews with leading feminist thinkers on feminist issues raised by some aspect of current political life or social justice issue. This allows Signs to create an ongoing conversation between and among feminist scholars, media activists, and community leaders, enhancing the journal’s role as a transitive space, percolating in and between the space of intellectual production and activist engagement. Ask a Feminist is part of the Signs Feminist Public Intellectuals Project (http://signsjournal.org/feminist-public-intellectuals-project/).</itunes:summary>
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	<title>Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[This episode features a critical dissection of a political movement and philosophy that is unfortunately enjoying a global resurgence: pronatalism. Having successfully killed Roe, the Trump administration pursues policies incentivising certain groups to have more children. Many key administration figures—most prominently JD Vance and Elon Musk—are avid promoters of pronatalist worldviews, in which women’s efforts to exert control over their own reproductive capacities are portrayed as threats to “Western civilization” itself. This conversation offer a compelling deconstruction of the antifeminist underpinnings of pronatalism and explicates its historical links to nativism, eugenics, and other forms of racism. 

Our interviewer for this episode is Signs Associate Editor Shoshanna Ehrlich, an expert on the legal regulation of reproduction and sexuality in the US and professor emerita of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is joined by Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin. Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and systemic change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. Her research and advocacy work focuses on addressing the combined impacts of pronatalism and human expansionism on reproductive, ecological, and intergenerational justice. Michele is the Linda D. &#038; Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She is a sought after thought leader and public voice on matters of constitutional law, healthcare, bioethics, and civil liberties; she is also the Executive Producer of Ms. Studios and host of the popular podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This episode features a critical dissection of a political movement and philosophy that is unfortunately enjoying a global resurgence: pronatalism. Having successfully killed Roe, the Trump administration pursues policies incentivising certain groups to ]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[This episode features a critical dissection of a political movement and philosophy that is unfortunately enjoying a global resurgence: pronatalism. Having successfully killed Roe, the Trump administration pursues policies incentivising certain groups to have more children. Many key administration figures—most prominently JD Vance and Elon Musk—are avid promoters of pronatalist worldviews, in which women’s efforts to exert control over their own reproductive capacities are portrayed as threats to “Western civilization” itself. This conversation offer a compelling deconstruction of the antifeminist underpinnings of pronatalism and explicates its historical links to nativism, eugenics, and other forms of racism. 

Our interviewer for this episode is Signs Associate Editor Shoshanna Ehrlich, an expert on the legal regulation of reproduction and sexuality in the US and professor emerita of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is joined by Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin. Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and systemic change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. Her research and advocacy work focuses on addressing the combined impacts of pronatalism and human expansionism on reproductive, ecological, and intergenerational justice. Michele is the Linda D. &#038; Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She is a sought after thought leader and public voice on matters of constitutional law, healthcare, bioethics, and civil liberties; she is also the Executive Producer of Ms. Studios and host of the popular podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin.]]></content:encoded>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This episode features a critical dissection of a political movement and philosophy that is unfortunately enjoying a global resurgence: pronatalism. Having successfully killed Roe, the Trump administration pursues policies incentivising certain groups to have more children. Many key administration figures—most prominently JD Vance and Elon Musk—are avid promoters of pronatalist worldviews, in which women’s efforts to exert control over their own reproductive capacities are portrayed as threats to “Western civilization” itself. This conversation offer a compelling deconstruction of the antifeminist underpinnings of pronatalism and explicates its historical links to nativism, eugenics, and other forms of racism. 

Our interviewer for this episode is Signs Associate Editor Shoshanna Ehrlich, an expert on the legal regulation of reproduction and sexuality in the US and professor emerita of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is joined by Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin. Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and systemic change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. Her research and advocacy work focuses on addressing the combined impacts of pronatalism and human expansionism on reproductive, ecological, and intergenerational justice. Michele is the Linda D. &#038; Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She is a sought after thought leader and public voice on matters of constitutional law, healthcare, bioethics, and civil liberties; she is also the Executive Producer of Ms. Studios and host of the popular podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[This episode features a critical dissection of a political movement and philosophy that is unfortunately enjoying a global resurgence: pronatalism. Having successfully killed Roe, the Trump administration pursues policies incentivising certain groups to have more children. Many key administration figures—most prominently JD Vance and Elon Musk—are avid promoters of pronatalist worldviews, in which women’s efforts to exert control over their own reproductive capacities are portrayed as threats to “Western civilization” itself. This conversation offer a compelling deconstruction of the antifeminist underpinnings of pronatalism and explicates its historical links to nativism, eugenics, and other forms of racism. 

