National Organization for Women (NOW)
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Feminist politics with history, policy, and stakes.
Feminism NOW treats feminism as civic education, not branding. Episodes move from abortion law, violence against women, meritocracy, masculinity, immigration enforcement, and natalism into the systems that shape daily life.
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Feminism NOW is a civic-minded feminist conversation series anchored in present-day organizing and movement memory. It is not built around detached commentary. It asks what laws, institutions, cultural stories, and political incentives do to real people. The show often starts with a case, a book, a policy fight, or a public crisis, then follows the thread back to the system behind it. In one episode, the loss of Roe becomes a discussion of abortion deaths, the Hyde Amendment, religious politics, and whose suffering is allowed to disappear. In another, violence against women is treated as both a feminist issue and a men’s issue, with attention to prevention, perpetrators, and the limits of familiar responses. The economics episodes question meritocracy, especially the way leadership, privilege, networks, and gendered definitions of merit shape who gets ahead. The digital culture conversations ask how feminism reaches younger people without losing political seriousness. The show also examines hostile sexism, political violence, masculinity, and the ways patriarchy harms women, men, and non-binary people. Its scope is broad. Its center is consistent. Feminism is presented as a tool for understanding power and changing material conditions. The format favors patient questions, accessible definitions, and guests who bring research, books, organizing experience, or chapter-level perspective. There are recurring invitations for callers and voice memos, which gives the program a membership-driven feel. The tone is warm and affirming, but it can become grave when the subject requires it. It is comfortable with moral judgment. It is also interested in policy mechanics, legal history, and movement strategy. That combination gives the show a distinctive rhythm: story, context, stakes, then action. It is best for listeners who want feminism treated as public work rather than personal identity alone.
Made for: For listeners who want accessible feminist analysis tied to law, organizing, culture, economics, and current events. It especially suits people interested in how movement history connects to today’s fights over rights, safety, and equality.
What sets it apart: Feminism NOW stands apart by pairing organizational memory with current feminist debate. It brings authors, researchers, creators, and chapter leaders into conversations that connect lived stakes to policy and movement strategy.
Passionate about modern feminist issues? Want to learn more about how today's political, academic, and cultural leaders strive for a future of universal equality and justice? Join NOW in a podcast dedicated to intersectional feminist discussions in American society with leaders in entertainment, sports, politics, and science. From conversations on constitutional equality, to economic justice and reproductive rights, listeners will find new ways to learn, engage, and get empowered. Listen for new episodes released every other Wednesday.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects feminist advocacy to the political mechanisms and social assumptions that shape opportunity, safety, and voting power.
Feminism NOW turns advocacy questions into interviews about how power operates in workplaces, law, relationships, and elections. Kim Villanueva and Rose Brunache ask guests to explain the machinery behind familiar inequalities, giving the conversation a practical,…
Meritocracy loses its halo here, if you like your feminist arguments tied to institutions and actual consequences.
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A grave, specific history of how abortion rights were narrowed by law, faith, and neglect.
This episode treats abortion politics as a ledger of named losses, returning to Rosie Jimenez, Becky Bell, and Portia Gomezzi to ask why public anger so often fades before the damage does.
A direct look at violence, allyship, and the local organizing that carries the work forward.
The episode treats violence against women as both a feminist concern and a men's issue, with Kim Delanoeva arguing that men should stand as allies in a struggle led by feminists.
A clear feminist economics discussion of merit, power, and who gets credited as a leader.
Feminism Now uses meritocracy to ask what counts as leadership, and why collaboration, listening, and team-building can still be treated as lesser when they are coded as feminized.
A clear season opener that turns feminism into practical questions rather than abstraction.
Feminism Now opens its new season with a clear, grounded look at where feminism has been, where it stands now, and how NOW wants to shape what comes next.
A clear voting-rights conversation that moves from Alabama maps to collective strategy.
Feminism Now turns LaTosha Brown's visit into a voting-rights conversation anchored in Alabama politics, where district lines can weaken Black voting power and narrow representation. Christian F.
Public lives, carefully remembered.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
Kim Villanueva opens with the women whose deaths sit at the center of the conversation.
Kim Delanoeva opens by calling violence against women a feminist issue and a men's issue.
Feminism Now opens by marking its 60th anniversary.
This episode of Feminism Now features an interview with Blair Omani, a social media influencer and creator, discussing strategies to engage younger generations with feminist messages through joy, humor, and education.
This episode of Feminism Now features an interview with Cynthia Miller-Idriss about her book 'Man Up,' exploring how misogyny and hostile sexism are top predictors of political violence and the impact of patriarchy on all genders.
This episode discusses the peaceful protests in Minnesota against ICE raids, highlighting the role of women activists and exploring the concept of 'Minnesota Nice' in the context of immigration enforcement.
This episode examines how natalism has evolved from a neutral term about childbearing into a politically charged concept associated with the far right and moral panics about population and women's choices.
This episode features an interview with historian Catherine Turk about the history of the National Organization for Women and how its past can inform current feminist activism amid societal divisions.
Feminism Now opens its fifth podcast season with Kim Villanueva and Rose Brunache.
This episode features a conversation with activists Nancy Davis and Alexis McGill-Johnson about advancing reproductive rights and health equity in the wake of Roe v.
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This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features an interview with actress and activist Alyssa Milano about her work in feminism, the Me Too movement, and various advocacy efforts.