Katha Pollitt, who has been contributing to The Nation since
1980, tackles politics, culture gender, and relentless anti-
feminists every other week in her column, “Subject to Debate.”
Pollitt has also been a high-profile advocate of reproductive
rights throughout her career. Her 1993 Glamour essay "Why Do We
Romanticize the Fetus?" won the Maggie Award from the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America; more recently, Pollitt has
spoken out in support of The National Network for Abortion
Funds.  In a recent column titled “Feminist Mothers, Flapper
Daughters?,” Pollitt frankly discussed the tensions between
older and younger feminists, writing that while feminists of all
ages often disagree about issues like sex work, the generational
struggles among feminists is not in fact about ideas, but “about
young women jockeying with the feminist establishment for power
and visibility.”  Here, Pollitt talks with young feminist and
former Nation intern Joanna Chiu about why younger and older
feminists sometimes talk past