The Electorette Podcast
The Electorette is one of the longest running feminist podcasts, and offers analyses and solutions to the world's biggest political and social challenges, all through the lens of women. Hosted by Jennifer Taylor-Skinner, The Electorette regularly features award-winning authors, politicians, academics, activists, and organizers like the founder of Mom's Demand Action, Shannon Watts, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and author and MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellow, Nicole Fleetwood. The Electorette is independently owned and operated—please support us by subscribing to the podcast on your favorite platform!
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Your Voting Rights & Voter Suppression
This episode brings together three previous interviews with voting experts to cover all aspects of voter suppression and voting rights, including the history of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark Supreme Court Case Shelby County vs. Holder, the GOP redistricting plan - Project RedMap, and voter ID laws.
50 min
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Technically Wrong With Author Sara Wachter-Boet...
Sara Wachter-Boettcher discusses her book "Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech," which reveals how tech industry's biases and blind spots are baked into digital products and ultimately harm us.
50 min
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Bonus Episode | Introducing: Superwomen with Re...
Rebecca Minkoff is a fashion powerhouse, and each…
5 min
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Neera Tanden: Special Episode on Kavanaugh Nomi...
This is a special early episode featuring a conversation with Neera Tanden, the CEO of The Center for American Progress Action Fund.
26 min
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Congressmembers Barbara Lee & Pramila Jayapal, ...
Last month, the inaugural summit of the She the People initiative, was held in San Francisco. This episode features Electorette’s coverage of the summit including interviews with three influential leaders, Congressmembers Barbara Lee, Pramila Jayapal, and Black Lives Matter co-founder, Alicia Garza.
50 min
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#MeToo, One Year Later: Brett Kavanaugh, Louis ...
Three guests discuss the comeback attempts by several high profile men and the process of male redemption by looking at the cases of Brett Kavanaugh, Louis C.K., Jian Ghomeshi and others.
47 min
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ReproAction, Fighting for Abortion Rights & Rep...
Erin Matson and Pamela Merrit founded Reproaction in order to uphold abortion rights and advance reproductive justice as a matter of human dignity.
46 min
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Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson, author of the bestseller, "White Rage," discusses her new book "One Person, No Vote," which chronicles the government's longstanding commitment to limiting democracy through voter suppression.
92 min
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Aimee Allison, President of Democracy in Color,...
Aimee Allison, the President of Democracy in Color and founder She the People, discusses the goals of her organizations including how we an return the country to a progressive, multiracial majority in government via increasing new voter turn out.
38 min
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Daniella Gibbs Leger, Center for American Progr...
In this conversation with Daniella Gibbs Leger, Senior Vice President of Communications & Strategy at the Center for American Progress and co-host of the podcast, Thinking Cap, we discuss midterms, women running for office and how they are viewed by party insiders, feminism, the state of the democratic party, and voter suppression.
35 min
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Sayu Bhojwani, Founder of New American Leaders
Sayu Bhojwani, an advocate, speaker and writer, discusses her journey to American citizenship, her role as New York City’s first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, her organization New American Leaders.
42 min
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Diversity in Silicon Valley with Sinduja Rangarjan
This episode explores a new report from Reveal News reporter Sinduja Rangarajan and delivers the clearest picture of Silicon Valley’s diversity yet.
42 min
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Shauna Dillavou, Online Security Innovator & Ex...
Shauna Dillavou is a security innovator, weaving together her experiences in intelligence, free speech, technology, and trauma.
45 min
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Wagatwe Wanjuki & The Cost of Not Believing Sur...
Wagatwe Wanjuki is a feminist activist, writer, speaker, and digital strategist best known for her work as a national campus anti-violence advocate.
43 min
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Ruth Defoster, Mass Shootings & Gun Violence My...
Dr. Ruth Defoster, professor and author of "Terrorizing the Masses," walks through the myths around the causes and solutions to America's gun violence epidemic and debunks NRA and GOP talking points.
49 min
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Lily Herman, Founder of "Get Her Elected"
Lily Herman, is the founder of Get Her Elected, a political network of over 2,000 volunteers offering their skills pro bono to more than 220+ progressive women candidates running for office.
41 min
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Bev Gooden, #WhyIStayed, Domestic Abuse Activist
This episode features domestic abuse advocate, activist and creator of the #WhyIStayed hashtag, Bev Gooden (www.BeverlyGooden.com). A survivor of domestic violence herself, Bev Gooden created the viral hashtag, #WhyIStayed, to give others who've experienced domestic abuse a sense of community and safe space to discuss their experience.
67 min
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Shelly Grabe, The Psychology of Resistance
In this conversation with Professor and author Shelly Grabe (https://bit.ly/2lOW3ja), whose research includes women’s rights violations and social justice in a global context, we explore the Women's Autonomous Movement in Nicaragua.
35 min
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Truth Decay, Report by RAND Corp, Jennifer Kava...
This episode features a conversation with Jennifer Kavanagh, a political scientist and researcher for the RAND Corporation.
36 min
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Kelly Dittmar, GenderWatch 2018 & Political Str...
Kelly Dittmar is an Assistant Research Professor at the CAWP or the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. We discuss how the political strategy for women politicians is shaped when it's crafted through a gendered lens, including examining Hillary Clinton's 2008 and 2016 strategies as examples.
46 min
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Mila Johns - Maryland State Delegate, 18th Dist...
Mila Johns is a candidate for Maryland State Delegate, 18th District. A terrorism analyst and researcher by training, Mila Johns decided to run for Maryland's House of Delegates after turning down a job vetting Syrian refugees for U.S. Customs and Border Protection after Trump when elected.
33 min
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Invisible No More with Andrea Ritchie
"When I come across a story involving police interactions with black women, it's hard to tell whether a story took place in 1863, in 1963 or 2013." This is just one of the points you'll here in this interview with Andrea Ritchie, author of "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color."
43 min
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Lisa Hunter, Candidate for DC City Council
Lisa Hunter is a candidate for City Council in DC's Ward 6 and if elected, she would be the first Latino elected to the City Council.
31 min
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The Color of Money with Mehrsa Baradaran
Mehrsa Baradaran discusses the history and origins of today''s racial wealth gap. We discuss the history of segregated industries and black economies that were created in an effort to overcome the financial effects of slavery.
37 min
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Weapons of Math Destruction with Cathy O'Neil
Cathy O'Neil discusses her book "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality & Threatens Democracy," and the ways in which algorithms dictate nearly every aspect of our lives, including our interactions with the criminal justice system and our elections.
48 min