Our interviewer for this episode is Signs Associate Editor Shoshanna Ehrlich, an expert on the legal regulation of reproduction and sexuality in the US and professor emerita of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is joined by N]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Online Abuse and US Politics, a Conversation with Moya Bailey and Nina Jankowicz</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/online-abuse-and-us-politics-a-conversation-with-moya-bailey-and-nina-jankowicz/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[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. The conversation delves into the strategies used by misogynists online, the racialized abuse faced by women of color, and the role that digital harassment and misinformation played in the 2024 election. And crucially, they emphasize that this abuse, at the systemic level, is a massive barrier to women’s equal political participation and functions to push women in general out of political discourse and even public life. 

Moya Bailey is a professor of communication studies at Northwestern and is an expert on Black women’s digital resistance. She also coined the term “misogynoir.” Nina Jankowicz is the cofounder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, a nonprofit focused on countering disinformation. She has advised governments, international organizations, and tech companies on the effects of disinformation, particularly on people from historically marginalized groups. And Sarah Sobieraj is a professor of sociology at Tufts University. Her latest book is Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[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. T]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[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. The conversation delves into the strategies used by misogynists online, the racialized abuse faced by women of color, and the role that digital harassment and misinformation played in the 2024 election. And crucially, they emphasize that this abuse, at the systemic level, is a massive barrier to women’s equal political participation and functions to push women in general out of political discourse and even public life. 

Moya Bailey is a professor of communication studies at Northwestern and is an expert on Black women’s digital resistance. She also coined the term “misogynoir.” Nina Jankowicz is the cofounder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, a nonprofit focused on countering disinformation. She has advised governments, international organizations, and tech companies on the effects of disinformation, particularly on people from historically marginalized groups. And Sarah Sobieraj is a professor of sociology at Tufts University. Her latest book is Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy.]]></content:encoded>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[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. The conversation delves into the strategies used by misogynists online, the racialized abuse faced by women of color, and the role that digital harassment and misinformation played in the 2024 election. And crucially, they emphasize that this abuse, at the systemic level, is a massive barrier to women’s equal political participation and functions to push women in general out of political discourse and even public life. 

Moya Bailey is a professor of communication studies at Northwestern and is an expert on Black women’s digital resistance. She also coined the term “misogynoir.” Nina Jankowicz is the cofounder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, a nonprofit focused on countering disinformation. She has advised governments, international organizations, and tech companies on the effects of disinformation, particularly on people from historically marginalized groups. And Sarah Sobieraj is a professor of sociology at Tufts University. Her latest book is Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[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. The conversation delves into the strategies used by misogynists online, the racialized abuse faced by women of color, and the role that digital harassment and misinformation played in the 2024 election. And crucially, they emphasize that this abuse, at the systemic level, is a massive barrier to women’s equal political participation and functions to push women in general out of political discourse and even public life. 

