Search
Displaying 27021 - 27040 of 27279
Selfie style photo of Hannah McGregor eating vegan pizza.
Date created:
Date created:
With apologies for its tardiness, I present to you the first interview of season four, and this one's a doozy. I'm talking to rad queer fat genius, sex & relationship coach, and pleasure advocate Dawn Serra about shame, vulnerability, pleasure, boundaries, joy, imagining radical futures, and so much more. This conversation broke open my brain, and I hope it does the same thing for you! Here are some links!
You definitely want to know more about Dawn, so you should check out her website, her instagram, and her podcast Sex Gets Real. And if you're feeling inspired to continue these conversations about pleasure, desire, and joy, check out Dawn's upcoming course, enrolling for October.
Dawn talked about Tricia Hersey's Nap Ministry, which you can read more about here!
Here's a great summary of Kate Kenfield's concept of being a "beacon of permission."
We learned about a lot of Browns in this episode, specifically Brené Brown, Stuart Brown, and adrienne maree brown.
Dawn also recommended Mia Mingus's story "Hollow" from the anthology Octavia's Brood. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is in that anthology, too, and you already know I'm a massive fan of their work!
Finally, and only slightly off-topic, you can learn more about The Adventure Zone and its graphic novel adaptations here.
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Dawn's theme song was "Exposure Kills" by Miss Eaves.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
You definitely want to know more about Dawn, so you should check out her website, her instagram, and her podcast Sex Gets Real. And if you're feeling inspired to continue these conversations about pleasure, desire, and joy, check out Dawn's upcoming course, enrolling for October.
Dawn talked about Tricia Hersey's Nap Ministry, which you can read more about here!
Here's a great summary of Kate Kenfield's concept of being a "beacon of permission."
We learned about a lot of Browns in this episode, specifically Brené Brown, Stuart Brown, and adrienne maree brown.
Dawn also recommended Mia Mingus's story "Hollow" from the anthology Octavia's Brood. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is in that anthology, too, and you already know I'm a massive fan of their work!
Finally, and only slightly off-topic, you can learn more about The Adventure Zone and its graphic novel adaptations here.
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Dawn's theme song was "Exposure Kills" by Miss Eaves.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Interviewee: Serra, Dawn, Interviewer: McGregor, Hannah
Date created:
Here are some things to look forward to in this minisode: the sound of my voice with a pretty bad head cold; a characteristic quantity of grappling; and the announcement of the new minisode segment [fanfare sound effect]. And while we're at it, here are some links:
My favourite piece on the culture of academic cool is Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing Is Cool," which was the launching point for my article on podcasting and fandom as examples of "tiny acts of courage in which people say the uncool things."
Want to read more about gender-based bias in student evaluations of teaching? Here's a recent study that concludes "that the relationship between gender and teaching evaluations may indicate that the use of evaluations in employment decisions is discriminatory against women"!
My favourite piece on America's toxic cult of positivity is Barbara Ehrenreich's iconic "Welcome to Cancerland"
No spoilers, but the new segment has a lot to do with this previous episode.
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Follow me @hkpmcgregor and tweet about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email a submission for the new segment? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
My favourite piece on the culture of academic cool is Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing Is Cool," which was the launching point for my article on podcasting and fandom as examples of "tiny acts of courage in which people say the uncool things."
Want to read more about gender-based bias in student evaluations of teaching? Here's a recent study that concludes "that the relationship between gender and teaching evaluations may indicate that the use of evaluations in employment decisions is discriminatory against women"!
My favourite piece on America's toxic cult of positivity is Barbara Ehrenreich's iconic "Welcome to Cancerland"
No spoilers, but the new segment has a lot to do with this previous episode.
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Follow me @hkpmcgregor and tweet about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email a submission for the new segment? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Interviewer: McGregor, Hannah
Date created:
Selfie style photo of Hannah McGregor wearing a yellow checkered shirt, and pink lipstick. Tattoos on their upper arms are visible.
Date created:
Selfie style photo of Hannah McGregor, wearing a striped shirt, and bright orange earrings and lipstick.
Date created:
Headshot of Dawn Serra. They are wearing a navy blue dress, and smiling at the camera.
