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Podcast Profile: thinking bodies: a feminist philosophy podcast

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10 episodes
2024 to 2026
Median: 65 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast introduces feminist philosophy through conversational episodes that combine the hosts’ discussion with crowdsourced voice clips from philosophers. Across the show, classic and contemporary texts in feminist thought are used as starting points for explaining key concepts and showing how philosophical ideas connect to lived experience, social power, and embodied life.

A recurring focus is how knowledge, credibility, and communication are shaped by oppression. Topics include forms of silencing and “epistemic violence,” the politics of emotional expression and being taken seriously, and the social conditions that make certain harms appear reasonable or “intelligible” within dominant frameworks. The podcast also returns often to embodiment and phenomenology, examining how gendered norms structure movement, space, and everyday bodily comportment.

The recent run of conversations is especially oriented toward trans philosophy in relation to feminist philosophy. These discussions consider transphobic stereotypes, how gender is socially signaled and interpreted, and how “reality enforcement” functions in interpersonal and institutional contexts. The podcast also reflects on the practices and purposes of philosophical communities themselves—what it means to gather, how conferences and other spaces can be structured, and what assumptions shape who is recognized as a participant in philosophy.

Overall, listeners can expect guided engagement with influential feminist and trans philosophers, collaborative interpretation of texts and concepts, and an emphasis on building philosophical ideas “together” through multiple voices.