Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan
444 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWMC Live with Robin Morgan is a nationally syndicated American radio show with an international audience in 110 countries around the globe.
The weekly show (additionally available online at iTunes and at WMCLive.com) is hosted by Robin Morgan, the award-winning author of over 20 books, political analyst, former editor in chief of Ms. Magazine, and, in 2005, co-founder—with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem—of The Women’s Media Center.
Praised as "talk radio with a brain" by The Huffington Post, the show has enjoyed exponential ratings growth, not only because of its world-class host, but because of its world-class guests.
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Episodes
WMC Live #437: Resistance. (Original Airdate 4/7/2024)
April 07, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBRobin on Haiti's uniqueness in the world, and “Whatever happened to CEDAW?!” Guest: author Soraya Chemaly and The Resilience Myth.
WMC Live #436: The Invisible Becoming Visible. (Original Airdate 3/31/2024)
March 31, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBRobin "unearths" Lise Meitner, the "mother of the atomic bomb" (she loathed it), interviews Lela Mailman and Darlene Gomez about missing and murdered Indigenous women, and discovers the ignored female birds of North America.
WMC Live #435: The Monarch. (Original Airdate 3/24/2024)
March 24, 2024 04:00 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBRobin relaunches her news coverage and analysis of our political reality, and also reports on a remarkable natural history story.
WMC Live #434: The Last Speaker, Part 3. (Original Airdate 3/10/2024)
March 10, 2024 05:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBRobin concludes her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the third and last section of the three-part novella from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #433: The Last Speaker, Part 2. (Original Airdate 3/3/2024)
March 03, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBRobin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the second of three parts of a novella from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #432: The Last Speaker, Part 1. (Original Airdate 2/25/2024)
February 25, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutes - 71.2 MBRobin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the first of three parts of a novella from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #431: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 2. (Original Airdate 3/11/2024)
February 11, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes - 51.2 MBRobin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the final section of a story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #431: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 2. (Original Airdate 2/11/2024)
February 11, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes - 51.2 MBRobin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading the final section of a story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #430: The Handmaiden of the Holy Man, Part 1. (Original Airdate 2/4/2024)
February 04, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBRobin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading a two-part story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #429: The Child Who Could Read Rivers. (Original Airdate 1/28/2024)
January 28, 2024 05:00 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBRobin continues her series, Fables for Grown Ups, reading a new story from her book Parallax, published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #428: The List Keeper. (Original Airdate 1/21/2024)
January 21, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBRobin continues her New Year's feature with a reading of her own short fiction fitting the date— “The List Keeper,” from her book Parallax published by Spinifex Press.
WMC Live #427: New Year, New Approach. (Original Airdate 1/14/2024)
January 14, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBRobin goes into "Refresh" in computer mode, starting 2024 reading a new little gem of her own fiction, "The Embodiment" from her book Parallax.
WMC Live #426: The Mer-Child. (Original Airdate 12/17/2023)
December 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBAfter a chaotic and stressful year, Robin devotes the entire episode to reading the magical, transformative story she wrote for her son, then age 8—The Mer-Child: A Legend for Children and Other Adults.
WMC Live #425: Say Her Name, Part 2. (Original Airdate 12/10/2023)
December 10, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBRobin discusses the #SayHerName Mothers Network, intersectionality, #MeToo, racialized motherhood in America, and more with special guests Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gina Best. Plus, Audre Lorde's poetry.
WMC Live #424: Say Her Name, Part 1. (Original Airdate 12/3/2023)
December 03, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes - 67.9 MBRobin's guests, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw of the African American Policy Forum & Gina Best of the #SayHerName Mothers Network, on police brutality and public silencing regarding Black women. Plus, Robin on Israel and Hamas.
WMC Live #423: The Boarding School Era. (Original Airdate 11/19/2023)
November 19, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBRobin delves into the use of boarding schools to "assimilate" Native American children in the 19th century. Special Guest Dr. Brenda Child, Ojibwe historian and author.
WMC Live #422: Ancient Societies, Modern Crises. (Original Airdate 11/12/2023)
November 12, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBRobin explores China's new plans for women with her special guest, Leta Hong Fincher, author of Leftover Women. And Robin's commentary on the Israel-Gaza war.
WMC Live #421: Cultural Cure. (Original Airdate 11/5/2023)
November 05, 2023 04:00 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBRobin devotes the main body of the podcast to a conversation with the founders of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Praxis—writer Cherríe Moraga and painter Celia Herrera Rodríguez.
