Rhinestones as Evidence: When Pageants Become Prosecution
This episode examines the culture and industry of beauty pageants—how they sell empowerment but operate on strict beauty standards, financial pressure, and power imbalances, especially in child pagean...
15 Huhti 8min
When Labor Becomes a Crime: The Construction Thought Experiment
This episode uses a thought experiment to apply common arguments for criminalizing sex work to the construction industry, showing how the same logic would make essential, dangerous labor disappear fro...
10 Huhti 10min
The Nordic Sandwich Model: When Lunch Becomes Illegal
This episode uses a hypothetical ban on sandwiches to examine how criminalizing demand reshapes industries and pushes labor into hidden, unsafe spaces. By drawing parallels to sex work and the Nordic ...
8 Huhti 8min
When One Side Is Criminalized: The Logic Test
This episode examines what happens when policy criminalizes only one side of a consensual adult transaction: the work remains, but the structures that make it safe—workplaces, contracts, screening, an...
3 Huhti 6min
Fourth Wave Feminism: Power, Platforms, and the Fight for Real Change
This episode traces the rise of Fourth Wave Feminism: a digitally driven movement that expanded feminism’s focus from identity to institutions, naming systemic sexual violence, racialized harm, and ec...
1 Huhti 7min
When Feminism Chooses Control: The Pink Patriarchy Unmasked
A concise episode unpacking how mainstream feminism’s ‘pink patriarchy’ simplifies complex harms by conflating sex work with trafficking, and how that leads to policies that harm the people they claim...
27 Maalis 4min
Third-Wave Feminism: Identity, Agency, and the Turn Toward the Individual
Third-wave feminism emerged in the 1990s as both a continuation of and a reaction against the second wave. By this point, many of the second wave’s gains - legal protections against discrimination, ex...
25 Maalis 7min
Weekend Update: ICE at TSA - What Could Go Wrong?
Airports across the country are reeling as unpaid TSA workers call out and staffing shortages create multi-hour security lines, missed flights and overwhelmed systems. ICE agents have been deployed in...
23 Maalis 7min