Moya Bailey is a professor of communication studies at Northwestern and is an expert on Black women’s digital resistance. She also coined the term “misogynoir.” Nina Jankowicz is the cofounder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, a nonprofit focused on countering disinformation. She has advised governments, inter]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Trump&#8217;s Anti-Trans, Anti-Gender Executive Orders, A Conversation with Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/trumps-anti-trans-anti-gender-executive-orders-a-conversation-with-libby-adler-and-k-j-rawson/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[For our first episode of the second Trump Administration, Carla Kaplan (chair of the Signs editorial board) speaks to Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson about the administration's anti-trans, anti-gender executive orders. While we’ve known for quite some time that the anti-trans attacks would be coming, their speed and breadth have still been breathtaking. Adler and Rawson tease out the implications of these executive orders and demonstrate what they reveal about the Trump regime’s understandings of sex and gender. Adler is Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and is the author of the book Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform from Duke University Press. And Rawson is Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning collection of trans-related historical materials. ]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[For our first episode of the second Trump Administration, Carla Kaplan (chair of the Signs editorial board) speaks to Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson about the administrations anti-trans, anti-gender executive orders. While we’ve known for quite some time th]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[For our first episode of the second Trump Administration, Carla Kaplan (chair of the Signs editorial board) speaks to Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson about the administration's anti-trans, anti-gender executive orders. While we’ve known for quite some time that the anti-trans attacks would be coming, their speed and breadth have still been breathtaking. Adler and Rawson tease out the implications of these executive orders and demonstrate what they reveal about the Trump regime’s understandings of sex and gender. Adler is Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and is the author of the book Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform from Duke University Press. And Rawson is Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning collection of trans-related historical materials. ]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/9205/trumps-anti-trans-anti-gender-executive-orders-a-conversation-with-libby-adler-and-k-j-rawson.mp3" length="40162344"
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For our first episode of the second Trump Administration, Carla Kaplan (chair of the Signs editorial board) speaks to Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson about the administration's anti-trans, anti-gender executive orders. While we’ve known for quite some time that the anti-trans attacks would be coming, their speed and breadth have still been breathtaking. Adler and Rawson tease out the implications of these executive orders and demonstrate what they reveal about the Trump regime’s understandings of sex and gender. Adler is Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and is the author of the book Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform from Duke University Press. And Rawson is Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning collection of trans-related historical materials. ]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
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	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[For our first episode of the second Trump Administration, Carla Kaplan (chair of the Signs editorial board) speaks to Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson about the administration's anti-trans, anti-gender executive orders. While we’ve known for quite some time that the anti-trans attacks would be coming, their speed and breadth have still been breathtaking. Adler and Rawson tease out the implications of these executive orders and demonstrate what they reveal about the Trump regime’s understandings of sex and gender. Adler is Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and is the author of the book Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform from Duke University Press. And Rawson is Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning collection of trans-related historical materials. ]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Public Feminism, a Conversation with Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/public-feminism-a-conversation-with-marcie-bianco-and-andi-zeisler/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Ask a Feminist is back after a long hiatus with an episode about the current state of public feminism! Signs editor Suzanna Walters is joined by Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler. Andi is the cofounder of Bitch Media and the author of the book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrl to CoverGirl, and Marcie is the author of Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom. Their experiences writing and editing for feminist publics and building feminist platforms give them unique insights into the difficulties faced by those trying to reach or create feminist publics today. What happens when feminism becomes part of a “personal brand”? What are the pitfalls of anointing a few individuals as the public representatives of a movement as broad and diverse as feminism? Why do there seem to be so many feminist public intellectuals and so few feminist spaces? ]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Ask a Feminist is back after a long hiatus with an episode about the current state of public feminism! Signs editor Suzanna Walters is joined by Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler. Andi is the cofounder of Bitch Media and the author of the book We Were Femin]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ask a Feminist is back after a long hiatus with an episode about the current state of public feminism! Signs editor Suzanna Walters is joined by Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler. Andi is the cofounder of Bitch Media and the author of the book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrl to CoverGirl, and Marcie is the author of Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom. Their experiences writing and editing for feminist publics and building feminist platforms give them unique insights into the difficulties faced by those trying to reach or create feminist publics today. What happens when feminism becomes part of a “personal brand”? What are the pitfalls of anointing a few individuals as the public representatives of a movement as broad and diverse as feminism? Why do there seem to be so many feminist public intellectuals and so few feminist spaces? ]]></content:encoded>
