Jessa Crispin Podcasts

Jessa speaks with Mikita Brottman, author of An Unexplained Death, about the new "true crime" wave and what it says about its mostly female audience. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Ap…

Jessa speaks with author Nancy L Green about the limits of transnationalism. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. P…

Jessa and special guest Margaret Howie discuss the latest developments in the Epstein scandal, all of the married men who have been caught in his company, and the wives that stand by them. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellec…

Solo ep! Jessa shares her thoughts about the role of the writer. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELL…

Astrology is booming, so now feels like the perfect time to speak with Amelia Quint about the current state of Astrology and how things are changing now that it has entered the mainstream. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellec…

Jessa speaks with dear friend and returning guest Jennifer Porto about happiness whether it exists, how social media tries to take it away from us, and whether happiness creates complacency. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntell…

In an exclusive bonus episode pulled from the Public Intellectual Patreon, Jessa and Eileen G'Sell discuss the older woman/younger man romantic storyline in film. More episodes just like this if you subscribe to the Public Intellectual Patreon page (see below for link!) -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, …

Jessa speaks with Clare Chambers, author of Against Marriage, about a marriage-free state. What would a state that does not prioritize and privilege one form of relationship look like? -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual…

Jessa sits down with critic and art historian, Ian Bourland, to discuss Guns n' Roses, of course! They talk Axel Rose, his legacy, and whether he would be an acceptable figure in today's music scene. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/Pub…

Jessa speaks with writer Yasmin Nair about the state of criticism, what it means for criticism to be dead, and what the changing relationship is between those who make and those who have opinions. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/Public…

As several states pass legislation to block access to abortion services, Robin Martys book Handbook For Post-Roe America is an essential purchase. Jessa speaks with Robin about the dire state of abortion rights and what comes next. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MER…

Jessa sits down with Leah Munsey to discuss The Paper Machete, a bi-weekly show at the Green Mill in Chicago, what its like to run the show, and how to balance the desire for stability/financial solvency while also preserving the uniqueness of what Paper Machete is. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EAR…

Jessa speaks with Ben Miller, one half of "Bad Gays," a podcast about evil and complicated gay men in history, about uncovering the darker side of gay history and the limits of identity politics. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/Public…

Jessa sits down with Jennifer Porto to discuss American hostility to art, how this hostility becomes systemic due to lack of eduction and understanding of arts value, and what it means to separate yourself from that environment and live a life devoted to art. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPIS…

Jessa speaks with Sarah Lazare and Jessica Stites of In These Times Magazine about what we do now that Mueller has not saved everyone and the big distraction of Russia-gate is over. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual P…

Today's episode is a re-release of one of our favorite episodes: "Witchcraft Capitalism" (w/ Katelan Foisy) from October 12, 2017. --- There is a strong market for witchcraft these days. As practices such as astrology, tarot, crystals, and herbal medicine enter the mainstream, the use of witchcraft to sell stuff has increased dramatically. Jessa si…

Jessa sits down with Barbara Bourland to discuss envy, especially in the writing community. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get …

What does it take to start a new publication in this era, particularly an altweekly? Jessa sits down with Brandon Soderberg, who is helping to revive the Baltimore Beat, about what altweeklies provide that other media outlets don't and how to create a sustainable community in this era of free news, fake news, and all the rest. --- SUBSCRIBE to the …

Glenn Close occupies an interesting place in American cinema and the feminist imagination. Jessa speaks with author Suzanne Leonard about her, the role of women in film, and whether this role has gotten better (or not). --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more…

Jessa speaks with poet Alexis Aceves Garcia about how class, education, and diversity issues in the publishing world create a hostile environment for writers who arent of a certain race, educational background, and/or socioeconomic reality. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW …

What can a city and a tenant do in order to prevent a population, neighborhood, or ethnicity from being displaced? Jessa speaks with head of the Kansas City Eviction Project, Tara Raghuveer, about why there is a lot of available housing in Kansas City, but for some reason, evictions, rents, and housing prices are going up.--- SUBSCRIBE to the #Publ…

Jessa speaks with Joseph Fischel, author of Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice, to talk about the word "consent" and how to think about bad sex in a more complex way. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual …

Jessa speaks with Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and author of new book Generation Priced Out: Who Will Live In The New Urban America?, about the limited conversations surrounding the housing crisis and the tendency to think about these problems as inevitable.---SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BON…

Jessa sits down with Briallen Hopper to talk about spinsters and what it's like to live a life that is not the cultural expectation.---SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectualPLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Googl…

The 2018 Daphne Award presentation is here! The only award show that revisits fiction & non-fiction works published 50 years ago to determine what ACTUALLY should have been celebrated as "the best." Jessa and special guest Margaret Howie discuss what was interesting in literature in 1967 (we know the math doesn't add up, just go with it), what was …

Jessa sits down with Leigh Goodmark, Professor of Law and Director of the Gender Violence Clinic at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence, to discuss domestic violence, her experience working with women in the legal system, "trendy domestic violence" as entertainment, and how a system mea…