Date created:
Date created:
Date created:
Photo Credit: Victoria Black
To make up for the very mini minisode, here's an extra-long interview with extra-awesome human being Dina Del Bucchia! We talk about poetry, publishing, cats, farts, and basically everything in between. Here are a million links!
First! Check out the rest of Dina's stuff here on her website, and then subscribe to her awesome podcast Can't Lit, and then buy all her books! Also go see her (and me, and everyone) at the Growing Room festival this March. ALSO also, check out the archives of Poetry is Dead. ALSO ALSO also, go to the Real Vancouver Writers' Series.
Want to read more about Cheer on Netflix? I really like this Atlantic piece on how harmful cheerleading is to the athletes and this New Yorker piece on the deceptions of cheerleading.
If you want to know what's up with the UBC MFA, here's an article.
Dina mentioned the Millennial Line comedy and poetry series.
The Roland Barthes book I was referencing is Image~Music~Text.
Laura McGrath's article is "Comping White".
Adèle Barclay's new poetry book is Renaissance Normcore. You can listen to her episode of Secret Feminist Agenda here. (I said it was the third episode but it was the eighth, whoops!)
Read up on McClelland & Stewart's Spring 2020 poetry collections.
Here's a pertinent article about Margaret Atwood being co-awarded the Booker and how that win may have betrayed the biases in how awards evaluate literary merit.
You can read the More Canada report online, if you want.
Oh, and here's the Cherie Dimaline profile from Quill&Quire.
Read more about Caroline Calloway!
We chatted about small presses, including Arsenal Pulp Press and Europa Editions, which is responsible for publishing Elena Ferrante in English as well as Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Remember the viral short story "Cat Person"? Well the author, Kristen Roupenian, got a $1.2 million advance for her short story collection, You Know You Want This, which has also been optioned by HBO.
Speaking of publishing being completely wild, here's an explainer on what's going on with American Dirt. Instead of reading this apparently very bad book, you should read Valeria Luiselli's stunning Lost Children Archive.
We talked about Rupi Kaur's impact on poetry sales in Canada, and The New Republic declaring her "the writer of the decade" .
A few more pertinent links:
Cats can have little a salami, as a treat.
"The Revenge of Monoculture: The Internet gave us more choices, but the mainstream won anyway"
Alicia Elliott's A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
And, finally, Dina's comedy recommendations!
New Eden
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Fleabag
Back to Life
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Dina's theme song was "Disappear" by Mazzy Star.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
To make up for the very mini minisode, here's an extra-long interview with extra-awesome human being Dina Del Bucchia! We talk about poetry, publishing, cats, farts, and basically everything in between. Here are a million links!
First! Check out the rest of Dina's stuff here on her website, and then subscribe to her awesome podcast Can't Lit, and then buy all her books! Also go see her (and me, and everyone) at the Growing Room festival this March. ALSO also, check out the archives of Poetry is Dead. ALSO ALSO also, go to the Real Vancouver Writers' Series.
Want to read more about Cheer on Netflix? I really like this Atlantic piece on how harmful cheerleading is to the athletes and this New Yorker piece on the deceptions of cheerleading.
If you want to know what's up with the UBC MFA, here's an article.
Dina mentioned the Millennial Line comedy and poetry series.
The Roland Barthes book I was referencing is Image~Music~Text.
Laura McGrath's article is "Comping White".
Adèle Barclay's new poetry book is Renaissance Normcore. You can listen to her episode of Secret Feminist Agenda here. (I said it was the third episode but it was the eighth, whoops!)
Read up on McClelland & Stewart's Spring 2020 poetry collections.
Here's a pertinent article about Margaret Atwood being co-awarded the Booker and how that win may have betrayed the biases in how awards evaluate literary merit.
You can read the More Canada report online, if you want.
Oh, and here's the Cherie Dimaline profile from Quill&Quire.
Read more about Caroline Calloway!
We chatted about small presses, including Arsenal Pulp Press and Europa Editions, which is responsible for publishing Elena Ferrante in English as well as Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Remember the viral short story "Cat Person"? Well the author, Kristen Roupenian, got a $1.2 million advance for her short story collection, You Know You Want This, which has also been optioned by HBO.
