Eve Ensler on "The Undeniable Rape Culture of Donald Trump"

Eve Ensler, the creator of The Vagina Monologues, VDay and One Billion Rising published an article this September in the Huffington Post called "The Undeniable Rape Culture Of Donald Trump." One week later, the Access Hollywood tape emerged with Donald Trump sharing his unfiltered feelings about women as sex objects--a tape that is now being adopted as a case study in sexual harassment. Eve and I spoke about her work fighting violence against women, and the good and bad about what the rise of Trump means for the movement. 

EVE ENSLER

EVE ENSLER

Dr. Alison Dahl Crossley, The Gender Revolution on College Campuses

Dr. Alison Dahl Crossley is the Associate Director of The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She shares what she discovered on three college campuses about how young women think about feminism. Her new book Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution will be out this spring Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.

Dr. ALISON DAHL CROSSLEY

Dr. ALISON DAHL CROSSLEY

Jess McIntosh, Hillary for America

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Jess worked to get pro-choice female Democrats elected while at on the team at Emily's List. She was the spokesperson for Al Franken's senatorial campaign, and now, as the Director of Communications for Hillary for America, she's on the front lines working to get Hillary Clinton elected as the first female president of the United States. 

JESS MCINTOSH

JESS MCINTOSH

Anna Lappé, "Food Fighter" and James Beard Leadership Award Recipient

James Beard Leadership Award winner Anna Lappé has spent most of her career as a sustainable food advocate.  It all started when Anna Lappé's mom, Frances Moore Lappé (author of "Diet for a Small Planet" and many more) invited Anna to research and then co-author a book with her. That book became "Hope's Edge," and they traveled the world looking at solutions for sustainable food production as an antidote to our food industrial complex. That was 2002. Anna was hooked and has made pushing for a healthier food system her life's work too and she's just been recognized with a James Beard Leadership award. We talk big food and marketing to kids--and the implications for the health of our planet and people.Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.

ANNA LAPPE

ANNA LAPPE

Fear & Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Hochschild, author of "Strangers in Their Own Land"

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Arlie Hochschild has been called "one of the most imaginative and productive feminist sociologists of the last thirty years." She's written a number of books including The Second Shift, The Time Bind and The Outsourced Self.  She's a professor emerita at UC Berkeley and lately she's been spending her time trying to understand the rise of the American Right–the only way that she could do that was to leave her Berkeley bubble and go to Louisiana to meet the real people of the Tea Party, not the caricatures. She shares her five year journey in her new book "Strangers in Their Own Land. Anger and Mourning on the American Right".

ARLIE HOCHSCHILD

ARLIE HOCHSCHILD

Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas co-Founders Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel, of Berkeleyside

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Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel are the co-founders of the "hyper-local" news site Berkeleyside.com and Uncharted, The Berkeley Festival of Ideas. We discuss the difference between having power and having ideas, and how the Uncharted line up is diverse by design, unlike other conferences which lean toward the usual (white, male) speakers. Listen in on iTunes or NPR One.

Tickets are on sale at berkeleyideas.com. Uncharted 2016 runs October 14th and 15th in Berkeley.  I'll be talking with author Ruth Whippman on Saturday the 15th. 

TRACEY TAYLOR

TRACEY TAYLOR

LANCE KNOBEL

LANCE KNOBEL

Peace In Our Lifetime? Margarita Quihuis, Co-Director of Stanford Peace Innovation Lab

Using behavior design techniques and persuasive technology (like the kind that keeps you scrolling through your social feed), Margarita Quihuis and her team at BJ Fogg's Stanford Peace Innovation Lab are working out how to incentivize peace over destruction, and collaboration over conflict through "positive peace." Listen on iTunes and NPR One.

MARGARITA QUIHUIS

MARGARITA QUIHUIS