Ask a Feminist

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Ask a Feminist, a podcast from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (http://signsjournal.org), features interviews with leading feminist thinkers on feminist issues raised by some aspect of current political life or social justice issue. This allows Signs to create an ongoing conversation between and among feminist scholars, media activists, and community leaders, enhancing the journal’s role as a transitive space, percolating in and between the space of intellectual production and activist engagement. Ask a Feminist is part of the Signs Feminist Public Intellectuals Project (http://signsjournal.org/feminist-public-intellectuals-project/).

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Ask a Feminist

Episodes (11)

Mar 4th Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin
Jun 25, 2025 Online Abuse and US Politics, a Conversation with Moya Bailey and Nina Jankowicz
Apr 28, 2025 Trump’s Anti-Trans, Anti-Gender Executive Orders, A Conversation with Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson

Ask a Feminist

Mar 4, 2026
45½ minutes
39 MB

This episode features a critical dissection of a political movement and philosophy that is unfortunately enjoying a global resurgence: pronatalism. Having successfully killed Roe, the Trump administration pursues policies incentivising certain groups to have more children. Many key administration figures—most prominently JD Vance and Elon Musk—are avid promoters of pronatalist worldviews, in which women’s efforts to exert control over their own reproductive capacities are portrayed as threats to “Western civilization” itself. This conversation offer a compelling deconstruction of the antifeminist underpinnings of pronatalism and explicates its historical links to nativism, eugenics, and other forms of racism. Our interviewer...

Ask a Feminist

Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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