Your Angry Neighborhood Feminist
Madigan
Intersectional feminist, Madigan, takes on issues facing women and the world.
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Dec 22, 2025 • 38min
YANF Throwback: Baby It's Cold Outside (A Problematic Fave)
In this week’s episode, Madigan throws it all the way back to the first year of the podcast, 2018, to bring you a special holiday treat.
Listen to Keegan and Madigan discuss your fave problematic holiday song, Baby It’s Cold Outside.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 38min
What's In The News? Mini #363
In this week's mini episode, Madigan brings you the news of two tragic mass shootings. One that occurred at Brown University, and another at a Hanukah celebration in Bondi Beach, Australia.
This episode also discusses the tragic murder of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, who were killed by their son.
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"Parkland: Birth of a Movement" By Dave Cullen: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/parkland-dave-cullen/1129705954
Sources:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-brown-university-students-2nd-school-shooting/story?id=128432078
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/14/world-condemns-mass-shooting-at-jewish-festival-in-sydneys-bondi-beach
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rob-reiner-political-activism-democrats-marriage-equality/
https://people.com/rob-reiner-wife-michele-tried-everything-help-son-nightmare-murder-exclusive-11869886
https://people.com/rob-reiner-son-got-in-a-big-fight-conan-obrien-party-before-murders-sources-11869272
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Dec 15, 2025 • 58min
The Murder of Helen Jewett
On the night of April 9th, 1836, a 23 year old sex worker who went by the name Helen Jewett was murdered in her bedroom. Soon, one of her lovers would be charged and tried for her murder.
How did the story of a little-known "fallen woman" impact a nation? What is the TRUE identity of the victim? And why was she killed?
Find the answers to these questions and more in this week's episode!
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Sources:
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellows-book/the-murder-of-helen-jewett-the-life-and-death-of-a-prostitute-in-nineteenth-century-new-york/
https://www.ladyscience.com/features/portugal-harlot-wards-public-health-19thcentury
https://nypost.com/2017/04/22/when-new-york-was-the-prostitution-capital-of-the-us/
https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/8/29/a-history-of-prostitution-in-new-york-city-from-the-american-revolution-to-the-bad-old-days-of-the-1970-and-1980s
https://time.com/archive/6746419/corruption-scandals-of-tammany-cont/
https://www.history.com/articles/tammany-hall-corruption-downfall-fdr-seabury-investigation
https://darkdowneast.com/helenjewett/
https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8199p209;chunk.id=d0e109;doc.view=print
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Dec 10, 2025 • 24min
What's In The News? Mini #362
In this week's mini episode, Madigan discusses a Shite House task force to counter "domestic extremists" and their involvement in surveilling travelers to the US using social media. Also, George Floyd's killer is looking for a new trial, and body camera footage of the day Luigi Mangione was arrested has been released.
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Sources:
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/us-social-media-tourist-visa-proposal-esta
https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/trump-is-using-task-forces-to-criminalize-activists-and-non-profits-why-is-ny-funding-them
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/03/derek-chauvin-seeks-to-overturn-george-floyd-murder-conviction-and-get-new-trial
https://www.businessinsider.com/luigi-mangione-court-hearing-evidence-video-photos-911-call-2025-12
https://www.luigimangioneinfo.com/updates/
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Dec 9, 2025 • 50min
Thinness, Diet Culture & the Systems Against Women
*This episode contains discussion of eating disorders, which may not be suitable for all listeners.*
Fun fact: Did you know that diet culture and the idolization of thinness is directly tied to the patriarchy and white supremacy?
In this week's episode, Madigan discusses the dangers of diet culture and the trend of malnourished-looking celebs and influencers in today's world, while also taking a look at the ever-changing body standards throughout history.
Lastly, learn how by upholding diet culture, we uphold the patriarchy AND white supremacy.
