Gabrielle ThompsonAre you wanting to learn more about modern feminism ? Well you’ve come to the right place. This is a curated list of the best modern feminism podcasts of 2021.
We have selected these podcasts for a variety of reasons, but they are all well worth a listen. We tried to select a variety of podcasts across the spectrum from hosts with a wide breadth of experience.
We are always keen to hear your feedback, if we have missed a podcast, Twitter us Pretty Progressive (Twitter) and we will check it out!
Best Modern Feminism Podcasts 2021
With thanks to ListenNotes, Crunchbase, SemRush and Ahrefs for providing the data to create and rank these podcasts.
Only Girls
- Publisher: Sarah Gorman & Natalia Rodas
- Total Episodes: 64
Hosted by Sarah Gorman & Natalia Rodas, each week we take a piece of pop culture with the word “girl” in the name and discuss how it relates to modern womanhood. Listen to two Chicago comedy gal pals discuss movies, television, music, and celebrities through a lens of intersectional feminism, politics, and of course– squad goals.
Just Stick To Parenting podcast
- Publisher: Doyin Richards
- Total Episodes: 35
“Just stick to parenting, dude.” Those are words host Doyin Richards has heard far too often. Doyin is a best-selling author and dynamic keynote speaker, but he’s mostly known for being one of America’s most respected voices in the realm of modern fatherhood. For years, he only talked about neutral parenting topics like ponytails and playdates on his popular social media platforms to keep everyone happy — which worked out nicely for everyone except for him. Eventually he decided to speak his truth and pivoted to race-relations, mental health, healthy masculinity, feminism, politics, and more. Many loved the change. Some didn’t. Either way, he knew that the world isn’t going to improve unless tough topics are candidly addressed. Get ready for rants, revelations, and realness from Doyin as he tackles hot-button topics, dishes out parenting advice, and delivers strong opinions in his unique and often humorous style. And yes, he will “just stick to parenting,” because all of those topics are important when it comes to raising tiny humans.
The Mindful Cranks
- Publisher: Ronald Purser
- Total Episodes: 35
The Mindful Cranks broadly explores the cultural translation of Buddhism in the West, various facets of Buddhist modernism, and the mainstreaming of mindfulness in secular contexts. The podcast serves as a forum for voices that go beyond the dominant narratives which have been thus far uncritical of consumerism, medicalization, psychologization, corporatization and self-help approaches. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines — the humanities, philosophy, cultural studies, education, critical pyschology, religious studies, and sociology—The Mindful Cranks welcomes new conversations that challenge the priviledging of scientific materialism, methodological individualism, reductionism, and neoliberalism. Our guests are leading edge scholars, authors, teachers, practitioners and activists that share a mutual interest in civic mindfulness and socially engaged contemplative methods. A wide range of diverse perspectives–including critical theory, critical pedagogy, ethnography, Foucauldian governmentality, feminism, hermeneutics, critical race theory, critical management studies, socially engaged Buddhism, political economy–provide the “cranky” intellectual tools for socially engaged contemplative change.
She Speaks
- Publisher: Morgan Reber//Jake Christensen
- Total Episodes: 13
“She Speaks” is a podcast dedicated to the exploration of feminism and Mormonism. Host Morgan Reber and producer Jake Christensen invite a wide variety of guests both within and without the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to dissect issues such as sexual harassment, modesty, misogyny, female sexuality, the “Bloggernacle”, dating, LGBTQ+ topics, and Heavenly Mother– all within the context of modern Mormon culture and theology. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morgan-reber8/support
Hey, Bestie!
- Publisher: Sarah & Kim
- Total Episodes: 15
Hey, Bestie! is a podcast hosted by two thirty-something best friends, Sarah & Kim. They chat about pop culture, things they love (or hate), feminism, and modern life each week. They’re obsessed with news and politics, proudly watch tons of TV, and love being besties & laughing a lot.
The Sisterhood
- Publisher: New Statesman
- Total Episodes: 7
Laurie and Eleanor Penny have a lot in common. A love of politics, feminism, fiction and philosophy. An obsession with Blackadder, Rocky Horror and red pandas. Oh, and — parents. Each week they’ll unpick one controversial idea in the modern political conversation. This is the secret feminist agenda for world domination that the internet warned you about.
