#6 - Podcasting and Public Engagement with Hannah McGregor
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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
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