The Signal | The Radical History of International Women’s Day and the Feminist Movement with Liza Featherstone

On this episode, I welcome Liza Featherstone to the show. Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz) is an author, journalist, essayist and critic. She is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. I'll be talking with Liza about the radical history of International Women’s Day and feminism.

Featherstone is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation, published by O/R Books in 2018, as well as Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004). She co-authored Students Against Sweatshops (Verso, 2002) and is editor of False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Verso, 2016). She’s currently editing a collection of Alexandra Kollontai’s work for OR Books and International Publishers, and writing the introduction to that volume.

Featherstone’s work has been published in Lux, TV Guide, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., The American Prospect, Columbia Journalism Review, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Dissent, The Guardian, In These Times and many other publications. 

Featherstone teaches in NYU’s Literary Reportage program as well as at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs. She is proud to be an active member of New York City Democratic Socialists of America and of UAW Local 7902.  

The Signal is a podcast by The Bucks County Beacon, I’m your host and the Beacon’s editor in chief Cyril Mychalejko. Twice a month we will use this space to shine a light on the right-wing extremist currents streaming though Bucks County and beyond. We will talk to guests who will help listeners navigate these perilous political waters by providing insight, analysis, and organizing solutions so that we can steer the community toward calmer, saner progressive routes.

Host Cyril Mychalejko’s 5 Book Recommendations to Further Shine a Light on the Issue

1. The Rising of the Women Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880–1917, by Meredith Tax
2. Feminist Solutions for Ending War, Edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner
3. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, by bell hooks
4. Feminist International: How to Change Everything, by Verónica Gago, translated by Liz Mason-Deese
5. False Choices The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Liza Featherstone

The Signal is produced by Kevin Mahoney, Raging Chicken Media.

Music by Maf é Tulà and Cartas a Felice, "La Loca." Panela Music. 

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