But Is It Feminist?

Bullying is never okay! *But* sometimes people need a gentle reminder that they aren’t acting right! In this episode, Amanda talks to Vanessa about the idea of “mean girl feminism” and clapping back at the patriarchy. 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way - Sarah Ahmed Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

DescriptionIn this episode, Amanda & Adrienne discuss all the varied ways podcasting can be feminist in and out of the classroom despite conglomerate corporate hijacking. Join the feminist resistance to sleekly polished and produced podcasts by enjoying this episode recorded by two girls with mics and a dream! 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: https://www.adriennetrier-bieniek.com/The Beyonce Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race, and Feminism Feminist Theory in Pop CultureMost Popular: The PodcastPodcasting as Feminist Pedagogy Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

What does Britney Spears teach us about feminists and feminism in 2026? Listen to Amanda & Katie discuss the life and times of Britney and ask, “but is that feminist?” 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: How Was That For You?: Gender, Aftercare and Impression Management in BDSM by Katie MercerAmerican Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by Lisa WadeEat Pray Britney Doing Gender by West & ZImmermanOpen Book by Jessica SimpsonThe Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey The Sporty One: My Life As a Spice Girl by Mel C Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton The Tragedy of Britney Spears in Rolling Stone by Vanessa GrigoriadisJojo Siwa: The Internet’s Court Jester by matt bernstein, A Bit Fruity PodcastBehind the Blinds PodcastDolly Parton’s America PodcastFind Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

Join Amanda and Candice as they have a conversation about Cardi B, trap feminism, and what it means to always be learning and growing as feminists!  📚Books & Resources Mentioned: The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist ApproachBad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist Down in the Hip Hop South The Hair Tales Documentary This Bridge Called My Back All The Women Are White, All The Blacks are Men, But Some Of Us Are BraveFind Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

In this episode we learn about Title 7 and Title 9 of the Civil Rights Act and explore the ways that these landmark legislations have shaped places of employment and higher education. Join Amanda in her conversation with Allie as they discuss the history and implications of these rulings and ask, “but is it feminist?” 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Gendering Crimmigration: The Intersection of Gender, Immigration, and the Criminal Justice System - Allison HartryBirthright Justice: The Attack on Birthright Citizenship and Immigrant Women of Color - Allison Hartry Bernice Sandler, ‘Godmother of Title IX,’ Dies at 90 - New York TimesOn the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence - Nicole Bedera Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics - Kimberle Crenshaw Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

In this episode that goes way longer than it should have but also could have been three more hours, Amanda & Tess discuss season 3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and ask the brave question of “What is the point of Dadtok?” We also talk about religion. Join us as we reflect on the messiest season of reality tv we can remember. 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Mrs. America Hulu SeriesFind Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

Join Amanda as Sonia Valencia gives us an absolute master class on interpreting Bad Bunny through a decolonial Chicana feminist lens. 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Tiny Desk ConcertAndrea Music Video How to Tame a Wild Tongue - Gloria AnzalduaBad Bunny and the Extraordinary Rise of Latin Music - Andrea F. Garcia-BorbonA Decolonial Revisiting of Gender - Maria Lugones Super Bowl Promo Commercial Yo Perrero Sola Music Video Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

A new year and a new season of your fav podcast that supports women’s rights and women’s wrongs. In this episode, Amanda shares the season’s line up and the future of “But Is It Feminist?”📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, and Feminism - by Amanda Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

It’s a feminist miracle! A holiday extravaganza! Enjoy this Very Special Bonus Episode to close out the first season. There are two special treats for you – one very important announcement and one very stupid voicememo. Enjoy! Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

Can mothers still be feminists? Can parenthood be aligned with feminist goals? In this conversation Amanda and Hannah scream “YES” up and down the streets of the internet. Join us as we talk about gender norms, poopy diapers, and how loving all the children of the world is indeed a - and feminist - radical act. 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Jesus Feminist - Sarah Bessey Am I Pregant? Video Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation - Sophie LewisEssential Labor: Mothering as Social Change - Angela GarbesLike a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy - Angela GarbesRevolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines - edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mari’a Williams No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement - edited by Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Mariah Parker Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

