Synopsis
Broad conversations with feminist broads in Hamilton, Ontario and beyond. Hosted by Erin and Jess on CFMU 93.3FM featuring a rotating cast of Hamilton's most bad ass broads. Learn more about #BroadConvos at broadconversations.com. Show illustration by Amy Egerdeen.
Episodes
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Broad Convos Season 2 Episode 3
12/09/2018 Duration: 29minThis week we're talking LUST with Daniela. Articles from the episode: Cat Person (New Yorker) How do we understand sexual pleasure in the age of consent (Aeon)
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Broad Convos Season 2 Episode 2
05/09/2018 Duration: 29minToday we talk on the theme of COURAGE, featuring resident list broad Daniela.
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Broad Convos Season 2 Episode 1
22/08/2018 Duration: 28minWe kick off season 2 by talking CHANGE (or really, a lack of).
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Episode 19: Podcast rec + Sarah Adjekum
22/03/2018 Duration: 30minErin talks about how much she adores Connie Walker's latest podcast for CBC, Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo. Check it out. Then Erin talks with Sarah Adjekum, a Hamiltonian and social worker, about the complexities of responding to the recent Locke Street mob vandalism incident. Sarah challenges us to think about violence as more than a specific incident of physical aggression and expand our awareness of the violence happening every day in our city through consistent poverty, homelessness, and the specific violence of our occupation on Indigenous peoples' lands. Read Sarah's op-ed in The Spectator mentioned in the episode here.
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Episode 18: Pearl Mendonça + reiki
14/03/2018 Duration: 30minWe talk with local reiki master teacher and yoga teacher Pearl Mendonça about her path to healing arts and the tradition of women in alternative medicine.
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Episode 16: Budget 2018
28/02/2018 Duration: 29minWhat are the issues behind the financial decisions made by the Federal Government today for Budget 2018? Hear about the good news and the not-so-awesome news from yesterday's budget announcements, including Jess's mompinion about the lack of child care supports. Further reading: Kate McInturff of CCPA on Budget 2018: Baby steps for dad and a big step forward for women. Armine Yalnizyan on what's missing from the Liberals' new gender-based budget. Jane Stinson and Jackie Neapole of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women on whether the budget is truly based on gender analysis (this is the audio we played on the show). What would a feminist budget look like? Let us know what you think!
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Broad Convos Episode 14: V-day grumps + Raquel Simpson
14/02/2018 Duration: 30minWe talk about the ups and downs of Valentine's Day and we talk with new friend of the show Raquel Simpson of 31 Couture, a business she started through the YWCA Women's Entrepreneurship program that empowers women to become confidently themselves through personal styling and image consulting.
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Broad Convos Episode 13: Feminist grandparents + Radha Manon
07/02/2018 Duration: 30minWe chat about Erin's woke grampa and interview Radha Manon about her work founding Red Betty Theatre and helping to organize local group, COBRA Hamilton. This episode features tracks from local artists Iskwé and Shanika Maria.
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Broad Convos Episode 12: VAW in true crime + Diana Weir
01/02/2018 Duration: 30minWe talk about the new Staunch Book Prize for thrillers that don't depict violence against women (you can read the Anne T. Donahue piece in Huffington Post here, "Being A Woman Is Terrifying, So Why Does True Crime Make Me Feel Better?" Then, we sit down with Diana Weir, executive director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra to talk about how the organization is led by young women (conductor Gemma New and artist-in-residence Abigail RIchardson-Shulte). She shares some of the creative community programming the HPO is trying, including a whole week of interactive programming for the upcoming Haydn Festival.
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Broad Convos Episode 11: Marching Forward + DJ Donna Lovejoy
24/01/2018 Duration: 29minWe talk about the Hamilton Women's March Forward Summit (which was awesome) and we sit down with DJ Donna Lovejoy to chat about the joys of sharing music. Check out her Women's DJ Workshop at the AGH on Feb 10!
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Broad Conversations Episode 9
17/01/2018 Duration: 29minWe talk Aziz and consent, plus we chat with Liz Enriquez of Ambitious Adulting!
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Broad Conversations Episode 8
10/01/2018 Duration: 30minWe chat about 2018 intentions and speak with Shahzi Bokhari from the Hamilton Women's March Forward event, which you can register for here.
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Broad Conversations Episode 7
27/12/2017 Duration: 29minFor our last ep of the year, we decided to just sit together and reflect on the year, no guest. We talk about our favourite (and much less favourite bits) of 2017, covering topics from motherhood to new years resolutions.
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Broad Convos Episode 7: Biased AI + Tammy Hwang
20/12/2017 Duration: 29minFor our second last episode of 2017, we talk about how Artificial Intelligence is biased, as is anything made by humans, and we chat with kickass entrepreneur and Hamilton advocate Tammy Hwang about her various projects supporting immigrants, international students, and entrepreneurs in the city.
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Broad Conversations Episode 6
13/12/2017 Duration: 29minOn this episode, Jess tells us the story of Lilith and we talk with chef Lisa Fiorino about the ups and downs of being a woman in the culinary industry (hint: lots of dick pics).
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Broad Conversations 5
06/12/2017 Duration: 29minOn the show today we talked about the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Anne Theriault's essay remembering the 14 women murdered in 1989 Farrah Khan's tweet thread on women killed by femicide in the last year in Canada CBC website on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Hamilton Native Women's Centre We were delighted to have guests from Safer Gigs Hamilton on the show! Check them out on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about Naloxone here. Thanks for listening!
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Broad Conversations Episode 4
29/11/2017 Duration: 30minThank you to Whitney McMeekin for coming on the show to talk about Girl on the Wing's Feminecessity Drive! Find out all about the needed items at Jess talked about women who do traditional Inuit tatooing. You can watch the video on VICE and read about the practise on CBC. Erin talked about Maayan Ziv and the Access Now crowdsource pinpointing app for building accessibility information. Thanks for listening!
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Broad Conversations Episode 3
22/11/2017 Duration: 30minThank you Denise Christopherson of the YWCA for hanging out with Erin and Jess on Episode 3! On this episode, we talk about New Zealand's awesome new Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the OECD pay gap numbers that put Canada well behind NZ. (Check out the recently released EXCELerator Report, research done in partnership with YWCA Hamilton, which details the lack of leadership positions filled by women and racialized leaders in Hamilton and Halton). We end by chatting with Denise about advocacy and the gamechanging new national housing strategy released today, with 25% of funding earmarked for projects to support women, girls, and their families.