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It's Freaking Personal
by Bethany, Katie, and Marva
Ranting about politics, parenting, intersectionality, and culture.
Episodes
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Episode #21: Don't let Bloomberg be the Nominee
Bethany, Katie, and Marva talk presidential primary: Bloomberg (booo!!), how to talk to folks in your life about Bernie Sanders, the Indivisible Guide of yore, Obama's silence in the face of being presented as endorsing Bloomie. All while our various children are screaming in the background…
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Episode #20: What Is This Supposed to Be?
Katie and Bethany kick off the third season, and we discuss what this whole podcast is meant to be and how we see ourselves.
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Episode #19: Who the hell is Geraldine Chapey?
Bethany, Marva, and Katie discuss wtf the job title 'district leader' means and why it matters. Also, Marva talks about why she's decided to run for district leader herself!!
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Episode #18: Stupidity Can Also Be Gatekeeping
Bethany, Katie, and Marva talk gatekeeping and some of the awful political nonsense going on around us all the time.
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Episode #17: Were Back and Better Than Ever
We're back after a long hiatus, but it feels good to be back. We're who you want to listen to for the best leftist parenting content out there.
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Episode #16: The Revolution is Coming to a Polling Place Near You
We talk about NY primary day, why katie hates sex and the city, and why centrists can fuck off.
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Episode #15: David and Goliath, Part 398
More on the fight for county committee, or what would happen if you spliced the tale of 'david and goliath' with that classic 1980s existential romp, 'Groundhog's Day'. It's still Feb 2rd, Phil.
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Episode #14: 'Respectability Politics' is the Establishment telling you to STFU
An update on Bethany's crusade to get Ordinary People onto the County Committee (yeah why should they get all the caps?). Spoiler alert: it ain't going well, not by any fault of our determined cohost. We also talk about respectability politics and why its just another way to shut us up. Like the...
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Episode #13: Bethany's County Committee Experience
Katie is away, so this episode is Bethany rolling solo explaining what just happened to her at the Board of Elections while trying to run for Queens County Committee.
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Episode #12: We Were Born to Ruuuun (for the most obscure public office in the land)
We discuss Joe Crowley refusing to vacate the WFP party line and how NYC politics is crazypants in general. We also discuss County Committee and why we submitted petitions to run for the lowest level and most obscure elected office on the planet.
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Episode #11: Please doing your crazy workouts, RBG.
We chat about displays of patriotism on the 4th of July and Justice Kennedy stepping down. We can't enjoy shit for one day, can we?
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Episode #10: This is what the Revolution looks like! AOC and the People win NY-14!
El tiempo es ahora!! We are super sore winners over Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez's stunning victory over party boss Joe Crowley in NY-14!! We discuss her platform and strategy for victory, what this means for the dems going forward, and how words mean things.
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Episode #9: Where We Confront our Congressman and Nothing Happens
Just like that old Jimmy Stewart movie. Except it was us, our kids, and a bunch of community activists talking to our congressman about the humanitarian crisis on the border. And we didn't save the day. We also discuss boring middle of the road democrats vs. the bold, uncorrupt, idealistic…
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Episode #8: Creating Infrastructure for the Resistance
How to lay the groundwork for the resistance. Not the #resistance pussy hat social media warrior resistance, but like actually forging personal relationships with the people who live around you. Also, centrist democrats make us exhausted and sad.
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Episode #7: Take Your Daughter to Lobby Day
We took our kids to the state capitol to lobby for voter reform. It was just like that movie "Mr Smith Goes to Washington", except instead of Jimmy Stewart and a pack of boy scouts, it was us and our 3 little girls taking down the Man. Ish.
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Episode #6: "Be Better" at Plagiarizing
To quote the inimitable Jon Lovett, "What a week, what a week." We talk about former #metoo champion outed as yet another fucking slimeball abuser, Eric Schneiderman, Melania Trump, and the Williams TransCo Pipeline. Every week is a year in Trump's America.
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Episode #5: Opinions are like Assholes
Why are the people with the loudest opinions often the least informed? We discuss the myth of all arguments having two equal and opposite sides. Spoiler alert: this is high school debate club bullshit!
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Episode #4: White People Talking White Privilege
We talk about our white privilege. It's an awkward conversation to have but we have to start somewhere.
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Episode #3 - Is Grassroots Activism a "female" thing?
We discuss how the types of behaviors necessary for grassroots activism (cultivating personal relationships, listening, compromising) are often 'feminized' or seen as weak in American culture, as opposed to corporate, top down, stereotypically masculine strongarming. Like traditional Washington...
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Episode #2: Who Does She Think She Is?
We discuss Laurie Penny's article, "Who Does She Think She Is?" https://longreads.com/2018/03/28/who-does-she-think-she-is/ and how the world just hates women when they do pretty much anything besides sitting quietly and looking pretty.
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Episode #1: Why are the Dems Impeding Progress?
We discuss why the Democratic Party are such massive f*&k-ups and how they are continually impeding progress.
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Ranting about politics, parenting, intersectionality, and culture.
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It's Freaking Personal is created and hosted by Bethany, Katie, and Marva.
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