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Selected appearances

• “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” The Dissenter, March 7, 2025

• “Reframing the American Dream, Part I” Refamulating podcast, November 12, 2024

• “Undertaking Utopia,” What Could Go Right? podcast October 23, 2024

• “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism (feat. Kristen Ghodsee),” Evening Sanctuary Podcast, May 26, 2024

• “Upstream, feat. Kristen Ghodsee,” Upstream Podcast, March 8, 2024

• “The Socialist History of International Women's Day with Dr. Kristen Ghodsee, a conversation with Mexie,” March 8, 2024

• “Pythagoras’ Utopia,” Dan Snow’s History Hit Podcast, December 22, 2023

• “L’intime est politique,” podcast from the Festival des Libertés, October 14, 2023

• Science Magazine podcast, "Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home," September 28, 2023

• Atlas Obscura Podcast, “Twin Oaks,” September 25, 2023

• Freakonomics Radio, “When Did Marriage Become a Luxury Good?” September 21, 2023

• Current Affairs podcast, “Why We Need Utopias,” September 15, 2023

• KQED The Forum, “What Does Utopia Mean to You?” September 7, 2023

• WIRED, Have a Nice Future Podcast, “Maybe you should just join a commune.” August 23, 2023

• Everyday Anarchism Podcast, “Everyday Utopia - Kristen Ghodsee,” August 23, 2023

• The Gray Area Podcast with Sean Illing, “The Benefits of Utopian Thinking,” August 21, 2023

• PRX The World, “Building a Medieval Utopia,” August 10, 2023

• Second Life Book Club, “A Conversation with Kristen Ghodsee,” August 10, 2023

• It’s Not Just In Your Head Podcast, “#144 - Everyday Utopia (ft. Kristen R. Ghodsee,” July 11, 2023.

• Centering on Peace with Faramarz Farmod, “Kristen R. Ghodsee on Women's Emancipation and Everyday Utopia,” BCTV.org, July 11, 2023

• Total Liberation Podcast with Mexie (Livestream), “Building Utopia with D. Kristen Ghodsee,” July 7, 2023

• Upstream Podcast, “Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee,” June 19, 2023

• RevolutionZ Podcast, “Diverse Utopias with Kristen Ghodsee,” June 18, 2023

• The Ezra Klein Show Podcast, “What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal,” June 9, 2023. Read the full transcript here.

• Little Atoms Podcast, Kristen Ghodsee’s Everyday Utopia, May 22, 2023

• Podcast of the Free Library of Philadelphia, “Everyday Utopia: Kristen Ghodsee in Conversation with Arwa Mahdawi,” May 18, 2023

• Revolutionary Left Radio Podcast, “Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & the Good Life,” May 17, 2023

• NPR’s Morning Edition, “Women in some countries will mark International Women's Day with protests,” March 8, 2023

• Total Liberation Podcast, “Love & Sex in a Capitalist Hellscape: Decommodifying our Relationships w. Dr. Kristen Ghodsee,” November 10, 2022

• Revolutionary Left Radio, Kristen Ghodsee, Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women, October 10, 2022

• The Method Podcast with Rebecca Amsellem. Episode 4: Repairing Our Desires. [In English and French] May 10, 2022

• Catalan TV3, “La Fi de l’Amor,” November 29, 2021 [In Catalan]

• Reimagining Soviet Georgia Podcast, “Episode 11: Social Consequences of the End of Socialism with Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein,” November 4, 2021

• Jacobin Radio, Long Reads: Kristen Ghodsee on the Lost World of Bulgarian Communism, September 25, 2021

• Overdetermined: A Rethinking Marxism Podcast, Vol. 1, Episode 2, September 24, 2021

• Le Monde Diplomatique, Podcast with George Miller: The forgotten chapter of the women’s movement, July 14, 2021

• National Public Radio, Throughline Podcast, “Capitalism: What Is It?” June 24, 2021

• Revolutionary Left Radio Podcast, Interview with Kristen Ghodsee, “The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai” June 18, 2021

• FALTER-Radio (Austria) Der Podcast mit Raimund Löw, Orgasmus und Sozialismus – #536 (Orgasm and Socialism) in English, May 25, 2021

• Last Born in the Wilderness Podcast, “Red Nostalgia: Post-Soviet Europe & Arguments For Economic Independence w/ Kristen Ghodsee,” March 15, 2021

• A World to Win Podcast with Grace Blakeley, “Love Kills Capitalism,” March 10, 2021

• The Katie Halper Show Podcast, “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” March 8, 2021

