Episodes: 11
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Female
Listener location: USA
Publicly listed emails
signs@northeastern.edu
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Suzanna Walters - Facilitates the conversation in the episode description; Signs is identified as the publisher (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society).
Shoshanna Ehrlich - Signs Associate Editor; expert on the legal regulation of reproduction and sexuality in the US; professor emerita of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Sarah Sobieraj - Signs associate editor; professor of sociology at Tufts University; expert on US political culture and digital media.
Jennifer C. Nash - How Broader University Crises And Current Attacks Shape Feminist Journals And The Field.
Patti Duncan - Impact Of Assaults On Women’s And Gender Studies On Feminist Scholarship And University Knowledge Production.
Debjani Chakravarty - Effects Of Attacks On Women’s And Gender Studies On Feminist Scholarly Knowledge Production Under Authoritarianism.
Michele Goodwin - Deconstruction Of Pronatalism’s Antifeminist And Constitutional/policy Dimensions; Health And Civil Liberties Implications.
Nandita Bajaj - Pronatalism And Its Connections To Nativism, Eugenics, And Racism; Reproductive And Intergenerational Justice Impacts.
Palestinian Feminism, a Conversation with Sarah Ihmoud and Zinaida Miller
September 08, 2026
This episode's conversation focuses on Palestinian feminism, both as a movement and a lens with which to analyze the extreme violence of Israel’s war on Gaza, as well as the quotidian violence of life under occupation. Whether addressing ever-expanding carceral apparatuses, West Bank settlements, human rights law, or the daily lives of Palestinians, our guest Sarah Ihmoud insists on Palestinian feminism as a life-affirming and future-oriented force that refuses defeat. Our interviewer is Zi...
Feminist Scholarly Writing under Authoritarianism, a Conversation with Debjani Chakravarty, Patti Duncan, and Jennifer C. Nash
May 12, 2026
This episode of Ask a Feminist looks at how the Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies, and universities more broadly, are affecting the production of feminist scholarship. The editors of four interdisciplinary feminist journals (Frontiers, Feminist Formations, Feminist Studies, and Signs) talk about the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that the Trump administration’s crusade against gender ideology is affecting how feminist knowledge is produced. They talk about how these ...
Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin
March 04, 2026
This episode features a critical dissection of a political movement and philosophy that is unfortunately enjoying a global resurgence: pronatalism. Having successfully killed Roe, the Trump administration pursues policies incentivising certain groups to have more children. Many key administration figures—most prominently JD Vance and Elon Musk—are avid promoters of pronatalist worldviews, in which women’s efforts to exert control over their own reproductive capacities are portrayed as threats...
Standing Room Only · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
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The publicly listed email for Ask a Feminist: signs@northeastern.edu.
Podseeker estimates Ask a Feminist reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.
Ask a Feminist typically books well-known public figures. Typical guest background: Established feminist scholars and interdisciplinary academics; policy/legal experts; researchers and advocates with public-facing media or nonprofit leadership; credible voices on reproductive rights, constitutional law, digital media harms/disinformation, and women’s political participation. Common among recent guests: Editorial leadership at feminist journals or scholarly publications; Academic professorships in gender/reproductive rights/constitutional law/communications; Public-facing thought leadership via major research, advocacy organizations, or media production. Recent guests include Jennifer C. Nash, Patti Duncan, and Debjani Chakravarty.
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