Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations

What is love? We attempt to answer that question.

We discuss what it means to be authentic and why authenticity matters.

Lisa and Laura discuss their senses of humor and why humor matters.

Lisa and Laura introduce themselves and discuss the origins of "Lean Back." What does it mean to Lean Back?

Intimacy. We need more of it.

We discuss play as a valuable source of interpersonal interaction.

We discuss imagining utopian futures.

We discuss why we're skeptical about optimism and why pessimism can be an important personal and political tool.

We revisit the conversation about why "leaning back" is better for women (and everyone).

On being a killjoy.

We discuss how our culture creates the conditions for failure. We discuss how the culture of perfection is damaging.

We discuss anxiety.

We talk about activism and what it means to be an activist.