A 'Feminism of Disempowerment'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 3, 2022

Lux Alptraum, writer, podcaster and author of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal (Seal Press 2018), discusses her guest essay in The New York Times, "Women, the Game Is Rigged. It’s Time We Stop Playing by the Rules," which argues for a new type of feminism that rejects the approval and validation of an unjust system.

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