• Revolutionary Left Radio Podcast, Interview with Kristen Ghodsee,“Socialist Feminism, Class Struggle, and the Cold War.” 7 March 2021

• It's Not All in Your Head Podcast, "Sex Feels Better When all of Your Basic Needs are Met." February 17, 2021

• AnthroPod, The Podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, “Socialism, Spies, and Serendipity: Katherine Verdery and Kristen Ghodsee on Anthropology and Epistemic Change,” November 15, 2020

• Not What You Thought You Knew Podcast, “The Night Witches and the Fighting Women of the Soviet Union.” September 29, 2020

• The Vast Majority Podcast, “Why you should an anti-anti-communist,” September 18, 2020

• The Hotbed Collective Podcast, “Do Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism?” June 3, 2020

• Radio New Zealand, “How we count women’s work is discussed at the 2020 New Zealand Arts Festival,” May 17, 2020

• Radio New Zealand, “Kim Hill speaks with Dr Kristen Ghodsee about her book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” April 12, 2020

• Radio New Zealand, “Sex and Socialism. When Unregulated Capitalism Kills the Mood.” November 29, 2019

• Catalanya Radio, “Per què les dones de països comunistes gaudien més del sexe?” November 24, 2019 [Catalán]

• Radio RaBe Berne, “Warum Frauen im Sozialismus besseren Sex haben - Und andere Argumente für ökonomische Unabhängigkeit,” October 27, 2019 [Deutsche]

• AnthroPod, The Podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, “Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals: Ruth Behar in Conversation with Kristen Ghodsee,” August 15, 2019

• New Books Network: East European Studies, “Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism,” June 27, 2019

• The Order of Things podcast, “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” June 25, 2019

• New Books Network: East European Studies, “Second World, Second Sex.” June 20, 2019

• Revolutionary Left Radio, “Women Behind the Iron Curtain: Socialism, Feminism, & Soviet Power,” March 8, 2019

• Office Hours Podcast with Brandon Baker, “A Conversation with Kristen Ghodsee,” February 13, 2019

• Little Atoms Podcast with Neil Denny, “Kristen Ghodsee’s Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” February 11, 2019

• History Hit Podcast with Dan Snow, “Sex and Socialism with Professor Ghodsee,” February 9, 2019

• Politics and Prose Podcast, “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” December 6, 2018

• Behind the News with Doug Henwood: “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” November 29, 2018

• Season of the Bitch Podcast, November 11, 2018, “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.”

• The Cut podcast with Molly Fischer, November 6, 2018 “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”

• KIRO Radio, Seattle's Morning New with Dave Ross, July 3, 2018. MP3 Clip: "Prof Kristen Ghodsee from UPenn on democratic socialism and the generation gap"

• Jacobin Radio: "Behind the News with Doug Henwood: Anti-Communism," May 21, 2018

• Slought Foundation, "Folded into Lives: A Conversation with Joao Biehl and Kristen Ghodsee," April 19, 2018

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright, "Are the labels 'right' and 'left' still useful shorthand for political belief?" February 25, 2018

• Revolutionary Left Radio, "Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee" January 8, 2018

• Jacobin Radio. "Behind the News with Doug Henwood: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-communist Eastern Europe," November 23, 2017

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright, "What the legacy of the Russian Revolution means for socialism today," November 12, 2017. MP3 Clip: CBC Interview November 2017

• KIRO Radio, Seattle's Morning New with Dave Ross, August 25, 2017. MP3 Clip: "Advances for women under Cold War communist regimes."

• KPFA Radio, Berkeley. "Behind the News with Doug Henwood," August 17, 2017.

• KIRO Radio, Seattle's Morning News with Dave Ross, August 16, 2017. MP3 Clip: "Lessons of the Cold War that apply today."

• Радио Свобода, “Путин в юбке делу не поможет,” May 5, 2017

• Northeast Public Radio, "Academic Minute: The Left Side of History," May 1, 2015

• "Wer hört heute noch auf Karl Marx im Osten Europas?," Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2 November 2015 (in German)

• "New Podcast features Dr. Kristen Ghodsee" American Anthropological Association

• "Sixth Bulgarian Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Poverty," an interview with Marco Werman on the BBC/PRI radio program, The World

• "Sixth Fire Suicide in Bulgaria," Interview on Voice of Russia (UK Edition), March 21, 2013

• Kristen Ghodsee discusses communist mass women's organizations on ILO TV

• "The Fall of Communism in Bulgaria" with Lisa Mullins on the BBC/PRI radio program, The World

• "Nostalgia for Communism" on Northeast Public Radio

• "Bulgarian Muslims" with Lisa Mullins on the BBC/PRI radio program, The World