In episode 5 of Filminist Pod, a new podcast featuring conversations with feminists in film and TV, Alyssa sits down with April Reign, diversity and inclusion advocate, culture commentator and creator of #OscarsSoWhite, to talk April’s life pre and post the 2015 Oscars, diversity and inclusion in entertainment and beyond, mass incarceration, and mu…

In episode 4 of Filminist Pod, a new podcast featuring conversations with feminists in film and TV, Alyssa sits down with Dr. Racquel Gates—Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the College of Staten Island—to talk film and media studies, the labor history of reality TV, white face in movies, the Coming to America reboot, the power of …

For episode 3 of Filminist Pod, a new podcast featuring conversations with feminists in film and TV, Alyssa sat down with filmmaker Shruti Ganguly to learn about Shruti's path to directing, what exactly a producer does, South Asian creatives, the power of specificity in representation and much, much more.This episode is presented by Listening Party…

In episode 2 of Filminist Pod, a new podcast featuring conversations with feminists in film and TV, Alyssa sits down with one of her film writing heroes, Valerie Complex. A truly phenomenal champion of Black women in film and queer cinema, Valerie is also an Air Force veteran and, most recently, she's co-writing a comic book about a queer Black mot…

Welcome to Filminist Pod, a new intersectional film podcast featuring conversations with women and non-binary people in film hosted by me, New York City-based journalist and social media strategist, Alyssa Klein.For our first-ever episode, I spoke with actor and activist Piper Perabo about playing and becoming a badass woman DJ on her new Netflix s…

In the first-ever episode of Filminist Pod, a new podcast featuring conversations with feminists in film and TV, Alyssa speaks with actor and activist Piper Perabo about playing a badass woman DJ on her new Netflix series with Idris Elba, "Turn Up Charlie", being a Tribeca Film Festival jury member, what exactly down-ballot races are and why they'r…