The Feminist Present

Welcome to The Feminist Present, the first podcast from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Hosts Adrian Daub and Laura Goode welcome a range of feminist scholars, journalists, creators, activists, and more. Please join us as we use the gift of feminism to figure out what’s going on right now.

The Feminist Present is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 68 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #18

  Episode 59: Pitch Craft with Laura Goode

  Sep 12, 202536 minS5

  Greeetings! It's been a while! But we're back and one of us (Laura!) has A BOOK! It's called Pitchcraft: The Writer's Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid , and it's out next week. So this is a short introduction to that book, to the writing life and to how Laura came to write it. We also have important announcements about the future of the podcast -- no worries, we're not going anywhere! But we're making some changes! Tune in and find out more!

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  Episode 58: Writing as Everything Falls Apart with Choé Caldwell

  Aug 6, 202551 min

  When Chloé Caldwell began writing Trying , she imagined it being about her fertility journey. That was, until a betraying truth was revealed about her marriage. This week, Chloe joins the podcast to talk about the freedom she found in writing about her life right as it fell apart. Chloé Caldwell is a national bestselling author and writing teacher. She has authored five books including a 2024 national bestseller, Women. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Bon Appétit, The Cut, Vice, The Rumpus, and half a dozen anthologies. Her new memoir, Trying , is available today.

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  Episode 57: Queer & Trans Oral Histories with Caro De Robertis

  Jul 2, 202547 min

  In this episode, Caro De Robertis joins Laura to discuss their new book, So Many Stars: an Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color . Caro and Laura take a deep look into the queer medicine found within the stories of Queer and Trans elders who fought to create space for their full selves in the world. Caro De Robertis is an Uruguayan–American author and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. They are the author of six novels and a nonfiction book, and the editor of an award-winning anthology. De Robertis' work has won the Stonewall Book Award, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award. Their books have been translated into seventeen languages and have received numerous other honors, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, which they were the first openly nonbinary person to receive.

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  Episode 56: Abstinence & Horny Nuns with Melissa Febos

  Jun 4, 202557 minS5

  Melissa Febos joins Laura and Adrian to discuss her new book, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex . Together, the trio dives deep into histories of horny nuns and Melissa’s experience of self discovery and feminist transformation during her period of abstinence. Melissa Febos is the critically acclaimed author of 5 books including Whip Smart and GIRLHOOD , books that weave personal narrative with feminist thought and sharp lyricism. She is a recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for her book GIRLHOOD . Among many other recognitions, her book, BODY WORK, has been acclaimed as a national bestseller and an LA Times Bestseller. Her newest book, The Dry Season, is available now.

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  Episode 55: Cat Bohannon on Women and Evolution

  Apr 9, 202545 minS5

  In this episode, Cat Bohannon joins Laura and Adrian to discuss her most recent book, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution , where she reframes the stories we tell about human evolution with women at the center. Cat Bohannon ’s is a poet, academic, and scientist. She completed her PhD in 2022 at Columbia University, where she studied the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her work has appeared in Science , The Atlantic , Scientific American, The Best American Nonrequired Reading , Lapham’s Quarterly , The Georgia Review , and Poets Against the War .

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