222: Women and Other Monsters (with Jess Zimmerman)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re joined by author Jess Zimmerman, making her Spirits return, to talk about women and monsters from Greek mythology. We chat Aerosmith music videos, mansplaining, and rant about the lack of allyship from Athena. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Content Warning:</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode contains conversations about or mentions of misgendering, transphobia, sexualization, misogyny, body horror, death, drowning, violence against women, animal death, body horror, death by suicide, menustration, pregnancy, xenophobia, murder, matricide, and rape.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Guest</strong></p> <p><a href="http://jesszimmerman.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jess Zimmerman</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is the editor-in-chief of</span> <a href= "https://electricliterature.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Electric Literature</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and the author of</span> <a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/women-and-other-monsters-building-a-new-mythology/9780807054932"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Women and Other Monsters</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, from Beacon Press. She is also the author, with Jaya Saxena, of Basic Witches (Quirk, 2017). Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, Hazlitt, Catapult, and others. Follow her on Twitter at</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/j_zimms"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@j_zimms</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and subscribe to her</span> <a href= "https://deadchannel.substack.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">newsletter</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Housekeeping</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Recommendation</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">: This week, Amanda recommends</span> <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/822/9780778311027"><span style= "font-