Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute,

we have been able to offer some scholarships for two of our upcoming pilgrimages.

Our Duke by Default pilgrimage, we can offer a $1,500 scholarship and our Harry Potter

and the Prisoner of Azkaban pilgrimage, we can offer $1,000 scholarships.

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We have five spots available on each trip, I hope to see you there.

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Before we start today's episode, a little note, we recorded this episode a few weeks ago

before a row versus Wade was officially repealed.

You will hear us talk about topics that relate to the repeal, but we do not name it specifically yet,

because while it was a foregone conclusion at the time of recording, it was not yet official.

Over the course of discussing Jane Eyre in Pride and Prejudice, Lauren and I have at times celebrated

how far feminism has brought us since Bronte and Austin's time.

I have liked to think that they would take delight in me and all of my freedoms.

But on June 24th of this year, the right to a safe and legal abortion in the United States

was taken away from people with uteruses.

209 years after Pride and Prejudice was published, its commentary on the ways laws are designed

to control women, is more apt than Austin would still want it to be.

We know the numbers, abortion access saves more lives than it ends.

And we, as readers of Austin, know well about the kinds of spurious arguments that advocate

for saving the lives of fetuses but in prisons more people per capita than any other country

on Earth.

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