Podcast – Lady Bits

Jacqui and LeMar discuss a website that provides guidance for men about feminism, the dating app designed to give women more control, and how creative Halloween costumes are sexier than those marketed as such. Related Links The Womansplainer: Consulting for men who have better things to do than educate themselves about feminism by Elizabeth Simins […]

Jacqui and LeMar discuss bell hooks’ week-long residency at The New School, Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, and the widespread effects of living under the gaze of male white supremacy. Related Links Stream bell hooks’ Scholar-In-Residence talks – Eugene Lang College of The New School Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

LeMar tells Jacqui about his trip to the UN for the launch of He For She, a solidarity movement for gender equality. Then, they talk about the President Obama’s “It’s On Us” campaign, a Columbia University student’s art project inspired by her sexual assault, and the positive shift in importance of consent. Oh…and Jacqui and […]

In the inaugural Lady Bits Quickie, Jacqui and LeMar comment on the discourses surrounding the invention of date rape-preventative nail polish and the recent leak of private nude celebrity photos. Related Link Why Rape Prevention Activists Don’t Like The New Nail Polish That Can Detect Roofies – Tara Culp-Ressler for Think Progress

Jacqui and LeMar discuss commercially sexually exploited girls as described in the Rachel Lloyd memoir Girls Like Us. Then, they talk about the misconceptions associated with sex workers and the nuance required to view sex work more fairly. Related Links 9 Stereotypes Sex Workers Are Tired of Hearing – Cyd Nova for The Mic 9 […]

It’s your great great great grandmomma’s feminism! Jacqui and LeMar commemorate Women’s Equality Day with a quick lesson in its history. Then, they discuss the progress women have (and haven’t) made since 1920 and dispel myths about feminism that somehow still infect us. Related Links Pathways to Equality – Google Cultural Institute 2014 Presidential Proclamation […]

Jacqui and LeMar talk about the paradox of selfies as demonstrations of self-esteem, the “fat acceptance movement,” and the limits of “health at every size.” Related Links 116 Unphotoshopped, Unashamed Women Prove Every Body Is A Beach Body – xoJane 6 Things I Don’t Understand About the Fat Acceptance Movement – Carolyn Hall for Thought […]

Jacqui and LeMar get all up in the business of abortion, including how to reduce the rates through education and free contraception. They also talk about how a gubernatorial candidate’s abortion confession could help depoliticize abortion, which is a good thing. Related Links Study Finds Free Contraceptives Cut Abortion Rate – Associated Press for The […]

Jacqui recounts where she’s been since the last episode, then she and LeMar talk about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent to the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision and the sprawling downside of legislatively enforced “religious freedoms.” Then, they touch on sluts…not literally…just hit play already. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Writes Scathing 35-Page Dissent In Birth […]

Jacqui and LeMar discuss the many upsides to gender wage equity, the truth about freezing eggs, hip Christian abstinence music and more.