web02.fireside.fm Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:02:24 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Tatter - Episodes Tagged with “Intersectionality” https://tatter.fireside.fm/tags/intersectionality Mon, 06 May 2019 05:00:00 -0400 This is a podcast exploring issues in politics and policy. Each episode features conversation with at least one subject matter expert, with a goal of helping listeners better understand the topic. en-us episodic Politics and Policy Michael Sargent This is a podcast exploring issues in politics and policy. Each episode features conversation with at least one subject matter expert, with a goal of helping listeners better understand the topic. no politics, policy, law Michael Sargent profsargent@gmail.com Episode 40: Up That Hill (Women in Congress) https://tatter.fireside.fm/40 5d7ac276-fdd6-4c6b-b6b3-1d036683f56e Mon, 06 May 2019 05:00:00 -0400 Michael Sargent full Michael Sargent My conversation with political scientists Nadia Brown and Barbara Palmer, discussing women in legislatures, including women of color. 58:03 no ABOUT THIS EPISODE As reported by the Pew Reserach Center, the current 116th Congress includes more women (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/18/record-number-women-in-congress/), and is more racially and ethnically diverse (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/08/for-the-fifth-time-in-a-row-the-new-congress-is-the-most-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-ever/), than any previous Congress. Inspired by that shift, this episode features my conversation with political scientists Nadia Brown (Purdue University) and Barbara Palmer (Baldwin Wallace University). We discuss the experiences of women in Congress, including women of color, both in their campaigns but also while governing, and from both contemporary and historical perspective. LINKS --Nadia Brown's Purdue University profile (https://www.cla.purdue.edu/polsci/directory/?p=Nadia_Brown) --Barbara Palmer's Baldwin Wallace University profile (https://www.bw.edu/academics/bios/palmer-barbara) --Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making, by Nadia Brown (at Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/Sisters-Statehouse-Legislative-Decision-Making/dp/0199352437) --Women and Congressional Elections: A Century of Change, by Barbara Palmer and Dennis Simon (at Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/Women-Congressional-Elections-Century-Political/dp/1588268403) --"Identity Politics Strengthens Democracy," by Stacey Abrams, in Foreign Affairs (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-02-01/stacey-abrams-response-to-francis-fukuyama-identity-politics-article) --On Elizabeth Cady Stanton's congressional run (http://www.herhatwasinthering.org/biography.php?id=7739) --"At She the People Forum, 2020 Candidates Speak Directly to Women of Color, by Maggie Astor, for the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/us/politics/she-the-people-forum-2020-women.html) --Wiki on Maria Stewart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_W._Stewart) --"Eric Holder to Lead Democrats' Attack on Republican Gerrymandering, by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, for the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/eric-holder-to-lead-democrats-attack-on-republican-gerrymandering.html?module=inline) --Barbara Palmer on "gendermandering" (https://academicminute.org/2016/04/barbara-palmer-baldwin-wallace-university-gendermandering/) Special Guests: Barbara Palmer and Nadia Brown. women, women of color, Congress, politics, intersectionality ABOUT THIS EPISODE
As reported by the Pew Reserach Center, the current 116th Congress includes more women, and is more racially and ethnically diverse, than any previous Congress. Inspired by that shift, this episode features my conversation with political scientists Nadia Brown (Purdue University) and Barbara Palmer (Baldwin Wallace University). We discuss the experiences of women in Congress, including women of color, both in their campaigns but also while governing, and from both contemporary and historical perspective.

LINKS
--Nadia Brown's Purdue University profile
--Barbara Palmer's Baldwin Wallace University profile
--Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making, by Nadia Brown (at Amazon)
--Women and Congressional Elections: A Century of Change, by Barbara Palmer and Dennis Simon (at Amazon)
--"Identity Politics Strengthens Democracy," by Stacey Abrams, in Foreign Affairs
--On Elizabeth Cady Stanton's congressional run
--"At She the People Forum, 2020 Candidates Speak Directly to Women of Color, by Maggie Astor, for the New York Times
--Wiki on Maria Stewart
--"Eric Holder to Lead Democrats' Attack on Republican Gerrymandering, by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, for the New York Times
--Barbara Palmer on "gendermandering"

Special Guests: Barbara Palmer and Nadia Brown.

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As reported by the Pew Reserach Center, the current 116th Congress includes more women, and is more racially and ethnically diverse, than any previous Congress. Inspired by that shift, this episode features my conversation with political scientists Nadia Brown (Purdue University) and Barbara Palmer (Baldwin Wallace University). We discuss the experiences of women in Congress, including women of color, both in their campaigns but also while governing, and from both contemporary and historical perspective.

LINKS
--Nadia Brown's Purdue University profile
--Barbara Palmer's Baldwin Wallace University profile
--Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making, by Nadia Brown (at Amazon)
--Women and Congressional Elections: A Century of Change, by Barbara Palmer and Dennis Simon (at Amazon)
--"Identity Politics Strengthens Democracy," by Stacey Abrams, in Foreign Affairs
--On Elizabeth Cady Stanton's congressional run
--"At She the People Forum, 2020 Candidates Speak Directly to Women of Color, by Maggie Astor, for the New York Times
--Wiki on Maria Stewart
--"Eric Holder to Lead Democrats' Attack on Republican Gerrymandering, by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, for the New York Times
--Barbara Palmer on "gendermandering"

Special Guests: Barbara Palmer and Nadia Brown.

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