WMC Live #420: Not Too Late—Yet. (Original Airdate 10/29/2023)
October 29, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBRobin faces into climate damage already beyond repair, but then welcomes guest Jane Fonda, now a climate activist, who offers practical hope.
WMC Live #419: Disability Rights & Wrongs. (Original Airdate 10/22/2023)
October 22, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBRobin explores the intersection of climate crises and the world’s largest oppressed minority: the disability community. Guest: Emily Ladau, author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, How to Be an Ally.
WMC Live #418: A Time of Great Abiding Sorrow. (Original Airdate 10/15/2023)
October 15, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBRobin confronts the Taliban's draconian list of forbidden acts for women. Guests: Asila Wardak and Jessica Neuwirth of the Women's Forum on Afghanistan.
WMC Live #417: Surfacing ... Sort of. (Original Airdate 10/8/2023)
October 08, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes - 64.4 MBRobin struggles to regain a focused self post-severe-COVID. Special guest Kathy Spillar, Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine, and editor of the new book 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution.
WMC Live #416: The Show Must Go On. (Original Airdate: 9/24/2023)
September 24, 2023 04:00 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBRobin is leveled by COVID but muddles through hilariously. Special Guest: Feminist art historian and critic Lucy Lippard. New feature: Poetry Corner!
WMC Live #415: Harvesting Darkness. (Original Airdate 9/17/2023)
September 17, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBSeason Premiere! Robin celebrates it by debuting her new book of poems just out, her eighth collection: Harvesting Darkness. After going Inside the Headlines, she shares some powerful, deeply moving poems from the book, in a special reading.
WMC Live #414: Inside the Frontlines, Part 2. (Original Airdate: 6/25/2023)
June 25, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBSeason Finale! Robin focuses this episode—like last week’s—on the Women's Media Center staff and brilliant mission. Today: women in conflict situations, expert speakers' database, features, media training—and a peek into ambitious future plans!
WMC Live #413: Inside the Frontlines, Part 1. (Original Airdate 6/18/2023)
June 18, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBRobin devotes this episode—and next week’s—to conversations with the Women's Media Center staff: how their diverse desks model a true free media. Today: Young Feminists, Entertainment, Climate, and the Research Reports that have become so famous.
WMC Live #412: Naming. (Original Airdate 6/4/2023)
June 04, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBRobin explores how major museums still fail women artists, and why New York has become a center for Indigenous people. Guest: Larissa FastHorse, first Native American woman playwright ever to have a play on Broadway.
WMC Live #411: Suffer the Little Children. (Original Airdate 5/28/2023)
May 28, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes - 63.6 MBRobin takes on the headlines themselves, including the latest Catholic Church shockers. Special Guest: Laura Bates, author and founder of Everyday Sexism, on the results of this remarkable campaign.
WMC Live #410: The Tech Apocalypse? (Original Airdate 5/21/2023)
May 21, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBRobin puts the E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump case into crucially important context. Special Guest: Soraya Chemaly, author, activist, co-founder of the WMC Speech Project, and expert on technology, digital media, and sexism.
WMC Live #409: Running the Gauntlet. (Original Airdate 5/14/2023)
May 14, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBRobin messes with Texas, and her special guest is Cherry Smiley, an activist on prostitution and trafficking of women, and author of Not Sacred, Not Squaws: Indigenous Feminism Defined—which breaks new ground.
WMC Live #408: Comes with the Territory. (Original Airdate: 4/30/2023)
April 30, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBRobin on the firings of Fox News' Tucker Carlson and CNN’s Don Lemon, and on youth activism. Special Guest: Maria Teresa Kumar, founding President/CEO of Voto Latino.
WMC Live #407: Sylvia Plath Symposium Keynote, PART 2. (Original Airdate: 4/23/2023)
April 23, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBRobin and Gloria Steinem continue last week's live-audience conversation at Hunter College (CUNY) on Sylvia Plath's influence.
WMC Live #406: Sylvia Plath Symposium Keynote, PART 1. (Original Airdate 4/16/2023)
April 16, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBPart 1 of a 2-part podcast from Hunter College (CUNY)! Robin is joined by friend Gloria Steinem for a live-audience keynote on Sylvia Plath.
WMC Live #405: Eclectic Solutions to VAW. (Original Airdate 4/9/2023)
April 09, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 73 MBRobin's commentaries range from animal models of reverence for elders to the declining church population in the US. Guest: Jane Manning, former prosecutor on sex crimes and violence against women, and director of the Women's Equal Justice Project.
