Ms. Studios

Amplifying digital reporting with multimedia programming, including podcasts, virtual and in-person programs, and book talks. Combining in studio and live programming with Ms.’ robust print-based media. At Ms. Studios, we elevate the voices you want to hear in politics, economics, entertainment, policy, international affairs and more by breaking news and barriers. Ms. Studios is spearheaded and led by executive producer Michele Goodwin and a team of brilliant producers.

Podcasts

Stay up to date with urgent topics and feminist voices by tuning in to Ms. podcasts and by subscribing to all our shows—and if you like what you hear, please be sure to rate and review!

On The Issues With Michele Goodwin at Ms. magazine is a show where we report, rebel and tell it like it is. On this show, we center your concerns about rebuilding our nation and advancing the promise of equality. Join Michele Goodwin as she and guests tackle the most compelling issues of our times.

On the Issues with Michele Goodwin

with Michele Goodwin

Fifteen Minutes of Feminism is part of our On the Issues with Michele Goodwin platform. Here, we count 15 minutes in feminist terms! The show features robust commentary and interviews in a powerful, concentrated dose.

Fifteen Minutes of Feminism

with Michele Goodwin

Generation Z. We’re the most diverse generation in American history. We’re the screenagers, the digital natives, the Zoomers. We are the youth activist generation and the climate change generation. But, who is Gen Z, really? On this podcast, we amplify the voices of young people in America, from students in Florida fighting book bans, to young lawmakers in Tennessee working to end gun violence, to young people just trying to make it by each day.

The Z Factor

Gen Z's Voice and Vote

with Anoushka Chander

United Bodies is a podcast about the lived experience of health. Join health and disability writer, producer, and activist Kendall Ciesemier and her guests as they explore how different components of our health—mental, physical, social, and spiritual—interplay with one another and intersect with the whole of our identity. When we understand these forces in our lives, we can meet both ourselves and others with more empathy and maybe even realize our fights for equity, justice, freedom, and accessibility are united.

United Bodies

with Kendall Ciesemier

Torn Apart is the inaugural podcast in our Ms. Book Club Series. Hosted and co-produced by Professor Dorothy Roberts, this limited series podcast in four parts is based on her award-winning book, Torn Apart.  In the podcast, she examines the child welfare system and advocates for abolishing family policing and reimagining child welfare.  Tune in to hear the voices of impacted families, family defenders, activists, and scholars.

Torn Apart

Ms. Book Club

with Dorothy Roberts

With their new and highly anticipated podcast, The Talk, Professors Steven Vladeck and Michele Goodwin bring talk radio to the podcasting platform, welcoming politicians, journalists, activists and people who make things happen to the platform. Launching January 2024!

The Talk

A Podcast on Law, Society & Politics

with Michele Goodwin & Steve Vladeck

Coming Soon

The Period Podcast, hosted by Shruthi Kumar and Emily Spears, takes a closer look at the issues affecting people with periods, from regulatory decisions to health outcomes. Coming soon!

The Period Podcast

with Shruthi Kumar & Emily Spears

Coming Soon

Latest Episodes

Fifteen Minutes of Feminism, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin

Fifteen Minutes of Feminism — This Is America: Making Sense of the 2024 Election (with Moira Donegan and Fatima Goss Graves)

November 20, 2024

On the Issues with Michele Goodwin

The Women Who Make Your Vote Count (with Tonya Wichman, Natalie Adona and Gabriella Cázares-Kelly)

November 5, 2024

The Z Factor

Gen Z Women Are Ready To Fight (with Olivia Julianna)

November 1, 2024

Public Engagement

Ms. Studios brings the matters you want to learn and care about right to you and your communities. We engage audiences across the country and world, featuring voices you need to hear from, including academics, policymakers, activists, authors, contributors and Ms. editors, in conversation with you. From our annual Supreme Court term reviews, to programming on abortion rights and reproductive justice, to the environment, economy, elections and international affairs, we bring engaging in-person content.

  • Supreme Court Term in Review

    06/11/2023

    Hear from award-winning journalists, Maura Donegan, Jamelle Bouie and Mark Joseph Stern along with legal scholars as they unpack the rocky 2022-2023 Supreme Court term. Hosted by Ms. magazine executive producer, Michele Goodwin this vibrant panel unpacked the high Court’s bombshell rulings on affirmative action, LGBTQ equality, the Biden administration’s blocked effort to forgive student loans, and so much more at a packed auditorium in Southern California. In partnership with the University of California, Irvine.

  • 50 Years of Ms. Magazine

    06/11/2023

    Since its founding in 1973, Ms. magazine has been a source for news, analysis and commentary with a feminist point of view. In this panel, the magazine’s executive editor Katherine Spillar looks back on the legacy of Ms. and the future of feminism, alongside labor rights champion Dolores Huerta; Eleanor Smeal, co-founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation; Carmen Rios, consulting digital editor for Ms.; and Michele Bratcher Goodwin, award-winning author and executive director of Ms. Studios.

  • Dobbs, Abortion Rights and the State of U.S. Democracy

    06/11/2023

    Melissa Murray and Jessica Valenti at the NYU School of Law symposium, “Women’s Rights and Backsliding Democracies," talk abortion and the Supreme Court. (This conversation took place in New York City on April 14, 2023, as part of “Women’s Rights and Backsliding Democracies,” a Women and Democracy installment featuring videos, essays and more that hope to answer: Can a country that has never truly addressed women’s equality ever be a thriving democracy?)

  • Global Authoritarianism, Women’s Rights and the Power of Feminist Organizing

    06/11/2023

    By 2022, 58 percent of all countries had experienced a decline in checks on government power and two-thirds saw regression of human rights. (This conversation took place in New York City on April 14, 2023, as part of “Women’s Rights and Backsliding Democracies,” a Women and Democracy installment featuring videos, essays and more that hope to answer: Can a country that has never truly addressed women’s equality ever be a thriving democracy?)

  • Abortion Is Essential to Democracy

    06/11/2023

    Recorded live before a studio audience at NPR’s WNYC Studios in New York City, co-hosted by the Brennan Center for Justice and NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, this conversation captures the perilous moment shortly before the Supreme Court’s devastating decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and an onslaught of attacks on reproductive freedom. Moderated by Ms. Studio’s executive producer, Michele Goodwin, joined by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Professor Melissa Murray, Lourdes Rivera, Monica Raye Simpson and Kathy Spillar; produced in partnership with The Brennan Center for Justice and NYU Law's Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network.

Ms. Book Club

Ms. Book Club provides an innovative take on the book club, bringing audiences rich content in an entirely different format. Hear authors as they become multimedia “hosts” and engage with the people in their books, taking us beyond print and narrative. Whether in your living rooms or on your daily commute, Ms. Book Club content gives listeners a chance to engage directly with authors and the people at the heart of the stories, in their own voices.

Ms. Talks

COMING SOON! Join us for a weekend away with Ms. Talks–an opportunity for vibrant discussions and intimate engagements with the people that you most want to hear from. Join us as we take on the big topics in the most special places.