Get help for an eating disorder: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/get-help/
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Sources:
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/eating-disorders-may-be-contagious-study-idUSCOL848118/
https://feminist.org/news/body-neutrality-as-a-form-of-resistance/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/eating-mindfully/202007/why-do-we-say-diet-culture-instead-the-patriarchy
https://sahrc.org/2022/04/diet-culture-a-brief-history/
https://culturevulture.substack.com/p/on-keeping-women-skinny-so-they-dont
https://withinhealth.com/learn/articles/diet-culture-rooted-in-racism-white-supremacy-and-colonialism
https://medium.com/engage/thin-not-invisible-rejecting-comments-about-my-body-e72bd86c879e
https://www.puregym.com/blog/body-shapes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 8, 2025 • 25min
What's In The News? Mini #361
This week, Madigan discusses the dehumanizing comments Trump made toward Somali immigrants in Minnesota, and Hillary Clinton's attack on young people for supporting Palestine.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-somalia.html
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-shift-hillary-clinton-says-young-people-are-turning-on-israel-because-of-made-up-videos/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 1, 2025 • 1h 2min
Interview with Author Nancy Bernhard
In this episode, Madigan has a conversation with author of the upcoming historical fiction novel, the Double Standard Sporting House, coming out January 20th, 2026.
The Double Standard Sporting House tells the story of Doc Hastings, who owns her own clinic for women, which happens to be attached to a high-class brothel, which she also owns.
We see how Doc manages the needs of the girls who work for her, along with the power struggle between them and the Tammany government, which ruled New York City at the time.
This is the story of an untold history of women in medicine, saving each other. It’s about trauma, and healing. It’s about power and submission. It’s all about Double Standards.
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Nov 26, 2025 • 31min
What's In The News? Mini #360
In this week's mini episode, Madigan discusses Zohran Mamdani's visit to the Shite House, Education Secretary Linda McMahon's steps in de-professionalizing women led degrees at Universities, Karoline Leavitt's familial ties to an ICE detainee, and lastly, a sad update on Gaza since the "ceasefire" began in October.
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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqd42gl0qo
https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/what-the-department-of-educations-professional-degree-proposal-really-means-for-employers/91270224
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/eating-mindfully/202007/why-do-we-say-diet-culture-instead-the-patriarchy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/us/mamdani-trump-meeting-elder-uncle-cec
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/karoline-leavitt-nephew-mother-detained-ice
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/weirdest-thing-zohran-mamdani-saw-at-white-house-during-donald-trump-meet-9702430 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 22, 2025 • 58min
What's In The News? (Not-So-Mini) #359
This week, in an extended news episode, Madigan brings you the latest in regards to the emails now released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the US Coast Guards new policy on hate symbols, Trump calling a group of Democrats seditious and calling for their execution, and lastly, the news of the death of a legendary disabled activist, Alice Wong.
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Sources:
https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/packet_redacted_noid.pdf
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-blowing-bubba-message-epstein-emails-under-scrutiny-11046836
https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-brother-apologizes-bill-clinton-being-confused-as-bubba-11851685
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mike-johnson-railed-against-epstein-142307038.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-loopholes.html
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-oversight-committee-releases-jeffrey-epstein-email-correspondence-raising
https://truthout.org/articles/swastikas-and-nooses-are-no-longer-hate-symbols-under-new-coast-guard-rules/
https://www.newsweek.com/coast-guard-hate-symbol-noose-swastika-trump-admin-11083066
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-democrats-who-told-us-military-refuse-illegal-orders-deserve-death-2025-11-20/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 17, 2025 • 1h 8min
Women of the KKK
In this week’s episode, Madigan discusses the history of women’s involvement in the KKK throughout history. From assisting the male Klansmen to running their own WKKK to budding into the millennium by infiltrating the internet as well. You’ll also meet a variety of individual women, who helped make the racist organization’s belief system something that would permeate every aspect of American life.
Past Episodes Mentioned:
"Women and White Supremacy"- Sept. 17, 2018 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ft7JYgZDCFYhuqlDlFtbX?si=vS49j_a8RFK7onJV-P60vg
"Susan B. & Elizabeth C. : The Good, The Bad, and the Birth of White Feminism"- Mar. 1st, 2021 https://open.spotify.com/episode/57KZWo68YJWGJz3e9x0W6k?si=6vG9CzGqQCmVbetrVLXCnw
"White Feminism"- Sept. 11, 2023 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wna7vBWC3opvCNBaNkiZq?si=pz7MRv7lQVyD4glIIHeNCQ
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Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40579519
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenkkk/19/
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/mothers-league-of-central-high-school-733/
https://medium.com/timeline/did-you-know-that-the-brains-behind-the-kkk-was-a-woman-a23d7d361d1d
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/better-babies-contests-united-states-1908-1916
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/women-aryan-unity
https://www.maryellenmark.com/bibliography/magazines/article/elle-uk/girls-in-the-hood/E
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90982&page=1
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lulu-alice-boyers-markwell-7440/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/ku-klux-klan/
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