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We have our first three-peat guest(s) on the pod because we know how much you love them. Welcome back Alexis and Christina from the Lipstick Lesbians! They’re on the show to answer topical questions, like which brands are most exciting to them this year, why the Great Reformulati ...  Show more

We’re on location in New York! To kick things off with an east coast version of the pod, we have one of our favorite beauty comrades on the show: Cosmopolitan editor-at-large, host and expert Julee Wilson! Julee shares her go-to products, how she feels about aging as a Black woma ...  Show more

Amanda Montell (@amandamontell) is a language scholar and author of critically acclaimed <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wordslut-Feminist-Taking-English-Language/dp/0062868888/?tag=jordanharbing- ...

Judith Butler joins Adam Shatz to discuss a landmark in feminist thought, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949). Dazzling in its scope, The Second Sex incorporates anthropology, psychology, historiography, mythology and biology to ask an ‘impossible’ question: what is a woma ...  Show more

In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Elissa Washuta the author of White Magic, which out now from Tin House Thanks to our sponsors! Go to AncientNutrition.com right now and enter promo code readingwomen at checkout. Go to Acorn.tv and use the code ReadingWomen to get your ...  Show more

The cartoonist Liana Finck’s new book, “Let There Be Light,” recasts the story of Genesis with a female God who is a neurotic artist.

“At the very beginning ...