294 episodes
Unladylike Unladylike Media
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4.9 • 11 Ratings
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A feminist lifestyle podcast on a mission to stay curious, build empathy and raise hell. Hosted by Cristen Conger.
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Her-Fault Divorce
Women initiate 70 PERCENT of divorces in husband-wife marriages. But why? Are no-fault divorce laws to thank/blame? Cristen digs through the legal history divorcing women, surprising stats and an old LIFE magazine to help explain the paradoxical and persistent relationship between women and divorce. Highlights include: faking affairs, mythbusting "too easy" divorce, America's hottest divorce colony, cooling off periods, and the 1980s "Divorce Wars."
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Deary Diary, pt. 2: Tea and History
Are diaries the ultimate form of authenticity? How do our stories shift when we're journaling for no one to see? On Theme co-hosts Yves Jeffcoat and Katie Mitchell read into Black women's diaries for the personal reflections, everyday details and emotional nuance that goes unseen elsewhere. Highlights include: social media vs. journal authenticity, Harlem Renaissance tea, Octavia Butler's bills, and Whose Diary Do You WISH You Could Read?
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Dear Diary, pt. 1: Secrets Women Keep
What do 400 years-worth of women's published diaries tell us about the kinds of secrets and feelings we keep to ourselves? From a 16th-century spiritualist to the diaries of Anne Frank and Ma Yan, writer Sarah Gristwood reveals the everyday histories they document, the age-old frustrations they share and why she's a proponent of hanging onto your old journals. (Yes, even the embarrassing ones!) Highlights include: writing in code, pie for dinner, peach lingerie and notes to future selves.
Sarah's new anthology is Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries.
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The Bumble Fumble
How did Bumble get its (celibacy-themed) rebrand so wrong? What does it tell us about general dating app burnout? Cristen revises the brand's millennial girlboss origin story, its promise of female empowerment and Whitney Wolfe Herd's path to self-made billionaire. Highlights include: AI dating coaches, a sketchy Russian billionaire, corporate apologies, a Bumble-themed nunnery and costly roses on Hinge.
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Hostess with the Mostest
Imagine having to host the Pope and the Chinese President. On the same day. Plus, a whole press corps and socialite circle is watching and waiting to blame you for anything that goes wrong. That’s what Deesha Dyer walked into when she was promoted to White House Social Secretary for the Obama administration in 2015. But even more than her high-stakes responsibilities, Deesha had to reckon with her own imposterism in a system setting her up to fail.
Highlights include: a Condom Queen, 90s hip-hop, unpaid interning, handbag microaggressions and one infamous Tiffany's box.
Deesha's new memoir is Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Attitude.
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Bisexual Imposter Syndrome (ENCORE)
NeW ePiSoDeS returning next week, unladies! In the meantime . . . What happens when women in long-term relationships with straight men realize they're bi, and why are they less likely to come out? Writer and Culture Club host Maggie Zhou shares her own reckoning with the "Bittersweet Privilege of Straight-Passing in Queer Communities," queer imposterism and bisexual erasure. Maggie and Cristen also offer advice to two married unladies feeling stuck in the bisexual closet. (Originally aired May 25, 2023. )
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Customer Reviews
Amazing!
Great feminist content, excellent explanations, well research and informed perspective on every topic, funny and informative at the same time... one of my favorite podcast!
Tnank you ladies
C&C I’ve never written to you but I’ve gotta thank you for all those years helping me get through the day in mexican catholic community, I started listening when I was 13, I’m 18 now. You ladies were there for me when ever i felt like everything i believed in was wrong, i was told on a daily basis that feminism was evil and that feminists were a bunch of sinners. In a way you along with many other amazing women i discovered online, helped me find to courage to speak up for what i believed in. You were also there the a long summer when i worked in a corn field for eight hour under the sun and when i was sent to a village with no internet to think about my sins. I have so much to thank you for and this episode where you featured a mexican girl talking about how much harder it is here in Mexico to have access to safe abortion was really moving because even if personally I've never been in a situation where I’ve needed one being involved with the feminist movement in my country has opened my eyes to the reality girls all across the country live in. As a catholic it was very hard for me to come to terms with my support for reproductive rights but I’ve finally done it and i have to thank you again for that.
When the SMNTY podcast ended i was very upset because i felt like a part of my feminist world was donde and don't get me wrong i love E&B but it is a different podcast it is amazing but different. I love that you guys are back in the podcasting world! Thank you so much again for everything you’ve done for me and i would like to suggest bringing back listeners’ mail, we all learned so much from it i hope it will be back soon. Thank you again!
Love from Mexico
Fatima