The Will to Change is often recommended as a text that addresses men's concerns in feminist movements and elucidates how men benefit from participation in feminism. At least, that's the popular conception of the work. Emma and Talia discuss whether that's actually the case, whether anyone reads or at least comprehends the books they recommend, and the continued efforts of post-second wave feminists to deprioritize women's liberation in women's movements.

Sources:

bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, 2004

Talia Bhatt, Political Heterosexuality, or: The Tragedy of Feminism, 2026

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Naomi Wolf's public descent into conspiracy theorist and statistically-impaired provocateur set off many discussions on the widespread distrust of experts and the importance of science communication. Even so, we were urged not to downplay the importance of her book The Beauty Myth and its relevance to modern feminism.

So Talia and Emma will be doing just that. What does the book that bolstered Wolf's reputation as a feminist pioneer have to say? Let's have a look.

Sources:

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, 1990

Sarah Ditum, Naomi Wolf is not a feminist who became conspiracy theorist – she’s a conspiracist who was once right, 2014

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Talia and Emma discuss one of the worst-written books they've had to cover: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. It is considered a landmark text of the so-called third wave of feminism, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Given that it kicked off queer theory, it certainly got a few things wrong. Join us as Talia walks Emma through the good, the bad, and the paradigm-shifting aspects of Judith Butler's seminal work.

Sources:

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1990

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Emma and Talia are once more joined by Isaac (he/they/ze) to ask a straightforward and simple question: what went wrong after the Trans Tipping Point? How did we go from an optimistic, promising future of shifting cultural tides and legal victories to the embittered, vicious, and cruel reactionary backlash to trans existence? To find the answer, they must look as far as three decades back, trying to grapple with years upon years of anemic advocacy, liberal apathy, and epistemic neglect. Cracked Ivory premieres season two by laying out a roadmap for future episodes on the topic of the third wave of feminism, and how it failed.

Sources:

The Trans Dandy, The Anti-Trans Tipping Point

The Trans Dandy, The Trans Policy Crisis

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Talia and Emma make a podcast about their podcast. They discuss the trials and triumphs of season one, talk about the planning and production process, answer listener questions, and go over future plans for season two.

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For the season one finale, Talia and Emma are joined by a very special guest: Julia Serano, transfeminist and author of Whipping Girl! They discuss the pervasive problem of orientalism and transmisogyny in academic disciplines, the history of discomfort with trans healthcare being laundered through pseudointellectual rationalisation, and the recurrent discourses that have tried to pit conformist "transsexuals" against radical "transgenders".

Sources:

Serena Nanda, Neither Man Nor Woman, 1990

Serena Nanda, Gender Diversity, 2000

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, 2007

Talia Bhatt, Trans/Rad/Fem, 2025

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Talia locks Emma and Beth (she/her) into a call so she can ramble at them about lesbian feminism and feminist history for hours (again). She goes over the history of Michfest, the sin for which all lesbians must now answer, whether or not we attended the bloody thing or were even in the US while it was happening. In discussing the transfem-exclusionary policy of only admitting "womyn born womyn", the three of them reckon with the politics of separatism, class, race, and why it's important to not fuck the people you're protesting against.

Sources:

Michelle Tea, Transmissions from Camp Trans

Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/He

Jocelyn Macdonald, Setting the Record Straight About MichFest

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Emma and Talia bring you an interview with the one-third of the bestselling author of The Hades Calculus Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! They are joined by Callisto Khan (she/her, @callistokhan.bsky.social) to discuss the Gunmetal Olympus series and the upcoming The Persephone Effect, out this January!

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