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Sarah Jones’ New Podcast ‘America, Who Hurt You?’ Puts America on the Therapist’s Couch

Sarah Jones—the face of Ms. magazine’s October 2000 issue—is using storytelling to teach us how to heal. Tony Award-winning performer, activist and comedian, Jones brings her multicultural characters to life to examine our country’s myth of resilience in her debut podcast America, Who Hurt You?

The first season of the podcast, released last month, combines storytelling and interviews with guests such as Laverne Cox, Jane Fonda, Ai-jen Poo and Krista Tippett. She explores the personal and the political, both critiquing the systems in power while revealing our universal connections that are often overlooked. In doing so, America, Who Hurt You? provides renewed hope and optimism for our future. 

Because We’re ‘Still Working 9 to 5’: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton Win ERA Coalition’s Trailblazer Award at Hollywood Premiere

The ERA Coalition Forward awarded Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton with the Women’s Equality Trailblazer Award for their fearless work to bring the film Still Working 9 to 5 to fruition, as well as Fonda and Tomlin’s steadfast commitment to getting the ERA enshrined in the Constitution. 

As Tomlin told Ms., “The ERA is fundamental to the culture. We’re one of the few industrialized countries that does not have some kind of law… [for] equality between the sexes,” and Fonda leaned in with a message for Congress: “Come on! It’s time! It’s been 100 years!” Then added, “It’s been ratified, so get it published already!”