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Writer Jia Tolentino: Feminism, Fatalism, and the Ego-Death of Motherhood

Writer Jia Tolentino: Feminism, Fatalism, and the Ego-Death of Motherhood

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney


Writer Jia Tolentino: Feminism, Fatalism, and the Ego-Death of Motherhood

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney

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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Sep 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week on All Ears, Abby is joined by NYT bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino. Before working at the New Yorker, Jia was a writer and editor at Jezebel and The Hairpin. She’s devoted her career and her unique voice to writing about a wide variety of cultural and social issues, including America’s ever-changing relationship to feminism, abortion, Britney Spears’ conservatorship, and what it means to walk away from a religion. In this week’s conversation with Abby, she discusses what it’s like being a new mother,  the persistent failures of capitalism, and the urgent need for collective action on climate change. Tune in for a fun and stimulating conversation about what kind of world she hopes her daughter will get to grow up in.EPISODE LINKSThe New Yorker Contributors: Jia TolentinoLosing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston (The New Yorker)How To Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion by Jia TolentinoWhy Andrea Dworkin Is The Radical Visionary Feminist We Need In Our Terrible (The Guardian)Before #MeToo There Was Catherine A. MacKinnon (NYT) The Daphne Foundation Website Fight for $15 Website Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope (Interview Magazine)Athleisure, Barre And Kale: The Tyranny Of The Ideal Woman (The Guardian)
Released:
Sep 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (53)

Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing of all–using their imaginations–in this case to rethink capitalism. She talks with business leaders, union organizers, and economists to learn how they would fix our broken economy.