59: Embracing the F-Word: What is Feminism and how it can help us all be fully human

Following the Fire

Embracing the F-Word: What is Feminism and how it can help us all be fully human

Special guest Alison Buxton joins us again to discuss that OTHER dirty f-word: Feminism. She tells us what it is, what it isn’t, and why it matters. The 2 dudes on this podcast learned a LOT from Alison, including how feminism is connected to everything in ways we didn’t expect.

• Friends don't have to use shortened names
• Ms.
• Book Club Episode: “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr
• Rush Limbaugh
• “Feminazi”
• Book: “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver
• Jane Fonda Vietnam War protests
• bell hooks
• Bra burning
• Women’s March 2017
• Black Lives Matter
• History of Feminism
• Intersectionality
• Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw
• 19th Amendment
• Jim Crow laws
• MeToo movement
• Tarana Burke
• From “The Handmaid’s Tale” - Gilead
• Clarence Thomas
• Anita Hill
• Book: “The Democratization of American Christianity” by Nathan O. Hatch
• The Bechdel Test
• The Bechdel Test Movie List
• Nadia Boltz Weber
• Article: “The Crisis of Men and Boys”by David Brooks in the New York Times
• The Feeling Wheel
• Kimberlé Crenshaw TED Talk
• Book: “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
• Book: “The Woman’s Hour” by Elaine Weiss
• Book: “The Krunk Feminist Collective” by Brittany Cooper
• Book: “Feminism is For Everybody” by bell hooks
• Book: “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan

Theme music by Daniel Wheat!

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Special Guest: Alison Buxton.

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