What Is Carceral Feminism?
Carceral feminism is a branch of feminist politics that relies primarily on policing, prosecution, incarceration, and other punitive state mechanisms as the main tools for addressing gender-based viol...
27 Touko 14min
When Visibility Wins Over Outcomes
This episode argues that we already know what makes people safer: access, stability, autonomy, peer-led support, and decriminalization. It examines how current systems prioritize visibility and contro...
22 Touko 5min
When Criminalization Moves Danger: The Risk Shift Nobody Talks About
Start somewhere familiar. The episode's thought experiment moves the logic used to criminalize sex work into ordinary industries to show how outlawing one side of a transaction doesn't remove danger b...
15 Touko 9min
When Safety Is a Spectacle: How Anti-Trafficking Rewards Visibility
This episode traces how anti-trafficking funding and institutional priorities turn safety into a performance metric—rewarding arrests, visibility, and press-worthy operations rather than long-term wel...
8 Touko 4min
Intent Isn't Impact: When Good Policy Harms
This episode examines how well‑branded feminist language - empowerment, protection, dignity - can be layered onto policies that still produce harm in practice. We trace how branding shapes who support...
1 Touko 3min
The Nordic Lawn Care Model: When Protection Becomes Punishment
This episode uses a thought experiment—treating lawn care like the Nordic model treats sex work—to show how criminalizing the ecosystem around risky labor (clients, businesses, advertising, tools, coo...
24 Huhti 9min
If Babysitting Were Illegal: The Hidden Cost of Criminalizing Care
This episode uses a thought experiment to show how criminalizing the demand for babysitting would not end the work but push it underground, making it less safe and less visible. It explains how bannin...
22 Huhti 8min
The Hypocrisy Experiment — Soldier Edition
This episode runs a thought experiment applying the logic used to criminalize sex work to military service, revealing a double standard in how society treats risk, consent, and legitimacy when women's...
17 Huhti 8min
