In just three months, GRITtv has covered an incredibly diverse range of subjects, from the housing crisis and feminism today to US foreign policy and public education. We’ve had remarkable artists, actors, filmmakers, and musicians in our studio to talk about their work, their communities, and their politics.

This week GRITtv is away so we’re digging into the archive and broadcasting some of the best shows from the last three months. If you missed them take a look. And when we return in August there’ll be a lot more to come including a special week of programming on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Live From Main Street Denver, and of course the convention. We’ll be there. Also, we’ll be live streaming some of our panels and want you to be involved. 

On this episode, GRITtv asks what a feminist campaign would really look like. We discuss the Democratic primary, the state of feminism today, and the media’s post-Hillary apology with Rebecca Traister, staff writer at Salon, Mia Herndon, Director of Programs at Third Wave, and Lisa Witter, COO of Fenton Communications and co-author of The She Spot.

And playwright and actor Wally Shawn discusses the perverse pleasure of power and the subject of a recent speech he gave at the Academy of Arts and Letters: The Unobtrusives. Shawn touches on everything from his own childhood, traveling to India at the age of 21, and why the Democratic Party is part of the imperial system.

Finally, the American News Project spends a week with Brian Duss as he takes the Food Stamp Challenge, living off a dollar per meal for seven days. Find out how he fares. And Amiri Baraka and Leonard Cohen in a clip from the “United States of Poetry,” a Washington Square film directed by Mark Pellington and Produced by Joshua Blum and the Bowery Poetry Club’s Bob Holman.

All that and more on GRITtv.

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