Unpacked
- Publisher: SpiritLive Radio
- Total Episodes: 7
This is Unpacked, the podcast that discusses modern day feminism and how it relates to the world today. Join us, Madi Hanaka and Courteney Dorrington, as we breakdown current feminist ideologies and unpack how they affect society as a whole. Each episode we introduce a new topic and through research and critical analysis we will tackle relevant social phenomena through the eyes of two young women.
SISTERHOOD
- Publisher: Louise Jane Avey
- Total Episodes: 9
SISTERHOOD is a safe space by and for queer women. The SISTERHOOD podcast empowers queer voices to speak out in the spirit of sisterhood and feminism across all topics. Nothing is off-limits, we discuss music, politics, sexuality, arts and culture, travel, sex, relationships, spirituality, mental health, and any issues that affect the modern world we live in through a queer femme lens. Created, directed and managed by SISTERHOOD / Louise Jane Avey. Edited and mixed by C. Y. Costa. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/louise-jane-avey/support
Feminism.?
- Publisher: Sankalp Agnihotri
- Total Episodes: 1
In this modern scenario, the term “feminism” carries many different meaning in many different people’s mind. But what is the real and soul aim of feminisn.? This is the main question which is discussed in this podcast, presented by Sankalp Agnihotri and his various guests who will help the host to spread light to seek the answers.
Fierce Fems Podcast
- Publisher: Courtney Johnson and Jordan Ripley
- Total Episodes: 11
Telling stories of powerful women you should have already been taught. Each week, we find stories of women from throughout history, trying to find the stories that are often overlooked, or have nearly been lost to time, and bring the focus back to them. We also discuss women in the news and our woman of the week. Join us for a fun and informative discussion of modern feminism and the women who got us to where we are today.
Feminist Yarns with Kathleen Burns
- Publisher: Noosed Octopus Co
- Total Episodes: 3
In this three-episode limited series join actress and comedian Kathleen Burns as she hosts a live chat show about the F word – Feminism. Kathleen and a panel of special guests will discuss feminism in the modern context through songs, chats and who knows what else? All welcome. Yes, even men.
NoBrasWereHarmed
- Publisher: Abbey Reinhart, Avery Poore, Bailey Flynn, Courtney Thomas, Madie Sandberg, Sarah Olson
- Total Episodes: 14
Hello and Welcome to the No Bras Were Harmed Podcast! It is a space where modern feminism meets modern women. This podcast was the idea of six graduate students who needed more positive activism in their daily life. Each podcast we will discuss a new feminist and their work. We break down what their theories are talking about and how we can apply that into our everyday lives! So stay tuned into this podcast and our instagram feed @nobraswereharmed to get your daily dose of feminism!
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Publisher: Loyal Books
- Total Episodes: 52
Mrs. Gaskell as she was popularly known, had a hard and lonely childhood, spent with various aunts and relatives after her mother died and her father left her. The young Elizabeth met and married a clergyman and moved to Manchester with him. It was here that she developed her strong sense of social justice and the themes which form the basis of her writing. Her biography of her dear friend Charlotte Bronte is considered a classic and provides a wonderfully human picture of the Yorkshire genius and her equally talented, tragic family. North and South is set in a fictional town called Milton and located north of England. The heroine Margaret Hale arrives here, having suffered a series of unfortunate events. Her father, a wealthy churchman who lives in the idyllic English countryside suddenly finds himself losing the faith that has sustained him all these years. He leaves the church and moves his family to this preindustrial, ugly and uninspiring city, where poverty, crime and hopelessness dominate. Margaret soon encounters the handsome, but materialistic, cotton mill owner and tycoon, John Thornton. Their values and philosophies are poles apart, leading to an inevitable clash, which forms the basis of the title of the novel, North and South. The book traces the advent of the Industrial Revolution in England, the pathetic condition of workers and the callous, greedy attitude of the mill owners who formed the bedrock of the new rich in the country. She also wrote several very popular ghost stories which were regularly published by Dickens in his magazine, Household Words. However, Mrs. Gaskell’s works, though immensely popular in her lifetime, soon faded into obscurity. Today, her works are known chiefly through television adaptations of her novels like Cranford and North and South. Her enduring themes of tradition verses modernity, feminism, the changing nature of relationships and the falsity of first impressions all resonate with the interests of readers today.
blessed is she
- Publisher: Grace Washburn
- Total Episodes: 1
based on the scripture of Luke 1:45 this podcast will endeavor to explore the place of a modern day christian woman in the age of feminism, and to come together in order to understand our God’s love for us!
