All Ears with Abigail Disney - E. Jean Carroll: Let's Salute Old Women

E. Jean Carroll: Let's Salute Old Women

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10/07/21 • 39 min

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All Ears with Abigail Disney

This week on All Ears, Abby is joined by E. Jean Carroll. Carroll is a journalist, memoirist, and the author of America’s longest running advice column. She’s also one of the many, many women who have come forward with sexual assault allegations against former President Donald Trump. When Trump denied the allegation Carroll sued him for defamation, and oral arguments are set to begin on December 3rd. Here, Carroll tells Abby her side of the story in vivid and exacting detail. What follows is a personal narrative in the hands of a master storyteller: E. Jean spins a web of drama, dry wit, and boundless vivacity as she recounts her childhood in Indiana, her lawsuit, the road trip that makes up the contents of her memoir, and what exactly it is that we need men for.
EPISODE LINKS
E. Jean Carroll's Substack
Askejean.com E. Jean Carroll v Trump
E. Jean Carroll on America's Talking (1995)
The Cut, Hideous Men by E. Jean Carroll, 2019
The Atlantic, 'I Moved On Her Very Heavily' The E. Jean Carroll Interviews, 2020
New York Times, Why E. Jean Carroll, the 'Anti-Victim,' Spoke Up About Trump, 2019
New York Times, What Happened Between E. Jean Carroll and Elle Magazine? 2020
The New Yorker, There's A Lot More to E. Jean Carroll's Book Than Trump, 2020
NPR, Biden DOJ Plans To Continue To Defend Trump, 2021
The Cheerleaders, by E. Jean Carroll
What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal
Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson

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Writer Jia Tolentino: Feminism, Fatalism, and the Ego-Death of Motherhood

This week on All Ears, Abby is joined by NYT bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino. Before working at the New Yorker, Jia was a writer and editor at Jezebel and The Hairpin. She’s devoted her career and her unique voice to writing about a wide variety of cultural and social issues, including America’s ever-changing relationship to feminism, abortion, Britney Spears’ conservatorship, and what it means to walk away from a religion. In this week’s conversation with Abby, she discusses what it’s like being a new mother, the persistent failures of capitalism, and the urgent need for collective action on climate change. Tune in for a fun and stimulating conversation about what kind of world she hopes her daughter will get to grow up in.
EPISODE LINKS
The New Yorker Contributors: Jia Tolentino
Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston (The New Yorker)How To Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm
Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Why Andrea Dworkin Is The Radical Visionary Feminist We Need In Our Terrible (The Guardian)
Before #MeToo There Was Catherine A. MacKinnon (NYT)
The Daphne Foundation Website
Fight for $15 Website
Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope (Interview Magazine)
Athleisure, Barre And Kale: The Tyranny Of The Ideal Woman (The Guardian)

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Ellen Pao: If I Had a Hundred Billion Dollars, I Could Send Anybody into Space

This week on All Ears, Abby is joined by Ellen Pao. Pao made headlines in 2012 when she sued venture capital firm Kleiner-Perkins for gender discrimination. In 2015 she lost the lawsuit, but it sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and got people talking about the rampant bro-culture, sexism and bad behaviors that had gone unchallenged there for so long. She went on to become the interim CEO of Reddit, where she banned revenge porn and shut down some of the worst subreddits. Now she runs Project Include, a non-profit that is focused on increasing diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. In this week’s conversation with Abby, she talks about the impact of her lawsuit, her brief but influential time at Reddit, Silicon Valley’s obsession with 26 year-old white, cis men in hoodies, and her hope for the future of the tech industry. Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on what can go right and what does go wrong in Silicon Valley.
EPISODE LINKS
Ellen Pao's Website
Project Include Website
Reset: My Fight For Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
The Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
The Guardian, 'They don't think it's important': Ellen Pao on why Facebook can't beat hate, 2020
New York Times, Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business, 2015
New York Times, Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins, 2015
New York Times, Lawsuit Shakes Foundation of a Man’s World of Tech, 2012 VOX, A Who’s-Who of the Kleiner Perkins-Ellen Pao Trial, 2015
The Verge, Ellen Pao shifted hiring practices at Reddit to improve diversity, 2015
The Guardian, Reddit chief Ellen Pao resigns after receiving ‘sickening’ abuse from users, 2015
The Verge, Timnit Gebru was fired from Google–then the harassers arrived, 2021

All Ears with Abigail Disney - E. Jean Carroll: Let's Salute Old Women

Transcript

All Ears with Abigail Disney

Season 3 Episode 4: E. Jean Carroll

Let’s Salute Old Women

Air Date: October 7, 2021

ABIGAIL DISNEY: Just a program note, before we get started, a warning that this episode includes discussions of sexual violence and abuse.

E. JEAN CARROLL: All right so, in ‘95 or ‘96, I had the Ask E Jean television show and it ran every day at four o

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