Stuff Mom Never Told You
Kanaal Besonderhede
Stuff Mom Never Told You
Through an intersectional feminist perspective, hosts Anney and Samantha dive into science, history, and culture to make sense of the everyday and unpack the stories that brought us to where we are today. This podcast aims to better understand the challenges facing women and marginalized folks all o...
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A Farewell to 2025
Anney and Samantha take a look back to some of their favorite episodes of 2025.
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Happy Hour #201: New Year's Traditions
Anney and Samantha ring in the new year with Christina and Maya, and chat about New Year's traditions.
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SMNTY Classics: The Radical Extremist Ideology of Evie Magazine
On the face of it, Evie magazine appears to be a publication aimed towards women focusing on things like relationships and pop culture. However, diggi...
Feminists Around the World: Divide and Dissolve
Today we're highlighting the music and activism of Australian musical group Divide and Dissolve.
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Monday Mini: The Value of Solitude
The concept of alone time has long been framed as a cause for concern, but research shows that intentional solitude actually has a lot of perks.
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SMNTY Classics: Facebook's Abortion Blackout
While Meta openly claims that they are supportive of 'free expression' around accurate health information, in practice they regularly take down accura...
The AI Gender Gap
AI is everywhere right now, but research indicates women are adopting it less. Bridget Todd joins us to untangle the reasons why that might be.
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Happy Hour #200: Christmas Traditions
In this very special episode, Christina and Maya join us in studio to discuss Christmas traditions, old and new.
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SMNTY Classics: Ynés Mexía
Ynés Mexía lived a life full of adventure and full of turning points. Yves joins us to share the story of the pioneering botanist in this classic epis...
Fictional Women Around the World: Evie O’Connel
Evie O’Connel of the Mummy franchise is proud of who she is. We dig up her history and examine her legacy.
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Monday Mini: Games By Women, 2025 Edition
As we approach the end of the year, Anney and Samantha share some women-led games they are exited about and ask for recommendations.
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SMNTY Classics: Hariette Shelton Dover
Hariette Shelton Dover had the foresight and dedication to preserving the language and traditions of her people. Yves stops by to share her story in t...
Female Firsts: Elizabeth Catlett
Yves shares the incredible story of artist, sculptor and activist Elizabeth Catlett.
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Happy Hour #199: New Routines
Samantha is undertaking a new endeavor. We talk about the hopes and the worries of taking on a new mantle.
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SMNTY Classics: A Meditation with Yves Jeffcoat
With so many of us dealing with a lot of stress, Yves guides us through in this classic episode.
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Feminists Around the World: Ingrid Silva
Today we're spotlighting the work of ballet dancer and activist Ingrid Silva.
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Monday Mini: Compulsory Heterosexuality
What is compulsory heterosexuality, and why is it so insidious?
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SMNTY Classics: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk (Part 2)
In part two of the Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff episode Anney guested on with Margaret Killjoy, they continue to delve into vaccines and the legacy...
Feminist Movie Friday: The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The third film in The Mummy takes the franchise to China. We discuss the highs, lows and possibilities of the 2008 film. Let Samantha have this!
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Happy Hour #198: Speak Fanilect to Me
What is fanilect? The often funny shared language between fans is being studied by linguists.
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SMNTY Classics: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk (Part 1)
In this episode of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, Margaret Killjoy and Anney talk about vaccines and complicated historical characters.
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Feminists Around the World: Zanele Muholi
Today we're focusing on Zanele Muholi, visual activist and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.
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Monday Mini: The Convo About No Contact
Recently, there has been a lot of back and forth about going no contact in typically family relationships. Anney and Samantha break down what's going...
Spoiled Saturdays: Slash/Back
Nyla Innuksuk's 2022 film Slash/Back follows a group of Indigenous girls figuring out friendships, family and...how to fend off an alien invasion. Ann...
SMNTY Classics: An Interview with Jo Piazza
Author, podcaster and friend of the show Jo Piazza offers a future cheese plate while discussing her upcoming book The Sicilian Inheritance and her po...
Happy Hour #197: Gender Affirming Events
As we approach the end of a rough 2025, we spotlight some good news with gender affirming events.
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Book Club: Finding My Dance
Ria Thundercloud's 2022 children's book Finding My Dance follows her journey in dance, from Indigenous to classical, and motherhood.
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Feminists Around the World: Siku Allooloo
Today we're talking about Indigenous activist and artist Siku Allooloo.
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Monday Mini: The Moms Are Not Alright
A lot of recent popular media really highlights that moms are struggling. What's going on here?
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SMNTY Classics: Native Indigenous Women's Fight to Save Their Languages
All around the world, Indigenous women are fighting to save their language from systemic extinction. We look into a few examples in this classic episo...
Female Firsts: Dr. Margaret S. Collins
Yves breaks down the history of Dr. Margaret S. Collins, the first professionally trained Black woman entomologist.
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Happy Hour #196: Single Lady Problems
Being single comes with a lot of perks, but also some specific problems that remind us all its good to have friends.
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Larry Summers and the Epstein Emails
The release of the Epstein emails made clear that people of all types were involved, including Larry Summers, who has connections to Harvard and OpenA...
Feminists Around the World: More Women Led Indigenous Organizations
In this episode, we highlight more organizations doing great work led by Indigenous women.
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Monday Mini: Are Boyfriends Embarrassing? (Part 2)
In the second part of our conversation about the response to Chanté Joseph's Vogue article "Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing now?", we delve even de...
SMNTY Classics: Feminist Movie Friday - What's Cooking?
In this classic, four families come together for the holidays and drama ensues in the 2000s Thanksgiving movie What's Cooking?
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A Feminist Look at the NYC Mayoral Election: Part 2
In part two of our analysis of the New York City mayoral results, friend of the show Joey digs into what the results might mean and the legacy of #MeT...
Happy Hour #195: Adulting in Chaos
Adulting these days looks different, and can feel like a lot. As the holidays approach, we chat about the impact our politics are having on adulting.<...
A Feminist Look at the NYC Mayoral Election: Part 1
Friend of the show and New York City correspondent Joey breaks down Zohran Mamdani's win and what it means.
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Fictional Women Around the World: Naru
When the character Naru debuted in the 2022 film Prey, she was historic in a lot of ways. Clever, strong and smart, she (and her dog) had what it took...