Our contributors have paired up to tell one another about their favorite books of the year so far. You’ll hear these segments over the next few weeks! Today, Renee and Yasi share their top five of 2025. Then Ashley reflects on this year’s Met Gala, the inspiration behind it, and why it matters.   Renee and Yasi’s Favorite Books of the Year (so far) (0:21) Renee and Yasi share their favorite books they’ve read so far this year, from off-beat contemporary fiction to memoirs of women in tech. You’ll want to get your TBRs ready for this segment!   A Bookmark in Fashion: Literature and This Year’s Met Gala  (21:42) Ashley discusses the book Slaves to Fashion by Monica L. Miller, which inspired this year’s Met Gala theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. She also talks about modern dandies, ways in which literature has inspired Met Gala themes, and better thoughtfulness on criticism of the outfits.     Books/Resources Mentioned:  All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen I’m Not Done with You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Adult’s Play: The Upsides of Growing Up by Yasi Agah Slaves to Fashion by Monica L. Miller     Support and follow our hosts! Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph Follow Yasi: Instagram // Website // Adult’s Play by Yasi Agah Follow Ashley: Instagram   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

Kajsa Ekis Ekman published Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self in 2013 and has worked as a prominent and respected journalist in Sweden for many years. In 2022, Kajsa published The Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman, within which she presents a Marxist feminist critique of gender identity ideology. She has since lost jobs, friends, and support from both leftists and feminists in Sweden. She has not given up on her work, though. This year, Kajsa launched Parabol.press. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Kajsa about the situation with gender identity ideology and legislation in Sweden, her cancellation, and how she views the left nowadays. Feminist Current has been an entirely listener-funded podcast for a decade. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider a donation!

In today's episode, Clara and Courtney speak with Prof. Emily Gold Waldman from Pace Law School about her review of the book 'Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity' by Kerri Lynn Stone, and Title IX protections from sex discrimination in the workplace. If you would like to read Prof. Gold Waldman's book review, you can do so here. If you would like to purchase Stone's book, you can do so here. Feminist News Barbie triggers discussions on feminism and patriarchy in China Taliban claims they will respect women's rights within limits of Islam Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting fatally shot by police If you enjoyed today's episode, please remember to rate and subscribe to our podcast. If you would like to get involved with Feminist Law, please get in touch with us at contact@feministlaw.org Thanks for listening!

Irish author Elaine Feeney is nominated for the 2023 Booker Prize for her novel How to Build a Boat. The writer from Galway is one of four Irish authors and the only Irish woman to make the long list this year. Ahead of the shortlist announcement next month, Feeney joined Róisín Ingle to discuss her nomination, the inspiration behind the book and how a severe illness in 2014 spurred her on to writing fiction. The pair also discuss Feeney’s life growing up in the west of Ireland, falling in love with poetry in her teens and her new poetry collection due out next year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Tory Lanez has been sentenced for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, and we have THOUGHTS. Scamfluencers co-host and former BuzzFeed reporter Scaachi Koul is joined by Refinery29 reporter Kathleen Newman-Bremang to unpack why so many people turned against Megan despite Tory Lanez being a wasteman. They explain what exactly is a “Toronto Mans” and why this dangerous subsection of man is crossing American borders in the forms of Drake, the Weeknd, and more.  In Slate Plus: Episode 10 of our And Just Like That…recap. If you liked this episode, check out: The World Record Book of Racist Stories Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Scaachi Koul, Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/thewavesplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are all talking ourselves into and out of things All. The. Time.From buying that fancy coffee to taking early retirement,we’re in constant deliberation with ourselves aboutwhich actions match our values and which ones don’t.I think it’s super important to have those internal debatesfrom a conscious, informed, self-aware place.Here’s a spell to help with that.Make Magic:Once you accept that we all exist at choice, you can start paying more attention to these self-negotiations,and taking a more proactive role in them,Thinking about what values are supported by every yes or no,and where those values come from,will help you to make more self-aware, self-honoring decisions.Transcript: A Spell for Conscious Self-Persuasion (coming soon)

In this episode, we talk to Mar Hicks, an Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia and author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain discarded Women Technologists and Lost its Edge in computing. Hicks talks to us about the lessons that the tech industry can learn from histories of computing, for example: how sexism is an integral feature of technological systems and not just a bug that can be extracted from them; how techno-utopianism can stop us from building better technologies; when looking to the past is useful and when it's not helpful; the dangers of the 'move fast and break things' approach where you just build technology just to see what happens; and whether regulatory sandboxes are sufficient in making sure that tech isn't deployed unsafely on an unsuspecting public.

This episode is basically a PSA: if you’re not watching the Australian feminist crime show Deadloch, then Laura, Adrian and guest Moira Donegan have one question for you: why not? Depressed industrial towns, toxic masculinity, lesbians, a four-hour movie called ‘Poseidon’s Uterus’: this show has everything, and we’re here for all of it.

We talk about how A.I impacts the writer and actor strikes, Hollywood, and creative industries. Listen now to stay informed, the easy way. Follow us on Instagram and twitter: @the_ms_informed and on facebook.com/msinformedpodcast or on patreon.com/msinformed To get all the links to our sources, subscribe to our weekly, informative newsletter: msinformed.substack.com You can listen and subscribe on Spotify, Podimo, Sticher, Google and Apple Podcasts.

In this episode, Jill interviews Chloe Locatelli about her research on sex tech, sex robots and relationships with technologies. Chloe’s research prompts us to consider the personification and gamification of sex tech specifically marketed at heterosexual men. Gender Sex and Tech is excited to be a part of the Harbinger Media Network. Please check out […]