“This Is The Terrifying Future”: Feminist Writer Rebecca Traister On The Death Of Roe v Wade

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Rebecca Traister, feminist, author and New York Magazine contributor, talks to co-host Joe Hagan about the shocking Supreme Court leak that all but confirms the impending death of Roe v. Wade. Democratic leadership from President Joe Biden to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi have failed, Traister says, to formulate a "robust and morally persuasive message” to counteract the decades-long march of anti-choice Republicans who are set on reengineering society to the past. With consequential elections on the horizon, the fall of Roe could very well mean the toppling of other progressive rulings, from the right to contraception to marriage equality and even interracial unions. Traister finds slivers of hope in a new generation of progressive female voices who are forcefully connecting abortion rights to economics, class, and race as they face "an era that none of us can imagine.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.3	This is your co-host, Joe Hagan, Emily Jane Foxes on assignment.
0:46.6	And so I have the great pleasure of bringing on today Rebecca Tracer, author of Good and
0:52.9	Mad, the revolutionary power of women's anger.
0:55.2	You can see where this is going.
0:57.3	We're going to be talking about this week.
0:59.1	She's also the author of all the single ladies unmarried women in the rise of an independent
1:03.4	nation.
1:04.4	She's a journalist, author, critic, and a leading feminist thinker in this country.
1:09.0	She also happens to be somebody that I know, who I consider a friend, and somebody we can
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1:23.4	I'm just going to start.
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