Call Your Girlfriend
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Call Your Girlfriend
A podcast for long distance besties everywhere. Co-hosted by BFFs Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow. Produced by Gina Delvac. Brand new every Friday.
Recent Episodes
359 episodesFarewell
We say goodbye, in the final episode of Call Your Girlfriend. In typical fashion, we're going out talking about how friends have been helping us get t...
I'm the Bad Guy Sometimes
We're not dead yet! Aminatou talks with legendary podcast, poet and essayist Nichole Perkins about navigating relationships as a Black woman, desire,...
See You on the Nostalgia Tour
Is there anything you miss from before the internet? Reading, focus, getting lost, filing cabinets, are just a few of the things New York Times Book R...
Big Announcement
A different kind of newsy episode with Aminatou, Ann and Gina.
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Money, Grief, Kids
We talk with one of our favorite writers, The New Yorker's Ariel Levy, about dynastic wealth, how we experience grief, and big surprises in life, incl...
So You Want to Change the World
Can’t be that hard, right? We pass the mic to Nereya Otieno, one of Ann’s 2021 writing fellows, who sits down with two women who have started initiati...
Tastemakers
We talk with Mayukh Sen about seven immigrant women who remade American cuisine and his new book, Taste Makers. Plus, racism in the worlds of food wri...
Making Older Friends
Women over 50 are too often erased, including on this very podcast. Grace Bonney has been collecting inspiration and advice from women of more advance...
Grief Companionship
Grief can come in so many forms and impact us in unexpected ways. Illustrator and designer Ngaio Parr knows all too well, having lost four family memb...
Bandsplain
Yasi Salek's podcast Bandsplain has us listening to music like teens again, with obsessive curiosity about whole albums and the quirks and life storie...
The Silent but Deadly Fart of Racism
George McCalman is an artist, a writer, an illustrator, and a designer. This man does it ALL. He spent many years as a magazine creative director, sha...
Change is Always Coming
How fixed are we in our ways of being and doing things? We're always confronting change, but how much can we choose it? These are some of the big idea...
SCOTUS vs. Abortion (sponsored by Rewire News Group)
In a special episode brought to you by Rewire News Group, we go deep on the conservative push to regulate and ban abortion in Texas and Mississippi wi...
Disability, Fragility, Vulnerability
Emily Ladau and Kelly Dawson return to dispel dull narratives around disability and go beyond the 101. How coping with fragility creates resilience. H...
Believing Anita Hill
Dr. Anita Hill made history in 1991 when she testified to the Senate Judiciary committee about the sexual harassment perpetrated against her by Claren...
Where Should I Send My Kid to School?
A simple question with loaded answers.
On today's episode, we unravel a few of those knots with Courtney Martin and Dr. Dena Simmons, whose int...
Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation
Don't today's conspiracy theories make UFOs and JFK conspiracy theories seem quaint, almost sweet? Dr. Stacy Wood breaks down how independent communit...
Finding Your Voice
Comedy and art criticism don't exactly sound like parallel career paths. But after bouncing from a freelance hustle to a fancy art world job to improv...
Sex Work is Work
As OnlyFans flips and flops on the sex workers that built its platform, we revisit our interview with Lorelei Lee on the history of sex work legislati...
Sustainable Style
Miranda Bennett has long been one of our favorite designers. We discuss how she got started making and selling clothes, how she balances running a sus...
Summer of Friendship: Forever35
Our summer of friendship continues with Kate Spencer and Doree Shafrir, hosts of the podcast Forever35. While we love their conversations about serums...
Bad Behavior
From Matt Damon to Andrew Cuomo to gender testing at the Olympics, we do a quick survey of men in the news behaving badly.
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Boundaries
We talk about finding and maintaining boundaries, why the world makes it easier for some people than others, how boundaries help us be in community wi...
Summer of Friendship: Foxy Browns
More from our Summer of Friendship series, where a few of our favorite podcasters tell us how they met, times their friendship has been stretched, and...
Summer of Friendship: Two Old Bitches
As we continue our Summer of Friendship series, a few of our favorite podcasters tell us how they met, times their friendship has been stretched, and...
Summer of Friendship: Claire and Erica
As part of our Summer of Friendship series, a few of our favorite podcasters tell us how they met, times their friendship has been stretched, and how...
Hot Vax Summer of Friendship
Aminatou and Ann's book Big Friendship is available in paperback July 6, so to celebrate we're doing our second Summer of Friendship series. We catch...
Bi Bi Bi 2.0
Jordan and Gina round out Pride with a followup to our Bi Bi Bi episode from 2018. We hear from Divinity (@officiallydivinity) who identifies as bisex...
Lockdown Lesbian Love Story
Queer women aren't exclusively looking for longterm monogamous love - but some are! As part of our Pride series, a lockdown lesbian love story featuri...
Detransition, Baby
We talk with Torrey Peters about her breakout novel, Detransition, Baby, full of queer characters finding and defining family, and why she dedicated i...
Queer and Questioning
On this month's agenda: exploring queer identities with CYG producers Gina Delvac and Jordan Bailey. First up, we hear from queer sex therapist Casey...
What Does an Art Curator Do
As more of us can step back into the world and look at art in person, we discuss the role (and responsibility) of an art curator with Helen Molesworth...
Healing Ourselves with Friends (and Books)
You know that friend you can get real with about therapy, shedding the hard parts of your childhood, and how to take the next steps in your life? Ashl...
The Other Epidemic
As we emerge back into the world, how long will we live with COVID? Will it be like HIV/AIDS? We talk to people who have been closely involved in AIDS...
Hard Conversations
Death, sex, money, family and identity. How do we start and receive the hardest conversations that emerge in our lives? The one-and-only Anna Sale of...
Creative Evolutions
We have all had to find different ways to cope, and for those with creative practices, they are often evolving. For friend of the podcast and artist K...
Cooking and Eating with Friends
Home cook and author Julia Turshen joins us to discuss pandemic cooking fatigue, why the stories behind recipes matter, and how she learned to love co...
Love in Color
We're easing our way back from our break with Bolu Babalola, author of the delightful collection of romantic stories that center Black women, Love in...
Get Your 2020 Taxes Right
Taxes are scary but getting free money from the government is great. CYG's accountant and the force behind Taxes for Artists, Claudia Yi León returns...
More Shine Theory
What better time to be lifting up the people we love and growing together? Brooke Baldwin of CNN joins us to discuss the groups of women - or huddles...