
Lena Dunham has released what she is calling an “Emergency Election Edition” of her Women of the Hour podcast.
Season two of Dunham’s mini-series podcast about “friendship, love, work, bodies and more” isn’t premiering for another few of weeks, but as Dunham says, the team gathered early “for a very particular cause”: next week’s US presidential election.
For Halloween, Dunham dressed up as a grabbed pussy and her anti-Trump train is still rolling.
In the episode, theGirlscreator is joined by artist and activist Sarah Sophie Flicker and together they introduce a segment featuring a panel of women discussing of the upcoming election because as Flicker puts it, “
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— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) November 1, 2016
Along with Flicker, the panel features the Fusion network’s Collier Meyerson, who acts as moderator,New York Magazinewriter Rebecca Traister, image activist Michaela Angela Davis, playwright Sarah Jones, and Palestinian Muslim-American racial justice activist Linda Sarsour and together they discuss what it feels like to be a woman in today’s America with it’s current political climate.
Meyerson’s first question, “is only the tip of the iceberg.
The panel answers questions throughout the just under an hour long episode, but the episode also features a discussion between Dunham and writer/transgender rights activist Janet Mock, and one between Dunham and Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Texas in July 2015 after being arrested following a minor traffic violation.
The episode is worth listening to whether or not you agree with and/or like Dunham. The group of women she’s assembled are smart, diverse, and thoughtful. And they offer a glimpse at how different women can be but how we can come together when we need to. As Dunham puts it, “
Check out the full episode below:
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