Seattle Channel Video

In a deeply personal conversation with bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo, Seattle University journalism professor Sonora Jha shares her journey to raise a feminist son as a single immigrant woman of color in America. A story of struggling, failing, and eventually succeeding, Jha offers much-needed insight and actionable advice, pulled from her book "How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family." Jha and Oluo discuss everything from teaching consent to counteracting problematic messages from the media, family, and the culture at large, arguing that we have big work to do when it comes to our boys. Jha presents wide-ranging research, showing us all how to be better feminists and better teachers of the next generation of men.