In this first episode, Nicole Hardy tells us about how—at the age of thirty-five—she came to a crossroads between her faith and her identity. Nicole Hardy's memoir Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin was inspired by her famed essay "Single, Female, Mormon, Alone”, first published in The New York Times' Modern Love and then in Best American Essays 20…

BITCHCONOCLAST is a mother-daughter podcast about sex, feminism, and power. In season one, we interview Pacific-Northwest authors Nicole Hardy, Claire Dederer, Elissa Washuta, Vanessa Veselka, Karen Karbo, and Suzanne Morrison about their work and the state of the patriarchy.Art by Amy MizrahiDi Sonya Lea & Dylan Bandy