Handmaid’s Fail w. Dr. Aria Halliday
Hysteria
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4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Erin Ryan is joined by guest co-host Grace Parra-Janney to embark on another Tour de Fuckery, checking in on what tomfoolery is going on in various red states. Then, Erin chats with scholar, teacher, and cultural theorist Dr. Aria Halliday about the Handmaid’s Tale as a post-Dobbs cultural reference and the relationship between Black women and reproductive justice. Next, Julissa Arce and Amanda Nguyen come on to discuss the suburban equalizer, the Target run. Finally, a little I Feel Petty, a little Sanity Corner.
Show Notes:
Abortion organizations in Mississippi who are also working on flood relief after the devastating flooding in Jackson:
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture by Dr. Aria S. Halliday
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty By Dorothy Roberts
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Grace Parjani. |
| 0:03.0 | Grace. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to Hysteria. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Erin Ryan. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm Grace Parjani. |
| 0:13.0 | What Grace you're not Lisa I know I know |
| 0:17.0 | I know Alyssa's on vacation but we have Grace here this week and Grace I have a very important question for you hit me let, let's hear it. If you had a cache of top secret documents, |
| 0:25.2 | where would you hide them? |
| 0:27.1 | In my behold? |
| 0:29.1 | What? |
| 0:31.8 | I wouldn't hide them in my expansive mansion in Florida, that's for sure, |
| 0:37.0 | because they would be discovered |
| 0:39.0 | and then I would be made to look like even more of a fool |
| 0:41.0 | than I have the rest of my life. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, former President Trump's lawyers have some explaining to do. |
| 0:48.0 | Can't wait to hear what the explaining entails. This week we are joined by Dr. Aria Halliday, |
| 1:00.0 | Julisa Arse, and Amanda Nguyen to tackle the following questions. |
| 1:03.7 | What's the matter with comparing the current moment to the Handmaid's tale? |
| 1:07.6 | Why does the target run carry with it such enduring appeal? |
| 1:12.0 | And will the UN get it together by Friday all this and more right now |
| 1:19.6 | so as listeners of the show know we do something called Tour de Fuckery and Grace is going to help be our |
| 1:28.0 | tour guide on Tour de Fuckery this week. |
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