This was such a fun conversation! Dan Snow knows how to ask all the right questions. Give a listen here on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
A.K. 47 year in review
This is the first time I have noticed this “backtrack” feature of my podcast host, Buzzsprout. It’s nice to have an overview of these things sometimes, especially since I post new episodes so sporadically. January will be the 5th year anniversary of A.K. 47. Although I only recorded, edited, and published 20 episodes in 2023, I am quite pleased that they have reached listeners in 99 countries.
New podcast episode from A.K. 47 finally posted →
Finally managed to finish reading The Workers Opposition
A new interview with Angela Saini for the Science podcast →
My interview with the amazing Sean Illing for the Gray Area podcast →
I adored this conversation with Sean Illing. Read the transcript or listen to the full podcast on whichever platform you use.
A clip from my interview with Sean Illing
RevolutionZ podcast with Michael Albert →
New podcast on Revolutionary Left Radio →
Another wonderful conversation with Brett O’Shea
Me as a guest of the Expanding Economics podcast →
It was a pleasure to have this conversation with a student in Canada about the way that classical economics is deeply sexist.
New podcast on Taking Stock of Shock with Reimagining Soviet Georgia →
A new interview about Taking Stock of Shock on the Reimagining Soviet Georgia podcast.
New podcast episode with Rebecca Amsellem →
After completely failing to post a podcast in the month of September, I finally had the opportunity to record one spontaneously last night with the wonderful French-Canadian feminist activist, Rebecca Amsellem. We were basically fan-girling about Kollontai and I asked if we could record a podcast on my phone. It was a fun conversation!
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In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee interviews the French-Canadian feminist activist and fellow Kollontai aficionado, Rebecca Amsellem in Paris, France. Rebecca is the editor of a well-known feminist newsletter in France, Les Glorieuses, and she has contributed an essay a forthcoming edited volume about the impact Alexandra Kollontai has had on her life and work. In this conversation, Ansellem discusses Kollontai's views on love and revolution as well as why Kollontai is not better known in France.
The edited collection is called: Une bibliothèque féministe, out in October 2021
Rebecca will be speaking at 18:30 at the librairie à République in Paris: "Lancement et rencontre avec Agathe le Tailandier pour son livre " Ma bibliothèque féminite" + invitées surprises!"
The Les Glorieuses newsletter is a great way to practice your French! Rebecca also publishes two newsletter in English. If you want to keep abreast of French feminist politics and economics, look no further:
Impact: https://lesglorieuses.fr/les-newsletters/impact-eng/
Economics: https://lesglorieuses.fr/les-newsletters/economics/
New podcast with George Miller of Le Monde Diplomatique English →
New interview with Revolutionary Left Radio →
Always a pleasure to be on the show, and especially when I get to speak for an hour about Kollontai!
New Video introduction to the A. K. 47 Podcast
I recorded this a long time ago and only just not got around to posting it.
Part Two of the Capitalism Hits Home podcast
Part two of a delightful conversation with Dr Harriet Fraad and Juliana Forlano
New Podcast episode!
I have done a special podcast episode reflecting on the events of the Capitol Insurrection.
Free Stickers! Celebrating the Two Year Anniversary of the Alexandra Kollontai Podcast
January 2021 will be the two year anniversary of the A.K. 47 podcast. To honor this anniversary, my daughter designed the nice three-inch matte stickers seen below.
She explained to me that podcasts are recommended by the algorithms based on the number of reviews they have. She thought it would be a good idea to encourage listeners to review the podcast in places like Apple Podcasts and Podcast Addict in order to increase its future visibility.
So if you leave a review, you can send a screenshot of that review and your mailing address to this email address: Alexandra.Kollontai.Podcast@gmail.com.
We will send one of each of the four stickers below to the first 200 listeners who send in their reviews. International listeners are also welcome to submit reviews, and will we do our best to get the stickers out to you in a timely fashion (considering the inevitable postal delays).
Let’s Celebrate Alexandra Kollontai and Keep up the good fight!
New Podcast with the Amazing Anthropologist Katherine Verdery →
I really enjoyed this conversation with one of my academic heroes.
25th episode of A.K. 47
I’m a little over halfway to my goal of 47 episodes. But boy, I had no idea that podcasting was such hard work. Much respect to those that do this every week.
New podcast with the New Books Network →
I have a lovely conversation with Marina Kadriu about Second World, Second Sex.
Finished reading "Make Way for Winged Eros"
For those of you interested in the works of Alexandra Kollontai and her views on sexuality, I finally finished reading the final part of her 1923 essay, "Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth" for my A.K. 47 podcast. I’ll be discussing it in depth during my next episode, but make sure you listen to the whole essay before you listen to the discussion.