How can a nap be feminist? Amanda and Adriana discuss rest, reclaiming our humanity, and how having a nice lay down makes our world a better place. 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto - Tricia HerseyFind Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

In this episode, we explore the stars and ourselves! Join Amanda in her conversation with Meagan Solomon as we discuss the ways astrology shows up in queer spaces and how it can be a feminist practice. 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Malflora CollectiveForgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory by Emma Pérez CHANI Astrology Website Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

Just in time for spooky season! Amanda and Katie Troyer talk about monsters, the power of being the weirdos, and take a deep dive into the movie The Substance (2024). But is it feminist? Listen and find out! 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: Martyrs (2008) As American as Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Constructing Community in Contemporary American Horror Fiction - Linda Holland-TollMen, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Carol CloverThe Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis - Barbara CreedScream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019) Sinners (2025) Hear Us Scream: The Voices of HorrorCreepy Bitches: Essays on Horror from Women in Horror - edited by Alyse Wax and Rebekah McKendryThe Substance (2024)"The Mindy Kaling Backlash Has Lost All Nuance" - Izzy AmpilThe Craft (1996) Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

Consumers of smut, romantasy, and spicy romance - this one is for you! Amanda and Sonia Del Hierro examine forced marriage plotlines, forbidden love, snake sex, and bodice rippers, asking the brave question, ‘but is it feminist?’ 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: We talk about so many different books and readings in this episode. I think I got them all! I have attempted to organize them in order of when they’re brought up. Señora Power Podcast (Sonia’s Podcast)A Court of Thrones & Roses Series by Sarah J MaasThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHawksong by Amelia Atwater-RhodesThe Empyrean Series (Fourth Wing) by Rebecca YarrosFor the Love of Hades by Sasha SummersReceiver of Many by Rachel AlexanderKiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube (formerly published as Split of Swallow) New Moon by Rebecca York Bride by Ali Hazelwood Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Marie Brown The Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde Lights Out Navessa Allen Desperate Measures by Katee Roberts Den of Vipers by K.A. KnightThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisenGame of Thrones Series by George RR Martin The Dream Harbor Series by Laurie GilmoreLate Bloomer by Mazey EddingsTwilight Sage Series by Stephanie MeyerFind Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

Devastated we need to wait another year for season 3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives? Join Amanda as she has a conversation with Tess Starman about season 2. We talk about MomTok, sexual empowerment and commodification, and deeply consider the feminist bonafides of the ladies fighting Mormon patriarchy. Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

In this episode, Amanda has a conversation with Sarah Ventimiglia about the girl, the myth, the legend: The Girlboss. Come to hear us drag and dunk on the girlboss. Stay for the theoretical analysis of who the girlboss is for, if she’s real, and what comes next for her. 📚Books & Resources Mentioned: The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Hochschild The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Hochschild Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

A very short episode in which Amanda describes this season’s schedule (every other Friday!) Find Us On:📷 IG @butisitfeminist 🤳🏼 TikTok @uhmanduh.is.booked✉️ Email [email protected] us and reach out with your questions, comments, and thoughts! No hate mail please. I’m literally just a girl. 🥺

In this introductory episode, Amanda introduces herself, her ideas, and the podcast! NYT: Don't Just Thank Black Women. Follow Us. By Angela Peopleshttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/opinion/sunday/black-women-leadership.htmlIntersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, & Feminism by Amanda https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666941630/Intersectional-Identities-of-Christian-Women-in-the-United-States-Faith-Race-and-FeminismMapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw https://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/210/2019/02/Crenshaw_mapping-the-margins1991.pdfVouge: 37 Thoughts I Had About the First All-Female Blue Origin Space Flight by Emma Specterhttps://www.vogue.com/article/37-thoughts-i-had-about-the-blue-origin-space-flight-katy-perry-gayle-kingKaty Perry’s “Woman’s World” Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIJUH29pjU