FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | APRIL 11, 2024
The episode is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and MsMagazine.com.
On the Issues with Michele Goodwin is a popular, issues and policy-focused podcast featuring feminist analysis, insightful conversations and exciting guests. This is the first podcast from Ms. magazine, a legacy feminist publication. In each bi-weekly episode, host Dr. Michele Goodwin and special guests will tackle the most compelling issues of our times, centering feminist concerns about rebuilding our nation and advancing the promise of equality.
A new episode—Our Abortions: No One Asked You (with Lizz Winstead)—is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and MsMagazine.com.
In this episode, Dr. Goodwin is joined by the indomitable Lizz Winstead with a live studio in Washington, D.C. She bares all as we talk about the new documentary featuring her and Abortion Access Front (AAF), No One Asked You. From her childhood to her own abortion story, she tells it all, including what led her to found AAF.
In a time when the news is increasingly dire—especially with regard to reproductive health care—do comedians have a role in sharing the news? Winstead, who forever changed the way people get their news when she co-created The Daily Show, knows better than anyone that the answer to this question is a resounding yes.
A full transcript of the episode may be found here, as well as a few excerpts below:
“I would just get on stage and tell some bullshit jokes and people were like, how dare you be up there? And I was like, well, if you’re going to be mad I’m here, I might as well say something to get you actually mad, and then that would make the most sense.” — Lizz Winstead
“We decided to collect all of the information from all of these places, and we ended up accidentally, as this band of people, creating one of the largest databases in our movement about anti-abortion extremism, where they live, what they do. We join their churches under pseudonyms online, track them online, and so they reveal a lot about who they are and where they’re going to be.” — Lizz Winstead
“What I hope is next is that we take this opportunity to also remind people that Roe was the very bottom, and it didn’t service a lot of people. So, as we rebuild and decide we want to have this movement that we’re going to actually have true bodily autonomy and reproductive emancipation, that is going to be a thing that we are going to say.” — Lizz Winstead
Meet the Host of On the Issues: Dr. Michele Goodwin is executive producer with Ms. Studios, as well as a frequent contributor to Ms. Magazine and on MsMagazine.com. She is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and also serves on the executive committee and national board of the ACLU. Dr. Goodwin is a prolific author and an elected member of the American Law Institute, as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center. Her most recent book, Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and The Criminalization of Motherhood is described as a “must read.”
About Ms. Magazine: Co-founded by Gloria Steinem in 1972 and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation since 2001, Ms. magazine has been a trusted, popular source for feminist news and information in print and online for nearly 50 years. Ms.’s time-honored traditions of an emphasis on in-depth investigative reporting and feminist political analysis have never been more relevant, bringing a new generation of writers and readers together to share news, analysis, research and strategies for fighting back and moving forward, for shaping the future.
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