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Such Devoted Sisters w. Oriaku Njoku

Hysteria

Hysteria

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.77.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco talk to Oriaku Njoku, co-founder and executive director of Access Reproductive Care Southeast, about the state of abortion in the South, the Hyde Amendment and the importance of direct service work. In news: Erin and Alyssa talk about the slew of judicial wins from Sandy Hook families settlement with a gun manufacturer, to Sarah Palin’s libel case dismissal, to Prince Andrew settling with his accuser and Trump’s accounting firm cutting ties with the family. Then, Michaela Watkins and Shaniqua McClendon join to talk about the ever-changing and forever important relationship you have with your sister. Finally, is Starbucks really just a front for Big (hot) Milk?! Find out in I Feel Petty. 



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0:00.0

Hello and I'm Alyssa Bastromico.

0:02.0

Alyssa Baskermanico. Alyssa, I detect that you are under the weather today.

0:16.0

Erin, I have a cold.

0:19.0

Oh.

0:20.0

I'm trying though.

0:22.0

Oh, you really are trying and you're putting the cold and cold open today.

0:27.0

But I'm pop. This week we're joined by Oriaku

0:35.8

Unjaku, Michaela Watkins, and Shaniqua McClendon

0:38.5

to tackle the following questions.

0:40.8

Why does all the good news happen at once?

0:43.0

What's it like to be on the ground promoting reproductive justice in the American South?

0:48.0

What does it mean to be a sister?

0:50.0

And who needs anesthesia?

0:52.0

All this and more right now. And who needs anesthesia?

0:52.8

All this and more right now.

0:54.8

Alyssa, I have noticed something about good news and bad news and the way that it sort of seems to come.

1:04.7

I feel like the bad news is drawn out like being at a prefix meal at like a really

1:11.0

over-hiked restaurant where you're like not having a good time or things are you know

1:16.0

So it's like when is the next course going to come I just want to I just want to leave

1:20.2

Believe me I get it. It's like the countdown to when is the IBS going to kick in.

1:25.6

Exactly. It's like you were looking forward to something and then you and the person you're going to have

1:30.0

dinner with got into a fight right before and you're just like I just want to go home.

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