New podcast episode with Rebecca Amsellem →

After completely failing to post a podcast in the month of September, I finally had the opportunity to record one spontaneously last night with the wonderful French-Canadian feminist activist, Rebecca Amsellem. We were basically fan-girling about Kollontai and I asked if we could record a podcast on my phone. It was a fun conversation!

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In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee interviews the French-Canadian feminist activist and fellow Kollontai aficionado, Rebecca Amsellem in Paris, France. Rebecca is the editor of a well-known feminist newsletter in France, Les Glorieuses, and she has contributed an essay a forthcoming edited volume about the impact Alexandra Kollontai has had on her life and work. In this conversation, Ansellem discusses Kollontai's views on love and revolution as well as why Kollontai is not better known in France.

The edited collection is called: Une bibliothèque féministe, out in October 2021

Rebecca will be speaking at 18:30 at the librairie à République in Paris: "Lancement et rencontre avec Agathe le Tailandier pour son livre " Ma bibliothèque féminite" + invitées surprises!"

The Les Glorieuses newsletter is a great way to practice your French! Rebecca also publishes two newsletter in English. If you want to keep abreast of French feminist politics and economics, look no further:

Impact: https://lesglorieuses.fr/les-newsletters/impact-eng/
Economics: https://lesglorieuses.fr/les-newsletters/economics/

NPR Throughline podcast - What is Capitalism? →

This debate which I did little while ago dropped today on the NPR website. For the record, the conversation that Vivek, Bryan, and I had was about an hour and forty-five minutes, which was then edited down to about 45 minutes. I did have more to say about the role of neoliberal economics in Eastern Europe, but it got cut.

New podcast (in English) on Falter Radio in Austria →

Wirtschaftliche Selbständigkeit bringt Frauen besseren Sex, belegt die amerikanische Sozialwissenschaftlerin Kristen Ghodsee im Gespräch im Bruno Kreisky Forum. Ausgangspunkt ist eine schon seit langem bekannte Umfrage aus früheren Zeiten, wonach Frauen in der versunkenen DDR sich viel zufriedener über ihr Sexualleben geäußert haben als Frauen im kapitalistischen Westen. 

Die Onlineveranstaltung am 12. Mai 2021 mit Kristen Ghodsee, moderiert von Tessa Szyszkowitz, ist in englischer Sprache.

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Free Stickers! Celebrating the Two Year Anniversary of the Alexandra Kollontai Podcast

January 2021 will be the two year anniversary of the A.K. 47 podcast. To honor this anniversary, my daughter designed the nice three-inch matte stickers seen below.

She explained to me that podcasts are recommended by the algorithms based on the number of reviews they have. She thought it would be a good idea to encourage listeners to review the podcast in places like Apple Podcasts and Podcast Addict in order to increase its future visibility.

So if you leave a review, you can send a screenshot of that review and your mailing address to this email address: Alexandra.Kollontai.Podcast@gmail.com.

We will send one of each of the four stickers below to the first 200 listeners who send in their reviews. International listeners are also welcome to submit reviews, and will we do our best to get the stickers out to you in a timely fashion (considering the inevitable postal delays).

Let’s Celebrate Alexandra Kollontai and Keep up the good fight!

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Thrilled to be a guest on Dr. Fern Riddell's History podcast →

The Night Witches were the feared, all-female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. Yet the Night Witches weren't the only Soviet women on the front-line during the Second World War. Women were pilots, doctors, partisans, snipers and anti-aircraft gunners. Dr Fern Riddell speaks to Dr Reina Pennington and Prof Kristen Ghodsee.



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