Secret Feminist Agenda

Look at that I dyed my hair

This episode is late because I am so so tired and couldn’t think of anything to talk about and then Fox cancelled Brooklyn Nine-Nine and my task was clear.

• Here’s a short article about why people love the show and whether it might be picked up elsewhere.
• This is the Twitter thread I mentioned about Jake Peralta and toxic masculinity!
• Probably the most important tweet yesterday?

RENEW BROOKLYN NINE NINE
I ONLY WATCH LIKE 4 THINGS
THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS#RenewB99

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) May 10, 2018

• Did you know Brooklyn Nine-Nine has a Youtube channel and it’s great if you want to waste hours of your life watching clips? DO THAT HERE. Probably start with just ten solid minutes of cold opens:

And here’s the episode!

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The podcast theme song is “Mesh Shirt” by Mom Jeans off their album “Chub Rub.” Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Follow me @hkpmcgregor, follow Kaarina @kaarinasaurus, and tweet about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

Content warning for discussions of anti-Indigenous violence and residential schools.

This week I’m joined by brilliant Tuscarora writer Alicia Elliott, who generously sat down with me during her time at the University of British Columbia here in Vancouver. We talked about Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s fascination with Haudenosaunee women, the food pyramid as a mechanism of colonial violence, and why PETA needs to shut the fuck up about the seal hunt. Oh, and like a million other things. Here are some links if you want to follow along:

• First off, go read some of Alicia’s amazing work. Start with “A memo to Canada,” go on to “CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire,” and finish up with “Naming Ourselves,” written with Melanie Lefebvre.
• Now read up on how much more striking the wage gap is for women of colour
• If you’d like to grapple with Foucault’s ideas about power and life, the essay you want is “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976”
• The book Alicia was trying to remember is The Clay We Are Made Of by Susan M. Hill
• If you’re interested in food and colonialism, check out Ian Mosby’s work
• Read more about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, especially the Calls to Action
• Finally, read this brilliant article by future-guest Emily Riddle and Lindsay Nixon on the killing of Coulten Boushie

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The podcast theme song is “Mesh Shirt” by Mom Jeans off their album “Chub Rub.” Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Alicia’s theme song is “Rockers to Swallow” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

DID YOU MISS ME duh of course you did. I’m back temporarily to share with you a talk that I gave in October for SFU’s Open Access Week. This talk delves a little deeper into what I’ve learned about public scholarship from podcasting, and why I think community accountability ought to matter more than institutional gatekeeping. If you want to follow along, here are a few useful links:

• A lot of my thinking on this topic is inspired by Moya Bailey‘s work, particularly her paper #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics
• This talk also draws in part on another essay I wrote on podcasting and Witch, Please
• For a quick summary of the Third World Quarterly debacle, read this
• If you haven’t listened to the Witch, Please episode I reference, it’s here (and it’s actually a great episode to listen to if you aren’t normally a Witch, Please listener)

You’ll here from me again in a couple of weeks! (Want to know what for? listen to the episode!)

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The podcast theme song is “Mesh Shirt” by Mom Jeans off their album “Chub Rub.” Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here.

It’s here! The final minisode of season four (and frankly, probably, all?) of Secret Feminist Agenda! Ending this podcast series, in its current form at least, is a way of saying no to one thing so that other things will be possible. So join me for one last exploration of the feminist power of refusal. Also: links!

• You can find all three season of peer review, including Cheryl Ball’s point about projects needing to end, here.
• If you haven’t already, check out the Amplify Podcast Network.
• While this podcast might be wrapping up, I’m still making Witch, Please and hosting The SpokenWeb Podcast.
• Here’s Tressie McMillan Cottom on race and the politics of (wasting) time.
• This article “found that faculty of color, queer faculty, and faculty from working class backgrounds together spent a disproportionate amount of their time on the ‘invisible’ work of academia, leaving them less time for the work that matters for tenure and promotion.” Oh, and I wrote about why just saying no to that emotional labour isn’t always possible.
• We can never have too many links to Sara Ahmed’s defining work on feminist killjoys.

The podcast theme song is “Mesh Shirt” by Mom Jeans off their album “Chub Rub.” Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Follow me @hkpmcgregor and tweet about the podcast using #SecretFeministAgenda.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

This week I’m talking to evaluation consultant and podcaster Carolyn Camman about radicalizing the apocalypse, queering objectivity, learning to listen to our bodies, and what the heck evaluation actually is. I learned a ton from this conversation, and I think you will, too! Here are some links!

• To learn more about Carolyn, read this recent blog post about re-framing evaluation as an accountability mechanism); listen to the Eval Café podcast; and check out the Evaluation colouring book!
• To contextualize our conversation about apocalypse, we talked about the podcast “How to Survive the End of the World” as well as Kai Cheng Thom’s book I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World
• Carolyn also recommended “Changing the Culture of Research: An Introduction to the Triangulation of Meaning” by Manulani Aluli-Meyer and “Positional Objectivity” by Amartya Sen
• I recommended that you watch Netflix’s The Dragon Prince
• Here’s more on that story about settlers fleeing to remote Indigenous communities to avoid COVID-19
• You can watch the webinar on “Safe and Equitable Engagement Spaces in the Age of COVID-19” on YouTube!
• Read up on Decolonizing Wealth!
• Here’s a quick explanation of CERB and an article on safe supply in BC, for the non-Canadians out there.
• Learn more about the SFU certificate in Evaluation for Social Change and Transformational Learning and particularly the first course of that certificate, Transformative Evaluation Landscape, taught by Kim van der Woerd of Reciprocal Consulting, an Indigenous women-led evaluation consulting firm
• Read up on The Equitable Evaluation Initiative, which is run by Jara Dean-Coffey of The Luminare Group, and while you’re at it learn more about the LEVEL youth grants from the Vancouver Foundation, which are being evaluated using the EE framework
• And finally, an introduction to prison abolition.

The podcast theme song is “Mesh Shirt” by Mom Jeans off their album “Chub Rub.” Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here. Carolyn’s theme song was “Adieu” by AIZA.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.