The Ezra Klein Show →
So, low-key, kinda like a dream come true to have this conversation about Everyday Utopia with the amazing Ezra Klein. You can read the full transcript here.
P&P Live! Kristen Ghodsee | EVERYDAY UTOPIA w/ Dr. Julia Alekseyeva →
Watch my book event at Politics and Prose with the wonderful Isa Salazar and Juliet Alekseyeva.
Spotted in the Oxford University student union
Spotted in the window of Eagle Harbor Book Co. on Puget Sound!
So grateful to a colleague for forwarding me these images.
Spotted on a table at Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue in New York City
God, I love that orange cover!
In conversation with Arwa Mahdawi at the Philadelphia Free Library →
2023 Reading Challenge: Laudato Si'
So, wow, I just love it that the Pope weighed in on climate change, and I can understand now why so many American bishops hate his guts. The latter chapters in this Encyclical Letter are a scathing critique of capitalism and consumerism. Some of this stuff was so on point. I will never agree with the Catholic Church on everything, but I think this little letter is a masterpiece. Getting conservative Catholics to recognized that the climate crisis is real and human caused is no small feat. I only regret that I had not read it sooner.
Little Atoms podcast on Everyday Utopia →
I was absolutely delighted to be a repeat guest on Neil Denny’s excellent podcast, Little Atoms, to discuss Everyday Utopia. Neil always asks the smartest questions!
Podcast from my event at the Philadelphia Free Library →
This was such a great conversation with the brilliant Arwa Mahdawi! I was very nervous at first, but then her thoughtful questions really put me at ease.
2023 Reading Challenge: Ann Patchett's What Now?
Okay so this is technically cheating because this is a short essay rather than an actual book. But Patchett and her publisher cheated by publishing this as a book in the first place. It’s a graduation day speech, and it’s not a bad one, but it should not really be a book. I guess it is something to buy for your college grad when you can’t think of anything else.
2023 Reading Challenge: Arwa Mahdawi's Strong Female Lead
A thoughtful look on how feminine characteristics (or those characteristics that girls are socialized into cultivating more than boys) makes for effective leadership.
Summer reading recommendations on Lit Hub →
Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains
Kristen R. Ghodsee Recommends Thomas More, Aldus Huxley, and More
New podcast on Revolutionary Left Radio →
Another wonderful conversation with Brett O’Shea
Birth announcement
An excerpt of Everyday Utopia in Penn Today →
One of PW's Books of the Week! →
My first book event for Everyday Utopia at NYU
So thrilled to have had my very first book event for the Women and Gender History Luncheon at NYU.
Shooting all morning in Washington DC for a UK Channel 4 documentary film
Once again, I get to be one of those talking heads you see in documentary films about history; this time about Soviet women in combat in World War II
