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While Jaclyn's on summer hiatus, check out the brilliant first episode of We'll Hear Arguments, a miniseries about the Roe v. Wade arguments hosted by Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Boom! Lawyered. Think Mystery Science Theater 3000 meets the Supreme Court.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An anti-racist check-in, a listener question about endometriosis, sex drive and the NuvaRing, and a call for podcast recommendations, all in under 15 minutes!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What can the history of Black sexual oppression and resistance in the US teach us about how Black people get all the way free? Dalycia Saah and Rafaella Fiallo of Afrosexology have a vision.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jaclyn is in a MOOD in this quickiesode. Click play for rants about Joe Biden and about the new Title IX regulations. Plus, some wisdom about how we all start to work on our implicit bias.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Depressed lately? Anxiety spiking? Is your mental health (or your partner's) fucking with your sex life? JoEllen Notte wrote a book for you, and she's here with Jaclyn to help.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How is COVID-19 confinement impacting your ability to navigate consent and set boundaries? In this special episode recorded for #Open, Jaclyn answers your quarantine questions and conundrums.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Why do we so often fixate on whether or not porn performers are having authentic sexual pleasure while they work? Writer, podcaster and sex worker advocate Tina Horn breaks it down with Jaclyn in this conversation about pleasure, labor, entertainment, and what believing sex workers really means.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some ways to participate in Sexual Assault Awareness/Action Month while social distancing, and some ways to have a spicy sex life without touching your sex partner. It's a self-isolation quickiesode!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What if women quietly telling each other who to trust and who not to was recognized as a form of justice? Native rights lawyer, professor, and MacArthur Award-winner Sarah Deer joins Jaclyn to discuss.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jaclyn is joined by activist and author of Unbecoming, Anuradha Bhagwati, to talk about the state of women's relationship to power in the wake of Warren dropping out of the primary. Don't worry, they keep a safe social distance.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jaclyn's back from her Believe Me tour! And she wants to hear your all-time fave feminist reads (for a new bookstore opening soon!), share what she's learned about the origins of the idea of "sex trafficking," and encourage you to make pleasure part of your critical hygiene routine.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Why does it matter that the internet is built by and for men, and how do we survive while we try to remake it in our image? Believe Me contributors Katherine Alejandra Cross, Sady Doyle and Soraya Chemaly join Jaclyn to get into it via Corkscrew Theory, Dungeons and Dragons, and lots more.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's a #BelieveMe quickiesode, with updates on the high school activists fighting for their right to sex ed in Oregon, insight from Rolling Stone writer Jamil Smith, and how the internet is like a polaroid picture for women trying to be believed.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What does it mean to believe women? To believe survivors? What would become possible if we had a culture that treated women as both credible and important? Jaclyn is joined by Jessica Valenti to celebrate the publication of their new anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amber Rollo is one of the three heroes who confronted Harvey Weinstein and his enablers at a comedy event in New York late last year. You're gonna want to hear her story.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I'm back! And I'm sending love to everyone facing the horrible election results in the UK, in the form of a rerun of the episode I ran right after Trump was elected. It's about why pleasure isn't optional, even in these worst of times - it's a key ingredient in both our humanity and our political resistance. Let historian Hanne Blank explain as she talks with Jaclyn about what she learned during the 80s AIDS crisis, the importance of marshmallows when the world is on fire, and why an old slogan from a 1960s French Art movement should be our mantra right now. (Rewind)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sex! Danger! Rebellion! Underground lairs! It's all there and so much more in Safe Sex, the new comic book series from Unscrewed fave Tina Horn. What makes us feel safe, and how does it differ from what actually makes us safer? Why is bureaucracy a disproportionate tax on the poor? What are high heels good for? Go behind the scenes as Jaclyn and Tina get into it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's Part 2 of our live show at the PRX Podcast Garage! If you haven't listened to Part 1, go do that first: it's called When You Share Your Pain. This second half features filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman (Roll Red Roll) talking about why she turns her camera on rapists to pierce rape culture, and a great audience Q&A about how to sustain yourself while doing anti-rape work. Bonus: Jaclyn's been sick, so enjoy her extra-gravely voice in the intro and outro.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's Part One of the Boston live show! Featuring Bernadine Truth and audience-generated lightning round answers, and kicking off a two-part discussion about the perils and possibilities of focusing on perpetrators and enablers in our stories about sexual violence. CONTENT WARNING: contains a brief mention of suicidality.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome spooky season with a reflection on crones from Sady Doyle, and then get scary active about our rights to defy sex stereotypes before the SCOTUS rules we can get fired for doing gender wrong. All this and more in a new Spare Parts quickiesode!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.