Jessa sits down with Leigh Goodmark, Professor of Law and Director of the Gender Violence Clinic at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence, to discuss domestic violence, her experience working with women in the legal system, "trendy domestic violence" as entertainment, and how a system meant to protect women often puts them at greater risk. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa talks with Christopher L. Miller about the literary faker and the idea of authenticity in an era where anyone can pretend to be whoever they want.  --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa talks with BD McClay, book critic and beloved frequent guest of the podcast, about year end book lists and the dominance of the first person singular narrative.  --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

In 2012, Michael Scott Moore was abducted in Somalia while working as a reporter. Two and a half years later, he was released after a ransom was paid. Now he has published the book, The Desert and the Sea, which is not only a memoir of his experience as a hostage but is also a work of reporting and a history of the situation in Somalia.  I wanted to talk with him, not about his experience as a hostage (you can find that story in his book and in other interviews), but about what happened once he came home. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Gillian Flynn is having a moment. Jessa sits down with Nicols R. Melo to discuss her work and their recent adaptations. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa is joined by Emily Yoshida to discuss Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film RoboCop, the masculinity of the hyper-80s action movie, and the TV dads that followed. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa sits down with Heidi Matthews to discuss the #MeToo movement and believing women. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/ 

Jessa speaks with poet/film critic Eileen G'Sell about the documentaries of Lauren Greenfield, specifically her latest film "Generation Wealth." --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/ 

Housing and city planning are feminist issues. Jessa speaks with Dorina Pojani, Professor at the University of Queensland, about urban planning and how we can begin to think about bringing feminism into urban planning on a much larger scale.  --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/ 

In our continuing investigation into the reality of the lives of straight white men, we turn our attention to their artistic output. Jessa sits down with Irish playwright, Philip St. John, to discuss this, as well as contemporary pressures on artists/writers and the displeasure of audience and critics when your work doesnt conform to their expectations.  --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/ 

Jessa sits down with Jennifer Porto to discuss the problem of the wife and why there is so little good literature on a role that is millennia old. Why is it so mistreated and dismissed? --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/ 

What is feminism still good for? What does feminist theory and a feminist worldview offer as we consider how to move into the future? How do we move the gaze from what is to what could be? Ireland won a huge victory in womans rights with the legalization of abortion. Jessa speaks with special guest Roisin Agnew about these questions and the state of Irish feminism. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/ 

Jessa sits down with Johanna Hedva. They have been writing a series of pieces on illness called This Earth, Our Hospital, including the much referenced and much loved essay "Sick Woman Theory." They discuss why illness memoirs are big sellers right now, why one shouldnt capitalize on a moment even when its convenient and profitable, and the difference a well structured system of health care can make on a life.  --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Does it matter what we watch and read? Is it possible for a film to be just entertainment or are the stories that our mass media tells us shaping how we see the world? Peter Biskind, author of The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great For Extremism has been covering this territory for a while. Jessa calls him to discuss our current love of disaster and revenge and what that reveals about the current American psyche.   --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Donna Haraway and Adele Clarke edited the potent little volume "Making Kin Not Population," as a way to think through alternatives to babies and ask the question, "how do we prevent environmental collapse and resource stripping?" Donna Haraway joins Jessa to discuss this and more on today's episode. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with Emil Ferris, author of the graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, about living with art, the gift that ugliness can be, and their shared deep love of Chicago.  --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa sits down with Nicols Melo to discuss David Fincher's Netflix series "Mindhunter" and the contagiousness of toxic masculinity. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Today's episode is a re-release of one of our favorite episodes: "Heterosexuality is a F**king Nightmare" (w/ Indiana Seresin) from August 10, 2017. --- Jessa made a joke on twitter saying that she wanted to write a book called Heterosexuality is a Fucking Nightmare. She received an e-mail from another user intrigued by the idea, Indiana Seresin, encouraging her to write the book. They began corresponding on the topic, discussing things like desire, love, sociology, consent, personal stories of heartbreak and sexual regret. Their paths crossed in Berlin earlier this summer and Jessa invited Indiana onto Public Intellectual to make some of their private conversations public. Together, Jessa and Indiana discuss their thoughts on why heterosexuality is a fucking nightmare and talk about the expectations of gender conformity, love, and marriage in todays society. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa is married. What follows is a conversation with the man she married about his history of performing masculinity, jessas history of trying to perform and failing to perform femininity, heterosexuality and how coupledom tries to reinforce strict gender roles. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

This episode is one of our bonus eps that was recently released on our Patreon feed -- but today, we're migrating it over to the main feed for all Public Intellectual listeners. If you like this and want more bonus episodes from Jessa, consider subscribing on the Public Intellectual Patreon page - www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual The world is really complicated, but the stories we're telling aren't. Jessa sits down with BD McClay to discuss the depiction of women in modern fiction and the stories women choose to write.   --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa welcomes back special guest Margaret Howie for a conversation about terrible women, conmen, and fraudsters. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

The pressure to conform to very limited beauty standards has (as todays guest would say) an ethical side if you dont use this 12 step skin care regiment or get your yoga body toned or find the perfect selfie angle, then you are letting yourself down. You are letting yourself go. The line for whats normal keeps moving until we are all now plucking, waxing, toning, not eating carbs, manicuring, injecting poison into our faces, without asking ourselves why or if were allowed to NOT do these things.  Jessa calls Heather Widdows, John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham to discuss these ideas as well as her book, Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

For her latest series about women directors, Jessa speaks with Ryan Nyburg of the Post-Culture Review about Ida Lupinos The Hitch-Hiker, the cross-gendered ability to see the other gender in all its complications, pressures, psychological/sociological realities, and why the Bechtel test is a bullshit way to talk about a film.  --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen is an activist in Madrid currently helping to organize and participate in the mass occupation of bank owned property in Spain. She has written beautifully on the difficulty of collaborative projects like this that go against social conditioning and the way that she was raised. Jessa sits down with her in Madrid to discuss taking direct action to society's problem but also, how to make a life meaningful. SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access bonus content, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/publicintellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Weve already done an episode about Paul Verhoevens Elle, but there are a few more things left to say about this film: in particular, the radical optimism of its ending. To be able to find optimism in a movie about rape and violation is kind of extraordinary so Jessa and her friend Marta Peirano re-watched the film in Madrid, drank some wine, and recorded this discussion for you. Enjoy. SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access bonus content, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/publicintellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/