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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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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Dr. Wendy Osefo, March For Our Lives, Intersect...
Dr. Wendy Osefo joins to discuss the success of March For Our Lives and the movement against gun violence driven by the students of Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Organizing for Change
Our the two guests for this episode turned their energy following the 2016 election into organizational change.
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In a Day’s Work... with Bernice Yeung
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung explores sexual harassment, assault and rape for the most vulnerable women in our society.
49 min
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Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girl...
"Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood" is a groundbreaking report published by Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, which revealed that adults view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers.
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'Spread The Vote' Founder, Kat Calvin
Spread the Vote founder, Kat Calvin, discusses the original motivation by her organization's start, as well as the cost and challenges many eligible voters face in getting the necessary ID in order to vote.
32 min
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Electorette Redux Pt 2: Racism & Xenophobia in ...
In this episode, we've pulled together some of the most compelling moments from earlier interviews which explore racism and xenophobia in America, both during the Trump administration and following 9/11.
22 min
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Michele Jawando | Center for American Progress,...
Michele Jawando joins to discuss controversial judicial nominees, the Supreme Court, voter suppression and the #MeToo movement.
52 min
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Sharon Fairley, Candidate for Illinois Attorney...
This episode features an interview with Sharon Fairley, candidate for Illinois Attorney General and the first candidate to receive the endorsement of the American Women's Party.
30 min
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Katie Watson | Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law & Pol...
In this episode, with award-winning professor and author of the book "Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law & Politics of Ordinary Abortion," Katie Watson, we discuss the deeper structural, cultural, and social issues that fuel our modern debate on abortion rights.
48 min
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Electorette Redux Pt 1: Violence, Mass Shooting...
In this episode, we've pulled together some of the most compelling moments of episodes from 2017
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny with Kate Manne
In her book, "Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny," Kate Manne thoroughly explores the meaning of misogyny; her examination, through analogy, and examples from politics and the news headlines, provides considerable clarity about what misogyny is and what it is not.
46 min
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Addicted to Rehab: Gender, Race and Rehabilitat...
Allison McKim discusses the ways in which gendered treatment or "Women Centered Treatment" the lives of women in recovery, the lives of their families and their relationships. We also discuss how racial stereotypes influence treatment.
55 min
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Mass Shootings, the Media & American Terror wit...
Dr. Ruth Defoster discusses the consistent features present in all mass shootings and their perpetrators, including toxic masculinity. We walk through several of the country's attacks and discuss the media's treatment of these incidents, the contagion effect of mass shootings, and the media's influence on the culture of gun violence in America.
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