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			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ask a Feminist is back after a long hiatus with an episode about the current state of public feminism! Signs editor Suzanna Walters is joined by Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler. Andi is the cofounder of Bitch Media and the author of the book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrl to CoverGirl, and Marcie is the author of Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom. Their experiences writing and editing for feminist publics and building feminist platforms give them unique insights into the difficulties faced by those trying to reach or create feminist publics today. What happens when feminism becomes part of a “personal brand”? What are the pitfalls of anointing a few individuals as the public representatives of a movement as broad and diverse as feminism? Why do there seem to be so many feminist public intellectuals and so few feminist spaces?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Ask a Feminist is back after a long hiatus with an episode about the current state of public feminism! Signs editor Suzanna Walters is joined by Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler. Andi is the cofounder of Bitch Media and the author of the book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrl to CoverGirl, and Marcie is the author of Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom. Their experiences writing and editing for feminist publics and building feminist platforms give them unique insights into the difficulties faced by those trying to reach or create feminist publics today. What happens when feminism becomes part of a “personal brand”? What are the pitfalls of anointing a few individuals as the public representatives of a movement as broad and diverse as feminism? Why do there seem to be so many feminist public intellectuals and so few feminist spaces?]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics, a Conversation with Rene Almeling, Sarah Richardson, and Natali Valdez</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/reproduction-in-the-age-of-epigenetics-a-conversation-with-rene-almeling-sarah-richardson-and-natali-valdez/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Three esteemed feminist science-studies scholars—Sarah Richardson, Rene Almeling, and Natali Valdez—discuss reproduction in the age of epigenetics. They offer a critical appraisal of recent developments in the much-hyped field of epigenetics, particularly as those developments have focused on reproduction. Their discussion provides a crucial corrective as the biological sciences push for more epigenetic and high-tech approaches to reproductive health. Their feminist lens allows them to ask new questions and push back against scientific approaches that continue to place responsibility for managing reproductive risk onto individual women. They ask why these new epigenetic approaches—which even feminists had hoped might lead to more capacious or holistic understandings of reproduction—ultimately fail to live up to their own hype.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Three esteemed feminist science-studies scholars—Sarah Richardson, Rene Almeling, and Natali Valdez—discuss reproduction in the age of epigenetics. They offer a critical appraisal of recent developments in the much-hyped field of epigenetics, particularl]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[Three esteemed feminist science-studies scholars—Sarah Richardson, Rene Almeling, and Natali Valdez—discuss reproduction in the age of epigenetics. They offer a critical appraisal of recent developments in the much-hyped field of epigenetics, particularly as those developments have focused on reproduction. Their discussion provides a crucial corrective as the biological sciences push for more epigenetic and high-tech approaches to reproductive health. Their feminist lens allows them to ask new questions and push back against scientific approaches that continue to place responsibility for managing reproductive risk onto individual women. They ask why these new epigenetic approaches—which even feminists had hoped might lead to more capacious or holistic understandings of reproduction—ultimately fail to live up to their own hype.]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/7924/reproduction-in-the-age-of-epigenetics-a-conversation-with-rene-almeling-sarah-richardson-and-natali-valdez.mp3" length="30377164"
			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Three esteemed feminist science-studies scholars—Sarah Richardson, Rene Almeling, and Natali Valdez—discuss reproduction in the age of epigenetics. They offer a critical appraisal of recent developments in the much-hyped field of epigenetics, particularly as those developments have focused on reproduction. Their discussion provides a crucial corrective as the biological sciences push for more epigenetic and high-tech approaches to reproductive health. Their feminist lens allows them to ask new questions and push back against scientific approaches that continue to place responsibility for managing reproductive risk onto individual women. They ask why these new epigenetic approaches—which even feminists had hoped might lead to more capacious or holistic understandings of reproduction—ultimately fail to live up to their own hype.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>46:59</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Three esteemed feminist science-studies scholars—Sarah Richardson, Rene Almeling, and Natali Valdez—discuss reproduction in the age of epigenetics. They offer a critical appraisal of recent developments in the much-hyped field of epigenetics, particularly as those developments have focused on reproduction. Their discussion provides a crucial corrective as the biological sciences push for more epigenetic and high-tech approaches to reproductive health. Their feminist lens allows them to ask new questions and push back against scientific approaches that continue to place responsibility for managing reproductive risk onto individual women. They ask why these new epigenetic approaches—which even feminists had hoped might lead to more capacious or holistic understandings of reproduction—ultimately fail to live up to their own hype.]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/jennifer-fluri-discusses-the-gender-politics-of-the-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-with-sandra-mcevoy/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://signsjournal.