Jessa talks with Christopher L. Miller about the literary faker and the idea of authenticity in an era where anyone can pretend to be whoever they want. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US o…

Jessa talks with BD McClay, book critic and beloved frequent guest of the podcast, about year end book lists and the dominance of the first person singular narrative. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE…

In 2012, Michael Scott Moore was abducted in Somalia while working as a reporter. Two and a half years later, he was released after a ransom was paid. Now he has published the book, The Desert and the Sea, which is not only a memoir of his experience as a hostage but is also a work of reporting and a history of the situation in Somalia. I wanted to…

Gillian Flynn is having a moment. Jessa sits down with Nicols R. Melo to discuss her work and their recent adaptations. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, St…

Jessa is joined by Emily Yoshida to discuss Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film RoboCop, the masculinity of the hyper-80s action movie, and the TV dads that followed. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE…

Jessa sits down with Heidi Matthews to discuss the #MeToo movement and believing women. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your…

Jessa speaks with poet/film critic Eileen G'Sell about the documentaries of Lauren Greenfield, specifically her latest film "Generation Wealth." --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple …

Housing and city planning are feminist issues. Jessa speaks with Dorina Pojani, Professor at the University of Queensland, about urban planning and how we can begin to think about bringing feminism into urban planning on a much larger scale. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW…

In our continuing investigation into the reality of the lives of straight white men, we turn our attention to their artistic output. Jessa sits down with Irish playwright, Philip St. John, to discuss this, as well as contemporary pressures on artists/writers and the displeasure of audience and critics when your work doesnt conform to their expectat…

Jessa sits down with Jennifer Porto to discuss the problem of the wife and why there is so little good literature on a role that is millennia old. Why is it so mistreated and dismissed? --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectu…

What is feminism still good for? What does feminist theory and a feminist worldview offer as we consider how to move into the future? How do we move the gaze from what is to what could be? Ireland won a huge victory in womans rights with the legalization of abortion. Jessa speaks with special guest Roisin Agnew about these questions and the state o…

Jessa sits down with Johanna Hedva. They have been writing a series of pieces on illness called This Earth, Our Hospital, including the much referenced and much loved essay "Sick Woman Theory." They discuss why illness memoirs are big sellers right now, why one shouldnt capitalize on a moment even when its convenient and profitable, and the differe…

Does it matter what we watch and read? Is it possible for a film to be just entertainment or are the stories that our mass media tells us shaping how we see the world? Peter Biskind, author of The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great For Extremism has been covering this territory for a while. Jessa cal…

Donna Haraway and Adele Clarke edited the potent little volume "Making Kin Not Population," as a way to think through alternatives to babies and ask the question, "how do we prevent environmental collapse and resource stripping?" Donna Haraway joins Jessa to discuss this and more on today's episode. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon…

Jessa speaks with Emil Ferris, author of the graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, about living with art, the gift that ugliness can be, and their shared deep love of Chicago. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual …

Jessa sits down with Nicols Melo to discuss David Fincher's Netflix series "Mindhunter" and the contagiousness of toxic masculinity. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Go…

Today's episode is a re-release of one of our favorite episodes: "Heterosexuality is a F**king Nightmare" (w/ Indiana Seresin) from August 10, 2017. --- Jessa made a joke on twitter saying that she wanted to write a book called Heterosexuality is a Fucking Nightmare. She received an e-mail from another user intrigued by the idea, Indiana Seresin, e…

Jessa is married. What follows is a conversation with the man she married about his history of performing masculinity, jessas history of trying to perform and failing to perform femininity, heterosexuality and how coupledom tries to reinforce strict gender roles. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY …

This episode is one of our bonus eps that was recently released on our Patreon feed -- but today, we're migrating it over to the main feed for all Public Intellectual listeners. If you like this and want more bonus episodes from Jessa, consider subscribing on the Public Intellectual Patreon page - www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual The world is rea…

Jessa welcomes back special guest Margaret Howie for a conversation about terrible women, conmen, and fraudsters. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher…

The pressure to conform to very limited beauty standards has (as todays guest would say) an ethical side if you dont use this 12 step skin care regiment or get your yoga body toned or find the perfect selfie angle, then you are letting yourself down. You are letting yourself go. The line for whats normal keeps moving until we are all now plucking, …

For her latest series about women directors, Jessa speaks with Ryan Nyburg of the Post-Culture Review about Ida Lupinos The Hitch-Hiker, the cross-gendered ability to see the other gender in all its complications, pressures, psychological/sociological realities, and why the Bechtel test is a bullshit way to talk about a film. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #…

Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen is an activist in Madrid currently helping to organize and participate in the mass occupation of bank owned property in Spain. She has written beautifully on the difficulty of collaborative projects like this that go against social conditioning and the way that she was raised. Jessa sits down with her in Madrid to discuss…

Weve already done an episode about Paul Verhoevens Elle, but there are a few more things left to say about this film: in particular, the radical optimism of its ending. To be able to find optimism in a movie about rape and violation is kind of extraordinary so Jessa and her friend Marta Peirano re-watched the film in Madrid, drank some wine, and re…