WMC Live #394: The Pleasure Key! (Original Airdate 12/11/2022)

Robin explores how major museums still fail women artists, and why New York has become a center for Indigenous people. Guest: Larissa FastHorse, first Native American woman playwright ever to have a play on Broadway.

Robin takes on the headlines themselves, including the latest Catholic Church shockers. Special Guest: Laura Bates, author and founder of Everyday Sexism, on the results of this remarkable campaign.

Robin puts the E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump case into crucially important context. Special Guest: Soraya Chemaly, author, activist, co-founder of the WMC Speech Project, and expert on technology, digital media, and sexism.

Robin messes with Texas, and her special guest is Cherry Smiley, an activist on prostitution and trafficking of women, and author of Not Sacred, Not Squaws: Indigenous Feminism Defined—which breaks new ground.

Robin on the firings of Fox News' Tucker Carlson and CNN’s Don Lemon, and on youth activism. Special Guest: Maria Teresa Kumar, founding President/CEO of Voto Latino.

Robin and Gloria Steinem continue last week's live-audience conversation at Hunter College (CUNY) on Sylvia Plath's influence.

Part 1 of a 2-part podcast from Hunter College (CUNY)! Robin is joined by friend Gloria Steinem for a live-audience keynote on Sylvia Plath.

Robin's commentaries range from animal models of reverence for elders to the declining church population in the US. Guest: Jane Manning, former prosecutor on sex crimes and violence against women, and director of the Women's Equal Justice Project.

Robin takes a dive into redefinitions of concepts we think we already know—from Buddhist nuns and kung fu to time itself. Special Guest: Debora Spar, expert on technology, future societies, and women.

Robin unmasks the slick public-relations "corporatization" of feminism, and exposes its cruel realities. Special Guest: award-winning documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan and her new film, Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence.