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 called The Lancet kick off decades of mode...
20 Elo 55min
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.2
In this episode, we take a look at the reality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban's first reign from 1996 to 2001, through a historical and feminist lens. Moving past the savioristic and imperia...
23 Heinä 53min
"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
The CIA's Iran-Contra Affair, the crack epidemic, & the women who paid the price
The War on Drugs didn’t start in the streets; it started in the shadows of the offices of the CIA. This episode traces the timeline from the late 70s up through the late 90s, connecting the dots betwe...
6 Touko 1h 3min
Witchhunts pt. 4c - FBI EXPOSED by leftists!
So, how did COINTELPRO finally come undone? In this episode, we trace the program’s collapse through the interconnected movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s...from the New Left and anti–Vietnam...
22 Tammi 1h 1min