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=7795</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[On this episode, Sandra McEvoy speaks to Jennifer Fluri about what the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan means for Afghan women and for the feminist movement in Afghanistan. Jennifer’s expertise as a geographer and her transnational feminist perspective are sorely needed in this perilous moment. As the withdrawal was under way, we heard familiar concerns--voiced by pundits and politicians--about the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban. But the broader context of the long US occupation, its effects on gender relations, and the history of women’s organizing in Afghanistan makes for a much more complicated picture, as you’ll hear. Jennifer--a professor of geography at University of Colorado Boulder who has worked in and on Afghanistan for almost twenty years--illuminates this complex history in this conversation with Sandra, who is clinical associate professor of political science at Boston University and a member of the Signs editorial board. ]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[On this episode, Sandra McEvoy speaks to Jennifer Fluri about what the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan means for Afghan women and for the feminist movement in Afghanistan. Jennifer’s expertise as a geographer and her transnational feminist pe]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[On this episode, Sandra McEvoy speaks to Jennifer Fluri about what the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan means for Afghan women and for the feminist movement in Afghanistan. Jennifer’s expertise as a geographer and her transnational feminist perspective are sorely needed in this perilous moment. As the withdrawal was under way, we heard familiar concerns--voiced by pundits and politicians--about the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban. But the broader context of the long US occupation, its effects on gender relations, and the history of women’s organizing in Afghanistan makes for a much more complicated picture, as you’ll hear. Jennifer--a professor of geography at University of Colorado Boulder who has worked in and on Afghanistan for almost twenty years--illuminates this complex history in this conversation with Sandra, who is clinical associate professor of political science at Boston University and a member of the Signs editorial board. ]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/7795/jennifer-fluri-discusses-the-gender-politics-of-the-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-with-sandra-mcevoy.mp3" length="54131964"
			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[On this episode, Sandra McEvoy speaks to Jennifer Fluri about what the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan means for Afghan women and for the feminist movement in Afghanistan. Jennifer’s expertise as a geographer and her transnational feminist perspective are sorely needed in this perilous moment. As the withdrawal was under way, we heard familiar concerns--voiced by pundits and politicians--about the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban. But the broader context of the long US occupation, its effects on gender relations, and the history of women’s organizing in Afghanistan makes for a much more complicated picture, as you’ll hear. Jennifer--a professor of geography at University of Colorado Boulder who has worked in and on Afghanistan for almost twenty years--illuminates this complex history in this conversation with Sandra, who is clinical associate professor of political science at Boston University and a member of the Signs editorial board.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>57:07</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[On this episode, Sandra McEvoy speaks to Jennifer Fluri about what the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan means for Afghan women and for the feminist movement in Afghanistan. Jennifer’s expertise as a geographer and her transnational feminist perspective are sorely needed in this perilous moment. As the withdrawal was under way, we heard familiar concerns--voiced by pundits and politicians--about the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban. But the broader context of the long US occupation, its effects on gender relations, and the history of women’s organizing in Afghanistan makes for a much more complicated picture, as you’ll hear. Jennifer--a professor of geography at University of Colorado Boulder who has worked in and on Afghanistan for almost twenty years--illuminates this complex history in this conversation with Sandra, who is clinical associate professor of political science at Boston University and a member of the Signs editorial board.]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Susan Stryker discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/susan-stryker-discusses-trans-studies-trans-feminism-and-a-more-trans-future-with-v-varun-chaudhry/</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://signsjournal.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=7227</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[A conversation about the field of trans studies between V Varun Chaudhy and Susan Stryker. V is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis and a member of the Signs board of associate editors. Susan is a founding editor of the journal TSQ and a major figure in the development of trans studies as a field. In the interview, they discuss the social and political context for the emergence trans studies, including its roots in feminist theory, and what its institutionalization (including the found of TSQ) has meant for the field. They also share insights about how trans feminism can combat new forms of transphobia, and, beyond that, how trans feminism can provide necessary tools for enacting new forms of sociality.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A conversation about the field of trans studies between V Varun Chaudhy and Susan Stryker. V is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis and a member of the Signs board of associate editors. Susan is a founding editor ]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[A conversation about the field of trans studies between V Varun Chaudhy and Susan Stryker. V is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis and a member of the Signs board of associate editors. Susan is a founding editor of the journal TSQ and a major figure in the development of trans studies as a field. In the interview, they discuss the social and political context for the emergence trans studies, including its roots in feminist theory, and what its institutionalization (including the found of TSQ) has meant for the field. They also share insights about how trans feminism can combat new forms of transphobia, and, beyond that, how trans feminism can provide necessary tools for enacting new forms of sociality.]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/7227/susan-stryker-discusses-trans-studies-trans-feminism-and-a-more-trans-future-with-v-varun-chaudhry.mp3" length="37044761"
			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A conversation about the field of trans studies between V Varun Chaudhy and Susan Stryker. V is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis and a member of the Signs board of associate editors. Susan is a founding editor of the journal TSQ and a major figure in the development of trans studies as a field. In the interview, they discuss the social and political context for the emergence trans studies, including its roots in feminist theory, and what its institutionalization (including the found of TSQ) has meant for the field. They also share insights about how trans feminism can combat new forms of transphobia, and, beyond that, how trans feminism can provide necessary tools for enacting new forms of sociality.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>45:18</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[A conversation about the field of trans studies between V Varun Chaudhy and Susan Stryker. V is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis and a member of the Signs board of associate editors. Susan is a founding editor of the journal TSQ and a major figure in the development of trans studies as a field. In the interview, they discuss the social and political context for the emergence trans studies, including its roots in feminist theory, and what its institutionalization (including the found of TSQ) has meant for the field. They also share insights about how trans feminism can combat new forms of transphobia, and, beyond that, how trans feminism can provide necessary tools for enacting new forms of sociality.]