Ecofeminism Isn’t Just For Hippies
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, senior producer Cheyna Roth is joined by freelance science writer Eleanor Cummins to talk about the possible resurgence of Ecofeminism. Eleanor recently published “Is Ecofeminism Due for a Comeback?” in The New Republic. They discuss how the term came to be “passe,” what places are embracing the concept of combining feminism and the environment (and trying to save the Amazon in the process), and why the time is right for feminists to embrace the planet.
In Slate Plus, the waves of Ecofeminism, and where the term “tree-hugger” came from.
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Eleanor: Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and this week |
| 0:18.0 | resurrecting old feminist trends. Before you get too excited, no, it's not bell bottoms. Every episode you get a new |
| 0:25.6 | pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds and today you've got me, |
| 0:29.6 | Shaina Roth, producer of the Waves and other podcasts for Slate. |
| 0:33.9 | And this week I'm going to be talking with Eleanor Cummins. |
| 0:36.6 | Eleanor is a freelance science journalist. |
| 0:38.8 | She's written for Slate, Wired, New Republic, Vice National Geographic. |
| 0:42.6 | I mean, the list goes on. |
| 0:44.4 | She's a badass, and despite loving her award-winning |
| 0:48.9 | reporting on New York City oysters, |
| 0:51.2 | today we're going to be talking about eco-feminism. |
| 0:56.6 | Is eco-feminism due for a comeback? That's the name of Eleanor's latest article in the |
| 1:01.0 | New Republic. As a former environmental reporter in Michigan, I |
| 1:04.8 | absolutely jumped at this article. Ego-feminism or environmental feminism as it's |
| 1:10.3 | thought of in its most basic terms is something I hadn't really heard of in I think |
| 1:15.6 | forever but our climate is in crisis has been for some time plus we've seen the rise of |
| 1:21.3 | women speaking out in other areas like equal pay and |
| 1:24.7 | anti harassment so it kind of makes sense to me that something like the |
| 1:28.6 | combination of feminism and the environment could make a comeback |
| 1:32.1 | especially given that women are so impacted by the environment. |
| 1:36.5 | And if you want to hear more about that, see Our Waves episode from October, finding hope for women |
| 1:41.7 | in the climate crisis. It's an absolutely brilliant episode. |
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