52 Women: Recent Episodes
Montgomery County NOW
52 Women is the official podcast of the Montgomery County (MD) Chapter of the National Organization for Women. We discuss chapter news, local and national news, and a woman of the week. Find us online at www.mcmdnow.org.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the Maryland legislative session that just ended, baseball, past and upcoming chapter events, and woman of the week Jackie Mitchell.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the Parkland kids' gun reform demands, bad abortion laws, good laws recently passed in Maryland, Cosmopolitan, and woman of the week Linda Brown.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the Equal Means Equal film, the murder of Jaelynn Willey, LGBTQIA+ rights, and woman of the week Stella Adler.
In this week's episode of 52 Women, we bring you the audio from our Women's History & ERA NOW panel discussion, and talk about woman of the week Alice Paul.
Happy Women's History Month! In this brief episode of 52 Women, we talk about upcoming chapter and other feminist events, and woman of the week Georgia O'Keeffe.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about some upcoming chapter events, upcoming legislation to take action on, and woman of the week Alice Allison Dunnigan.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about feminism in the Olympics, cops and consent, woman of the week Pauli Murray, and our special guest, Delegate Maricé Morales, discusses human trafficking, sexual assault, and her February 19 Women's Rally in Annapolis.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about more info from the Women's Legislative Briefing, a new literary prize, updates on the Natalie Wood case, a decline in LGBTQIA+ acceptance, and woman of the week Esther Gordy Edwards.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the Women's Legislative Briefing the Elissas attended, human trafficking, Hillary Clinton, the Grammys and the music industry, and woman of the week Coretta Scott King.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about a Moms Demand Action Lobby Day we attended, the conviction of Larry Nassar, a local candidate forum, and woman of the week Gwendolyn Brooks.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about untested rape kits, Anziz Ansari and consent, HHS and religion as an excuse to discriminate, the anniversary of the Women's March, local news, and woman of the week Eugenie Clark.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about Governor Hogan and two upcoming Maryland bills, a local group of high school girls fighting white supremacy, and woman of the week Joan Baez.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about #TimesUp, protections for Maryland's women legislators, MLAW, flushable pregnancy tests, TV shows, and woman of the week Lillian Moller Gilbreth.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the world of entertainment and woman of the week Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the tax bill, CHIP, and woman of the week Louise Lawrence.
This week on 52 Women, we (and our special guest!) talk about hate speech on social media, transgender troops, the Dignity of Incarcerated Women Act, NOW's Enough is Enough campaign, and woman of the week Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
This week on 52 Women, we bring you audio from our Reproductive Rights NOW event, and also talk about woman of the week Anarcha.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about what's going on in the City of Gaithersburg, with newly-elected City Council Member Laurie-Anne Sayles, and woman of the week Claudette Colvin.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the upcoming legislation we learned about at the Maryland Legislative Agenda for Women's conference, what we're thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend, and woman of the week Sacagawea.
This week on 52 Women, our special guests from Hollywood NOW let us know what's going on in California, especially around #MeToo, and we also talk about the tax bill and woman of the week Josephine Baker.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about the Montgomery County Council's unanimous vote to increase the minimum wage to $15, and woman of the week Nellie Bly. Plus, you'll get our real-time election night reactions.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about DNC drama, the Gaithersburg election, the GOP tax bill and abortion, birth control delivery, Latina Women's Equal Pay Day, and, for Trans Awareness Month, woman of the week Jennifer Finney Boylan.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about consent, Playboy and feminism, and woman of the week Ilhan Omar.
This week on 52 Women, our special guests from Madison NOW let us know what's going on in Wisconsin, and we talk about the 20 week abortion ban, Chelsea Handler leaving her show, the "unmanned" Southwest flight, and woman of the week Kay Clarenbach.
This week on 52 Women, we talk some more about healthcare, Harvey Pig Weinstein, Maryland news, body image, and woman of the week Margaret Sanger.
This week on 52 women, we talk about the rollback of the birth control mandate, one of the Steubenville rapists, Harvey Weinstein, fragile masculinity, and woman of the week Maya Lin.
This week on 52 Women, we bring you audio from our Racial Justice NOW event, and also talk about woman of the week Kimberlé Crenshaw.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about healthcare (it's back!), the rapist cop in Oklahoma, Demi Lovato, a positive story about consent, Sweden's feminist foreign policy, and woman of the week Wilma Mankiller.
This week on 52 Women, we (and our special guest!) talk about Rihanna's makeup line, a Germantown abortion clinic, men stalking and harassing women who don't want to go out with them, the ERA, and woman of the week Betty Ong.
This week on 52 Women, we talk about Hillary, Bernie, and millennials, Title IX and campus sexual assault, DACA, and woman of the week Dolores Huerta.
This week, we talk about what you can do to help those impacted by Hurricane Harvey, male athletes who abuse women, 45's administration getting rid of an Obama era equal pay rule, and woman of the week Janis Joplin.
This week, we (and our special guest!) talk about the importance of telling the truth (take note, 45), 45 wanting to roll back the birth control mandate, a woman who was fired for leaking menstrual blood, an 11-minute vaginal search by a Texas cop, and woman of the week Henrietta Lacks.
This week, we talk about the horrific events in Charlottesville, taking down monuments and statues, new Texas and Oregon abortion laws, and woman of the week Bella Abzug. We also give an update on Taylor Swift and Madam C.J. Walker.
This week, we talk about local efforts to raise the minimum wage, Taylor Swift's sexual assault trial, unsolicited dick pic sender Eric Bolling, men on the internet, and woman of the week Valerie Harper. We also segued into a discussion of classic television, because why not.
This week, we (and our special guest!) talk about the Democrats not having a litmus test for abortion, Black Women's Equal Pay Day, and woman of the week Madam C.J. Walker.
This week, we talk about the Senate healthcare mayhem, the Equal Rights Amendment, and woman of the week Senator Mazie Hirono. Disclaimer: so many things we talked about have now changed!
This week, we talk about healthcare (again), anti-choicers, violence against women, and woman of the week Ellen Ochoa. Oh, we also call a senator.
In part 2 of this week's episode, EB1 and EB2 interviewed our woman of the week, Bonnie Grabenhofer, Vice President of the National Organization for Women. Bonnie talked to us about the marriage equality efforts she led for NOW, LGBTQIA rights, and the Equality Act that still needs to be passed in order to ensure full human rights for LGBTQIA individuals in the US.
In part 1 of this week's episode, we talk about the healthcare bill, Betsy DeVos and Title IX campus sexual assault protections, net neutrality, and emergency contraception.
This week, we talk about Support the Girls, a great organization started by a local woman, homelessness and domestic violence, and woman of the week Sally Hemings.
This week, we discuss Trump's sexism, EB1's trip to NOW's National Conference in Orlando (including interviews!), intersectional feminism, and woman of the week Abigail Adams.
This week, we discuss the Senate healthcare bill, Bill Cosby taking the show on the road, violence against women, and woman of the week Sarah Osborne. Oh, we also call a senator.
In our very first episode of 52 Women, we discuss healthcare, "hysterical" Senator Kamala Harris, mansplaining and manterrupting, and, in honor of Pride Month, woman of the week Ma Rainey.