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Patricia Williams Discusses Rage and Humor as an Act of Disobedience with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/patricia-williams-discusses-rage-and-humor-as-an-act-of-disobedience-with-carla-kaplan-and-durba-mitra/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://signsjournal.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=7178</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Patricia J. Williams, the renowned feminist theorist and legal scholar joins Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra, two of the coeditors of the upcoming special issue of Signs on “Rage,” to talk about the multiple crises we face at the current moment, from Donald Trump’s cruel legacy of misogyny and racism to the failures of market-based approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss new forms of surveillance that have emerged during the pandemic and the disproportionate levels of emotional labor that particular groups, particularly black women, have been expected to take on throughout Trump’s presidency.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Patricia J. Williams, the renowned feminist theorist and legal scholar joins Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra, two of the coeditors of the upcoming special issue of Signs on “Rage,” to talk about the multiple crises we face at the current moment, from Donald]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[Patricia J. Williams, the renowned feminist theorist and legal scholar joins Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra, two of the coeditors of the upcoming special issue of Signs on “Rage,” to talk about the multiple crises we face at the current moment, from Donald Trump’s cruel legacy of misogyny and racism to the failures of market-based approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss new forms of surveillance that have emerged during the pandemic and the disproportionate levels of emotional labor that particular groups, particularly black women, have been expected to take on throughout Trump’s presidency.]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/7178/patricia-williams-discusses-rage-and-humor-as-an-act-of-disobedience-with-carla-kaplan-and-durba-mitra.mp3" length="39524217"
			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Patricia J. Williams, the renowned feminist theorist and legal scholar joins Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra, two of the coeditors of the upcoming special issue of Signs on “Rage,” to talk about the multiple crises we face at the current moment, from Donald Trump’s cruel legacy of misogyny and racism to the failures of market-based approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss new forms of surveillance that have emerged during the pandemic and the disproportionate levels of emotional labor that particular groups, particularly black women, have been expected to take on throughout Trump’s presidency.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>43:16</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Patricia J. Williams, the renowned feminist theorist and legal scholar joins Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra, two of the coeditors of the upcoming special issue of Signs on “Rage,” to talk about the multiple crises we face at the current moment, from Donald Trump’s cruel legacy of misogyny and racism to the failures of market-based approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss new forms of surveillance that have emerged during the pandemic and the disproportionate levels of emotional labor that particular groups, particularly black women, have been expected to take on throughout Trump’s presidency.]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/eesha-pandit-and-paula-moya-discuss-activism-and-the-academy-with-carla-kaplan-and-suzanna-walters-2/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://signsjournal.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=6662</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one another's work. What makes a good ally? How can we build systems of accountability among and between scholars and activists? How can we most productively use identity as the basis for organizing action? The conversation is facilitated by Signs editorial board chair Carla Kaplan and Signs editor in chief Suzanna Walters. Recorded live at the National Women's Studies Association Conference.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one anothers work. What makes a good all]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one another's work. What makes a good ally? How can we build systems of accountability among and between scholars and activists? How can we most productively use identity as the basis for organizing action? The conversation is facilitated by Signs editorial board chair Carla Kaplan and Signs editor in chief Suzanna Walters. Recorded live at the National Women's Studies Association Conference.]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/6662/eesha-pandit-and-paula-moya-discuss-activism-and-the-academy-with-carla-kaplan-and-suzanna-walters-2.mp3" length="29168434"
			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one another's work. What makes a good ally? How can we build systems of accountability among and between scholars and activists? How can we most productively use identity as the basis for organizing action? The conversation is facilitated by Signs editorial board chair Carla Kaplan and Signs editor in chief Suzanna Walters. Recorded live at the National Women's Studies Association Conference.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>37:11</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one another's work. What makes a good ally? How can we build systems of accountability among and between scholars and activists? How can we most productively use identity as the basis for organizing action? The conversation is facilitated by Signs editorial board chair Carla Kaplan and Signs editor in chief Suzanna Walters. Recorded live at the National Women's Studies Association Conference.]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Byllye Avery Discusses the Past and Future of Reproductive Justice with Susan Reverby</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/byllye-avery-discusses-the-past-and-future-of-reproductive-justice-with-susan-reverby/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://signsjournal.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=6613</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Byllye Avery, cofounder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, speaks to historian Susan Reverby about her activist work, beginning in the 1970s, to increase women’s access to abortion. She discusses the state of reproductive rights before and after Roe v. Wade, the genesis of the “reproductive justice” movement, and the tactics that might be needed in a post-Roe future. 

