Amending Mrs America with Lita Brillman

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/entertainment/television/2020/04/1140-miss-america-collage.imgcache.reve440f6f8f01056f0b82de115c60b38bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="800" height="183" src="https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/entertainment/television/2020/04/1140-miss-america-collage.imgcache.reve440f6f8f01056f0b82de115c60b38bb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />As 2020 takes ever more gruesome twists and turns, FX's Mrs America transports viewers to the 1970s for a rare look at second-wave feminism and a dramatization of the struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment. <a href="http://twitter.com/litatweeted">Lita Brillman</a> drops by to discuss the show's historical context and accuracy, the characters we saw and could have seen, and why feminism is about so much more than any one wave or a failed Amendment. Listen below, <a href="https://ia801506.us.archive.org/5/items/mrs-america-w-lita-brillman-2/Mrs%20America%20w%20Lita%20Brillman%202.mp3">here</a>, or on iTunes <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-dom-colin-podcast/id493938819">here</a>.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="30" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/mrs-america-w-lita-brillman-2" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe> <br /><br /><u>Links</u><br /><br /><a href="https://www.myentertainmentworld.ca/2020/05/feminism-is-a-verb-mrs-america/">Feminism is a Verb - Lita's review for My Entertainment World&nbsp;</a><br /><a href="https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory">National Bail Fund Network</a><br /><br /><u>Lita's suggested reading</u><br /><br />Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks<br />Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde<br /><br />The End of Policing - Alex S. Vitale<br />Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis<br />When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir - Asha Band