Should Feminism Empower Women, Or Question Power Itself?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | It's Thursday, August 4th. |
| 0:14.9 | Feminist writer and podcaster, Lux Alptrom, says it may be time to move from the era of so-called empowerment feminism to something |
| 0:23.2 | she calls disempowerment feminism as a response to the Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade, |
| 0:29.7 | Joe Manchin and the Republicans killing the universal child care bill in Congress and other current |
| 0:35.0 | events. Maybe you saw her New York Times op-ed on that last week. |
| 0:39.7 | And Lux Alptrom is also a writer meeting this moment in other ways. She recently wrote a guide |
| 0:44.4 | to abortion resources in a post-Roe America for Wired. She tweets under the handle, Lux, ask me |
| 0:52.7 | about self-managed abortion. Alptrom. We'll talk about that. |
| 0:56.6 | She definitely have thoughts about the implications of the Kansas referendum in which voters in a very |
| 1:01.7 | Republican state overwhelmingly voted to keep abortion rights protected by the state constitution |
| 1:07.1 | on Tuesday. And some of you may know her as the author of the 2018 book, |
| 1:12.9 | Faking It, The Lies Women Tell About Sex and the Truths They Reveal. |
| 1:18.9 | Lux, thanks a lot for joining us. Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:22.6 | Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here. Can we start on Kansas? Were you |
| 1:27.4 | surprised at the |
| 1:28.2 | outcome? I wouldn't say I was surprised per se. Going into it, I didn't know what to expect. |
| 1:36.5 | I know that abortion rights are pretty popular, even with Republicans. So I wasn't shocked |
| 1:43.2 | when it turned out, oh, wow, |
| 1:44.6 | like almost 60% of voters voted to keep abortion rights. |
| 1:49.2 | But with a lot of these things, |
| 1:50.9 | it's not a question of what's popular. |
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