What Is Feminism to Us Today?
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
5.0 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I'm Karen Hunter and we are shattering labels moving forward. So I was |
| 0:16.3 | confronted with this term feminism. And I've been exploring it in this podcast. We've, of course, |
| 0:22.4 | talked about it. Chimamande Ngozi, I had a conversation about her book on feminism. And I got to |
| 0:28.3 | interview Gloria Steinem recently, who of course, in many eyes, is the mother of modern feminism. |
| 0:35.0 | But I struggle with that. I struggle with that term. I struggle with what it means. |
| 0:39.4 | And as a black woman in America, my entire life, feminism has never led me anywhere. |
| 0:46.0 | I just live it. So I had a discussion about it on my radio show, Karen Hunter's show on |
| 0:51.9 | Sirius XM Urban View Channel 126, where talking powers and becomes |
| 0:55.9 | action. And here's what I had to say. Right before the show, I did an interview with Gloria Steinem, |
| 1:02.0 | and she did a book with a woman, Nobel laureate, actually, Lema Bowie. They did a children's book |
| 1:10.6 | called Rise Girl Rise. And I was struggling |
| 1:12.8 | and vacillating between how to conduct this interview. Because on one hand, Gloria Steinem is iconic. |
| 1:19.5 | You know, she's known as, you know, this crusader or this activist. At the same time, |
| 1:25.4 | we're sitting in a condition right now in this country primarily because white |
| 1:29.4 | women have made a decision to white women to to to center their whiteness to give a damn about |
| 1:37.4 | the rest of us even as we're talking about this Epstein stuff Epstein could have done any of that |
| 1:42.2 | without the help of women white women who lured the girl, |
| 1:46.2 | not just Ghislaine Maxwell, no, a lot of lurers. |
| 1:50.3 | And from what I read, she did this willingly. |
| 1:52.9 | It wasn't like she was on drugs or coerced or, you know, under the threat of a gun. |
| 1:56.7 | Like the betrayal has always been there. |
| 1:59.5 | And I've been processing this because I've been one of these people that I've never |
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