Ask a Feminist, a podcast from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (http://signsjournal.org), features interviews with leading feminist thinkers on feminist issues raised by some aspect of current political life or social justice issue. This allows Signs to create an ongoing conversation between and among feminist scholars, media activists, and community leaders, enhancing the journal’s role as a transitive space, percolating in and between the space of intellectual production and activist engagement. Ask a Feminist is part of the Signs Feminist Public Intellectuals Project (http://signsjournal.org/feminist-public-intellectuals-project/).
Ask a Feminist
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Ask a Feminist, a podcast from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (http://signsjournal.org), features interviews with leading feminist thinkers on feminist issues raised by some aspect of current political life or social justice issue. This allows Signs to create an ongoing conversation between and among feminist scholars, media activists, and community leaders, enhancing the journal’s role as a transitive space, percolating in and between the space of intellectual production and activist engagement. Ask a Feminist is part of the Signs Feminist Public Intellectuals Project (http://signsjournal.org/feminist-public-intellectuals-project/).
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Recent Episodes
May 12, 2026
Feminist Scholarly Writing under Authoritarianism, a Conversation with Debjani Chakravarty, Patti Duncan, and Jennifer C. Nash
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 new attacks on women’s studies, in combination with the longer-term crises facing the university, might reshape journals’ relationship with the field. Our guests are Debjani Chakravarty, Patti Duncan, and Jennifer C. Nash. Chakravarty is the coeditor (with Sarita Gaytán and Wanda Pillow) of Frontiers and associate professor of gender studies at the University of Utah. Duncan is the editor of Feminist Formations and professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Oregon. And Nash is the editorial director of Feminist Studies and is Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Suzanna Walters of Signs facilitates the conversation.
March 4, 2026
Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin
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 to “Western civilization” itself. This conversation offer a compelling deconstruction of the antifeminist underpinnings of pronatalism and explicates its historical links to nativism, eugenics, and other forms of racism. Our interviewer for this episode is Signs Associate Editor Shoshanna Ehrlich, an expert on the legal regulation of reproduction and sexuality in the US and professor emerita of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is joined by Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin. Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and systemic change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. Her research and advocacy work focuses on addressing the combined impacts of pronatalism and human expansionism on reproductive, ecological, and intergenerational justice. Michele is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She is a sought after thought leader and public voice on matters of constitutional law, healthcare, bioethics, and civil liberties; she is also the Executive Producer of Ms. Studios and host of the popular podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin.
June 25, 2025
Online Abuse and US Politics, a Conversation with Moya Bailey and Nina Jankowicz
Professor Sarah Sobieraj interviews Professor Moya Bailey and Nina Jankowicz about online abuse against women in politics, especially racialized misogynoir, revealing how it hinders women's political participation.
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