Women Living the Questions

Ruby Tugade

“Women Living the Questions” celebrates older women and the courage, curiosity, and wisdom they gain over decades. Host Ruby Tugade speaks with extraordinary women about reinvention, resilience, and living fully. From her mother’s story of leaving everything familiar to claim a new life in the U.S., to conversations with some of the first female students at Yale College, Ruby highlights the richness and power of womanhood at every stage. This podcast invites listeners to honor the stories often overlooked and to see aging as a time of deepening, growth, and continuous possibility.

  1. Alexis Krasilovsky: Living Her Heroine’s Journey

    May 3

    Alexis Krasilovsky: Living Her Heroine’s Journey

    Content Note: This episode includes references to violence, including sexual violence and assault, so please take care while listening. In this episode, host Ruby Tugade speaks with Alexis Krasilovsky, an award-winning filmmaker, author, and professor whose career spans decades of experimental cinema, academic work, and women-centered storytelling. As part of the first class of women at Yale, Krasilovsky created her first film in 1970, End of the Art World, featuring Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns, now restored by the National Film Preservation Foundation. She has built a body of work that consistently challenges dominant narrative traditions. With her forthcoming novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman, she returns to the 1970s art world with a clarity that only comes with time, revisiting it as both participant and observer. ARTIST’S BIO:   Alexis Krasilovsky is an award-winning filmmaker of the documentaries Let Them Eat Cake and Women Behind the Camera. She was born in Alaska, survived sexual assault at gunpoint, and has traveled to twenty countries. Her first film, End of the Art World – featuring Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns – was made in 1971 while she was an undergraduate in the first class of women at Yale, and recently restored by a National Film Preservation Foundation award. (Her films are available on Kanopy.com.) Alexis is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her pandemic poetry film, The Parking Lot of Dreams adapts poems from her book, Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems. Her most recent book is the forthcoming novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman, which will be released by City Point Press on September 8, 2026 and is available for pre-sale at Simon & Schuster (https://bit.ly/4sG9Zvc). Alexis has an MFA from Cal Arts and is Professor Emerita at California State University, Northridge. Her pro-choice hologram, Childbirth Dream, was exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Alexis lives in Los Angeles and likes to dye her hair purple and blue. For more information, see http://alexiskrasilovsky.com. Music: “Love” by Alex‑Productions, licensed under CCBY 3.0

    36 min

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“Women Living the Questions” celebrates older women and the courage, curiosity, and wisdom they gain over decades. Host Ruby Tugade speaks with extraordinary women about reinvention, resilience, and living fully. From her mother’s story of leaving everything familiar to claim a new life in the U.S., to conversations with some of the first female students at Yale College, Ruby highlights the richness and power of womanhood at every stage. This podcast invites listeners to honor the stories often overlooked and to see aging as a time of deepening, growth, and continuous possibility.

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