Amanda Montell

Joining us this week on the Radicals & Revolutionaries Lab is Amanda Montell, a writer, linguistics scholar, and author of Words Slut: A Feminist’s Guide to Taking Back the English Language and Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. Our host, Jillian Foster, speaks with Amanda about how she found herself studying sociolinguistics–the relationship between how people speak and how they move through the world. This episode digs into that and more as Amanda talks about coming from a long line of academics, empowerment through understanding language, the balance between reclamation and internalized oppression, and the universal fascination of cults. Amanda’s work and this conversation will have you so in the weeds when it comes to language; it might just leave you speechless.Connect with Amanda:Instagram: @amanda_montellTwitter: @AmandaMontellWebsite: http://amandamontell.com/Join our movement for radically authentic, intentional, interconnected feminism inside Continuum Collective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.