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Podcast Profile: thinking bodies: a feminist philosophy podcast

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9 episodes
2024 to 2026
Median: 64 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast offers an accessible introduction to feminist philosophy through conversational, collaborative episodes designed for both newcomers and longtime learners. Hosted by Drs. Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier, it uses a “doing it together” format that weaves in crowdsourced voice clips from a range of feminist philosophers and scholars to animate key concepts and debates.

Across the episodes, the show centers feminist texts and traditions while connecting them to contemporary concerns. Discussions engage foundational topics in feminist phenomenology and embodiment, including how gendered norms shape bodily comportment, movement, and lived experience. The podcast also takes up social and political dimensions of emotional life, focusing on what it means to be dismissed and how power operates through expectations around emotional expression.

Another recurring theme is epistemic injustice and epistemic violence: how certain people and communities are silenced, how knowledge is constrained by social structures, and what practices sustain or resist these harms. Relatedly, the show explores moral and relational concepts such as trust and distrust, considering how trust is built, eroded, or strategically withheld within unequal social contexts. It also examines categories like purity and separation as tools that can structure exclusion, hierarchy, and colonial or racialized logics.

In addition to text-based conceptual episodes, the podcast includes field-note style conversations recorded in conference settings, highlighting connections between trans philosophy and feminist philosophy and reflecting on what philosophical spaces can and should be like. Transcripts and supporting materials are referenced as part of the show’s learning-oriented approach.