WMC Live #404: Rethinking Thinking. (Original Airdate: 3/26/2023)
March 26, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBRobin takes a dive into redefinitions of concepts we think we already know—from Buddhist nuns and kung fu to time itself. Special Guest: Debora Spar, expert on technology, future societies, and women.
WMC Live #403: Corporate "Feminism" and Violence. (Original Airdate 3/19/2023)
March 19, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBRobin unmasks the slick public-relations "corporatization" of feminism, and exposes its cruel realities. Special Guest: award-winning documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan and her new film, Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence.
WMC Live #402: The Peanut-Farmer Champion. (Original Airdate 3/12/2023)
March 12, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes - 47 MBAs former President Jimmy Carter enters hospice care at 98, Robin delivers a tribute show to him, stressing his post-presidency activism and strong support for feminism, and highlighting their exclusive and extraordinary 2014 conversation.
WMC Live #401: A Feminist Europe?! (Original Airdate 3/5/2023)
March 05, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes - 77 MBRobin explores what a "feminist Europe" would look like, and interviews returning special guest Margot Wallström, former (proudly proclaimed) feminist Deputy Prime Minister and Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
WMC Live #400: Books to Change Our Lives. (Original Airdate 2/19/2023)
February 19, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBRobin doubles down on opposition to CRT and Black history. Guest: Ilyon Woo, author of Master Slave Husband Wife, the true story of a couple from Georgia who escaped slavery—in disguise. Plus, a transformative reading list.
WMC Live #399: The Idea of Whiteness. (Original Airdate 2/12/2023)
February 12, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBRobin confronts the Right's attacks on books in general and Critical Race Theory in particular with her own reading suggestions. Guest: Janet Dewart Bell, scholar, author, and social-justice activist.
WMC Live #398: Book Bans & the MAGA-GOP. (Original Airdate 1/29/2023)
January 29, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBRobin explores contemporary book banning as a legacy of the Confederacy, and confronts the epidemic of US gun murders. Special guest: Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congresswoman and progressive activist.
WMC Live #397: Beyond Objectification. (Original Airdate 1/22/2023)
January 22, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBRobin delves into deeper ironies about America's Indigenous peoples. Special Guest: Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, botanist, Potawatomi activist, on the emerging "language" spoken by the natural world.
WMC Live #396: A Holographic Universe?! (Original Airdate 1/15/2023)
January 15, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBRobin's post-holidays roundup, and 2023 predictions from 100 years ago. Plus, reconciling Einstein versus Einstein with mind-boggling new theories in physics.
WMC Live #395: The World’s First Poet. (Original Airdate 12/18/2022)
December 18, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBRobin devotes the final episode of the year to poets, from the first known writer in history Enheduanna (Ancient Sumer) through Mary Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Muriel Rukeyser.
WMC Live #394: The Pleasure Key! (Original Airdate 12/11/2022)
December 11, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBRobin ponders why the clitoris remains such a medical mystery, to the great detriment of women. Special Guest: Dr. Rachel S. Rubin, MD, urologist and sexual medicine expert, and an associate editor of Sexual Medicine Reviews.
WMC Live #393: Our Bodies Ourselves. (Original Airdate: 12/4/2022)
December 04, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBRobin devotes the episode to the 50th anniversary of the feminist classic Our Bodies Ourselves—updated and digital! Guests: members of the Boston Women's Health Collective Amy Agigian, Diana Namumbejja Abwoye, Judy Norsigian, and Marta Pagán-Ortiz.
WMC Live #392: The World of Philanthropy. (Original Airdate: 11/20/2022)
November 20, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MBRobin explores the good, the bad, and the ugly in the philanthropic universe, and discusses women philanthropists. Special guest: Patti Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of the Feed The Hunger Fund.
WMC Live #391: Midterm Magic!! (Original Airdate 11/13/2022)
November 13, 2022 05:00 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBRobin demystifies the midterm elections and does her little dance of celebration.
WMC Live #390: Before It's Too Late. (Original Airdate 11/6/2022)
November 06, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBRobin confronts antisemitism rising again in all its forms, and links it to our coming elections. Special Guest: Tova Friedman, on her book The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope.
WMC Live #389: "Terra Nullius?" Indigenous Peoples' Month. (Original Airdate 10/30/2022)
October 30, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBRobin celebrates with guest Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Indigenous Activist Leader (Kankana-ey Igorot) from The Philippines, and one of the original drafters of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which finally passed in 2007.