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Podcast Profile: thinking bodies: a feminist philosophy podcast

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8 episodes
2024 to 2026
Median: 62 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast introduces and explores feminist philosophy through accessible, conversation-driven episodes designed for newcomers as well as longtime learners. Hosted by Drs. Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier, it builds episodes around crowdsourced voice clips from a range of feminist philosophers and interlocutors, using multiple perspectives to animate key concepts and debates. The format emphasizes “doing philosophy together,” combining careful attention to canonical and influential feminist texts with a collaborative, community-based approach to interpretation.

Across the episodes, the podcast frequently engages themes connected to embodiment and lived experience, showing how gendered social norms shape bodily movement, spatiality, and everyday comportment. It also returns to questions about emotional life and interpersonal relations, including the politics of emotional expression and what it means to be taken seriously or dismissed in social and institutional contexts. Ethical and political dimensions of social trust appear as another recurring focus, especially how trust can be built, withheld, or undermined within relationships structured by power.

The podcast also highlights core issues in feminist epistemology: how knowledge is produced, whose voices are heard, and how silencing can function as a form of harm. Related discussions examine purity, impurity, and separation as social and conceptual tools that can organize identities and boundaries, including how such frameworks intersect with colonialism and other structures of domination.

In addition to text-focused explorations, the podcast includes field-note style conversations recorded in connection with a philosophy conference centered on trans thinking. These discussions situate trans philosophy alongside feminist philosophy, reflecting on what kinds of philosophical work feel urgent now, what academic spaces and conferences can be like, and how philosophical ideas connect to teaching and everyday cultural reference points. Overall, listeners can expect a mix of close readings, conceptual explanation, and multi-voice dialogue across feminist and trans philosophical traditions.