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All right, we've got a great episode, and I was kind of grappling with what to call this episode.

I didn't know if I wanted to call it feminist philosophy or gender affirming philosophy.

I went with feminist philosophy because I think that's a more well accepted term within

like scholastic communities, but this week's episode is a deep dive with Dr. Carol

Hay. She's an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

and her most recent book is called Think Like a Feminist, The Philosophy Behind

the Revolution. It's a great intro to feminist theory but of course we dig even

deeper than that and we talk a lot about sex, we talk a lot about gender, we

talk a lot about oppression and we talk a lot about oppression, and we talk a lot about, you know, some of the difficulties

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