Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• If you could have a year’s supply of anything, what would it be?
• The pros and cons of podcasting as a form of public engagement for women
• Gendered politics of the voice and expectations about what a listenable voice should sound like.
• Podcasting as one of the safest spaces for women doing public work because if people hate you, they just won’t listen.
• The practice of hate-reading and hate-skimming blog posts and using them as a platform for women-hating.
• The policing of women’s voices and the different expectations around vocal style in the medium of podcasts.
• Early 20th century middlebrow magazines as a formative public space for women writers and thinkers.
• The role of middlebrow magazines as spaces for making and maintaining race, class, and gender.
• The making of Witch, Please, Hannah’s podcast about the Harry Potter world.
• The importance of using podcasts as a space for using our academic training and knowledge to resonate with wider listeners.
• Hannah’s newest podcast, Secret Feminist Agenda, is like a really good bar conversation at the end of the day of the conference.
• The experimental peer review process of Secret Feminist Agenda and the importance of rethinking our approach to peer review.
• The skill set of making a podcast and the skill set of teaching a class are remarkably similar.
• Pitch yourself as a guest on a podcast that you listen to and tell us how it goes.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Hannah McGregor
• Marcelle Kosman
• Witch, Please podcast
• Secret Feminist Agenda podcast
• Wilfrid Laurier University Press peer-reviewed podcasting
• This American Life episode If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
• Another Round podcast with Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu
• So You Want to Start a Podcast by Kristen Meinzer
• Alice Munro, Canadian author
• SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council)

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia