The “Impeachment Sisterhood” Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Christina, Marcia, and Nichole discuss Rowena Chiu’s essay about Harvey Weinstein, and what her voice brings to the conversation about sex, race and power. Next, the panelists tackle whether the right women are getting credit for making the impeachment inquiry happen. And lastly, a chat about watching an intimate show about loss and grieving on Facebook - I’m Sorry for Your Loss Season 2.
In Slate Plus: Was Bob Woodward’s approach to interviewing Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey about She Said, #Metoo and Harvey Weinstein, sexist?
Email your topic suggestions and responses to thewaves@slate.com or tweet @christinacauterucci, @tnwhiskeywoman, @drmchatelain with your thoughts.
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| 0:18.4 | The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, |
| 0:25.1 | October 10th, the impeachment sisterhood edition. I'm Christina Caudrucci, a staff writer at Slate, |
| 0:30.9 | and host of the Slate podcast Outward. I'm Marcia Chathland, a professor of history at Georgetown University. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst 8 Kit. |
| 0:40.3 | We are truly dispersed this week. |
| 0:42.6 | Marcia is calling in from California. |
| 0:44.9 | June is actually out on holiday in her homeland. |
| 0:48.9 | We have a couple really good topics this week. |
| 0:51.9 | First up on our docket this week is an essay from Rowena |
| 0:55.0 | Chu who says Harvey Weinstein tried to rape her. She was his assistant. And he told her he |
| 1:00.6 | liked Chinese girls because they knew how to keep a secret. Then we're going to talk about |
| 1:05.4 | one of the hottest topics in politics, the Trump impeachment inquiry and the Democratic |
| 1:10.5 | women who are getting credit for it for pushing the idea of impeachment forward. |
| 1:15.7 | And finally, we're going to discuss season two of Sorry for Your Loss, which is a show on Facebook Watch, which I didn't even know was a thing. |
| 1:24.3 | The show stars Elizabeth Olson as a woman grieving the death of her husband. And Nicole, |
| 1:30.4 | tell us about our Slate Plus segment this week. Our Slate Plus segment looks at the recent panel |
| 1:36.7 | interview of Jody Cantor and Megan Toohy, who are the authors of the book she said, which |
| 1:43.6 | covers their investigation of the sexual |
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