Nevertheless, she persisted
- Publisher: Olivia
- Total Episodes: 1
In this podcast, I discuss the development of women’s rights over time in North America and its impact on modern-day feminism.
Understanding Society
- Publisher: Cambridge University
- Total Episodes: 10
Margaret Thatcher famously declared that there is no such thing as society. Her successor David Cameron has asserted that the concept of ‘The Big Society’ is a central plank of his administration’s agenda. Universities have found it easy to take a distanced view of the rhetoric of government, but the current Conservative government has also insisted that this concept of ‘The Big Society’ must determine a significant proportion of research funding. ‘Society’ is one of the most contested terms in modern thinking – though completely undefined in government policy! What then should we make of the command to think of ‘The Big Society’? Society can mean the widest delineaments of public community life or it can imply the most delimited arena of upper-class posing. Can we talk of society without talking of culture? Religion? Gender? Power? Class? Nationhood? Is society only a term of modern thinking? To answer these interrelated and vexing questions, we have invited a leading group of anthropologists, cultural historians, social scientists and philosophers to explore ‘understanding society’. The second series of CRASSH lectures is led by Lord Giddens, not only one of the world’s most distinguished sociologists but also a key intellectual figure in the development of the Labour government’s social policy the ‘Third Way’. Our second speaker is Juliet Mitchell whose work on psychoanalysis and feminism defines the field. If the personal is political, what place is there for social psychology in understanding society? Richard Sennett – recently described as the sage of the tempers of our times – is our third speaker. His combination of broad political and social insight is crucial for a question as general as understanding society. Bruno Latour – world famous contributor to network theory – has provided one of the most polemical voices in the challenge to those who wish to see society or its institutions as natural or inevitable in form. Marilyn Strathern, one of the most celebrated anthropological thinkers of her generation may agree with Margaret Thatcher that there is no such thing as society – but not for the same reasons. How can society be understood without the insights of anthropology? The lecture series will be followed by two further events: first, at Kings Place in London, Lord Giddens, Juliet Mitchell and Richard Sennett will take part in a further panel discussion chaired by Simon Franklin looking back at the series and drawing together some conclusions. Finally, in Lent 2013 Judith Butler will give a final lecture in Cambridge on the theme from her unique perspective of feminism, philosophy and language.
Religion Today – for iPad/Mac/PC
- Publisher: The Open University
- Total Episodes: 22
Religion is a powerful force in today’s world, as almost any newspaper or news broadcast will make clear. Inextricably linked with nationalism, popular culture, social norms and the lives of individuals, it touches almost every area of public and private life. This course examines many of the most exciting and controversial issues in religion today, including the impact of globalisation/Evangelicalism, feminism and environmentalism, and whether secularisation might mean the eventual death of religious practices and institutions, or whether New Age, Wicca and other alternative spiritualities might become the new face of post-modern religion. This material is taken from The Open University Course AD317 Religion today: tradition, modernity and change.
Religion Today – for iPod/iPhone
- Publisher: The Open University
- Total Episodes: 44
Religion is a powerful force in today’s world, as almost any newspaper or news broadcast will make clear. Inextricably linked with nationalism, popular culture, social norms and the lives of individuals, it touches almost every area of public and private life. This course examines many of the most exciting and controversial issues in religion today, including the impact of globalisation/Evangelicalism, feminism and environmentalism, and whether secularisation might mean the eventual death of religious practices and institutions, or whether New Age, Wicca and other alternative spiritualities might become the new face of post-modern religion. This material is taken from The Open University Course AD317 Religion today: tradition, modernity and change.
Inner circle
- Publisher: Arden Aurora
- Total Episodes: 1
In this Podcast I will be Talking a lot about teenage life, mental illness, pop culture, feminism and modern media
Feminist Fight Club
- Publisher: Isabella Anzideo
- Total Episodes: 9
How did early 20th-century feminists influence modern feminism today? This podcast focuses on topics such as Seneca Falls, the 19th Amendment, and The Equal Pay Act. And many more important feminist history moments.
