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Home of The Unspeakeasy Podcast (formerly known as The Unspeakable), occasional livestreams, and new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.
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Premium Episode: When Sex Is Everywhere but Love Feels Like a Lost Cause (opens the original)
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I had a long conversation with my friend Sarah Hepola about love, sex, porn, older women, younger men, and the madness and sadness of modern romance. It was so long that it’s taken me extra time to get it out. I’m releasing this unedited version for paying subscribers. Everyone else will get a shorter version later. Upgrade your subscription here. Sarah… Read more
Who Has the Right to Sleep on the Sidewalk? (opens the original)
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My guest is Emma Pettit, a former Chronicle of Higher Education reporter who moved into audio this year at Longview, the new independent media outlet founded by veteran podcast creator Andy Mills. Her new three-part series, Street Fight, looks at a conflict playing out on sidewalks across the country: the rights of people living on the street versus the rights of everyone else. Emma traces the tramps and hobos who followed the Civil War and the Skid Row “bum era” that lasted into the 1970s. She
September 11 Marked the End of the “Before Times” (opens the original)
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This is the recording from the September 11 livestream. The full episode is available to paying subscribers. Upgrade your subscription here. Thanks to all who joined us!For this week’s livestream, I talked with novelist Kimberley Tait about the 25th anniversary of 9/11, her new novel Bright Stars, and the generation she calls the “last of the innocents”… Read more
Can a Republican Zionist Butch Lesbian Get Elected to the West Hollywood City Council? (opens the original)
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Another episode about local politics that’s really about so much more.My guest is Tanya Tsikanovsky, a candidate for West Hollywood City Council. (West Hollywood is part of greater Los Angeles but functions as its own municipality.) Tanya came out at 14 and founded her high school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance, was a die-hard liberal Democrat, and later worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign in Iowa. But everything changed after the attacks of October 7th, 2023, when she says her Zionism cost
Why Are We Still Talking About Jason Arday? (opens the original)
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This is the recording from the August 31 livestream. The full episode is available to paying subscribers. Upgrade your subscription here. Thanks to all who joined us!Journalist Ben Ryan has covered the story of the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday in considerable depth, writing for The Free Beacon as well as covering it on his <a href="https://
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