Amy is joined by guest Kayleen Asbo to discuss The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Topics include the history of gnostic texts, the gender of the Holy Spirit, and the value of self-knowledge. Kayleen Asbo is a passionate scholar: a cultural historian, musician, writer and teacher who weaves myth, music, psychology, history and art with experiential learning. A faculty member of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Kayleen also teaches regularly for the Osher Lif...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Amy is joined by Franceskay Allebes to discuss The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill. Topics include the burden of proof for equality, the veil of ignorance, and complementarianism. Franceskay Allebes is a first generation American, born to parents who immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands after World War II. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and a Master’s in education from UCLA, and has worked as an Art teacher and Art therapist. She loves her hus...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Amy is joined by Rayna Clay MacKay to discuss the speech ‘Ain’t I A Woman?’ by Sojourner Truth. Topics include the history and multiple versions of this speech, microaggressions, and the legacy of racism in America. Rayna Clay MacKay is a wife, mom, and Obstetric Anesthesiologist. She married a dreamy Scotsman for much more than his accent and gained two fantastic bonus kids as a result. They added three more kiddos to the mix, including identical twin boys, and a daughter. They also have the be...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Amy is joined by guest Courtney McPhie to discuss speeches from the Seneca Falls Convention . Topics include how to recruit men as feminist allies, key arguments for suffrage, and the complex relationships between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Frederick Douglass. Courtney McPhie experienced a typical awakening to social justice in high school, but took until college to call herself a feminist. A voracious reader and podcast-listener, Courtney lives in Northern Virginia, in the DC Me...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Amy is joined by guest Rebecca Archibald to discuss Letters on the Equality of the Sexes by Sarah Grimké. Topics include abolition, the ideology of separate spheres, and marriage as a means of survival. Rebecca Archibald grew up in the mountains of Utah with 5 siblings. After graduating from BYU, she moved east for graduate school where she got her Master’s in Teaching Writing. Since, she has moved back and forth across the country, living in 7 states. In each place, one of the first things she ...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Amy is joined by Jennie Austin Preece to discuss On the Equality of the Sexes by Judith Sargent Murray. Topics include the artfulness of clothing, bringing men into the emotional sphere, and reinterpreting the story of Eve. Jennie Austin Preece was born and reared in the great potato-loving state of Idaho. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English/Humanities teaching at Brigham Young University. From there, she traveled down the roads of teaching mothering, writing, and eventually found hersel...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Amy is joined by guest Dr. Meagan Cahoon Alder to conclude their discussion of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. This episode is Part Two of Two and covers Wollstonecraft’s thoughts on women’s education, fashion, religion, and chivalry. Dr. Meagan Cahoon Alder is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is in private practice and works primarily with couples. She studied psychology in undergrad and went on to receive a Master’s degree i...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Amy is joined by guest Dr. Meagan Cahoon Alder to begin their discussion of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. This episode is Part One of Two and covers Wollstonecraft’s biography and historical context, pertinent authors of the Enlightenment, and the balance between reason and emotion. Dr. Meagan Cahoon Alder is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is in private practice and works primarily with couples. She studied psychology in u...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 8
Amy is joined by guest Lindsay Allebest for a discussion of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen by Olympe de Gouges. Topics include the French Revolution, the origins of natural rights, the Veil of Ignorance. Lindsay Allebest is currently a student at Boston University, where she studies History and Liberal Arts, as well as Spanish and Ancient Greece. Although she grew up in the sunny Bay Area in California, she loves living on the East Coast and finally getting some us...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Amy is joined by guest Janette Canare for a discussion of The Creation of Feminist Consciousness by Gerda Lerner. Topics include the erasure of women’s history, overcoming gender-based barriers to education, and early examples of women’s literature. Janette Canare was born and raised in Virginia, but has lived in California since moving to Silicon Valley for a tech start up in the early 90s. Her parents immigrated from the Philippines, moving to Norfolk in the mid-1960s, where her dad was in the...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Amy is joined by guest Sophie Allebest for a discussion of the religious figure of Mary. Topics include the Gospel of Paul, artists’ depictions of Mary, and the power of personal ritual. Sophie Allebest is first and foremost, a Pisces. She loves Art, Architecture, History, and rainy days. She enjoys the ancient art of rhetoric and debate (i.e., arguing), and swimming in a freezing ocean or pool. When she’s not working hard at school and art, Sophie loves spending time with her family, friends, a...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 5
Amy is joined by guest Sherri Crawford to conclude their discussion of The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner. This episode is Part Two of Two and covers topics spanning from Hebrew civilization through Aristotle and Ancient Greece. Sherrie Crawford was born in Utah, the fifth of six children, and grew up in Arizona. She graduated from BYU-Idaho with a degree in Social Work, and completed a Master’s degree in Social Work from Boise State University. She is an elementary school counselor, and...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Amy is joined by guest Sherri Crawford to begin their discussion of The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner. This episode is Part One of Two and covers topics spanning from prehistory through Mesopotamian civilization and the Near Eastern Goddesses Sherrie Crawford was born in Utah, the fifth of six children, and grew up in Arizona. She graduated from BYU-Idaho with a degree in Social Work, and completed a Master’s degree in Social Work from Boise State University. She is an elementary school...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Amy is joined by guest Malia Morris to discuss The Chalice and The Blade by Riane Eisler. Topics include re-assessing hunter-gatherer societies, partnership and dominator models, and the civilization of ancient Minoan. Malia Morris is a performing artist and voice teacher in the Bay Area. She studied Music Performance and Sociology in her undergraduate at Arizona State University, where she graduated with honors. In graduate school, she studied Dramatic Arts at Harvard University. Malia was awar...
Dec 29, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Episode 1: Introduction "Men and women live on a stage, on which they act out their assigned roles, equal in importance. The play cannot go on without both kinds of performers. Neither of them “contributes” more or less to the whole; neither is marginal or dispensable. But the stage set is conceived, painted, defined by men. Men have written the play, have directed the show, interpreted the meanings of the action. They have assigned themselves the most interesting, most heroic parts, giving wome...
Dec 29, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
