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Right Answers Mostly

Anita Hill: The Moment That Made #MeToo Possible

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

Society & Culture, History, Tv & Film

4.6764 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, we dive into the Clarence Thomas hearings and the woman who changed the conversation forever: Anita Hill. Anita Hill made history in 1991 when she testified about the sexual harassment she had experienced while she was an aide to Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court nominee who had been her supervisor at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We unpack her testimony, the senators who voted to confirm, and the legacy of a moment that still echoes today. TW: This episode contains discussions of sexual harassment Created and produced by: Claire Donald and Tess Bellomo For more RAM, go ⁠here.⁠ Join our premium channel for 3 bonus eps a month ⁠here⁠ and save 15% when you buy annually! Sources: Anita: Speaking Truth To Power, Politico , Wikipedia , You're Wrong About, NYTimes, CBS News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to write answers mostly, a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class, but you really wanted to.

0:31.2

I'm Claire Donald. And I'm Tespelomo. Now, Ramies, if you've been with us for a a while you know that we used to have a cocktail or

0:38.5

have a join every single episode and some of you miss that let me tell you having two drinks at

0:43.4

11 a.m. can be startling yeah we learned we learned to take it take a little easier with time

0:48.4

with maturete maturte when you're recording three times a week you just can't always do that

0:52.8

but this episode i actually don't have a drink but tess I were like, if there were any episodes that we were going to need a stiff drink at the end, it would probably be this one. Well, we're having to drink tonight in a little bit. So you know that we'll be, we'll still be talking about our work even when we're together in a social setting. Well, of course, because if you aren't with your girlfriends and talking about dismantling

1:12.1

the patriarchy and the injustice of the world, what are you doing?

1:15.5

What do you even talk about?

1:17.0

Like, truly.

1:17.9

Literally, what do you talk about?

1:19.2

So you guys, today we are talking about the Anita Hill trial test.

1:23.3

What do you know about this?

1:25.5

I wish I knew more.

1:26.9

So thank God for right answers mostly.

1:28.6

Exactly.

1:29.4

But I do know that this was like a very unjust trial and something that happened

1:35.1

to Anita Hill with all of these white men against her and no one believing her.

1:38.8

Yeah.

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I mean.

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Yeah.

1:40.3

But yeah, I don't really know the details of it. I did it as well. We are both

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