Hi, listeners. On Impolitic, we talk about power and the media narratives that shape how we see the world and each other.

So let's talk about the C-word. Hosted by Lena Dunham and Alyssa Bennett,

this C-word podcast offers a hilarious, heartbreaking, and razor-sharp look at how the media handles a woman who refuses to play nice,

stay quiet, or self-destruct politely.

Lindsay Lohan, Judy Garland, Winona Ryder, Mariah Carey, Lil Kim,

women who are flattened into headlines and cautionary tales.

Now, after years behind a paywall, the C-word is finally available for free on all major

platforms.

Here's the trailer, and fair warning. You'll never read a headline

about a breakdown the same way again. Hi, it's Lena. A few years ago, I was busy hosting a podcast

called The Sea Word with my dearest friend and historian of bad behavior, Alyssa Bennett.

What is up? We loved making this show so much, but at the time, it was only available behind a paywall.

Now, we're breaking her free baby.

Much like all of the greatest women in history who have dug themselves out of jail,

we are bringing her out of the vault and into your hearts.

It will be as though we are all returning to high school together after decades away to open up a time capsule.

But instead of finding cigarette butts, old mixtapes, and security footage of me eating lunch alone in the stairway,

we're going to be rediscovering the stories of women's society dismissed

by calling them mad, sad, or just plain bad.

These stories feel as relevant now as they did when we first recorded them, because I have a secret.

Nothing changes for women. But if you're new to the Seward, it's a chat show about women

whose society is called crazy.

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