The Academic and the Activist

Season 2, Episode 7: Student Take Over

In this episode, Jenny and Amanda take a backseat as the students of the Gender and Politics Lab take over! Sarelle, Kat, Brooke and Holly discuss their experiences working on a podcast and what it is like to work in a collaborative environment like the lab. We also put Jenny in the hot seat and ask her about some of her favourite episodes and moments thus far. For our phone a Feminist segment, we catch up with Michelle Irving who is a past lab member to hear about her first year as a PhD student in the women in politics program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The Academic and the Activist Season 2 Episode 6 - Final Federal Election Episode

I’m this episode of the Academic and the Activist, Amanda and Jenny reflect upon the 2019 Canadian election, talking about minority government, the role of geography and the electoral system in influencing the election outcome, racism and hate in the campaign, and their favourite issue, of course, gender equality. Later in the show Amanda speaks on the phone with Labrador Land Protector and artist Amy Norman, who tells us what she’s reading, doing, and how she’s currently resisting.

The Academic and the Activist Season 2 Episode 5 - 3rd Federal Election Episode

In this episode in the final lead up to the 2019 Canadian federal election, Amanda and Jenny talk about polls, coalition governments, and the diversity of candidates in races across the country. They interview two women running for seats in Newfoundland and Labrador, including Michelene Gray (NDP) and Sharon Vokey (Conservative), and they talk about a recent op-ed written by Yasmin Jiwani, Francesca Scala, and Stephanie Paterson, three academics at Concordia University, in which they highlight the importance of thinking about “care” when we assess policy platforms put forward by parties.