Call Your Girlfriend

We discuss legal efforts to extend the #MeToo conversation beyond firing men who behaved badly, and policies that can actually foster more inclusive work environments.

We talk about books we love in genres we don't often cover: poetry, graphic memoir, short stories and essays.

Rose Eveleth of Flash Forward expands our notion of what futurism can be, and how we can pry it away from arch capitalists and tech billionaires.

Look how far we've come, my baby! Celebrating 5 years of this very podcast.

Artist and writer Jenny Odell tells us how to reclaim our time and attention from smartphones.

Women's pain is frequently dismissed or underestimated by the medical establishment.

We open our topic suggestion box and talk about sobriety, lifehacks, therapy, and friendship with men.

We pass the mic to Kelly Dawson and Emily Ladau, two writers who also both have physical disabilities.

You might have wondered or had a friend ask, what exactly is Shine Theory?

We realtalk grief and suffering with Nora McInerny, host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, and author of funny-sad books like her latest, No Happy Endings.

From parents who buy their children's college admission to political media obsessed with white male candidates, we interrogate the long-running scams of wealth and power all around us.

We explore Real Queer America with journalist Samantha Allen.

Abortion rights are under attack.

Aminatou, Ann, and Gina discuss the business of Call Your Girlfriend, LLC in this hyper-transparent check-in.

Watching Pen15 on Hulu is giving us all the middle and high school feels.