Daniel Holtzclaw: the predator cop of Oklahoma City
On June 18, 2014, a grandmother named Jannie Ligons was pulled over during a routine traffic stop in Northeast Oklahoma City. This stop would be the beginning of the end of the predator cop named Dani...
20 Loka 47min
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.4
In this final installment of our series on the women of Afghanistan, we examine the country's trajectory following the Taliban's return to power in August 2021. Moving past ridiculous initial public r...
30 Elo 56min
The man who fooled the world: How the anti-vax movement came to be
Helloooo! I decided to do a small sidequest about the antivax "movement". I mean...how did a fabricated 12-person case study published in the medical journal The Lancet kick off decades of modern vacc...
20 Elo 55min
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.3
Was the 20-year U.S. occupation a humanitarian rescue mission for women, or was it just a lie to push an agenda of military interventionIn? Hint: Embedded Feminism. In part 3, we look at the 2001 US ...
6 Elo 48min
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.1
We’ve all seen those viral internet photos from the 1960s and ’70s, amiright? Afghan women in mini-skirts…walking freely in the streets. But what do those photos actually say…who actually got to exper...
9 Heinä 1h 14min
The Evolution of Exploitation: The cases of Marita Verón & Kristen Galvan
Human trafficking has a long history. It began with what we know as slavery, but as the world changed, the structure of exploitation evolved to fit that environment. When most people think of modern s...
16 Kesä 1h 10min
Online "rape academies" & the digital age of misogyny
In this episode, we investigate the wild intersection of systemic violence against women & girls, and modern technology. We begin with the landmark Gisele Pelicot case in France, breaking down the co...
26 Touko 1h 3min