Ask a Feminist is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, which provides a host of free feminist resources (http://signsjournal.org/fpip).]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Byllye Avery, cofounder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, speaks to historian Susan Reverby about her activist work, beginning in the 1970s, to increase women’s access to abortion. She discusses the state of reproductive rights before and after Roe]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[Byllye Avery, cofounder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, speaks to historian Susan Reverby about her activist work, beginning in the 1970s, to increase women’s access to abortion. She discusses the state of reproductive rights before and after Roe v. Wade, the genesis of the “reproductive justice” movement, and the tactics that might be needed in a post-Roe future. 

Ask a Feminist is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, which provides a host of free feminist resources (http://signsjournal.org/fpip).]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/6613/byllye-avery-discusses-the-past-and-future-of-reproductive-justice-with-susan-reverby.mp3" length="28092158"
			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Byllye Avery, cofounder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, speaks to historian Susan Reverby about her activist work, beginning in the 1970s, to increase women’s access to abortion. She discusses the state of reproductive rights before and after Roe v. Wade, the genesis of the “reproductive justice” movement, and the tactics that might be needed in a post-Roe future. 

Ask a Feminist is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, which provides a host of free feminist resources (http://signsjournal.org/fpip).]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>37:09</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Byllye Avery, cofounder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, speaks to historian Susan Reverby about her activist work, beginning in the 1970s, to increase women’s access to abortion. She discusses the state of reproductive rights before and after Roe v. Wade, the genesis of the “reproductive justice” movement, and the tactics that might be needed in a post-Roe future. 

