This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco talk about how, six debates in, the Democratic candidates finally got asked about reproductive health. Yay? Then, Dana Schwartz, Kiran Deol, and Tien Tran join to discuss costumes– from Halloween to what we’re expected to put on every day as me move through the world as women. Then, as always, the hills we’ll die on.

Show Notes:

Performative Acts and Gender Construction: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory (Judith Butler, 1988) https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1650/butler_performative_acts.pdf

The Joy of Style (Atlantic, 2003, interview with the author) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/08/the-joy-of-style/303098/