Edition 118: Feminist Love with Jocelyn Crawley & Esmée Streachailt of Medusa Rising

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of feminist love with guests Esmée Streachailt and Jocelyn Crawley, featuring world news and commentary.

Wishing you a Happy Galentine's Day season, this episode is dedicated to a thorough look at the concept of feminist love with Esmée Streachailt and Jocelyn Crawley. First up, hear Thistle deliver the podcast greeting before the world news segment with Cat Bradfield featuring stories from the Gambia, Chile, Indonesia and the United States. Next, take a listen to the interview Jocelyn did with Ms. Esmée Streachailt of MedusaRising.org, a wonderful radical feminist organization that engages and inspires young women to join the movement. Esmée and Jocelyn explore patriarchal concepts of love in order to highlight the need for a radical feminist love that uproots and heals. Finally, take a deep dive into the concept of feminist love with Jocelyn's commentary she leaves us with after the interview. Stay tuned 'til the very end for Margaret's explanation of this month's cover art reprinted below. From WLRN's resident graphic designer, Margaret: "I started with the idea of light representing love. Light flowing out of our selves - connecting us. I found a photo of our sun I had captured which showed rays radiating out. I reused some silhouettes I had created for earlier editions, and…

People in this episode

Host: Thistle

Guests: Jocelyn Crawley, Esmée Streachailt

Topics covered

• feminist love
• patriarchy
• radical feminism
• Galentine's Day
• women's empowerment
• world news

Keywords

• feminist love
• radical feminism
• Galentine's Day
• world news
• women's empowerment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Medusa Rising

Places: Gambia, Chile, Indonesia, United States

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