Ask a Feminist is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, which provides a host of free feminist resources (http://signsjournal.org/fpip).]]></googleplay:description>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and Asylum Law with Aziza Ahmed</title>
	<link>https://signsjournal.org/podcast/deborah-anker-discusses-gender-and-asylum-law-with-aziza-ahmed/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://signsjournal.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=6479</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[How has feminism shaped US asylum law? Why and how is the Trump Administration trying to undo feminist gains? Hear asylum- and refugee-law expert Deborah Anker discuss the history and present of gender in the US asylum system in the latest episode of Ask a Feminist. Anker is the founder and director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Law Clinical Program and is one of the most widely known asylum scholars and practitioners in the United States. She speaks to Aziza Ahmed, professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, and takes us through the key cases and arguments that have led to the current moment, the transformations the system is currently undergoing, and why she is less pessimistic than might be expected. A transcript is also available on our website (http://signsjournal.org/ask-a-feminist/).

The theme song is “I Dunno” by Grapes, available on SoundCloud. 
]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[How has feminism shaped US asylum law? Why and how is the Trump Administration trying to undo feminist gains? Hear asylum- and refugee-law expert Deborah Anker discuss the history and present of gender in the US asylum system in the latest episode of Ask]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[How has feminism shaped US asylum law? Why and how is the Trump Administration trying to undo feminist gains? Hear asylum- and refugee-law expert Deborah Anker discuss the history and present of gender in the US asylum system in the latest episode of Ask a Feminist. Anker is the founder and director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Law Clinical Program and is one of the most widely known asylum scholars and practitioners in the United States. She speaks to Aziza Ahmed, professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, and takes us through the key cases and arguments that have led to the current moment, the transformations the system is currently undergoing, and why she is less pessimistic than might be expected. A transcript is also available on our website (http://signsjournal.org/ask-a-feminist/).

The theme song is “I Dunno” by Grapes, available on SoundCloud. 
]]></content:encoded>
		<enclosure url="https://signsjournal.org/podcast-download/6479/deborah-anker-discusses-gender-and-asylum-law-with-aziza-ahmed.mp3" length="29172052"
			   type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[How has feminism shaped US asylum law? Why and how is the Trump Administration trying to undo feminist gains? Hear asylum- and refugee-law expert Deborah Anker discuss the history and present of gender in the US asylum system in the latest episode of Ask a Feminist. Anker is the founder and director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Law Clinical Program and is one of the most widely known asylum scholars and practitioners in the United States. She speaks to Aziza Ahmed, professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, and takes us through the key cases and arguments that have led to the current moment, the transformations the system is currently undergoing, and why she is less pessimistic than might be expected. A transcript is also available on our website (http://signsjournal.org/ask-a-feminist/).

The theme song is “I Dunno” by Grapes, available on SoundCloud.]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and Asylum Law with Aziza Ahmed</title>
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		<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>33:38</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[How has feminism shaped US asylum law? Why and how is the Trump Administration trying to undo feminist gains? Hear asylum- and refugee-law expert Deborah Anker discuss the history and present of gender in the US asylum system in the latest episode of Ask a Feminist. Anker is the founder and director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Law Clinical Program and is one of the most widely known asylum scholars and practitioners in the United States. She speaks to Aziza Ahmed, professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, and takes us through the key cases and arguments that have led to the current moment, the transformations the system is currently undergoing, and why she is less pessimistic than might be expected. A transcript is also available on our website (http://signsjournal.org/ask-a-feminist/).

The theme song is “I Dunno” by Grapes, available on SoundCloud.]]></googleplay:description>
					<googleplay:image href="https://i0.wp.com/signsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Anker-AAF-Graphic.jpg?fit=944%2C590&#038;ssl=1"></googleplay:image>
				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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