Secret Feminist Agenda

Hannah McGregor launched Secret Feminist Agenda with episode 1.0 on 29 June 2017. Through conversation and everyday reflection, the podcast explores how refusal, cooperation, care and scholarly work become feminist practices. It offers this issue an important shift: knowledge can circulate through sound, and the conditions of listening belong to knowledge production too.

Begin with queer media production

Start with episode 4.20, Producing Queer Media with Stacey Copeland, released on 15 May 2020. Copeland brings audio production and SpokenWeb project experience. The official description identifies feminist scholarly awakenings, gendered policing of women’s voices, the sound of queer media and archival audio. The page also links a transcript.

Instead of treating recording as a neutral delivery tool, this route asks how a voice becomes credible, professional or inappropriate. Expectations about pitch, tone and speech can determine who must modify expression before being heard seriously. The question is not which uniform voice women should acquire, but who defines worthwhile listening.

Archives need listening publics

Bringing audio archives into media discussion makes preservation more than storing materials. Pauses, tone and conversational relationships may offer knowledge different from a written account. Hearing a speaker does not authorize interpreting every aspect of that person’s experience: context, consent and circulation remain questions for archival practice.

Transcripts offer another access route for people unable or unwilling to listen, and support locating arguments and further materials. Text and sound are not completely interchangeable. Providing multiple routes is more useful than declaring one medium inherently inclusive.

Everyday life and institutions

The official transcript directory also lists episodes on asking for help, refusal and intergenerational thinking. These provide further starting points without their titles establishing each conversation’s conclusions. Episode 4.20 connects who can produce scholarship with who can become its audience, making the work of recording, organizing and providing access visible.

An intimate conversation does not represent every feminist position; hosts and guests still choose topics and forms of expression. The show helps analyze voice, circulation and knowledge authority rather than making disclosure automatically stand for shared experience. Telling to Live offers written practices of collaborative telling and interpretation; La Poudre introduces another French interview setting for creative careers and lives.