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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E50. Helen Pluckrose on Why Intersectionality is the Wrong Way to Go About Achieving Social Justice

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Helen Pluckrose, one of the three authors of the Grievance Studies and editor-in-chief of Aero magazine, sits with Bridget to discuss the much richer role for women in history than the lenses by which we’re viewing them today, the contradictions in feminism and social justice activism, the argument against post-modernism, and the inherent problems with intersectionality. Helen talks about her own journey from a care assistant in hospitals, to getting a Masters in Early Modern Literature with a focus on religious writing by and about women, her conversion from a Christian to an atheist, and how she met James Lindsay and became involved in the Grievance Studies. It’s a fascinating conversation covering complex topics with a true master of critical theory. Helen helps breakdown the fundamental contradictions within intersectionality and offers Bridget a way to formulate a compassionate and rational response to the intersectional argument. Full transcript available here: WiW50-HelenPluckrose-Transcript

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.

0:02.4

Now available on Apple Podcasts.

0:04.1

Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

0:08.3

This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.

0:10.9

I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.

0:25.0

the drill.

0:27.0

Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.

0:32.0

We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.

0:35.0

This week we're excited to have Helen Pluckros on the show.

0:38.4

She is an exile from the humanities

0:41.0

with research interests in the late medieval early modern religious writing by and about women.

0:47.0

She is currently writing a book about postmodernism and critical theory and their impact on epistemology and ethics in the academy and more widely.

0:56.9

She is editor-in-chief of Ario.

0:59.9

Now this might not sound like the most engaging of topics.

1:06.4

It's very heady, but Helen is by far none,

1:10.2

one of the most brilliant women I have ever

1:12.3

had the honor of speaking to.

1:14.0

She is fighting the good fight.

1:15.5

She is also one of the co-authors of the Grievance Studies,

1:19.0

and nobody really understands critical theory

1:23.4

than Helen, so enjoy.

1:25.8

I'm with Helen Pluckrose, everyone.

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