When Disney announced that Halle Bailey would be playing the new Ariel in the live-action version of The Little Mermaid, people lost their minds. We're here to break down the nonsense and support an inclusive Ariel. Tracey Baptiste - "Mermaids have always been Black." - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/black-little-mermaid.html…

What do you know about the history of Stonewall and the history of Pride? Today we talk about the importance of making visible the contributions of women of marginalized identities to history. Marsha P. Johnson and Brenda Howard. Remember their names. Remember their stories. For links and show notes, check out our website http://www.shewhopersisted…

Before we start, two things: 1. Happy Pride!! 2. Enjoy some Women's World Cup!!! That should cheer you up before we look at the recent abortion restrictions being passed throughout the feminist hellscape that is the United States and the anti-choice discourse that has started to become more relevant in many European countries too.…

As you may know, the right-wing/conservative Austrian coalition government was ousted from office via a no-confidence vote from Parliament after a video surfaced that showed the vice-chancellor in Ibiza promising favorable treatment for government contracts to a (supposed) niece of Russian oligarch and basically suggested selling Austria's biggest …

In this episode we talk to Dr. Emma Vossen, award winning public speaker and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at York University with a PhD from the University of Waterloo. Her research looks at the myriad of different ways marginalized people have difficulty accessing gameplay and games culture both historically and in the present. She is the co-aut…

In this episode we finish up our interview with Historian Mar Hicks and talk about contemporary issues facing women in computing, the impact of globalization on IT, and how pink-collar jobs impact everyone. Tip: the answer to all of our problems may be labor organizing.Di She Who Persisted

We interrupt our two-part interview with Mar Hicks to bring you this episode. Liz sits down with guest co-host, Amy Drayer (@amydrayer) to talk about WTF is going on in politics today, the state of women in the world, and how we can resist the patriarchy. Follow Amy on Twitter @amydrayer Show notes and links on our webpage: http://shewhopersisted.c…

In celebration of women's history month and the 30th anniversary of the world wide web, we are kicking of our third season with a two part interview with historian Mar Hicks (@histoftech). Mar's research explores the intersection of computing, gender, and labor and this first part of our interview looks at how important it is to include gender in o…

Happy International Women's Day and welcome to the new season of She Who Persisted. The Nasty Podcast.Di She Who Persisted

In our last episode before Christmas (and our last episode in 2018!), Bea sits down to talk with acclaimed author, compelling storyteller and inspiring advocate LY Marlow about her organization "Saving Promise", whose goal it is to “disrupt the cycle of intimate partner violence in at-risk adolescence and young adults and create safer communities f…

Grab all your pre-Christmas chocolate and cookies and listen to Liz and Bea discuss (gendered) body hair, the history of its removal and the fight against body hair stigma. Our listeners get 15% off FUR products: visit www.furyou.com and enter the code “PERSIST15” at check-out. Check our homepage for further shownotes, sources and resources: www.sh…

In this episode we speak with Hallie Mazurkiewicz, founder of Lunar Wild. Hallie turned her own very positive period experience into her entrepreneurial passion and we had a great discussion about how to talk more about periods and start normalizing our discussion about women's bodies. Listeners can use promo-code NASTY at checkout for $10 off a pe…

In this episode Bea and Liz sit down with PerSister Raashi Thakkar to discuss her initiative to provide menstrual products and education to rural India, The Minte Project. She's doing amazing work and you can support her by starting a chapter on your campus, or through donations. Check out the project's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/minte.projec…

How are you planning on celebrating Halloween this year? In this episode we discuss how to have a feminist Halloween in the era of #metoo, because there's nothing scarier on Halloween than rape-culture. So join us and grab some halloween candy to listen to our discussion of ways to smash the patriarchy with thoughtful non-racist halloween costumes,…

It's October, our favorite month! Time for the morbid, macabre, and scary. You know what patriarchy seems to be very scared of? Yep, menstruation. In the fourth episode of our menstruation series, we talk about menstruation in horror films, most particularly "Carrie". Get your chocolate ready and enjoy some menstrual horror.…

Beatrice talks about women's rage as the impetus for action. Rebecca Traister - "Good and Mad": http://www.rebeccatraister.com/ "Why is This Happening" - https://art19.com/shows/why-is-this-happening-with-chris-hayes/episodes/5f30cc4e-bc1f-4b73-a920-4eca8960db25Di She Who Persisted

In this episode Elizabeth and Bea discuss period taboos and cultural beliefs around menstruation. Some of it's good, some of it...not so much, so grab some chocolate and settle in. *Note: Elizabeth's audio has some issues for the first 30 minutes, but after that, we're good. please find the shownotes (including references, sources and resources) on…

In the second episode of our menstruation series, we talk about the painful truth of financial discrimination based on biology. yep, tampon tax, period poverty, the whole bloody shebang. Get yourself a blanket, a cup of tea and lots of chocolate and listen to us talk about the high costs of menstruating. Bonus: you'll learn more about our vaginas t…

One thing that causes us pain and necessitates the consumption of copious amounts of chocolate is PMS and period pain. You know what causes us even more pain and requires the consumption of even more chocolate? You guessed it: period shame and period shaming. So, grab all of the chocolate you have in your immediate vicinity and listen to Liz and Be…

Grab your vegan chocolate and listen to Liz and Bea (despite her heatwave-induced aphasia) talk about the origins of ecofeminism, ecofeminism and intersectionality, speciesism, the intersection of meat eating and hegemonic masculinity, meat eating and empathy and why veganism is a feminist issue. Check out our Instagram for pics on the subject: htt…

Grab some chocolate and join us for this month's first episode and the first episode ever that was recorded in ONE PLACE and not via the Internet. Yes, we were actually in the same room and talking about sex. More specifically: sex-positive feminism, its origins, its proponents, opponents and everything that is good and/or bad about it. Spoiler ale…

Grab some chocolate and join Liz and Beatrice for a discussion about true crime podcasts and television shows, the feminist community that has sprung up around it, and how we can all do better to be intersectional in our love of true crime. Check out http://endthebacklog.com for more information about how you can help end the backlog of rape kits i…

Grab your chocolate (lots of it) and listen to Liz and Bea talk about the manosphere, men's rights activists (i.e. anti women's rights activits) on the Interwebs, INCELS, terrorism and all the horrible rest of it.Di She Who Persisted

Summer solstice isn't just the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, it's also associated with fertility rituals and goddesses. Join Bea, Liz and our special guest Heather in our discussion of the history and current traditions of summer solstice, how it was coopted by the Catholic Church and the Nazis, and how we can reclaim it. Sour…

Men who claim to be feminists and then turn out to be (alleged) abusers of women (like James Deen or, most recently Eric Schneiderman) repeatedly focus the public's attention on male feminism: is it possible, what does it mean and what place should men have in the feminist movement? Today we discuss what it takes to be a male feminist, how to diffe…