Speaking of publishing being completely wild, here's an explainer on what's going on with American Dirt. Instead of reading this apparently very bad book, you should read Valeria Luiselli's stunning Lost Children Archive.
We talked about Rupi Kaur's impact on poetry sales in Canada, and The New Republic declaring her "the writer of the decade" .
A few more pertinent links:
Cats can have little a salami, as a treat.
"The Revenge of Monoculture: The Internet gave us more choices, but the mainstream won anyway"
Alicia Elliott's A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
And, finally, Dina's comedy recommendations!
New Eden
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Fleabag
Back to Life
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Dina's theme song was "Disappear" by Mazzy Star.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Interviewee: Del Bucchia, Dina, Interviewer: McGregor, Hannah
Date created:
Last week I went to Iron Dog Books after hours to hang out with co-owner Hilary Atleo and talk about settler-colonial mind-fucks, problematic favs, the pleasures of queer feminist sci-fi, why cities thrive on independent arts businesses, and whether or not grapefruits have gotten sweeter. Here are some links!
If you want to learn more about Iron Dog Books you can find them on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
For more on Wet'suwet'en, read this fabulous list of resources put together by genius and poet Samantha Marie Nock.
Here are some links about authors that may or may not be problematic or, as I say way too many times in this episode (I was clearly in a literal #mood), "trash":
Robert A. Heinlein
J.K. Rowling
Mahatma Gandhi
Roald Dahl
Here's a little bit more context on property tax relief for small businesses
And here's the Allusionist episode on Apples!
And finally, the links to Hilary's book recommendations:
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
Fur, Feather, Fin–All of Us Are Kin by Diane Lang
The many works of Shaun Tan
Bitter by Jennifer McLagan
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Hilary's theme song was "North Side Gal" by J.D. McPherson.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
If you want to learn more about Iron Dog Books you can find them on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
For more on Wet'suwet'en, read this fabulous list of resources put together by genius and poet Samantha Marie Nock.
Here are some links about authors that may or may not be problematic or, as I say way too many times in this episode (I was clearly in a literal #mood), "trash":
Robert A. Heinlein
J.K. Rowling
Mahatma Gandhi
Roald Dahl
Here's a little bit more context on property tax relief for small businesses
And here's the Allusionist episode on Apples!
And finally, the links to Hilary's book recommendations:
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
Fur, Feather, Fin–All of Us Are Kin by Diane Lang
The many works of Shaun Tan
Bitter by Jennifer McLagan
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Hilary's theme song was "North Side Gal" by J.D. McPherson.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Interviewee: Atleo, Hilary, Interviewer: McGregor, Hannah
Date created:
This week's minisode is a little more leisurely than last time, as I think my way through empathy fatigue aka burnout in the face of crisis, and whether hopepunk is a possible way through feelings of numbness and overwhelm. And to accompany this slightly longer episode, here are some unusually concise links!
Anne Helen Petersen's "How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation"
Alyssa Hull's "Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse"
Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Some more context/background on hopepunk
Sara Ahmed's Willful Subjects
Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism
The Sandy & Nora podcast!
The online Queer Zine Archive
Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Follow me @hkpmcgregor and tweet about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email me about your killjoy survival kit? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Anne Helen Petersen's "How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation"
Alyssa Hull's "Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse"
Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Some more context/background on hopepunk
Sara Ahmed's Willful Subjects
Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism
The Sandy & Nora podcast!
The online Queer Zine Archive
Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House
Read Transcript
The podcast theme song is "Mesh Shirt" by Mom Jeans off their album "Chub Rub." Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Follow me @hkpmcgregor and tweet about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda. Want to email me about your killjoy survival kit? Send it to secretfeministagenda(at)gmail(dot)com.
Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Interviewer: McGregor, Hannah
Date created:
Photo of Hilary Atleo sitting in the driver's seat of a red truck and looking out and smiling.
Date created:
Photo of Dina Del Bucchia sitting against an orange wall and laughing.
Date created:
Photo of a tabby cat sitting on an orange and blue blanket.
Date created: