After Dobbs, we explore what sexual freedom really means.
 | By Vishakha Darbha Audio Producer, Opinion |
Three months after the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the feminist movement finds itself circling existential questions: How does the movement recover and move forward from a devastating blow to reproductive rights? Who is feminism excluding? And how far has it really come over the years? |
In today's episode of "The Argument," a Times Opinion podcast, we attempt to tackle these questions and more. Being a feminist and a woman now is fraught. Today's guests have long done the work to navigate these complications. Nona Willis Aronowitz is a sex and love columnist at Teen Vogue, the author of "Bad Sex" and the daughter of Ellen Willis, a leader of the pro-sex feminist movement of the late 1960s and beyond. Michelle Goldberg is a Times Opinion columnist who has written about feminism throughout her career. |
We brought these two women together to discuss what it means to be sexually empowered, the limitations of monogamy and just how much the individual choices people make in the bedroom affect the broader feminist movement. |
"You can't really have a sexually liberated society when women aren't liberated," Willis Aronowitz says. She pursues the question of whether casual sex is the way forward for women to experience true sexual pleasure, while Goldberg argues that having emotional stakes in a relationship can be just as liberating. |
This is the final episode in our three-part series on where feminism could go next. The others include a discussion on whether feminism is an identity or an action, and a conversation between two transgender writers on how feminism can exist beyond the confines of a gender binary. |
Together, we hope these conversations push feminists in America toward new understandings of themselves and the movement. If it does for you, we'd love to hear how your thinking around feminism has changed. You can email us at argument@nytimes.com. |
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