Podcast – Lady Bits

Jacqui and LeMar take on incels and discuss recent incidents of weaponized white feminism.  Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Relevant Links Does anyone have the right to sex? – Amia Srinivasan for London Review of Books ‘Beta Males’ Want To Kill Women Because They Can’t Get Laid – Robyn Pennacchia for Bust Magazine On Sexual […]

Jacqui and LeMar enjoy the excitement of Black Panther and A Wrinkle In Time before discussing anti-abortion laws, population fallacies, and more.  Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Relevant Links Raise Your Son to Be a Good Man, Not a ‘Real’ Man – Michael Kimmel for The Cut The Population Bomb Has Been Defused – Noah […]

Jacqui and LeMar discuss the impact statements from Larry Nassar’s sentencing, the Women’s March, and how healthcare still fails women.  Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Relevant Links Sister Survivors – An international non-profit organization supporting efforts to alleviate human trafficking, sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation Larry Nassar sentenced to up to 175 years for decades […]

On the eve of the Golden Globes, Jacqui and LeMar started 2018 with some positive stories about long overdue change. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related links Time’s Up: a unified call for change from women in entertainment for women everywhere – Get involved Charlottesville Just Selected Its First Black Female Mayor – Natalie Gontcharova for Refinery29 Retired […]

Jacqui and LeMar meander through their evolving friendship following another crazy week of men run amok. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links The myth of the male bumbler – Lili Loofbourow for The Week Holden Shearer on toxic gender dynamics [Twitter thread] To Guys Who Think It’s “Hard To Be A Man” Right Now, […]

Jacqui and LeMar discuss the Women’s Convention, rising justice for sexual harassment and assault, the full reach of patriarchy, and more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Inside The Most Popular Women’s Convention Panel: “Confronting White Womanhood” – Hannah Smothers for Cosmopolitan Harvey Weinstein and the Economics of Consent – Brit Marling for The […]

Jacqui and LeMar talk about Insecure, One Mississippi, our cultural failure to believe women, upcoming resistance events, and more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Tig Notaro Distances Herself From Louis CK… – Yohana Desta for Vanity Fair I‘m Done With Not Being Believed – Amber Tamblyn for The New York Times Yvonne Orji […]

Jacqui and LeMar discuss pro-choice crusader Dr. Willie Parker’s book, being “the other” in your own family, and much more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice by Willie Parker – Published by Simon & Schuster  

If the title upsets you, then this episode is about you. Jacqui and LeMar discuss how language promotes gender violence, counteracting rape culture, raising feminist boys, and more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture – Nora Samaran for NoraSamaran.com The Language of Gender Violence – Robert […]

Jacqui and LeMar talk bell hooks, Kirsten Gillibrand, Maxine Waters, and how the hell to podcast as the country makes less and less sense. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Dr. Willie Parker on Why Abortion Rights Are a Moral Imperative, Especially For Christians – Prachi Gupta for Jezebel Sponsor Jacqui for the National […]

Jacqui and LeMar return with more ways to #Resist, book and movie recommendations, a look at the Sopranos through a feminist lens, and a whole lot more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks Rally for Obamacare, Mock Funeral for Presidency in NYC – Matthew Chayes for […]

Jacqui reports her experience at the Women’s March on Washington and explains the many ways we can all remain involved in the Resistance. PLUS, 2 new additions to Jacqui’s Book Club. Related Links Daily Action: Resisting extremism in America, one phone call at a time – Sign up for daily action alerts Injustice Boycott – […]

Jacqui and LeMar reflect on the scariest thing going on right now: America! [Headphones strongly recommended for this episode; LeMar dropped the ball as a producer] Related Links The Importance of Being an Angry Woman – Dayna Evans for NY Mag’s The Cut After the election of Donald Trump, we will not mourn. We will […]

Jacqui and LeMar lament how Trump has further instigated the war on women, reiterate the importance of voting, celebrate 100 years of Planned Parenthood, and more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Fear Of A Female President – Peter Beinart for The Atlantic Happy Birthday, Sexual Health: Planned Parenthood is 100 Years Old – […]

Jacqui and LeMar discuss new efforts to fight human trafficking and the old scourge of violence that is men, and an important study on abortion. PLUS, as you might’ve guessed, Jacqui’s got a Trump rant. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Lawsuit Accuses Donald Trump Of Raping Teenage Girl In 1994 – Emma Whitford […]

Jacqui and LeMar finally return to reopen Book Club, talk about the well-fated ‘tampon tax,’ pro-trans activism, and much more. We’ve missed you. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links All The Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister available on Amazon Senate Unanimously Passes Bill Eliminating ‘Tampon Tax’ – Josefa Velasquez for Politico #IllGoWithYou: An Ally […]

Jacqui and LeMar catch up with Indiana and its crusade against women’s health. Then, they talk about Brazil’s war on contraception, the pay gap in US Soccer, and Chariot for Women: the car service app through which women transport women around exclusively. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Planned Parenthood Sues Indiana Over Terrible […]

Jacqui and LeMar review the Kim Kardashian/Erin Andrews double standard, the UN designation for abortion restrictions as torture, the gender gap in unpaid labor, and more. Also! Tweet your spells and powers in the name of gender equality using the hashtag #IfIWereAWitch. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links This Company Received Bic “For Her” […]

FINALLY! LeMar and Jacqui are back to explain why they’ve been gone for so long, the voting power of unmarried women, the science of IUDs, and much much more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links The Single American Woman – Rebecca Traister for NY Mag All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise […]

Jacqui and LeMar talk about the UN’s report on the global benefits of feminism, the truth behind fetal tissue donation, the ongoing fight for rape justice, and more. Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Related Links Feminism Makes The World Safer and Richer: New UN Report Confirms – Ben Norton for Salon Tearing Down the Fetal […]