Episode 4.29 Saying No! Again! Forever!

This is my resting “no” face.

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.

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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.