Very Special Episode:
A Sentimental Education with Dr. Hannah McGregor
Transcript this LIVE episode:
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*transcript is autogenerated and unedited—for now. Edits coming. But having it up with errors > leaving it untranscribed.
Shownotes for this LIVE Episode:
In which pod inspiration, icon, and aspirational bestie Dr. Hannah McGregor (that's Associate Professor Dr. Hannah McGregor to you, nerds) chats with us about her just published meditations on care, community, and learning: A Sentimental Education.
Ilyse and Megan have cited Hannah many, many times on this podcast, seeing as how Hannah is a leading scholarly podcaster, activist, and thinker. (Plus, Ilyse never read Harry Potter until her kiddo wanted to, and she definitely needed some snarky, feminist takes on these … fine books.)
Hannah’s new book, A Sentimental Education, is something we think our nerds would love to read. And we hope this episode is as fun to listen to as it was to record.
From the official blurb:
“How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.
Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memoir of one person’s education as a reader and a thinker, and in part it is an analysis of some of the genres and aesthetic modes that have been sites of feminist meaning-making: the sentimental, the personal, the banal, and the relatable. Above all, it is a meditation on what it means to care deeply and to know that caring is both necessary and utterly insufficient.
In the tradition of feminist autotheory, this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregor’s embodied experience – as a white settler, a fat femme, and a motherless daughter. In so doing, it invites readers to reconsider the culture, media, political structures, and lived experiences that inform how we move through the world separately and together.”
We want to thank Hannah McGregor for joining us! What a treat!
