Just Three

In our ninth episode, and the final episode of season one of the Just Three podcast, host Catherine LaSota is in conversation with writer, scholar, and educator Noni Carter. Noni was a graduate coordinator for the Transnational Black Feminisms working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference in 2019-20. Noni discusses her life in academic work, questioning the formati

In our eighth episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with artist Jen Lewis, who contributed a chapter to and provided the cover art for the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, which was developed by the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. In this conversation, Jen talks about her

In our seventh episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with writer and musician George Estreich, who worked with Rachel Adams on the publication of Alison Piepmeier's book Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome (NYU Press, February 2021), which was celebrated in a launch event hosted by the Motherhood & Technology working group at the

In our sixth episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with writer, podcaster, and anthropology graduate student Alyssa A.L. James, who works as the graduate coordinator for the Black Atlantic Ecologies working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. In this conversation, Alyssa talks about her research, the podcast she co-hosts with fellow Blac

In our fifth episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with activist Musu Bakoto Sawo, who contributed a chapter entitled Let Girls Be Girls - My Journey Into Forced Womanhood to the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, which was developed by the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. I

In our fourth episode of the JUST THREE podcast, and our first episode of 2021, host Catherine LaSota talks with activist Deepthi Sukumar, who contributed a chapter entitled Caste is My Period to the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, which was developed by the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. In th

In our third episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with curator and writer Işın Önol, a member of the Women Mobilizing Memory working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference.  Işın discusses the importance and difficulty of truly listening to stories outside of the dominant narrative(s), and the possibilities of curation and collabo

In our second episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with nurse and midwife Annette Mwansa Nkowane, a member of the On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. "We cannot push the agenda if we don't have evidence." - Mwansa Nkowane Mwansa is from Zambia and, during the Ebola outbreak, she

In our first episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with artist, writer, and performer Kayhan Irani, a member of the Migrant Personhood and Rights working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. Kayhan Irani is an Emmy-award winning writer, a performer, and a Theater of the Oppressed trainer. She creates art to build community, offer spaces f

Welcome to the Just Three podcast, a project of the Center for the Study of Social Difference, launching November 18, 2020, with a new episode every two weeks. On the Just Three podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with artists, activists, curators, nurses, scholars, and more about the most pressing social justice issues of our time, asking each guest the same three questions about