Edition 117: Feminist Curiosity with Cynthia Enloe and Lola Bessis

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Cynthia Enloe discussing feminist curiosity and the importance of women as political actors.

Dive in to a refreshing newly inspired podcast as we collectively move forward into the new year! First up, hear Cat Bradfield deliver the world news with a variety of stories from China, Iran, Brazil and other countries that demonstrate the systematic discrimination women face everywhere in all walks of life. Next, WLRN member Lola Bessis takes the reigns this month offering up an interview she did with Cynthia Enloe about "feminist curiosity" and how to stay alert and active as we monitor and work to end male violence. Lola delivers riveting commentary after the interview to complete this show focused on waking women up and taking ourselves seriously as political actors instead of pawns in men's games. Thanks to the team at WLRN for their years of service to our feminist movement WLRN will celebrate ten years of being in your ears this year. Carry on! Below, find Margaret's artist's statement about the artwork she designed for today's edition. "For WLRN’s Edition 117 which focuses on Feminist Curiosity, I created the background by layering symbols of airplanes flying around the world - to suggest the global aspect of the issues. Over that, I used a detail of a surrealist oil…

People in this episode

Host: Lola Bessis

Guest: Cynthia Enloe

Topics covered

• feminism
• women's rights
• male violence
• global discrimination
• feminist curiosity
• political activism

Keywords

• feminist curiosity
• Cynthia Enloe
• women's rights
• male violence
• global issues
• political activism
• WLRN

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WLRN

Books & works: The Call

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