Lenissima!

Lenissimaaaaaa!  My feelings for Lena Dunham can only articulated in Italian.  

I was looking for a new podcast the other day, having just finished back to back binges of Slow Burn and my friend Melissa Morgan's new fabulous podcast, Just the Tip-Sters.  I can't more highly recommend both by the way if you 1) share my unquenchable thirst for anything Watergate related or 2) like thoughtful and sometimes hilarious commentary on true crime.

I searched "women" in my podcast app and Women of the Hour was at the top of the list. I know I'm super late to this game (last episode June 2017) but I opened it and fell down a serious rabbit hole. Every moment I am not working or editing my book for the publisher (Did I mention this before on here?  It will be out January 2019 - just in time for Valentine's Day heart healings - with Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari Press), I am listening to Women of the Hour.  It is brilliantly curated, each episode chock full of brilliant, creative women who will provoke the hell out of your thoughts.

So many brilliant feminist voices I had not previously heard.  How had I not heard about Janet Mock (another podcast well I will inevitably fall into soon)?  There are lots of celebrity interviews with great writers, musicians, artists, etc.  Fun chat between Allison WIlliams and Lena on the occasion of shooting the last episode of Girls, and many more interviews with the not-so-famous. Ronnie Konner, the mother of Lena's partner, Jenni, talks about life after a stroke in her mid-40's.  Abuelita, the woman who sold trinkets in Mexico fueled by God and 8 cokes a day who had never been to a doctor (never been sick!) in her over 100 years: "It's all in the mind," she said.  The woman who discovered she was a lesbian after she moved to Los Angeles in 1945, and started writing gay parodies of well-known songs.  

Each interview has sparked my heart and mind. I'm kind of blown away by the depth and breadth of coverage of each topic. I feel like Lena grabs my hand at the top of each episode and we go skipping into whatever world she has chosen for the day.  One interview finishes, and then she says "OK, let's skip over here now!  You will LOVE this one!" I, of course, reply "What? More than that one?!  Impossible!"  Yes, I have crazy ass conversations in my mind with Lena Dunham while I travel with her along the real yellow brick road of Women of the Hour.  You should come!  If you want to be inspired by one kick-ass woman after another, come!

Wherever you get your podcasts....but here is the SOUNDCLOUD link to WOMEN OF THE HOUR